Analogue receiver with standard mesh type Sky digital dish.

[eeyore]

Hi,
Probably an easy one for you chaps to answer.
I want to receive the free British Eurosport channel for the cycling coverage. Can I use an older analogue receiver connected to a newer mesh type dish? The dish is connected to an oldish Grundig digital satellite receiver supplied by Sky when we subscribed some years back. The digital box is now being used for FreeView which we want to retain. Can I just plug the cables into the analogue receiver to watch British EuroSport and swap the cables back to watch Freeview? Can I do all this without needing to realign the dish because wife doesn't want to lose the FreeView digital stuff like ER etc.?
Hope that makes sense!
Thanks.

[Analoguesat]

British Eurosport ISNT free - its the International version for Germany thats still available in analogue with English soundtrack.

The biggest problem you have is that the Eurosport Intl is transmitted on a different satellite to the Sky programming, so you need a second dish


Please get your terminology right or you will confuse everyone:

Freeview is the DTT terrestrial service which comes through the aerial
Freetoview is the free satellite service which gives you the free stuff via your dish.

[BGonaSTICK]

And then of course you have FreeSat, which is a name owned by the BBC I believe - this will be used to brand a re-hashed collection of Free to Air satellite channels later this year, and FreeSatfromSky - which is just Sky sulking because the Beeb wouldn't sell them the 'FreeSat' name in the first place.



'Free To View' is the tag given to those channels which are 'free' for you to watch on satellite, but for which you have to pay for a card to decrypt them ( :? ). These are included in the 'FreeSatfromSky' package.