Baj

Right, excuse the waffling, and im sure you'll have a dozen more questions: Your first concern is how to pick up the satellites. For this you have two options, a fixed dish or a dish on a motor. With a fixed dish you can pick up 2 satellites at once by using a dual monoblock lnb, which essesntially is staggered by 6 degrees allowing it to pick up to satellites from one dish, the most common set up is to pick up Hotbird 13E and Astra1 19.5E. This will provide you with around 1000 channels. The second option is to fit a motor, this will allow you to move the dish to pick up anything within your view, typically 45E to 45W, around 14 satellites with decent content. If you go with a fixed dish, you will need a 90cm dish, if you want a motor, 80cm will do. Largest you can currently fit without planning permission is 110cm. Next, how to view these signals. You will need a receiver, sky digi boxes are no good for this task, since they are pretty firmly fixed to just working on sky channels (for the techies, you can't do transponder scans). So you need to pick something up, like a Dreambox. you can get a dreambox 500 off ebay for about £100, but beware chinese copies, they overheat and die. So, you have dish, you have satellites received, you have a box, but how on earth do you decrypt the channels, for that I'm not willing to discuss on an open forum, however if anyone gets this far and wishes to discuss, feel free to PM me. Cost wise, you're look at about £100 for dish, lnb, wall bracket. About £100 for fitting (get it done PROPERLY or you are liable if the dish falls off and hurts someone), about £100 for the dreambox. Is it worth the hassle? I would say yes, english-wise we now have about 80 movie channels, 2 or 3 which are PPV (watched dark knight etc last week), they all carry english audio. Get around 200 sports channels, including all saturday 3pm kick offs, no more need for setanta! most carry english commentry. And of course, pr0n wise there's about 250 channels, around 100 hardcore. The main benefit for us the missus now gets her Flemish TV, which frankly was the only way I could justify the expense and hassle! So if you have at least £300 spare, dont mind a VERY steep learning curve and have a lot of patience, I would highly recommend it. If you're the sort of person that expects it all to "just work", then leave it well alone.

From what i can recall. Saints top, bloke with beard: Me Czech top: Robsk Barca top: Hamster White saints top: Simon Richards er, that's all i can remember

But he's comfortable with his weight, and thats all that matters

That wont work with a sky digi box. Yes, I know exactly how to do it, but I need to take a shower and get some work done. Ill give you a much more thorough explanation later. Oh, and you wont get ANY american TV broadcast to america, however you can get AFN (american forces network). I currently get over 5000 channels, including all 3pm kick offs.

ahhh, good, I thought you were pretty useful, look forward to playing alongside you at St Marys mate

Literally every penny I earned or was given from the age of about 5 went on video games. As soon as I was bored of one system, i would sell it and use the money towards the next.

Really enjoyed today, it was the right level of seriousness mixed with having a laugh, I havent felt so less likely to get injured too, what with the Calvinator not playing

That would be me.

I was trying desperately to ignore this thread, damn it Atari 2600 Acorn Electron NES SNES Master System Megadrive Saturn Spectrum 48k Spectrum +3 Amiga 500 Amiga 600 Atari ST Playstation Playstation 2 Playstation 3 PSP N64 Gamecube Wii Xbox Xbox 360 Atari Lynx Gameboy Gameboy Advance DS Dreamcast Jaguar Neo-Geo And probably one or two others I've forgotten. This may seem like a long list, but anyone who's had the pleasure of visiting Chez Baj will testify I'm a bit of a gaming nut and always have been. Currently in the house (please don't rob me) is PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, 2 DS's and a PSP.

So thats a StuRomseySaint forum and a Stanley forum, right?

5 v 5, woot Neilza, need to make sure we're on the same side, as we are at St Marys

Im now a def, have amended the first post

Only if she puts up a fight.

Mike, I cant confirm as I dont know what plans the wife has for tomorrow arvo, but I may well be there

insightful as always, thanks Jill

My bro-in-law is having something special arranged at the velodrome for his birthday, and there's about 20 of us heading down. We need somewhere to eat, no more than 10 mins drive from Calshot, pubgrub is fine, but presume some of you on here know that area and could recommend somewhere? ta in advance.

Sore, by the sounds of it.

Yeah, im happy im playing along side jules and not against him

I dont actually know the reason, hence the question mark, i just suspect thats why

Probably cos the homekit has black shorts?

Mwwwahhhaha

Plenty of experience, wife went over a week late with ratbag #2. Patience...

Money doesnt excuse character and i think it was pretty obvious I was referring to that

FWIW, i completely agree with pontys comments and im equally ****ing sick of certain peoples views, whether it be because they are moronic, or just because its entertaining to get a rise out of people. These are the same people who will never realise they add nothing to this forum.

Except it's a setup.