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Can I replace an analogue receiver with a digital one

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  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    Analogue is being rapidly phased out, you would be better off with a digital receiver, if the LNB needs replacing that is only around an extra £5, and straightforward to change, no dish movement is needed.
  • judderman62
    judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite
    Inactive wrote: »
    Analogue is being rapidly phased out, you would be better off with a digital receiver, if the LNB needs replacing that is only around an extra £5, and straightforward to change, no dish movement is needed.

    Hmmmm :think: that's not what I was told, on another forum, by someone who for many years ran a satellite business :confused::confused:
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    Do little and often
    Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:
  • AndysDad
    AndysDad Posts: 694 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Why don't you put a 'Wanted' Ad on your local 'Freecycle' site as there are probably several of these Analogue boxes sitting around in peoples lofts.
  • judderman62
    judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite
    top idea - why didn't I think of that :( Trouble is Dad is already getting impatient about it LOL
    Hate and I do mean Hate my apple Mac Computer - wish I'd never bought the thing
    Do little and often
    Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:
  • Conor_3
    Conor_3 Posts: 6,944 Forumite
    judderman62 wrote: »
    Hmmmm :think: that's not what I was told, on another forum, by someone who for many years ran a satellite business :confused::confused:

    Yeah well, there's a lot of things "so called experts" say. Just because he ran a satellite business doesn't mean he did the technical work.

    You only need to re-align the dish if the channels you want aren't broadcast on the satellite cluster it's currently pointing at. So if it's already pointing at Astra 19E and the digital channels are on Astra 19E, there's no need to re-align it unles you knock it out when installing the new LNB.
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    judderman62 wrote: »
    Hmmmm :think: that's not what I was told, on another forum, by someone who for many years ran a satellite business :confused::confused:

    Well Analogue is on 19.2 ( east ) degrees and so is Digital.
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