How can I get French TV in the UK?
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Aside from watching it on the internet?
I gather from various internet fora that I can cobble something together with an old dish / receiver... but all this talk of degrees from East, Astra etc are properly alien to me.
I have an (unused) Sky dish on the side of my house, could I use that with a 2nd hand receiever? What's the most elegant solution, so I don't have loads of boxes / wires? I also have a BT Vision box that I would like to keep using.
Answers on a postcard...
TIA
I gather from various internet fora that I can cobble something together with an old dish / receiver... but all this talk of degrees from East, Astra etc are properly alien to me.
I have an (unused) Sky dish on the side of my house, could I use that with a 2nd hand receiever? What's the most elegant solution, so I don't have loads of boxes / wires? I also have a BT Vision box that I would like to keep using.
Answers on a postcard...
TIA
Edited by Bob Fossil on Thursday 26th November 18:36
Not sure if this info is up to date, as I haven't connected my France telecom dish up again since we last moved
There are (or were...) 6 or 7 analogue channels that we got via France Telecom satellite. It required a 1m dish (near London, probably 1.2m further north), a specific LNB for France telecom, an analogue sat receiver (I used Pace kit) and of course TV, VCR etc that can operate to the France-only SECAM standard.
Depending on where you are, I may be able to let you have a bunch of second-hand kit cheap
Edited to add:
and this guy will sell you instructions for a tenner. It's a bit more complicated than getting Sky...
http://www.freefrenchtv.co.uk/
There are (or were...) 6 or 7 analogue channels that we got via France Telecom satellite. It required a 1m dish (near London, probably 1.2m further north), a specific LNB for France telecom, an analogue sat receiver (I used Pace kit) and of course TV, VCR etc that can operate to the France-only SECAM standard.
Depending on where you are, I may be able to let you have a bunch of second-hand kit cheap
Edited to add:
and this guy will sell you instructions for a tenner. It's a bit more complicated than getting Sky...
http://www.freefrenchtv.co.uk/
Edited by mikef on Thursday 26th November 22:55
You want a tnt box and a dish pointed at 19E. If you want a subscription service then canal+ but it isnt cheap.
We have a 'Strong' branded tntsat box with card, paid around 80€ when they started turning off the free digital stuff on 5E. The card authenticates when you set the box up and will last 10 years *I think thats right)
You can pick them up in most hypermarkets or french tv shops. You get the 'free' channels TF1/F2/3/4/5/and a few others - I'd need to go turn it on to check what else we get. We bought it for my wife wanting to improve her french.
All of the free to air stuff is gone or doing - that includes the analogue stuff and the previously free stuff on 5e/19e. multivision were taken over by canalsat and the services merged (and security improved).
We're in north yorkshire with a 90cm motorised dish, but you can get away with one of the larger sky dishes.
We have a 'Strong' branded tntsat box with card, paid around 80€ when they started turning off the free digital stuff on 5E. The card authenticates when you set the box up and will last 10 years *I think thats right)
You can pick them up in most hypermarkets or french tv shops. You get the 'free' channels TF1/F2/3/4/5/and a few others - I'd need to go turn it on to check what else we get. We bought it for my wife wanting to improve her french.
All of the free to air stuff is gone or doing - that includes the analogue stuff and the previously free stuff on 5e/19e. multivision were taken over by canalsat and the services merged (and security improved).
We're in north yorkshire with a 90cm motorised dish, but you can get away with one of the larger sky dishes.
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