Garye Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Can you help me - Northants Based -I have a Metronic Digital Satellite with a twin LNB for Hotbird and Astra 28 so I recieve ARTE, TV5 France 5 RTB and TV5 Europe.Are the other French channels available by digital or are they analogue and if so how can I get TF1 France 2 and 3 in UK?Or can I?TIAGary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin963 Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 LAST EDITED ON 19-Dec-03 AT 03:26 PM (GMT)With your present box you have exhausted the possibilities.The problem is that the three "main" terrestrial channels are only contained within digital satellite "packages" with scrambling (viz TPS for all three and France 5 and M6, and Canalsatellite for France 2 & 3).However, all three are available in analogue on Atlantic Bird 3 (5 degrees west) along with France 5/Arte, M6.To get these you need an analogue box (nice and cheap if you can find one) with dish set up on AB3. Howwever, for colour you need either a French SECAM TV, or a transcoder. A few (but only a few) British TV's decode SECAM colour. Transcoders are not without their problems.If all else fails, you can subscribe to TPS from a French address and bring the box back over to the UK and wire it up to your LNB pointing at Hotbird. It may become more compicated if you have Diseq switching. But the analogue route works and is subscription free (why pay TPS for the pleasure of watching something you have already paid for).If you need more info please post again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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