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Originally Posted by barwel1992 (Post 2280254)

not really answering your question but cant he get sky ?

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Originally Posted by Sky TV Reception Advice

Spain & Portugal

For northern Spain, dish size requirements for Sky TV are 1.2m, but a 1.8m - 2.4m dish (minimum) may be needed for reliable Sky TV reception in Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga. For Portugal a 1.8m dish is the recommended dish. The island of Madeira requires a large dish of approximately 3m for reliable reception of all Sky TV channels.

The most suitable satellite dish size for an area centred on Alicante in a radius of 150KM inland would be a 1.8M for reasonable reception, with a 2.4m being optimum for channels such as ITV BBC1 etc, BBC 2/3/4 is difficult but obtainable on a 2.4M dish during the afternoons and evenings, Ch4 since the satellite change now follows the same reception pattern as BBC2, but can be obtained consistently by using the 'add channels' function in the installer menu and adding TTon4 on Frequency 12480 with all other settings as default. Fortec star or similar type petal dishes do not offer the same levels of reception as the one piece dishes and should be avoided for use in this area. Southern Murcia has good reception on 1.8m dishes, usually providing the complete channel range.

The best Sky Digibox's for good reception in the Costa Blanca area are the Thomson 4214 or Pace DS430N, the Goodmans Freesat box also works very well, as does the Darkbox. There has been a batch of the Pace DS440 which appears to have an intermittent fault or tuner problem which causes what appears to be channel crosstalk, on CH4, Ch5, Sky Three and a few Sky TV UK channels.
The problem appears related to large dish reception in fringe areas and is probably due to tuner sensitivity or selectivity issues. Pace SKY+ and HD Boxes all seem to work well.

Here's a viewer report from Madeira:

"I'm getting good results with 1.8m except in the rain although I never lose channel 5 or fiver US, in the summer I seem to lose channel 4. All other channels seem OK."

Mathew Breeze (N.B. the recommended dish size for Madeira is usually a 3.0Mtr dish)

My thanks to Mike Edwards of http://www.solar-sky.com for providing reception and dish advice information for Spain.

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watch tv online in spain

Once you’re in Spain you’ll have a heck of a time trying to download your favourite TV shows from iTunes or watching TV on apps like Joost because of IP address filtering (they know you’re in Spain which is outside of their license boundaries). But there are at least 33 ways to watch TV online in Spain (okay, some may not work for the above mentioned reasons, but some definitely do).

Check out Mashable’s article about the 33 ways to watch TV online. But here are the highlights (Youtube goes without saying…):

Babelgum
Zattoo - very promising; highlighting European television content and available in Spain.
SurfTheChannel - links to all kinds of stuff that may or may not be legally available.
BBC is supposed to be putting a lot of their video content on YouTube. I haven’t heard if this is actually happening yet or what. If you find out then let us know in the comments at the bottom of the page here.

There’s also SlingBox, which is a box that you hookup to your friend/family’s TV connection back home and it “slings” the programming to your computer. Cool huh? There’s been some discussion of this on this forum post.

;)

hth's Dave & Daddy Dave :0)