Moving from cable to satellite, need help ?

[Saltire]

ok, so what am i lookin at here then chaps to buy, iam in south glasgow, so ive heard i need a 1.2mtr size dish to kick off with, its obviously needs to be motorised and i need a floor mount/stand that screws/bolts to ground that can handle a 1.2mtr dish and the motor too.

Other than that i guess i also need a half decent reciever that will do the the job, not too expensive not too cheap, also a decent LNB for the said dish, ohh, and i guess i need a cam/card (i think), ermmm, is that it, ??? maybe one of the meters too ? phewwwwww, , i think maybe thats the lot apart from the coax and bolts, hmmm.

[Curious123]

I have a 1m motorised dish stuck on top of 15' scaffolding pole connected by a 20m cable to a DM500S all for a princely sum of ?200.

[Femalelizzard]

I have a 1m motorised dish stuck on top of 15' scaffolding pole connected by a 20m cable to a DM500S all for a princely sum of ?200.

Now im getting curious about this carry on set up for ?200 sounds intresting

[Saltire]

I have a 1m motorised dish stuck on top of 15' scaffolding pole connected by a 20m cable to a DM500S all for a princely sum of ?200.

yea what area you in mate ?? and do you need cams/cards etc to get the premium channels from germany and italy etc for the british football and all that ?

p.s
the dreambox 500s is discontinued, no ??

[Curious123]

I am in the midlands, you don't have to have a hardware cam as the software cams will decode most of the stuff. You may want double check what is permissable in your area ref dish sizes as some parts of the country require planning permission for 1.2m dish. A Dm500 will do the job but a DM600 would be so much better in fact looking at one of the ebay threads I am very tempted to flog my Dm500 for one of the clone Dm600. The Dm500 were discontinued last year and now you can only buy clones but the clones work just as well I know because I have one of my own.

[Saltire]

I am in the midlands, you don't have to have a hardware cam as the software cams will decode most of the stuff. You may want double check what is permissable in your area ref dish sizes as some parts of the country require planning permission for 1.2m dish. A Dm500 will do the job but a DM600 would be so much better in fact looking at one of the ebay threads I am very tempted to flog my Dm500 for one of the clone Dm600.

yea mate, up here we need a 1.1 or preferably 1.2mtr dish to get decent picture iam told. i can remember in years gone by i bought an lnb kit and put it on the old sky dish's (80cm) so that i could get astra and eutelsat, it worked but not very well, most channels were not too bad but some were snowy etc and the slightest bit of crappy weather loads of channels were barely viewable, so i guess the 80-90cm dish's are a no-no in glasgow if your wanting to recieve some good shit.
Good to hear about the dream 500 and 600, and softcams etc, but like what do you get mate, do you get all em channels that show the british football and the hardcore smut etc with just using the softcams etc ???

[Curious123]

Check out the packages on the satellite link for satellites between 71W to 71E. Why go out and buy a cam when you may get by without one.

LyngSat - Lyngemark Satellite

[Saltire]

Just thought of summit, is it not possible for me just to wip out the cable tuner out of my current dreambox 500c and stick a 500 sat tuner in it and thats me got a sat receiver ??

i would imagine one of you would have already told me if i could have, but worth asking ?

[aftermath]

Just thought of summit, is it not possible for me just to wip out the cable tuner out of my current dreambox 500c and stick a 500 sat tuner in it and thats me got a sat receiver ??

i would imagine one of you would have already told me if i could have, but worth asking ?

No..its not a plug and play box, and even if you could why pay about ?40 for a tuner when you could get a 2nd hand 500s for that much.

[napster]

i would imagine one of you would have already told me if i could have, but worth asking ?

you never change m8

[Saltire]

No..its not a plug and play box, and even if you could why pay about ?40 for a tuner when you could get a 2nd hand 500s for that much.

ohh well, was worth asking anyway, just that i seen the tuners on the satstore site and thought it might have been possible just to change the tuner over to a satellite tuner and flash the box up with a sat image etc etc, but its a "no", ohh well, back to the drawing board so to speak, .

ohh, i notice you say "buy a 500s for that much", ohh, are they that cheap, i didnt know, ? ye but are they any good for the purpose iam wanting, thats the thing ?

[aftermath]

ohh well, was worth asking anyway, just that i seen the tuners on the satstore site and thought it might have been possible just to change the tuner over to a satellite tuner and flash the box up with a sat image etc etc, but its a "no", ohh well, back to the drawing board so to speak, .

even if you could change tunersm do you think your capable of unsoldering all the connections to free the tuner and to re solder the new one in.

Thats why newer boxes are going towards plug and play ones now, just like inserting a memory card in a PC.

why not go for the open media, and have the best of both worlds at flick of a switch. ?

[Curious123]

It is like everything else in life you get what you pay for m8. The DM500 is a cheap and cheerful box and it gets the job done. If you want the little frills than you need to spend a little bit extra. I am seriously thinking of flogging my clone Dm500 on fleabay even though it works perfectly but I fancy having a clone Dm600 so I can record directly to the hard drive rather than to a network share or possibly a Dm800 with HD though that is a bit pointless as I don't have a HD tv. Once you go with sat you won't bother yourself with cable. @aftermath as satellite noob of two weeks will you be losing sleep if the CC switch off the cable boxes?

[dvdman]

sat is bettet in the long run

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go for a mota lot better

[sherlock]

Ok, before i kick off this topic, i know that the normal response would be to say "go read the forums etc mate". but iam trying to avoid that situation if possible as its bad enough having to give up my cable tv and broadband etc without having to learn everything about satellite too

So, Iam thinking about possibly buying the stuff and paying a sat guy to fit it as again its bad enough going through the process of moving house etc without also having the headache of working out how to fit sat system etc.

As far as iam aware iam best with a motorised 1.2 meter sat dish and all the other stuff to get all the channels such as sky and setanta and smut etc etc, but thats all i know. (for free i mean of course)

So, question is, what exactly do i want/need ?? I dont want to pay mad money for top of range stuff and i dont want to pay bottom of the range money that will mean its crap iam buying, just middle of the range stuff that will do the job is all iam after, dont need nuffin fancy or nuffin like that, dont need hard drives built in etc etc either, nuffin like those things, just summit that does what iam lookin for.

appreciate all help and suggestions guys

(no wheres them paracetamol and beer,)

p.s
the dish would have to be going on a floor stand up the back of the garden probably bolted to two 4x2 slabs i guess is best ?? i cant touch the building to attach it that way and i wouldnt want to anyway with a large dish like that.

there are sevral options depending on budget for satalite tv (boxes) If u still have cable then i would suggest the dreambox 600 as u can change tunner, these are plugin, and if u use barry allen can boot from sevral images, Stored on hard drive.
I have.

Then you also have the technomate (very good box and lots support) All so the itgate box again lots support and uses hyper cam.

Cams are dependant on wat u want to watch, but some of the patched boxes have downloads for settings available.

Hope you find the above usefull.