Satellite Tv - French "free" And Freesat-from-sky

[lelandv]

Hi,

We are shortly moving house and currently have CanalSat on Astra with direct subscription with CanalSat, as well as terrestrial digital off the Sandy Heath transmitter in Beds/Cambs.

The area we are moving to is not very well served with terrestrial digital, and we are cancelling our direct CanalSat subscription as we will be closing our french bank accounts... besides we have the 'Passion' package at the moment and rarely view much of anything other than the classic french channels anyway (TF1, F2, F3, F4, TV5, M6).

I am looking for suggestions to continue to receive the full range of free-to-air English channels (using FreeSat or something similar in the absence of adequate freeview reception) and the standard 'free' French channels without ongoing subscription charges and preferably without too much outlay for hardware. Ideally, a solution for a standard decoder box capable of receiving both/any services and either a dual-head/multi-head or motorised dish would have been my first thought, but not sure of the best solution given the myriad of receivers and different satellite constellations.

Could you advise the easiest and lowest-cost solution to achieve this?

Many thanks,

Leland

[Rob]

best option would be to pop over to avforums.com as there are loads of experts on there! but believe you can get boxes that will recieve the sky freeview as well as the canal channels

[Ryo]

give us a PM , ill gladly help you

i get these on my tv