Panasonic PZ81

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Hi Bit of advice please I am looking at buying the above TV this week, can someone advise of how it hooks up to my existing sat dish, i have Sky HD already will this cause any issues?

Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

I suppose the first thing to do is check your satellite dish and see what kind of LNB is on there. I have Sky+ & multi-room so my LNB has the availability of 4 connections, only 3 used.ÿ

If you have an available connection on your LNB and can safely access your dish, go buy a length of coaxial cable, connect it in, drill through your wall and connect the other end into your PZ81. You'll find the same type of screw connection as is on the back of your Sky box.

If you don't have a multi-way LNB you can buy one or call out a satellite engineer to do all the work for you.

Hope you get sorted.ÿ

 

[Anonymous]

If you have SKY HD already, do you need Freesat? You'll get ITV HD (which I'm sure SKY will have shortly) and what else?

 

[Anonymous]

Good point rewerb, adding to that comment. While enverity1 has Sky HD, why buy a PZ81B when the extra expense of the built-in freesat will IMHO, be wasted. Why not save money and go for the PZ80 or PZ85 or if budget and size requirements allow the PZ800.

I still fail to see the point of a TV with built-in freesat. Maybe it's because of how I watch my TV, 90% of the time it's been recorded on Sky+, something you can't do with a built-in freesat tuner. ÿ

 

[Anonymous]

"I still fail to see the point of a TV with built-in freesat. Maybe it's
because of how I watch my TV, 90% of the time it's been recorded on
Sky+, something you can't do with a built-in freesat tuner."

I guess you could say the same about any built in tuner, Freeview or terrestrial ...

However, the benefits should be obvious. The most obvious is that without a tuner, you can't receive any channels. For someone like myself, with no Sky, no cable (non on my road), no Feeview and soon to be no terrestrial, it will be really nice to see a picture, and not just a blank screen ...

Obviously if you have and like Sky, as with the original poster then you may as well stay with that. But, you shouldn't just assume *everyone* has Sky.

I'm also a little confused about the "something you can't do with a built-in freesat tuner." statement. Surely, this is the same with the built in Freesat and terrestrial tuners on most TV's? I know my TV can't record terrestrial, I know my TV is old, but does your TV record terrestrial?

 

[Anonymous]

AAJ:ÿ
I guess you could say the same about any built in tuner, Freeview or terrestrial ...

However, the benefits should be obvious. The most obvious is that without a tuner, you can't receive any channels. For someone like myself, with no Sky, no cable (non on my road), no Feeview and soon to be no terrestrial, it will be really nice to see a picture, and not just a blank screen ...

Obviously if you have and like Sky, as with the original poster then you may as well stay with that. But, you shouldn't just assume *everyone* has Sky.

I'm also a little confused about the "something you can't do with a built-in freesat tuner." statement. Surely, this is the same with the built in Freesat and terrestrial tuners on most TV's? I know my TV can't record terrestrial, I know my TV is old, but does your TV record terrestrial?

I suppose at the end of the day it's what each individual wants and how they view their TV. Personally I'd prefer a monitor. That way I can feed the TV with any source I wish. Whether you use Sky, Freeview or freesat, unless you have a PVR or similar you are stuck to watching programmes at broadcast times, or catching the repeat, or using services such as iPlayer.

If being tied to broadcast times is how some viewers like to digest their TV that's great,ÿunfortunatelyÿit doesn't work for me, so any built-in tuner is redundant before it even enters my home.ÿ

The something you can't do with a built-in freesat tuner comment I made relates to not being able to send the signal from the freesat tuner in your TV to a PVR (or similar), it's simply there to output content to the screen - that's my understanding. This isn't the case with stand-alone freesat or Freeview units as they can be fed into an existing PVR (or similar) and can even be purchased with a PVR built-in, Humax do a Freesat HD box for around £120.

Again, I can't see the benefit. It's not convenient or flexible enough in its implementation.

There's a couple of options. Buy a PZ81 and pay additionally for a dish installation or buy a PZ80, then buy a freesat HD box and have a dish insalled. I think the PZ80 route would be slightly cheaper, more convenient and more flexible.

I currently have a very old Toshiba CRT, it has an analogue tuner but I won't be stranded when the analogue signal isÿswitchedÿoff. Yes I do have Sky but if I didn't £20 for a freeview box would be all I'd need.ÿ

I await theÿonslaught...ÿ