Afternoon All,
I'm new to the Satellite scene and have been asked by one of my neighbours if I could set-up a system for him cos he's had enough of Sly and noticed when he was at his cuzin's house up north that he had a motorised dish and a dm500s which he was getting all the channels he needed without paying a sub!! A professional installed the kit for his cuzin and charged him quite a packet, I been doing some reading and was hoping for some direction before I commit myself to helping the neighbour out, may even be a good educational experience for me considering the way the nthell scene is going!
The channels my neighbour is after are:- star plus, star news, zee tv, b4u, sony max and colors primarily, also any channels that'll show the fottie and cricket would be a bonus too. I found the most commonly viewed in the UK are on the Astra 2/Eurobird 1 at 28.2 East and Hotbird at 13 East satellites.
I however found it hard to determine whether we could pick these channels he wants for free or would one need to buy a card to de-crypt these channels??? I read something about cams too which i found rather confusing :s
Would anyone be able to tell me if its possible to pick up the above mentioned channels for FREE using a motorised dish and dreambox or a technomate???
What I proposing on getting my neighbour is a 80cm motorised dish from fleabay for just under £100.00, the one on fleabay has a .02 lnb but i seen another for £115.00 which has a .06 lnb, can anyone elighten me upon the difference please??? Alongside this dish, I am proposing on getting his a dm500s from dx which is working out just under 50quid or if he wants a HD box, I was thinking about the technomate 6800 HD for £130, again from fleabay, with this box he could even pause, record etc.... live TV i'm sure too if he adds a storage device to it?? Does the use of a HD receiver require a special type of LNB to be attached to the dish???
Finally, I am assuming that once I've got my hands on one of the above mentioned receivers, that I would need to flash them with a certain type of image???
Thanks in advance for your time and help, any advise on this would be great.
I'm new to the Satellite scene and have been asked by one of my neighbours if I could set-up a system for him cos he's had enough of Sly and noticed when he was at his cuzin's house up north that he had a motorised dish and a dm500s which he was getting all the channels he needed without paying a sub!! A professional installed the kit for his cuzin and charged him quite a packet, I been doing some reading and was hoping for some direction before I commit myself to helping the neighbour out, may even be a good educational experience for me considering the way the nthell scene is going!
The channels my neighbour is after are:- star plus, star news, zee tv, b4u, sony max and colors primarily, also any channels that'll show the fottie and cricket would be a bonus too. I found the most commonly viewed in the UK are on the Astra 2/Eurobird 1 at 28.2 East and Hotbird at 13 East satellites.
I however found it hard to determine whether we could pick these channels he wants for free or would one need to buy a card to de-crypt these channels??? I read something about cams too which i found rather confusing :s
Would anyone be able to tell me if its possible to pick up the above mentioned channels for FREE using a motorised dish and dreambox or a technomate???
What I proposing on getting my neighbour is a 80cm motorised dish from fleabay for just under £100.00, the one on fleabay has a .02 lnb but i seen another for £115.00 which has a .06 lnb, can anyone elighten me upon the difference please??? Alongside this dish, I am proposing on getting his a dm500s from dx which is working out just under 50quid or if he wants a HD box, I was thinking about the technomate 6800 HD for £130, again from fleabay, with this box he could even pause, record etc.... live TV i'm sure too if he adds a storage device to it?? Does the use of a HD receiver require a special type of LNB to be attached to the dish???
Finally, I am assuming that once I've got my hands on one of the above mentioned receivers, that I would need to flash them with a certain type of image???
Thanks in advance for your time and help, any advise on this would be great.
