TV package at Roda

Hi,

We have Torresat TV is several properties here & the installation at Roda is the same (box with card) except there is NO dish. The box plugs into the TV wall socket & receives the signal (via fibre optic cables I believe) from the large dish on site. Before we had the Torresat installation we could receive about 5 English channels FREE from the TV socket including; BBC 1, BBC2, ITV 1, SKY NEWS. I presume without the subscription & satellite box card, none of the scrambled channels would be available - currently 70 TV & 23 Radio.

Main channels via Torresat include:

BBC 1 to 4

ITV 1 to 4

Channel 4 & 5

Film 4, More 4

About 6 movie channels & about 6 music channels

Sport: Eurosport 1 & 2 & about 4 Spanish sport channels, including Gol TV which shows UK premiership games

Adult channels

Documentary channels including: Nat. geographic, Natura, biography

& for insomniacs everwhere; BBC parliament

You can get a printed list of channels from any Torresat office, nearest one is Teleast in Los Alcazares, located in the industrial estate on the Los Alcazares to Torre Pacheco road (behind the furniture stores & Indian restaurant).

Hope this helps, if I get my scanner working I will copy the list & post here.

Mike

Hi Guys,

Just to clear up the TV issue in Roda Golf for you all and please bear with me as it's not that straight forward!

There are five UK channels available in Roda without a digi-box.

They are; BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, ITV2 and Skynews. To view these channels, you simply plug in your ariel to any outlet in the house and so long as your TV is capable of receiving the signal it will pick it up. You do need to be careful though as some TV's brought over from the UK WILL NOT WORK.

You need to check with your TV supplier to ensure the TV can be programmed to "know where it is in the world" which basically lets the TV scan for the signal range that is being transmitted here, higher than the standard UK 21-69 Mhz range. 

There are also some other channels available in the analogue range (German & Spanish) as well as a number avaialble in the digital range, though non of these are English. All of the above are supplied and form part of your community fees

Now the "digi-box" option. From Teleast (and ONLY Teleast), you can be supplied with a digi-box, that plugs into the same ariel socket, but pics up a different range of digital signals that are scrambled and need their card to view them.

This box is available at €250 with a €20 per month maintenance fee.

The viewing quality is excellent, with a wide range of channels as has been commented on in previous posts.

There is however the draw back that you can only watch the multiple channels via the digi-box in the one room, unless you either by a second digi-box, or a "signal sender" (which are only available in the UK).

The option of a 1.9 m dish, or any other such receiver would not be allowed on Roda Golf as it would totally contravine the community rules.

If there needs to be any more clarification, drop me a line.

Regards,

Paul

Hi , we are at Roda this week and investigating the ways of receiving a live football channel via the feed that Roda currently supply. That was up and till last night when walking the dog around phase 3a / 3b we noticed a 1 huge satelite dish on top of an apartment block and next to this dish is a smaller less obtrusive dish, these can clearly be seen from the road. Does anybody have information on whether Roda / communities have changed the rules as we were of the understanding that dishes on Roda were not allowed.

Thanks

Gary