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Is it all over now? Had no picture all day and heard their offices had been raided and they have been closed down.

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According to several other forums, Telemicro rebroadcast channels have ceased being broadcast. This may have something to do with the Guardia visiting the offices today and arresting people involved in the rebroadcasting of channels without the owners permission.

If you do have this system, think twice before signing up with the next rebroadcaster, as they may well be next.

With your own dish, you are receiving the signals direct from the satellite, and as mentionred may times before, it is NOT illegal to watch FREE tv signals like BBC, ITV and C4.

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and you wont listen to me , ha , hear the mafa were involed , and where takening up single space aswell

still have all my channels here

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illegal if it rebrodcasted via cable MMDS it is and company did not pay any rights
some more company are to be hit over next few weeks all over spain
only company that will let rebroadcast via that way feww would new channels are news channels

wong photos sorry

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Telmicro has gone as will all the other companies that redirect British TV. Surley with all the english speaking people living in Spain there should be an english language channel?

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Surely with all the English speaking people in Spain, they should do more to learn the Spamish language!

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Well said.

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bbc world, bbc prime (subs), or canal digital+ (change soundtrack to the original version just like TDT), bbc, itv, c4, are all available on various dish sizes....

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A couple of months ago, some chap on the front page of a local Brit rag threatened to return to England "if he couldn't get his Sky Sports back". :blink:

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Why?
The English speaking people chose to come to Spain, if they need English TV, and can't source it with satellite (which is not difficult) then they need to go "home" to blighty as they obviously can't call Spain "home".

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I know I have gone about this before but when I first moved to Spain the only broadcast in the English language was BBC World Service radio, Voice of America, etc. on very hit and miss short wave frequencies. I'm not sure that progress is such a good thing.

The advent of Coastline Radio from Torrox was a wonder to behold and could be heard beyond Almería due to the fact that there was not all this other crap which now jams the FM frequencies.

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Intergrate-Usted necesita aprender hablar español,go look it up:p

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Cant find intergrate in the dictionary m8 :p

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For us it has nothing to do with learning the language as we are both totally fluent. It would be a different matter if the programmes were translated from English to Spanish, so we could watch the old favourites and dare I say soaps. Then the language would be this issue. But the Spanish telly cannot compare to the English in quality etc. There is nothing to compare with Holby, Bill etc. Just because you live in a different country, it does not mean that you are not integrated if you still hanker after things from home. I could live without my "progs " if I have to, but i would still like to have them.

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Could not agree more. We should all make an effort to learn the Spansh language, at least the basics, but let's be honest, this has little to do with Uk television. Spanish television is total crap, there I've said it. My wife and I have lived here for over six years and I have yet to hear a good word spoken about Spanish television. Uk television is not as good as it used to be, but nothing is, but we enjoy it so why should we not watch it when we wish to. I say wait and see, maybe the company will work out a deal, if not then it looks like an enormous dish for me!

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Wagon wheels were... well like wagon wheels when I was little, look at them now.

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well say now have you got few millions there to set one up ?

as long as i know i had english audio channels from La2 back in 91 now with tdt its the same aswell some programs are in 2nd audio canal

going to see more go off air here in spain

get a dish and stop wasting your money on this systems 399 euros for the box and 150 for rently off one year

add it up , you got a good system ,dish , reciver and flat screen

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I hope something is worked out soon. Hubbby is missing the GAMES and it is only once every four years. I, of course am missing my dose of Blanche, Ken, Liz and co.
I could never understand why my parents missed their "unto" when they came to live in England. I remember how I hated the smell but, I suppose it was their little bit of "pocket Spain."

Well, now I understand, as my tv programmes are my "pocket England". It should travel with me, like my tooth brush.

It is not that we "dont have a life" (so please refrain from comments such as GET A LIFE)
We have a pleasant life and tv is part of it, like tapas with friends, a good book, nice meal and a dip in the sea, ETC.

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[QUOTE=me me;6678506]I hope something is worked out soon. Hubbby is missing the GAMES and it is only once every four years. I, of course am missing my dose of Blanche, Ken, Liz and co.


I Cant see this being worked out soon, the issue is legal not commercial, therefore the probability of working out a deal is about zero,

The problem is EU broadcasting regulations, which restrict what can and cant be done, if you remember about Six years ago the Astra 2 platform reduced transmission power to conform to EU requirements, (Then the Sat guys made loads upgrading the dishes from 1.3m to 1.5m), fortunately this started to cause problems in some UK areas with reception, so it is unlikely that this will be reduced further, (however as technology moves on they may find other ways of restricting reception in non UK areas).

The thing to fix firmly in thought process now is that any system that retransmits programmes that are regulated will eventually be shut down and the key here is retransmit.

It is not illegal for you to have a big dish (subject to local planning i guess), a sat receiver, and to point your dish at Astra 2 satellites, and as long as there are free to air channels you can receive them without problems, however Sky contracts are effectively not authorised for use outside UK so technically you would be in breach of contract, but how is anybody going to findout>.

So the least risk most cost effective option is to put in a large dish, with a capable sat receiver and live happily ever after.:cry_smile:

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Yeah but me spanish woz pritty good?:rofl:

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Spanish television wouldn't be so bad if they didn't keep on interrupting the advertisements with programmes.

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well turn them tapas dish upside down and you many get it
ya GET A LIFE and go out pay some one that will put in a dish that can pick up bbc/itv telle micro is gone . full stop and if that go back on air , there will be trouble it waste off 400 euros ....

that dont have a License never had one and there where put off air in may and again , that 2 times .... dont piss off the town hall are Madrid

get a dish and you wont have any problems

3meter dish for sale <------- D.I.Y. way make one just pay lot off money two me and i do a runner like telemirco ( now did i think that are say it out loud LOL

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Are you for real????????

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Telemicro aint coming back, so you will have to find a new supplier.. BUT be warned, the others are all now targets. In some places whole communities are now cut off.. and the other suppliers have long backlogs for installation, like a month of more.

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and be careful as i am sure that there will suddenly be lots of "professional satellite installers" (out of work builders?!?!) in the area - who are only in the area to make a quick buck and not worry about aftersales service. remember, always go for a company that has a landline, and not just a mobile as this gives some confidence that they may live in the area, and see if they have been advertising in the local rags for a few weeks prior to this all happening...if you must get it done, get it done properly even if it is not hte cheapestquote you have...

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Lol ^^^^

My mate, although is a top builder - he has just gone into the Sat TV Installation Game as a sideline

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A good indication of a professional installer is his use of equipment similar to this when carrying out an installation:

http://www.promax.es/images/producto...PK3Premium.jpg

If he has a cheap satfinder gadget or just relies on the signal bars on the satellite receiver give him the boot.

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Hey, that's funky bit of kit !!! Does make toast as well ?

Anyway why should anyone get TV for free when it's not ?? Ditch the TV and learn Spanish, start a new hobby, walk, run, swim, bike, dine out, golf, bowling, fishing, make friends, gardening, sex, walk the dog, play with the children, parks, fiestas, trips, seaside...... the WORLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... I'll get me coat.

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We've not watched the TV for over a year. To be honest - I don't know where we'd find the time to fit TV in now! :eek:

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Misleading, that is a very expensive piece of kit and only necessary in very poor signal areas, or on installations that have a serious problem,

There are plenty of other professional meters about such as Horizontal, or Satcom 3, and probably one of the best about for Sat line up is the Wolsley Sat MK 4, (Preprogrammed for Sky Transponders,which is an excellent piece of kit and about 1/5 of the price.

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Loads of Coship decoders (type supplied by Telmicro) at the local auction, even had the cards with them..... not surprising that there were no bidders. Sky digiboxes with cards did sell though.

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i have been looking around some of the receiver tech sites, to see if it is possible to "patch" the firmware (software) in coship receivers (like you can with some other receivers) so that you can use it to read sky cards, and save people from having to buy a sky receiver, but have come up a blank,

it looks like you can only use it to view the free satellite channels only.

but if you do get a dish, go for two outputs and have a sky receiver for your main tv and the coship for another room....might as well make some use out of the apart from as a doorstop....

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Is the Wolsey the same as the Lacuna Mk 4? OK for DIY but could hardly be considered a professional tool.

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yes i am for real and not cry over it but lot are and time people woke up and smell the life , lots in here have say it dont waste you money on outher systems are the going same way , off air

dish and you have no problems , whats so hard about that you learn and dont make same misstake again

i have not lost any my 400 channels here ... why you ask ? i have a dish not that company that tock every one for there cash ....

there off air and that it

jurdy

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do you know how much one then thinks cost ? and out work builder would buy one then
i got laptops and sat finders and you name it
it not cheap game to get in two from builder setting the bace to iron works and dish

just put in 3 dishs and cost was 3,500 euros now there been used for radio
cables were 4.50 euros per meter not cheap but still there in 10 years time

not the diy system i work with ex arm Engineer who know there what there doing

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Wolsey/lacuna meter is a professional- quality meter and can achieve the best possible results as it can meter individual transponders on Astra2 and Eurobird.
My partner and I both have these meters and get excellent results in the Madrid area.
Of more value in judging an installer is the dish and LNB he chooses. The cowboys use cheap dishes, insubstantial mountings and cheapest possible LNBs, which typically fail after a few years. Anyone wanting a new installation should insist on a good quality dish such as Prodelin, ASC signal (ChannelMaster) or Gibertini, and an Invacom LNB.

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Yes, I have a Prolink 4C Premium.

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Being just a dum blond, how do I get 2 outputs for my dish, I know I have one. Also, how do you reprogramme the Co-ship box to pick up freeview. I have a Sky box connected to my main TV, how do I connect the Co-ship box to the tele in the bedroom?

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you will need to get a twin output LNB for your dish - in my opinion invacom C120 are best or prime focus dishes, but depending on your dish will determine the type of LNB you require - there are prime focus dishes (LNB is focussed on the centre of the dish) and offset where the LNB is focussed at an angle to the dish.

you will then need to run a cable from the second output to the reciever second location - in your case the bedroom and connect the receiver to the TV via scart.

in theory, you need to go to the main menu of the reciver, select astra 2 or eurobird (satellites at 28.3 or 28.5) and do a scan of the channels - selecting the FTA (freetoair) option so that it picks up only the free channels. however, in some cases TM may have disabled access ot the menu via a PIN and so you will need to know this to access channels - some recivers - i dont know about the coships, do have a manual factory reset button on the motherboard (most laptops pc do also, you just have to locate it and you can disable any passwords that lock access to the BIOS!)

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most laptops pc do also, you just have to locate it and you can disable any passwords that lock access to the BIOS

I can assure you that is not the case, PC's yes they are piece of piss to remove a p/w,

However even a Bios password on laptop is not that simple to remove, the majority of lappies are different, but the Top Level names I deal with are certainly far from simple