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Satellite TV question? Getting UK TV abroad?
My mother lives in Bulgaria, and she has a satellite dish, however, she hardly gets any English channels – just BBC world, a couple of film channels, and 1 or 2 music channels.
We were wondering, if I take her over a UK Sky digi box, whether she would receive more UK channels – i.e. the free channels. I know that she won’t get the whole Sky package unless she pays for it.
I just wondered, as our Sky box, has very few foreign channels, and it’s probably the same over there – i.e. most of the channels are Bulgarian, with very few English channels.
I have found a few links that suggest a sky viewing card might enable the TV to receive UK channels.
bulgaria is out of footprint for most of sky’s channels, but some have sugested a dish of 4.5m diameter with amplifier could do the job, but this would be extremely expensive and would require a lot of space. you might still pick up some channels with a 2m dish but its best to check with local engineers, just ask them to fit and align the dish and run the wiring as you will be supplying the box+card, Another way is if you have high speed broadband at both ends, you can connect a sky box in the uk to a Slingbox (dixons, currys) which then connects to the broadband line. At the other end in bulgaria you could just connect a laptop or pc to the broadband line and have full control and remote viewing of the sky box. the pc/laptop could then connect to a tv using a video card.
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