sky TV in another country

[Fred@BTM]

possible? my mate is moving to the Caribbean and we had cable and wireless cable TV installed a few weeks back, and TBH its s**t quality

could he take his sky digital stuff over and get it to work out there?

 

[Tom]

TBR do a range of dishes, one looking similar to jodrell bank.

But seriously, no the existing stuff wont work.

 

[LegoHead]

I think the sky satellites are in a geostationary orbit and you may not have line of site to one in the carribean.

could you not get one of those slingbox thingies, rent a shithole in the uk, get a sky subscription there fit the slingbox and have it streamed over the net...lol.....

 

[Fred@BTM]

some people out there have fooking HUGE dishes in their gardens!

 

[mace¬]

I think the sky satellites are in a geostationary orbit and you may not have line of site to one in the carribean.

I remember watching a documentry on TV a few years ago, they used a number of satellites to bounce the signal off so they could recieve it in there spaceships on the other side of the planet. I think it was called independance day or something. Had a nice fella in it called William.

 

[Bash]

Not a chance in hell!
Just where would you expect to plug the cable box into? a palm tree or a dolphin? No matter the size of your dish you can never get Astra 28 degrees east from the Caribbean. U can get the American Dish network EchoStar (the US equivalent of BSKYB).
http://www.dishnetwork.com/

 

[Haybails1980]

My mate in Luxembourg has Sky......thru a dodgy person in the Dunfermline office I believe.

 

[Bash]

These are the foot prints of Astra/Eurobird 28.

 

[H182]

As said its too far away to pick up sky.

 

[Lagerlout]

I was watching Sky in Cyprus! lol

 

[Bash]

with a big enough dish you can see some channels in cyprus.

 

[RSi Dave]

could utilise a slingbox and watch stuff over the net from a sky. Put that requires the sky to be installed somewhere and active.

 

[Fred@BTM]

so "if" i had his sky gear setup round my house (in the uk) a "slingbox" (whatever that is) would send the signal over the interweb to his gaff in the carribean?

 

[Tom]

Correct.