tv abroad

teenee60

Is this possible?
we have a appartment in spain,what i wonder is if this would work,
download tv programs, put them on to a notebook,take that with me,plug into tv and watch?i dont have internet acsess over there.
If that sounds a good idea,what would i need,apart from the obvious notebook,(or i could just take my laptop)
Thanks

pandy51

Check if your apartment block has a communal satellite dish - if not suggest they take keen prices and fit one with leads down to contributing apartments.
Or burn your programmes to a DVD in UK ad then with a cable from your laptop to the tv you can watch them on your tv or laptop.
Or find out if a neighbour has a satellite dish with a spare connector & offer a small payment to use his dish - you would have your own connection with all the programmes that your neighbour can get but quite separate.
Or buy a 60cm dish set iton your balcony and a Digibox (from E- Bay?) or take your own box out and back in your hand luggage - you can then get a load of easy to receive programmes but not the BBC/ITVs - which you probably need at least a 1.45m satellite dish to receive - depending on which part of Spain your apartment is in.
If you decide to take your own digibox (or buy a cheap generic receiver out in Spain) you need to reset your digibox when you arrive - let me know and will post the method and codes (frequencies) for you.
Have a great holiday.

teenee60

Thanks paddy51, we have a 80cm dish & a metronic box,astra 2 (i think) but just a load of drivel,we dont watch tv much in uk,lack of time,so when we go away it would have been nice to catch up on some.
i was thinking whatever the "new" tapeing onto video sort of thing.
i have been looking into a media tablet,i had not heared of 1 before, a archos, looks like that is a possibility.
wow dont things move on!

macman

Record onto a PVR in the UK, take the PVR to Spain with you, connect to TV there and watch them?

pandy51

teenee60 wrote: »

Thanks paddy51, we have a 80cm dish & a metronic box,astra 2 (i think) but just a load of drivel,we dont watch tv much in uk,lack of time,so when we go away it would have been nice to catch up on some.
i was thinking whatever the "new" tapeing onto video sort of thing.
i have been looking into a media tablet,i had not heared of 1 before, a archos, looks like that is a possibility.
wow dont things move on!

Why don't you align your small dish to West 1 easy to tune in- there you will find a great range of programmes free - get someone out there to show you how to code in a softkey for Intelstat see web site entitled mactrees - sure you can find it.
Superb films, footie etc

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pandy51 wrote: »

Why don't you align your small dish to West 1 easy to tune in- there you will find a great range of programmes free - get someone out there to show you how to code in a softkey for Intelstat see web site entitled mactrees - sure you can find it.
Superb films, footie etc

Can you get 1 West on a small dish in Spain?

teenee60

PVR,thats the sort of thing i was imaganing.
spot on.:T

pandy51

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Can you get 1 West on a small dish in Spain?

We do - great up to the minute films, live sport, Nat Geographic etc etc

will-in-estoril

pandy51 wrote: »

We do - great up to the minute films, live sport, Nat Geographic etc etc

So do I, but you know as well as I do that it's more complicated than simply moving the dish to 1 degree west! We are beginning to stray into areas which are probably not allowed on this forum, unless you have a legitimate subscription for these channels, as they are not free to air.

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pandy51 wrote: »

We do - great up to the minute films, live sport, Nat Geographic etc etc

Which region of Spain are you in?, a general area would be helpful.

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will-in-estoril wrote: »

So do I, but you know as well as I do that it's more complicated than simply moving the dish to 1 degree west! We are beginning to stray into areas which are probably not allowed on this forum, unless you have a legitimate subscription for these channels, as they are not free to air.

I know how to get all of that Will, it is just the dish size that I need to know about, I have a Technomate 1000D out in Spain..