[mythtvnz] RE: FTA digital next year

Steve Hodge mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:38:57 +1200


On 6/16/06, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> Is Optus D1 the same satllite that Sky are switching to?

Yup.

> There was some comment from Sky this morning on National Radio about use
> of their dishes with Freeview. At the important point someone made a
> whole lot of noise and I missed exactly what he was saying. Something
> along the lines of interference between co-existing freeview and sky
> boxes blah blah. Very cagey he was!

You need a splitter and that's it. I'm using one now to split the
signal to my Sky decoder and my DVB-S card and it works perfectly with
no loss of quality that I can see.

Steve