Freesat HD using standard sky dish and cable

naes12 · 21-04-2009, 2:41 AM

hello, i have recently bought a panasonic G10 with built in freesat. I have not tried yet as i am away from home but will it be possible to recv freesat in HD using standard sky. I will upgrade to Sky HD in the future but would like to to know if freesat will work using the sky i have at the moment

Andy98765 · 21-04-2009, 5:30 AM

Unplug the sat cable from your Sky box and plug into the Tv and you have Freesat.

naes12 · 21-04-2009, 5:39 AM

OK what if I want both at the same time, will I need a separate cable running from the sky dish i.e. one to the sky box and one to the TV for freesat to work alongside sky? or am I complicating things.

bob1 · 21-04-2009, 6:20 AM

Yes that is correct ,you need to run a separate cable from the dish.

naes12 · 21-04-2009, 7:02 AM

Last question... does the sky dish have two outputs?

dwhite · 21-04-2009, 7:33 AM

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Originally Posted by naes12

Last question... does the sky dish have two outputs?

It depends on if you already of sky+ or not. If you do have sky+ your likely to have a quad LNB (4 outputs, 2 used by the sky+, 2 spare). If you only have normal sky, it will likely be a single LNB (so no spare outputs).

If you do upgrade to skyHD, and haven't currently got a quad LNB, they will fit one as part of the installation.

naes12 · 21-04-2009, 8:09 AM

OK thanks that has answered my question. Cool so that gives me a good excuse to upgrade to Sky HD

Thanks Guys.

Sean