help with freesat & sky etc

blushingbride_3

Hi

My parents have just moved to a new house with no tv reception, previous people had sky, can i connect a freesat box/ tv with built in freesat straight into the satelitte?

How can we watch free sat in more than one room? can we split the feed?

Also to enable freesat+ do we need to adjust the satellite to let it record?

I have a old satelite dish i have installed on my house (from freecyle) how can i tell if this will enable me to use freesat+? also if it cant is it easily adjusted?

hopefully i can get this working & save myself £20 a month virgin tv charges

macman

Yes you can use a standard Sky dish and LNB for Freesat reception. To use it with a PVR (what you describe as Freesat+) you just neeed a minimum of two feeds from the dish, that will enable you to view one channel while recording another.
Newer Sky installations will generally have a quad LNB (4 feeds) so you can feed 2 Freesat PVR's from that (or 1 PVR and 2 Freesat boxes).
If the dish does not a quad LNB, that can be easily changed, no need to change the dish.

almillar

MacMan is spot on. Freesat, Freesat HD and FreesatHD+ all have the same requirements as Sky, SkyHD and SkyHD+ - ie 1 cable per tuner, HD or not. Therefore if you want to watch a programme whilst watching another, you need 2 cables into the box. Most will work with just one feed, but you can only watch what you're recording (actually, you can watch different, extremely limited channels).
Satellite feeds can't be split like aerial ones can. You need to take another cable from the dish into your other room. This is either DIY, or you should get a cheap enough quote from some aerial/satellite installers - price will depend on your house.
As for your own house, if it's a Sky minidish, and pointing the right way, it's good for freesat/freesat/FreesatHD.