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Can You Get Astra 1 And Hotbird With Samasung Freesat Box
HDMI
06-10-2011
I have read that it is possible to get the astra 1 and hotbird channels with the Samsung SMT S7800 Freesat box.Is that true and if yes how is it done?? Will it read from a discec switch
spaemanc
06-10-2011
From what I've read, it doesn't have DiSEqC support right now, but the G2 standard specifies some DiSEqC support and Samsung have said they will update the box to G2 standard when it is launched in a few months time.

Re G2 :

http://wotsat.techradar.com/news/fre...id-tv-03-03-11

Quote:
“DiSEqC switching, as part of SCR, with DiSEqC 1.2 for motorised sat still a possibility for the final version of the spec.”

HDMI
11-10-2011
In the latest what hi fi mag on the review for the samsung it says ( THERE IS AN OPTION TO CONNECT TO OTHER SATELLITES MANUALLY, but does not say how There must be someone out there with this samsung who has tried this?
Rolandh
11-10-2011
Originally Posted by HDMI:
“In the latest what hi fi mag on the review for the samsung it says ( THERE IS AN OPTION TO CONNECT TO OTHER SATELLITES MANUALLY, but does not say how There must be someone out there with this samsung who has tried this?”

It could be by the use of one of these.

Roland
vstrange
18-10-2011
Try this
menu-settings-channel-service mode-non freesat
this opens up for manual or automatic tuning with a banner for all the satellites available
RipleyXL9
18-10-2011
Originally Posted by vstrange:
“Try this
menu-settings-channel-service mode-non freesat
this opens up for manual or automatic tuning with a banner for all the satellites available”

But does it have any method of selecting sat A or B?
i.e. how would it know which LNB to look at?
grahamlthompson
18-10-2011
Originally Posted by HDMI:
“In the latest what hi fi mag on the review for the samsung it says ( THERE IS AN OPTION TO CONNECT TO OTHER SATELLITES MANUALLY, but does not say how There must be someone out there with this samsung who has tried this?”

Without a seperate dish pointing at another satellite or a dish with offset lnb's there is no way.
HDMI
25-10-2011
Of course i have a dish/lnb pointed at astra 1 at 19 e but when i do a manual tune as suggested above the box just tunes to the equivalent astra 2 frequency
ClashcityRocker
31-10-2011
I'm also interested in this. I want to watch F1 next year, but I am not prepared to may £600 for the privilege. I have only just escaped Sky, I won't be going back.

RTL / R5Live seems to be the option of choice.
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