hot bird ?

mardatha

what is hot bird ? my OH was reading a catalogue with loads of sat tv stuff and they have an lnb for the hot bird satellite ... and we've never heard of it. It also has a digital receiver that gets 3000 channels. What is all this about and where can he find out more ? ( He's retired and bored & I was pushing him to get a hobby.. LOL ! ):D

m_13

Hot Bird is a the common name for a family of satellites.

You can find the whole Wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Bird

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mardatha wrote: »

what is hot bird ? my OH was reading a catalogue with loads of sat tv stuff and they have an lnb for the hot bird satellite ... and we've never heard of it. It also has a digital receiver that gets 3000 channels. What is all this about and where can he find out more ? ( He's retired and bored & I was pushing him to get a hobby.. LOL ! ):D

Hotbird is a satellite that broadcasts to mainly mainland Europe.

Almost any LNB will receive broadcasts from Hotbird, subject to it being aligned to it, via a dish of the correct size.

Most of the channels are scambled ( no picture ) or are in a foreign language.

mardatha

ok thanks. seems a bit of a waste of time then. Back to the drawingboard.. I might interest him in making bird houses instead !

m_13

I wouldn't have thought of watching satellites as a hobby particularly as a lot of european channels are adult!

What sort of things is he generally interested in?

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mardatha

LOL he has just fixed the neighbours sat dish and was so proud of himself I think he wanted to start on ours.. He isnt interested in anything, which is ahy I need to get him a hobby !! Men who retire without hobbies tend to die off early !

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mardatha wrote: »

LOL he has just fixed the neighbours sat dish and was so proud of himself I think he wanted to start on ours.. He isnt interested in anything, which is ahy I need to get him a hobby !! Men who retire without hobbies tend to die off early !

Satellites hopping is an excellent hobby, I have a motorised satellite dish, I get from 45w - 42e, I have thousands upon thousands of channels, sure there is alot of foreign stuff up there, but there is loads of English stuff to, there is for example the NBC Network feed (NBC Being the american version of ITV) or there are the MBC channels, they are English channels with Arabic subtitles showing the likes of what is on Sky 1, thats just a small example. On Hotbird at 13e there isn't really anything of interest to be honest.

mardatha

Ok thanks for that, he did whine about wanting american tv... judging from my american online pals he isnt missing much though !