I only pay for my TV license - The rest is free. I had to buy the Humax Freeview recorder, but that's it.

Check http://www.astra2d.com/ for more info.

As I said earlier, there are no aerials here mate.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

In reply to a post by Guest_Again:

The FreeView is available via the dish - there is NO standard aerial here.

Then it is not Freeview, The only way you would get Freeview via satellite...

He said he gets Freeview via a dish, he didn't say he gets it via satellite... there's no particular reason why you can't use a dish instead of a Yagi aerial for receiving terrestrial TV transmissions, though it would be a bit unusual.

Give up guys, it's like trying to reason with my 5yr old grandaughter.

I just say "You know best Dear", and leave it at that.

It always has to be considered that when he says "There are no standard aerials here" that he could be right... he lives there, after all!

Everyone seems to have made the assumption that because it comes via a dish that it must be from a satellite... doesn't have to be.

In reply to a post by billford:

Everyone seems to have made the assumption that because it comes via a dish that it must be from a satellite... doesn't have to be.

I quote from the OP: "If I want freesat or sky they have to re-align it for the appropriate satellite. I know this for a fact because I had to get the sat. changed when I had a freesat box. I prefer freeview, so changed back."

If it were communal does the OP rule the roost?

In reply to a post by Stevenage_Neil:

In reply to a post by billford:

Everyone seems to have made the assumption that because it comes via a dish that it must be from a satellite... doesn't have to be.

I quote from the OP: "If I want freesat or sky they have to re-align it for the appropriate satellite. I know this for a fact because I had to get the sat. changed when I had a freesat box. I prefer freeview, so changed back."

Fair point, perhaps the OP made the same assumption?

But a dish design for satellite will be totally different to a dish being used for UHF terrestrial. The feed for example - with an LNB for a satellite dish and not on a terrestrial one. And it is apparently coming through Astra 2B !

The OP knows best..................

In reply to a post by MHC:

But a dish design for satellite will be totally different to a dish being used for UHF terrestrial. The feed for example - with an LNB for a satellite dish and not on a terrestrial one. And it is apparently coming through Astra 2B !

Apart from size, one parabolic dish is much the same as another... and if they're up on the roof the OP may not even be able to see what's at the focus.

Let's wait and see if he's explained things poorly or you've all misinterpreted him. Or both. Or something else.

Edited by billford (Tue 06-Jul-10 17:46:25)

And where does it say that Freeview is available on the Astra2D satellite?

To be honest, I can't say for sure, I CAN'T see up that high?

It is via the Satellite dish, and there is NO subscriptions for FreeView.

There's more salient info than that I could share with you - but I now see no point really.

Thanks for the laugh though!