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Aldi Satellite receiver
My local Aldi is selling it's own branded free to air satellite receiver complete with dish, remote and cable for £49.99.
Can anyone who has one of these please tell me a little more about what channels I could get please ?
I already have a fixed Sky system. Would I be able to receive any more interesting English language channels e.g. on Hotbird if I bought one of the Aldi kits ?
Can anyone who has one of these please tell me a little more about what channels I could get please ?
I already have a fixed Sky system. Would I be able to receive any more interesting English language channels e.g. on Hotbird if I bought one of the Aldi kits ?
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Take a look at the channel FTA lists - you easliy pick these up with the dish that comes with the kit.
But remember you would have to move the dish to the chosen satellite.
Astra 1 - 19.2e - http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-19.2E-fta.php
Hotbird - 13e - http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-13E-fta.php
Astra 3 - 23e - http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-23.5E-fta.php
Athlantic Bird 3 - 5w - http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-5W-fta.php
Turksat - 42e - http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-42E-fta.php (TNT is English :eek: )
I only use my forigen system for music channels.
BADR 26e has english stuff on the MBC channels but i doubt you pull that in with that dish.
plenty of other free gems around the arc but that usually takes a motorised satellite dish & a dish of 80cm or bigger to get the most otherwise you lose a few important sats with a 60cm or more with a 45cm..
That receiver may control a motor OK - previous ones did quite well but not 100% sure about these newer ones tbh.
There's a Free to air Gems fixed thread on here & there's a list HERE with links for free movie channels & others around the arc - lyngsat/ kingofsats or flysat list all channels but even using their specific search options they don't list most of the well known gems in one easy listing.
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=11348013&fh_location=//catalog01/en_GB/categories<{9372015}/categories<{9372042}/categories<{9792018}/categories<{9792037}/specificationsProductType=satellite_boxes___receivers
If you are going to use a fixed dish say on Astra at 28 deg East I would recommend purchasing a second hand Sky box usually for less than £3 with remote from a car boot sale and getting a dish etc off E bay With 10Mtrs of cable you should not be paying more than £15. This box will automatically tune in all the channels into the electronic programme guide.You then have the choice of getting a Freesat card from Sky (for £20) which will give you the FTV channels that are scrambled that a budget box or a Sky box will not receive (without card).
These channels are:
ITV1 Ch5, depends on region and 5USA, 5*, PickTV, SonyTV, Motors TV.