British tv in Benidorm - Page 2

Thank you to those who responded All really helpful. Thank you kind people

What are the perfectly legal services you use if you don’t mind me asking?

Asking as have relatives who have a place in Granalacant and in need of access to uk tv.

The easiest and cheapest way to get UK television is to install a 1.4m satellite dish pointed at 28.2E, you will get open Freesat channels ( This is not Sky ) for free you will get every UK mainstream channels plus dozens of other alternatives, Unfortunately you have been given some misinformation on here, for starters, high winds DO NOT effect satellite signals, during heavy rains the signal can be lost intermittently but this is Spain and this happens only a couple of times a year ! With a good satellite signal you will get a HD or higher picture quality with a good 4k television, preferably with the Satellite receiver built in the TV, but a good receiver with HDMI will also suffice ! 
I personally think that IPTV is just a big money making con, why pay extortionate fees for something you can get free of charge with a dish ! Then you buy yourself an Amazon Firestick and get all the benefits of IPTV for free ! once you've bought your Firestick ! There are non Amazon apps for a Firestick that can stream you almost any film or series ever made !!! for Free ! The Firestick app I use is called Nova TV !! With this and satellite Freesat you will never need anything else ! 

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Thank you

Do you know who I can get to install such a dish please? Helpful reply thanks again

One big problem with your "free and easy" solution is that most people here live in apartment blocks and they cannot thru rules place a 1,4m dish on their terrace and would have to get permission from the community (apartment building) to place it on the roof, never mind the cabling from the dish to their apartment.

It is a good solution for a stand alone house or even a townhouse. Until they tighten / reduce the footprint of the signal again then you will be looking at a 2m or larger dish.....

Of course there are problems with large dishes in apartments but my advice was to the person buying a house I believe so the apartment problem does not apply ! And you also have to consider the optical fibre cabling for internet to high rise apartments will need the same installation work as a 75ohm satellite cable ! 

About me, I was part of the team who built the Astra and Eutelsat geostationary satellites, the main structures of the satellites were built at Astrium/Airbus facilities in Toulouse, Portsmouth and Stevenage, We also built Glonas, Meteosat and Amazonas to name a few, I still have contact with my colleagues at Airbus and SES Betzdorf and currently I can assure you there are no plans to reduce the spot beam footprint !!  a high gain LNB and dish combination at 1.4m will pull in a strong signal without any problems.

See my last reply...

Steve 

A 1.4 satellite dish is not the perfect solution. It is JUST about sufficient for most, not all of the UK free-to-air channels. The signal has weakened, so whilst does work, can be limited.

Earlier a poster mentioned dishes not being affected by high winds. This is not accurate, dishes are affected by high winds and also high levels of rainfall or electrical storms will knock out or reduce satellite signals. Whilst the weather here stable in the summer months, outside of this you can see dishes being affected, briefly a few times of the year - IE if it rains heavily for a couple of days, you may simply find missing channels or breaking up the signal. You can get a bigger dish to compensate a little - 1.86m-1.9m dishes, but aside from where to put them, also in bad weather conditions will be affected. 

The main point with the dishes is you can get free to air TV, basic - but no subscription,

IPTV - Is an entirely different ballgame, with a vast variety of equipment, services, and prices. Many people use Amazon Firesticks, but generally, do so as they are simply 'a well-known name'. In fact, they are quite low-end for independent IPTV and also at risk of being blocked by Amazon if putting 3rd party software on they don't approve (which did happen to some Firesticks recently using 3rd party launcher software). Most of the cowboy startups offer these, as they do not have the experience of testing different equipment.

Whilst the Firestick is very good at Amazon own ecosystem and apps - Netflix / Youtube etc, these are not the same as specific IPTV software to run other services. For that other equipment - for example one manufacturer Formuler, operates faster in a more stable fashion and offers better software & features.

Costs with IPTV will also vary on the type of content, both live, catch-up services, and on-demand. 

Generally the equation of service vs cost, you will find the differences in both the content and the one to be aware of, is stability - many companies overload their servers, to make prices cheaper, but at peak periods, often issues appear with stability. I've yet to test a very cheap service that performs anywhere near as well as promised or not without lacking stability or level of content/services.

Paul

www.televisiontechnology.eu

Best advice so far that I can see. It’s what I’ve done and it works perfect. 

Thank you do you install the dishes please