would it be worth wile picking up a non freeview branded dvb-s2 satellite set top box.
what other channels other then the ones currently on freeview will i be able to receive
i will be using a standard sky dish
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Oblivian: Depends on where its pointing and how big your dish is.
No real advantage for many of the NZ based feeds.
http://www.lyngsat.com/Optus-D1.html
However if you can move it about and tag onto any of the V8Supercar or australian sport feeds, as long as it supports 4:2:2 they can be of a HD advantage.
/edit in saying that...
seems those days are gone too.
http://vetrun.com/forums/showthread.php?s=89f9e4d381855aeb6311f7d1e6259ae9&t=8880&page=133
Jaxson: Where are you based?
This used to be the way to go to try and get channels, but there's this thing called the internet now.
The satellite thing works well where there are a lot of countries geographically very close to each other, as there is a lot of spill to catch.
We only have Australia, and that's quite a distance away from us really.
mrbbi: Cheap S/S2 receivers off trademe/freeveiwshop are all the same really(inlcuding the price). There's the Ultraplus or Sky/Open Box receivers to choose from. S2 is a nice option to have but I'm not sure if you sky dish(60cm) is aligned properly for a certian ozzy S2 channel. You may have to adjust the LNB skew slightly too strengthen the signal.
As for other S2 feed/channels...You'd need to grab a new dish/lnb triple or double setup for d1(freeview)/d2/is19. "Optus D2" has several S2 religious channels but other then that there's only the occasional live news/sports feed that uses S2.
mrbbi: Just live news feeds mainly out of Australia popup each day(esp when there are big news events like flood/fires etc...), but even they are disappearing as broadcasters switch from Optus D1(freeeviw/sky) to other Satellites. Generally in the evening 5:30-8pm nz time you can Blind Scan D1 & catch the odd Ch7 Aus news feed out of Sydney. The only extra channel on D1 is Ch9 which requires a S2 receiver.
Reggimus: The Ultraplus 990HD (http://www.freeviewshop.co.nz/ultraplus-990hd-pvr.html) is a solid DVB-S2 decoder, and has support for IPTV functionality. Might be worth a look.
Jaxson:Reggimus: The Ultraplus 990HD (http://www.freeviewshop.co.nz/ultraplus-990hd-pvr.html) is a solid DVB-S2 decoder, and has support for IPTV functionality. Might be worth a look.
How configurable is the iptv side of things?
As in do you get control over the address list options etc to specify your own channels, like say kodi/xbmc live TV pvr setup?
Edit ok found this:
https://www.freeviewshop.co.nz/forum/index.php?topic=3049.0
Reggimus: Hi Jaxson,
The Internetv+ is like what you had had found, so very configurable and easy to add your own channels in, then it also allows an m3u list as well, both options can be used at the same time.
Apsattv:
Above link not very relevant as the ultraplus 990 is a different manufacturer / firmware to the previous Ultraplus / xcruiser range.
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