what TV equipment do i need to buy>

vervin

Gratis thank you for all the help , nice and easy to understand [blond!!] have a good xmas.

almillar

Pincher, I do know what you mean, but look at the mess with TVs at the minute, people buying HD Ready digital TVs, and thinking they're watching HD - they're not, and they need to be educated about that. It doesn't take that long, in your example, to explain terrestrial = aerial? Bad advice is worse than no advice at all, and I think that not defining the difference between the satellite provisions described above is bound to end up with 'uneducated' people buying the wrong thing. They WILL buy the wrong thing, and it will be the cheapest thing, the 'free satellite' receiver, which is the least user friendly (and therefore least suitable for these people) device.

Gratis

almillar wrote: »

Bad advice is worse than no advice at all

Absolutely! It’s the bane of MSE. The “I’ve never tried it myself but I know” brigade.

With most kit, at least it’s just money wrongly spent but incorrect legal advice from well-meaning but ignorant laymen can get people into serious trouble.

The ones that distress me most, however, is when a parent whose child wants a Mac seeks advice on here and is besieged with postings (some of them almost grammatical and coherent) that the child should be bought a PC instead.

The child quite possibly knows that a Mac would be the best computer for his or her own particular needs (and can run Windows anyway when needed) but this is given no consideration. So, the child gets given a PC instead because a bunch of semi-literate morons who have no knowledge of either the child involved nor experience of a Mac just assume that the OP's child is as untalented and intellectually-challenged as they and their own imbecilic offspring.

Giving a child the correct computer for its individual needs, at the right moment of its mental development, is supremely important. Giving a child the wrong one could crush its interest in something that could have proved to be its real talent in life.

“Trust me. He dont need a violin; giv him a trumpet or some boxing gluvs, insted”, etc.

blondee55

Gratis wrote: »

Absolutely! It’s the bane of MSE. The “I’ve never tried it myself but I know” brigade.

With most kit, at least it’s just money wrongly spent but incorrect legal advice from well-meaning but ignorant laymen can get people into serious trouble.

The ones that distress me most, however, is when a parent whose child wants a Mac seeks advice on here and is besieged with postings (some of them almost grammatical and coherent) that the child should be bought a PC instead.

The child quite possibly knows that a Mac would be the best computer for his or her own particular needs (and can run Windows anyway when needed) but this is given no consideration. So, the child gets given a PC instead because a bunch of semi-literate morons who have no knowledge of either the child involved nor experience of a Mac just assume that the OP's child is as untalented and intellectually-challenged as they and their own imbecilic offspring.

Giving a child the correct computer for its individual needs, at the right moment of its mental development, is supremely important. Giving a child the wrong one could crush its interest in something that could have proved to be its real talent in life.

“Trust me. He dont need a violin; giv him a trumpet or some boxing gluvs, insted”, etc.

Wow! how condescending is that post?

Kurtis_Blue

blondee55 wrote: »

Wow! how condescending is that post?

Only about an 7.5/10 for Gratis, he is a bit special.

blondee55

Wow, and yet another condescending and dismissive post.

blondee55

Gratis wrote: »

(By the way, how many "e"s are there in "blonde"? :huh: )

Duh, 1 (I think;)) but then again my username is not blonde55, or once again do you know something that everyone else does not?

Taffyscot

Gratis wrote: »

Shotgun cable is a type of cable that runs from the LNB on your satellite dish to your satellite receiver box (e.g. a Sky box). It carries the signal to your box.

If you only want to watch satellite television, you need only one such lead.

If you want to record things, with a box containing two tuners (e.g. a Sky+ box or a Humax FoxSat-HDR FreesSat box), you need two feeds from your LNB to your box; and thus two cables.

Your existing installation should be fine for FreeSat unless you want to upgrade from watching to recording (in which case you will need two cables from the dish to the box, instead of just one).

Hi, ~ I only have 1 cable from the wall to my new humax freesat + record box. I already had a freesat box installed but want to record. I am a senior and not very good with all the techie stuff. My grandson installed the new box and put the cable from the wall into port 1 and a coaxle cable into another in outlet and looped it to an out outlet. I get a picture and channels but cannot seem to record. You seem to know what you are talking about. Can you give me some advice please? thanks in advance

almillar

If you've got 1 satellite feed, your son should have put that into one of the LNB inputs on your Foxsat box. This will enable you to record 1 thing at a time, and you will be able to watch something else, that's on the same 'multiplex' (that's just a group of channels) as what you're recording. You should only have 1 satellite cable connected, no looping through etc.

Taffyscot

almillar wrote: »

If you've got 1 satellite feed, your son should have put that into one of the LNB inputs on your Foxsat box. This will enable you to record 1 thing at a time, and you will be able to watch something else, that's on the same 'multiplex' (that's just a group of channels) as what you're recording. You should only have 1 satellite cable connected, no looping through etc.

Thanks for your reply. The instructions said if you only have one feed from the wall to connect that to LNB No 1 connection marked IN and get another wire to go in LNB NO 2 connection IN and loop it to LNB NO 2 connection OUT that seemed to make sense to me, but I am pretty clueless really and hubby has parkinson's and knows less than me. I cannot get into any recordings. When I press the red button it shows one of the things that I have tried to record a series of with what looks like several books (I assume series) but there is no way it will let me watch them unless there is something simple I am missing. There is nothing in the instructions to tell me how to watch recordings I know it should be simple. I guess I will have to pay someone to come in and maybe make another connection from the sat dish and connect it properly.