Freeview Ariel/Dish connection

[Stevie D]

Hi

The area I live in has a very poor freeview reception. I therefor joined sky a couple of years ago. I'm looking at getting a new LCD panel TV but this will be in another room from my sky+ box and I cant run the scart or s-video to it.

My question is if I connect a freeview box( or something similar ?? ) antena line to one of the spare connections on my sky dish LBN will it pick up the freeview channels

Sorry if this is an utterly stupid question

Thanks

Steve D

[alnwrd]

you cannot plug a freeview box into a satellite dish. It must be plugged into a terrestial aerial. Maybe you are thinking of the freesat service run by sky.

[SamRadford]

Yes, buy a cheap, used Sky Digibox and connect that to your spare LNB connection. With a £20 "Freesat" card from Sky, that will get you the Free To Air programmes, plus CH4, five, Sky3, film4 etc. (But not some Freeview programmes such as E4).

[beerhunter]

Alternatively if you don't care much about Ch and Ch5, you could buy a Free To Air Satellite receiver from someone like LIDL. They do them from time to time for about £40. They have the advantage that you can receive a lot of free movie channels and you can edit the EPG to suit yourself.