Desert Rat

Does anyone know how to get sky tv here, i want something decent to watch

Inselaffen

you need a slingbox connected to the internet and a sky box in the UK.
best if its a sky+ box due to the time difference.

Desert Rat

so hows that work then

Inselaffen

transmits it from uk to your PC over here. just connect your PC to your TV!

google slingbox and you'll find all the answers

shiva

you need to "place shift" with some fancy electrickery. google slingbox or "place shift tv"

in short you need a sky tv suscription in the uk and two good internet connections, 1 here 1 there plus the slingbox or similar technology at each end. Have heard it works ok to view on a laptop or small screen but not full tv size also our internet is so shite here that its also not reliable.

Cant get sattelite signal too far south.

Inselaffen

Sky satellite has a very small concentrated footprint.
I needed a 1m dish to pick it up in Hamburg.

shiva

apparently you can get a signal as far south as turkey but you need a big dish to get it

Desert Rat

think I'll stick with what I've got, all sounds to complicated and unlikely to work - thanks anyway

shiva

thats the conclusion I came to.
Once/IF we get a decent internet connection to the real world it may be an option but not until then.

Inselaffen

you will need probably a 3.5m dish to receive it there. if not bigger.

Inselaffen

just download the decent stuff off UKNova

CeeBee

Or hold on for some of the media centres to come out. There are a few in the pipeline that will just connect to the tv and download / stream from the net.

shiva

some are already out, the problem here though comes back to a lousy internet connection with crappy speeds and mass packet loss making streaming very very unreliable.

CeeBee

I thought Showtime was the equivelant no?