Date   : Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:05:42 +0000
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Teletext receiver revisited

>> I _love_ my mesh dish. The whole kit'n'caboodle is held in place with
>> coat-hanger pieces. And it rode out the gales last week, no probs. It
>> took a near hurricane to push it out of position. Oh, and that time a
>> flippin' great crow crashed into it (WTF?!?).

I had to leave behind a 1.2M steerable dish on a house some 10 years
back .. only an old analogue system, but it was great fun watching the
news feeds traversing europe..

It was replaced by a car-boot-sale dish sat on the ground in the back
garden of the new flat, braced to a tree with cableties.  Worked
surprisingly well..

We've only got a standard sky setup now, albeit with Sky+, ShyHD and a
TiVo bolted on.  Not looking forward to the price rises (again!) in a
month, though, so starting to wonder if there are any alternative, but
family friendly, ways to do things.   Must look into MythTV and DVB-S
cards and see if it'll integrate with the XBMC boxes I already have..


Rob