How to get French satellite TV
October 27, 2008
The easiest way to receive French TV in your home is to get an aerial installed by a local company, and use a TNT set top box which will give you access to 20 or so free channels. (A level of local knowledge is required for this, so find an installer close to you.)
If terrestrial French TV is not an option then you have 2 alternatives using satellite:
To access France 2, 3 and 5, Arte and LCP for free you will need to have a generic digibox and a dish pointing at Atlantic Bird 3 (nominally at 5 degrees west of south, from Brittany around 3 degrees west of south and an elevation of aprox 34degrees)
If having no program guide for UK TV is not an issue for you then 2 dishes can be connected to one box giving seamless access to both French and UK TV
Your digibox should pick these channels up on a satellite scan, if it does not then you will need to create a new transponder: frequency 11591, polarity vertical, simbol rate 20,000, error correction 2/3.
If you want more channels then you will need to buy a TNTSat box, again available from your local brico. This comes with a card giving access to 20 or so channels.
The dish for this box will need to be ponting at Astra1 (nominally 19degrees east of south, from Brittany around 28 degrees east of south and an elevation of aaprox 31degrees). This is a dedicated box and once it is connected to the dish there is little input required from the user.
If this makes absolutely no sense at all, then contact us and we can set things up for you.
What channels can I get?
October 26, 2008
Entertainment
BBC 1
BBC 2
BBC 3
BBC 4
ITV 1
ITV 2
ITV 2+1
ITV 3
ITV 3+1
ITV 4
Four
E 4
More 4
S 4/C
Zone Thriller
Zne Romantica
Zone Reallity
Zone Horror
Zone Horror +1
BET
News & Sport
BBC News
BBC Parliament
The Fight
Russia Today
Aljezera
Euronews
S4/C Dau
France 24
Lifestyle
Men & Motors
Overseas Property TV
Wedding TV
Information TV
Special Interest
Teachers TV
Inspiration
Children
CBBC
Cbeebies
CITV
Pop
Pop Girl
Tiny Pop
Kix
Movies
Film 4
Movies 4 Men
Movies 4 Men 2
True Movies
True Movies 2
Music
B4U TV
Bubble Hits
Chart Show
Scuzz TV
Vault Classics
Shopping
Shop On TV
Gems TV
Bid TV
JML
Prie Drop TV
QVC
Pitch TV
Celebrity Shop
Simply Shop
Gaming & Dating
NetPlay TV
Gala TV
Radio
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 xtra
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
BBC Radio 6 Music
BBC Radio 7
BBC Asian Network
BBC World Service
BFBS Radio
Insight Radio
NME Radio
Wfm
Gold
Choice FM
Capital
Classic FM
WRN
How to get Channel 4
October 26, 2008
Adding Channel 4 to your Sky box
- On the Sky box go to Services > System Setup > Add Channels
- Enter the following details:
Frequency: 10714MHz (10.714GHz)
Polarity: Horizontal
Symbol rate: 22000 (22.0Mb)
FEC: 5/6 - Go to Find Channels, highlight Channel 4, and proess the yellow button, then Select.
- To view the channel go to Services > Other Channels, and select Channel 4.
Adding Channel 4 to your French digibox
If you have a “brico” box, if it does “blind scans” then it’d be worth doing a complete scan as quite a few channels have moved in the last couple of months.
If your box does not do blind scans then you will have to create a new transponder with the details above and then scan that.
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