Leave Sky and go to Freesat - Any good?

brovahelpa

Hi, I can only describe it as picture is distorted as horizontal hold is running across screen. As I said the box is quite old, could it be that

brovahelpa

yes TV works from internal tuner

Kurtis_Blue

Via Scart? Make sure they are fully home and/or try another.

almillar

Yep, sounds a lot like loose SCART lead. Or a poorly tuned analogue channel - this wouldn't be a dish or aerial issue for digital.

Moneymaker

What's the Digibox make and model number on the label?
Does a reboot fix it?

brovahelpa

I found a loose scart lead so sky is working fine now. Thanks for your replies. Perhaps you could see my previous post regarding a new Panasonic led tv that keeps showing "No signal/service" I am now wondering if these models have a tuner problem. My previous Sony caused no problems at all.

grimley555

You could switch to Freesat and get yourself a NowTV box (£9.99) and still have access to Sky 1, Fox etc for £4.99 a month, no contract. Dip in and out of it as you please without having to phone Sky to cancel or change. You could even get 2 Nowtv boxes and have one in your bedroom. You will be able to watch different Sky programs in each room without the need for a 'multiroom subscription' as you can register 4 devices (Nowtv boxes, laptops, tabets etc ) and watch on 2 of them at the same time (watching a different program or the same one).

Heinz

Welcome to the MSE forums grimley555.

Do you realise you're answering a thread which has been dormant for nearly 7 months?

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Heinz wrote: »

Do you realise you're answering a thread which has been dormant for nearly 7 months?

...and reiterating information already posted in the thread over and over and over...:)

drewthemunky

Hello all and apologies if this has already been done to death but I cannot see it anywhere.

I've just moved to a house with a dish and the previous owners have run cables through the wall, coming out at a duct in the chimney breast behind where their TV was mounted. From this I gather they must have had a TV with a Freesat card built in.

The terrestrial aerial in the loft is tiny and does not get a good enough signal to pick up channels, even using a booster.

My TV is an LG 42LH3000 with a built in freeview card. I understand that one doesn't decode the other's signal, but I'm looking for the cheapest way to receive some sort of TV!

So a few questions:

- Is there an internal TV card I can swap out to covert the TV to freesat?

- I also have a twin tuner freeview box with 1TB storage that I paid about £250 for a few years back, so don't really want to replace this if I can help it. Is there another box that can sit in front of it to receive the dish signal, convert it into a signal the freeview box can recognise then pass it to the TV from there? I found something on eBay called an 'RF MODULATOR FOR FREESAT FREEVIEW YOUVIEW - CONVERT SCART TO TV AERIAL RF COAX'
(sorry, it won't let me post a link) - something like this, perhaps?

-At last resort I could always replace the terrestrial aerial I suppose...if any of the above if possible, would an aerial replacement be cheaper?

Any advice would be much appreciated!