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I saw these advertised on the Lidl homepage and wondered what they are like and whether they are any use in a tent ?

Are they Freeview ? would I need a pole to attach the dish to if it were suitable for use in a tent ?

yep I agree.  got one of these last year.  well worth the money

Pam

Sometimes You're the windscreen; sometimes the fly

I heard on the radio last week that the BBC are going to be launching their own satellite service next year called "Freesat", it will carry all the free to air TV channels from both BBC and ITV and to receive it all you have to do is to buy the receiving equipment.

Apparantly the reason they are doing this is because there is no guarantee that their channels will always be available for free via Sky and so they wanted viewers to have another option of receiving their channels when analogue is switched off because good receiption on Freeview is not available in all areas.

Oh is thinking of going to get one.

Margaret

Hi, I'm going to buy one ,do they work ok in France/Germany/Spain .

Hi Tom,n,Gill

                   I can second that, I got just the receiver from Maplin a couple of years back, and it had a Lidl sticker on it!, also lancscamper mentions "Freesat" from the BBC, which incidentaley launched a few months ago, and which is quite different from the "Freesat" from Sky, if thats not confusing the "Freesat" from the BBC currently will not give you Ch5, this is because the Ch5 signal is comming from Astra2C satellite with a large footprint over Europe so it needs to be encrypted, so Ch5 needs to move to the Astra2D satellite which puts a spot beam (small footprint) onto the UK, problem is all the transponders on Astra2D are fully booked due the BBC/ITV HI-DEF plans, which means, some one is going to make a lot of money, otherwise the UK analogue switch off will have to go on hold, unless Astra SES (French owned), can get another bird up there before June next year, and I don't think that will happen, not a spot beam bird at anyrate.

lidl, are also dooing a tripod if anyone needs one for a dish mount, i got one last year

and made an adapter ( bit of tube with 2 thumb screws) to mount the dish to it , just do away with the laser level

works a treat

Quote: Originally posted by Tom,n,Gill on 30/4/2007The system is nothing to do with sky, you just set it up and use it, no cards or any money needed to get it working. You get all the freeview channel apart from channel 4 and 5, you do get film 4 tho and you will get about 500 other channels on there, anything from porn, gambling, news, even Real Madrid football club tv, 95% off the channels are rubbish tho, we used to use it to listen to Radio 2 in France. Get bored you can tune in to other satellites, Italian football, German soaps the list goes on. You can mount the dish supplied on most things, got a sucker base so you can stick it on a car roof or side of a caravan, also a clamp mount, clamp it to your jockey wheel, stick a stake in the ground and clamp it to that.