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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 49457" data-attributes="member: 175235">An 80 cm dish is about the limit for Astra2D in the south of Spain, during the world cup 2002 people were renting out sky digibox systems for BBC/ITV to watch the matches and they used a 1m dish, however that gave perfect reception of BBC and ITV. Does the €200 include the Pace2600 or other Sky digibox? If not then don’t get it, assuming it comes with a receiver (and it should at that price!) it won’t work for ITV as it needs a Sky card. Carrefour are selling an 80cm dish here with a tiny cheapo FTA digital receiver for well under €100, but it wouldn't work for ITV.If you get a Sky digibox you won’t get all the Sky channels on that dish, only those on south beams and 2D. Check here for listings of which channels are on which beams <a href="http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/skyuk.html" target="_blank">http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/skyuk.html</a> - over to the right of the table it tells you the beam.If you have plenty of roof space and are investing in a digibox it might be better to pay a bit more and get a 1.2m dish, that’s what we use in the far south of Spain and it gets the majority of Sky channels, only loosing a few of the North beam ones. A 1.7 would only just get everything here.EDIT: your dish size changes between your posts, is it 80cm or 1m?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 49457, member: 175235"] An 80 cm dish is about the limit for Astra2D in the south of Spain, during the world cup 2002 people were renting out sky digibox systems for BBC/ITV to watch the matches and they used a 1m dish, however that gave perfect reception of BBC and ITV. Does the €200 include the Pace2600 or other Sky digibox? If not then don’t get it, assuming it comes with a receiver (and it should at that price!) it won’t work for ITV as it needs a Sky card. Carrefour are selling an 80cm dish here with a tiny cheapo FTA digital receiver for well under €100, but it wouldn't work for ITV. If you get a Sky digibox you won’t get all the Sky channels on that dish, only those on south beams and 2D. Check here for listings of which channels are on which beams [url]http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/skyuk.html[/url] - over to the right of the table it tells you the beam. If you have plenty of roof space and are investing in a digibox it might be better to pay a bit more and get a 1.2m dish, that’s what we use in the far south of Spain and it gets the majority of Sky channels, only loosing a few of the North beam ones. A 1.7 would only just get everything here. EDIT: your dish size changes between your posts, is it 80cm or 1m? [/QUOTE]

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