Greenhorn with Freesat question(s)
My friend's conundrum...
Info:
- Living in Ashtown (Royal Canal Park to be specific) with an appartment facing towards the royal canal.
- Onsite Sky engineer today said the tree across the road was obstructing the Sky dish's view/sight.
- Her only other paid-TV solution where she lives is Cablewatch & they offer a poor & limited service at best.
- she currently has a 10ish year old CRT Phillips TV with analogue tuner/aerial on the back (considering upgrading to a Full HD TV with built in digital Freesat tuner)
Questions:
- Can she get Freesat in her area without having to fit a dish? (apologies if this is a stupid question, the thread so far implies yes but want to be sure)
- Will she be able to tune in all of the stations listed on the wikipedia URL mentioned earlier in this thread?
- What equipment (STB, digital tuner box, mpeg4 decoder etc...I'm not TV tech savvy sorry) specifically will she need to buy? Any recommended makes, models etc?
- If she did need to fit a dish (e.g. because of a poor non-dish-based Freesat signal in her area); are Freesat dishes pointed in a different direction than Sky TV dishes (considering the tree).
Or am I over-complicating things & would all the above be irrelevant by simply buying a TV with a built in digital freesat tuner?