UK TV SATELLITE ISSUES

Algarveaddick wrote: You got C5? How big is the dish?

 was only renting villa but dish was approx 1.3 m
 i got a better picture in algarve than uk . i got every
channel that i get in uk

[QUOTE=cubsur]IPTV etc are technically illegal (copyright issues) and the TV companies work overtime to block them. It's a kind of running battle.

Unfortunately my internet connection is so bad in the evenings when the neighbourhood kids are at home taking up all the bandwidth it's not an option for me.

BTW anyone want a 1.3m dish and wall mounting bracket?
[/QUOTE
  ]sky will have there own iptv in the near future

Not much good Samwell if you don't have a decent internet speed which many don't on the Algarve.

Dish and wall bracket sold to Patrick. He is currently going round all his bars offering the Dreambox solution for the sports, which are broadcast by Al Jazeera etc in English from other satellites. For example one footprint is for across North Africa which happens also to catch Spain and Portugal. That will mean re-aligning their dishes.

But for UK free to air TV eg BBC and ITV he said there's nothing that can be done dishwise once it goes.

[QUOTE=cubsur]Dish and wall bracket sold to Patrick. He is currently going round all his bars offering the Dreambox solution for the sports, which are broadcast by Al Jazeera etc in English from other satellites. For example one footprint is for across North Africa which happens also to catch Spain and Portugal. That will mean re-aligning their dishes.

But for UK free to air TV eg BBC and ITV he said there's nothing that can be done dishwise once it goes.
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dont think there will be al jazeera next season , they may be bidding for premier league rights ,which means if they get it you have to have there box and card ,no card sharing.
        way forward for bars ect is IPTV ,selling at moment for £400 for 12 months .
as for internet speeds my uk box worked better on portugeese internet than at home.

Andrew wrote: C5 on a 1.3 dish is good going, no chance of C5 on my 1.8m dish but that's 'cos it isn't on the satellite anymore!  So no C5 for us but would say, last week, the reception across all the channels was best we'd ever had, shame it's all going down the plug hole shortly!

 
i was in algarve 4-18 jan and i got every channel i get in uk.
i took my box with me connected to 1.3 dish and to the internet
the box worked perfect ,ch 5 included

samwell wrote: [QUOTE=cubsur]Dish and wall bracket sold to Patrick. He is currently going round all his bars offering the Dreambox solution for the sports, which are broadcast by Al Jazeera etc in English from other satellites. For example one footprint is for across North Africa which happens also to catch Spain and Portugal. That will mean re-aligning their dishes. But for UK free to air TV eg BBC and ITV he said there's nothing that can be done dishwise once it goes. [/Q UOTE]   dont think there will be al jazeera next season , they may be bidding for premier league rights ,which means if they get it you have to have there box and card ,no card sharing.         way forward for bars ect is IPTV ,selling at moment for £400 for 12 months . as for internet speeds my uk box worked better on portugeese internet than at home.

Well...only time will tell. Doubt that SKY will send out a million new boxes,,as thats what it would take.They have used paired cards for the last 4 years...and it took like 1 week from they began till it was cracked. Old saying : If its man made it can be man cracked.....