Hi
Recently installed an all-in-one Dvd player, screen etc....and it has the option for a tv tuner and i was wondering if i brought one, could it pick up sky?, i've seen some tv tuners @50 and @£200 is one better etc..
Cheers!

 

dont you need a dish to pick up sky??

 

Yes you can pick up Sky in your car. The only downside is that big **** off sattelite dishes are really un-aerodynamic!, plus you can't drive around or you lose the signal.....

 

Some of your BIG, Look-at-me Spoilers could pick up ET life!!

Pete

 

lol, i realised it can pick up normal tv, just wondered if i was poss to get a signal without needing the dish.....

 

Freeview might be possible though??

 

wahey!

 

If it was that easy I think everyone would have a nice discreet in car TV ariel at home instead of a sattelite dish. Good effort though...

 

Sky is directional and so you'd have to stay driving in the same direction if you wanted to stick with Sky bit of a bummer if you came to a round about or a 1 way system.

 

Technically speaking though it would be possible to have a dish on some kind of motorised 360 degree turntable which automatically kept the dish pointing in the same direction regardless of the orientation of the car ?

..or summat

 

Yep freeview would be possible except i think you need a really good aerial to pick it up and you would only get reception in certain areas.

 

Completely do-able with a freeview box. Fulham71 (Paul) on here was telling me about a company locally in Surrey that has done this installation.

 

dont see what the issue with freeview would be, and the pioneer box is tiny.

sky could potentially be received if somene locally has a video sender unit for transmitting sky around their house to all tvs, but obviously there is no guarantee of this.

You may find when tuning that you can pick up odd sky channels already from surrounding houses that have done this, but this kind of set up in someone's home is not just rare but also illegal in this country due to the frequencies that the units use being reserved.

 

Free view is do able lol !

I HAVE SEEN IT DONE & CAN RECOMMEND SOMEONE IN SURREY WHO CAN DO IT !

They do need to upgrade the standard tv aerial though !

 

NO NO NO, you can have cable - try NTL

Might have to be verrrrryyyyyy long though!

 

Can you get cable tv in a car?

 

get a dvdr record the 5 most annoying commercials you can find. then find a 30 second clip of "friends*". play 0.1 seconds of friends* then skip to the commercials and repeat. filling the dvdr with this you have a perfect emulation of sky tv in your car. added bonus of no arial or subscription fees.







*insert crap show of your choice

 

You would need a motorised satellite dish on the roof that constantly rotates to 28.2 degrees east of south or to maintain a compass bearing of 151.8 degrees constantly to pick up signals reliably. As well you will have to avoid going down any steep hill that faces the opposite direction else you will lose it.


I think

 

I don't think so,but hey modern technology these days!

 

you can get dome sat receivers that can be used on the move. and also 12v digiboxes.

not cheap though.

http://roadpro.co.uk/products.asp?LID=1387

 

Given that we can't even pick up freeview in our house with a bloody massive aerial, you might experience some receiption problems occasionally with freeview, but most of the time, providing you avoid the hill we live on, you should be fine