New to Sat need advice"

[ricescooper]

I am moving over to stay with family in Ireland for a while and I currently have a Dreambox 500C which has served me well, but unfortunately the area I am moving to is out in the country and does not have cable.

I'm not to bothered about that but I would like to get a satellite system up and running when I get over there for FTA channels and radio.

I'm new to the satellite scene and am not sure what to go for but I would like to pick up all the UK channels as well as the Irish channels and radio.

I would have went for Sly's basic package but I won't get all the channels I want due to regional rrestrictions, I would also like a receiver that is capable of recording.

Is this achievable? Any help would be appreciated.

[kirit]

I reckon the dreambox 600pvr is the best option for you

[ricescooper]

Cheers m8,

Dreambox 600 PVR sounds good from what I've read about it.

What size of dish do you think I should go for and do you think that I would be better getting a motorised dish or just getting a fixed?

[kirit]

Cheers m8,

Dreambox 600 PVR sounds good from what I've read about it.

What size of dish do you think I should go for and do you think that I would be better getting a motorised dish or just getting a fixed?

I personally have a fixed 1m dish, I live in greater london and the dish has 3LNBs- Astra 28.2 (sky) Astra 19- european stuff like premiere- great for football and Hotbird 13- plenty of the "other"

I dont believe in going for motorized dishes- ive found that many people who have them where I live have too much trouble with them- i prefer a 4 way diseqc switch to switch easily and quickly between LNBs

the DB600 is good- it has a better tuner and is replaceable- so you can replace it with a DVB-C tuner if you ever choose to use cable tv in England again and they have hard disk capability - so they use laptop hard disks- great for recording stuff

[jazzmanthe]

Keep it simple, a 1m dish, plus a 20 degree vision kit would let you cover 28E to 9E with the minimum of problems.

Recently went motorised and have never had a full days service. I've now got my installer's private mobile no on speed dial! He's even joked that he would go bust with out my constant calls for help.

[terriers]

You would be really limiting yourself going for a fixed dish with a multi arm bracket...not to mention more costly...any motorised
dish set up correctly will serve you well for years to come...also
not that hard to set up with a little time and patience....the side of my house is like a wind tunnel and the dish hasnt moved once...also i would go for 1m so you can get good reception of weaker birds like 16e and 24.5w...