Digital tv question

[alan36]

Dont know if this is the correct forum but can anyone tell me if I plug a freeview box into my satelite dish will this work and will it give me a good picture.

Thanks peeps

[aclivity]

It won't work.

Unless you meant a FreeSAT box?

[headcase]

FreeVIEW works from an aerial, FreeSAT from a sat dish.

[jshell]

alan36 said:

Dont know if this is the correct forum but can anyone tell me if I plug a freeview box into my satelite dish will this work and will it give me a good picture.

Thanks peeps

I did exactly this in Edinburgh.

Large, old Sat dish on roof plugged straight into a bog-standard freeview digi box and it worked a treat. I don't know the tech part of it, why it worked or why it shouldn't - but it was great for me for number of years!

[headcase]

sat frequencies are in the GHz range where as freeview in in th Mhz range so aerial systems are incompatable, if you can pick up freeview from a what you think is a dish feed then its either not a dish feed at all (crossed wires) or your freeview signal is so good you could have picked it up from a coathanger

[jshell]

headcase said:

sat frequencies are in the GHz range where as freeview in in th Mhz range so aerial systems are incompatable, if you can pick up freeview from a what you think is a dish feed then its either not a dish feed at all (crossed wires) or your freeview signal is so good you could have picked it up from a coathanger

Dunno, all there is on the roof is a sat dish and I followed the co-ax down through my window, used a boggo-standard Phillips freeview digi box and: Voila!