Help with TV setup. - Eye on Spain

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Sallyshaw Parcela I'm in Alicante city I've made 4 posts Send private message to Sallyshaw	I am a single woman and not very electronically minded. (although I can follow simple instructions ) I live in Alicante city and have a UK new LCD tv, a UK freeview box, an old satelite dish set up from landlady about 1.2 metres facing the sea,(no idea if its pointing Astra or Hotbird or whatever) and a spanish DVD player. I can receive all analogue spanish tv stations and as I speak fluent spanish this is important to me but I would like to receive some channels in English. Can anybody tell me with the set up I have if its possible to receive any UK channels or English speaking channels? If this is not possible, is my UK freeview any use as a digital receiver for spanish tv programs or do I have to buy a TDT spanish box? Another question is what kind of indoor aerial do I need to receive just normal spanish tv for my bedroom tv? Do I have to buy an expensive one or will any old indoor aerial do? The building where I live seems to have many aerials on the very high roof (14th floor) and many owners (all spanish) have their own satelite dishes. I would really aprecciate any help or advice. Thank you in advance. Sara Spam post? If so please click here to report it
22 Jan 2008 3:52 PM EOS Team Moderator I'm in Costa del Sol I've made 1906 posts Send private message to EOS Team	Hi Sally Someone here I'm sure once mentioned that you cannot use a UK freeview box in Spain. Maybe hook it up and see what happens. With a normal ariel you should be ok to pick the Spanish signals, it just depends how strong the signals are in your area and indoor ariels aren't always very good. If you already have a satellite dish then you will need a digibox to receive the UK channels. Hope that helps. Justin _______________________ Spam post? If so please click here to report it
22 Jan 2008 4:40 PM VickiT Apartamento I've made 69 posts Send private message to VickiT	Hi there. Not wishing to contradict you Justin!! But we used an English Freeview box for several years in Estepona. One problem that you may have Sally is the satellite dish. When we moved last year, there was an existing Satellite set up, but it was German and our TV man told us it would not do because it was not big enough. We had to have a gi-normous dish (much bigger than the Spanish ones) to enable us to catch the UK & Sky channels..... Spam post? If so please click here to report it
22 Jan 2008 5:58 PM Roberto Villa I'm in Torremolinos I've made 1388 posts Send private message to Roberto	The 1.2 m dish may be big enough to pick up basic UK channels where you are, although apparenlty signals are very poor in Alicante. As previously said, you will need a digital satellite decoder - any will do, it doesn't need to be a SKY one to pick up the Free to Air channels (BBC, ITV etc.) Not sure if a "Freeview" box is something else though? The dish will have to be aimed at the Astra 2D satellite, which is roughly South East. Unless you are prepared to fiddle around for ages, with a friend shouting "left a bit, right a bit", you may prefer to get a satellite engineer in to align it. It's not really too difficult once you've picked up the signal though. Don't know for how much longer you will get analogue signals? But a cheap Digital Terrestrial box from somewhere like Carrefour will do, so long as your building has (as required by law I believe) already installed a digital antenna. Many movies dubbed into Spanish can be switched back to original language (i.e. English) with this set-up. _______________________ "For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me" Winnie the Pooh Spam post? If so please click here to report it
22 Jan 2008 7:09 PM Sallyshaw Parcela I'm in Alicante city I've made 4 posts Send private message to Sallyshaw	Thank you all for your help. I guess that the mix up here is due to the "BOX". A freeview box I understand is a TDT (Spanish term for Terrestrial Digital Transmission) What I don't know is, if this BOX whether from UK or bought here in Spain will transmit Spanish and UK channels? I can't try the UK freeview box because I left the remote control in the UK but wanted to know before I had to buy a Spanish TDT whether this box will be any use to me or not. Before I even start thinking of connecting the satellite dish I just wondered if the box I have will transmit even if its only Spanish digital TV? Thank you. Spam post? If so please click here to report it
22 Jan 2008 9:29 PM semijubilada Adosado I'm in London/Torrevieja I've made 339 posts Send private message to semijubilada	Have you read the thread lower down from this regarding Freeview in Spain, hopefully that may help you to understand a bit more on what set up you want. Spam post? If so please click here to report it
06 Feb 2008 9:04 AM Sallyshaw Parcela I'm in Alicante city I've made 4 posts Send private message to Sallyshaw	Well, I managed to setup my UK digibox here in Spain and receive all the spanish digital channels (around 32) except for Antenna 3, does anyone know why I can't receive this particular channel? I receive all the others like Telecinco, TVE 1 , TVE 2, Canal 9, Cuatro, etc etc..... Image and audio great improvement with digital. I am in Alicante city. Thank you Spam post? If so please click here to report it

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