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Leave the telly at home. Sit outside you tent /motorhome/caravan. Look at the stars over the rim of your wine glass. Pure heaven for absolutely nothing except a few euros for a bottle of decent wine.

Carol

Quote: Originally posted by arthurdent on 28/5/2007

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I suspect if you attach a Freeview decoder to a satellite dish, nothing much will happen.

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i hvae a sat dish that i have used in france, get all the channels, same as at home, mind you they are only freeview ones as i have the freestat card from sky. best thing is where ever you start up your system (at home before you go is the best idea) you will get the same local channels like your local bbc for news ect.

one point, if you do get a freeview card from sky, get your system working a few weeks before you go, you will need to call them to enable the card and it could take 24 hours, also try to use it at least once a month, i have had my card not working after i put the gear away and had to call them to get it working again. hope that helps.

floppy

Quote: Originally posted by SuperDad on 28/5/2007

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Thanks for your numerous inputs so far

Just to clarify, I was not proposing to use a satellite dish, nor receive UK programmes. I was just wondering whether a Freeview decoder would work on the French digital terrestrial network (assuming they have one)

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