Hi, Can you get the Comedy Central & Christmas24 channels on Freesat?
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| Mon 25 Nov 2019 17:25:06 #1 |
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Snowflame - 5 mins ago »
Hi, Can you get the Comedy Central & Christmas24 channels on Freesat?Not afaik by using the Freesat epg. However if they are broadcast FTA you can use non-freesat mode to watch.
You will have to provide some help.
1 locate the channels here and post the transponder details frequency and polarisation at the top of the box from the list here.
https://en.kingofsat.net/pos-28.2E.php
Post which Freesat box you have or are thinking of getting. What you can do with non-freesat varies with model. The older Foxsat-HDR is much more versatile than the current G2 boxes.
| Mon 25 Nov 2019 17:35:12 #2 | -
Hi, Graham. Thanks for replying.
Comedy Central Channel details:
16.0°E 1Eutelsat 16A 10886.75 H A09 Europe B DVB-S2 8PSK 30000 3/5 Digitalb Satellite, 52.2 Mb/s 366 20900 KingOfSat charts update form
Comedy Central Extra United Kingdom Entertainment Digit Alb Conax 1025 240 241 eng 1110 240 2019-07-18 +Christmas24 channel details:
28.2°E 1Astra 2E 12070.00 H 19 Europe DVB-S QPSK 27500 5/6 42.2 Mb/s 2 2019 KingOfSat charts update form
Christmas 24 United Kingdom Movies Sky Digital VideoGuard 5050 524 652 eng 280 8190 2019-10-19 +Think of buying the Humax FVP5000T 2TB.
| Mon 25 Nov 2019 17:59:33 #3 | -
Snowflame - 20 mins ago »
Hi, Graham. Thanks for replying.
Comedy Central Channel details:
16.0°E 1Eutelsat 16A 10886.75 H A09 Europe B DVB-S2 8PSK 30000 3/5 Digitalb Satellite, 52.2 Mb/s 366 20900 KingOfSat charts update form
Comedy Central Extra United Kingdom Entertainment Digit Alb Conax 1025 240 241 eng 1110 240 2019-07-18 +
Christmas24 channel details:
28.2°E 1Astra 2E 12070.00 H 19 Europe DVB-S QPSK 27500 5/6 42.2 Mb/s 2 2019 KingOfSat charts update form
Christmas 24 United Kingdom Movies Sky Digital VideoGuard 5050 524 652 eng 280 8190 2019-10-19 +
Think of buying the Humax FVP5000T 2TB.You would need a seperate dish for Eutelsat and a receiver with the capability of using a diseqc switch.
The channels on 12070 H are encrypted so only viewable with a sky box and a suitable subscription.
https://en.kingofsat.net/find.php?question=christmas
The Humax FVP-5000T is a Freeview Play terrestrial receiver. It will only work with a conventional aerial and deliver channels from your local Freeview transmitter(s). It's most certainly not a freesat box.
| Mon 25 Nov 2019 18:27:35 #4 | -
Final question. Which Freesat box would you recommend?
| Mon 25 Nov 2019 19:08:31 #5 | -
Snowflame - 18 mins ago »
Final question. Which Freesat box would you recommend?Depends what you understand Freesat is.
Freesat is just a epg service. It's not a broadcaster, though it is jointly owned by the ITV and the BBC (both broadcasters in there own right).
When the analogue services ceased it became obvious that coverage provided by the existing transmitter system would become much less, largely as a result of the commercial operators (ITV etc) would not include rewlay transmitters to provide a full service to most. satellite for most covers most of the UK with a single dish.
The Freesat epg provides as far as possible as near as possible the advantages you get if you are in the primary service area of most UK transmitters.
This includes one button settings of recording series and the capability for the broadcaster to adjust start and stop recording times when the programme deviates from the scheduled times. However you do not need a freesat box to be able to watch and record the the thousands of free channels available in the UK.
Some of these boxes have similar epg support by virtue of a internet connection.
Freesat boxes are restricted to a single orbital location 28.2E using a group of satellites owned and operated by A luxembourg Company SES Astra. UK broadcasters rent transponder space from SES Astra.
Recordings especially HD ones are protected by encryption as they are recorded to a hard disk.
However there are many more generic FTA satellite boxes that can receive any of these you can point a dish at, some include a internet delivered epg with similar capability to Freesat.
Strangely Humax boxes are based on the same open source operating system (Linux). that these boxes use.
None of them encrypt recordings. This makes then easy to view on other kit connected to the same home network.
Enigma2 boxes appear to be the best available option at the moment.
To get the most choice you need to pair one of these with a motorised dish.
1 FTA boxes aren't as simple to use a a genuine Freesat+ box.
2 You would likely need a professional installer to fit a motorised dish in the best location to get the most channels from your location.
For more info check out the purplsat site and ask on AV forums FTA satellite threads.
| Mon 25 Nov 2019 19:49:40 #6 | -
Many thanks for spending so much of your time on this. Being a newbie to all this, I am less confused now. Because the internet, certainly where I live, can be flakey, I will be looking for a sat solution using my existing skyq dish. I may start with the basics ie using a Humax box then work up from there when I become more knowledgeable.
Thanks again. Great support!
| Tue 26 Nov 2019 11:48:24 #7 | -
Firstly, I am using the term 'legacy' to define most satellite boxes that are not Sky Q.
There is no such thing as a Sky Q dish. It's the LNB on the dish that makes it Q or legacy. So if you have a Sky dish with a "Q" LNB then a legacy device such as the Humax will not work with it.
You will either have to change the LNB for a Sky Hybrid that will work with both Sky Q and legacy boxes, or an 'ordinary' Sky Quad output LNB (Cheap as chips) which will only work with legacy boxes.
How do you tell the difference between the LNBs from ground level? A Sky Q LNB only has two cable outputs. A Sky Hybrid has six and a Quad Sky one has (you guessed it as the clue is in the name) four.
| Tue 26 Nov 2019 16:08:53 #8 |
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