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Kiwi Pete: With Sky running on a mixture of vertical and horizontal polarity and the Freeview bouquet on horizontal polarity how can one easily watch both on Optus D1? On my FTA decoder set to horizontal and linked to my Sky decoder I can only pick up the Freeview Text mux and the few Sky channels that are on Horizontal. Is there a date for all Sky channels to go to Horizontal? Otherwise what are my alternatives?
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Kiwi Pete: Tried feeding my signal through my FTA decoder and taking the signal to the My Sky decoder through then LNB out on the FTA decoder. When the FTA decoder was on horizontal to pick up the Freeview channels all I could get on My Sky were the few horizontal channels that Sky are using on D1. It has been suggested that I may have to run two cables from the LNB - one for vertical to My Sky and the other for horizontal to the FTA decoder. Does the LNB have the facility to feed two polarities at once or do I need to purchase a dual LNB? My decoders are fed mulit-room for other rooms in the house and I want to cause minimal disruption, if any, to their viewing.
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Thanks Cyril. Reading all the comments to my original post it still seems that if Sky does not change to H pol many people purchasing a Freeview decoder and looping their Sky feed through could be in for a nasty shock like I got yesterday when I looped through. I could only access the H pol Sky Channels such as 25, 10, 20 and a few others - roughly about a third of the available channels. Currently I have a My Sky, plus a 2nd Pace Sky, and two FTA decoders. These are distributed around the house from a central point in the lounge. Before I doing anything drastic to my set up I think I'll wait and see if Sky do go to H Pol. Don't want any more wires in the lounge!
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