[mythtvnz] RE: FTA digital next year

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:38:57 +1200
Steve Hodge wrote:

> > 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.

I did think he was talking a load of crap.

Strategy: wait for Sky to make whatever changes they need to their
dish to accomodate Optus D1 (new LNB?) and then once Freeview starts,
ditch them and keep their dish.

-- 
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>