HOWTO: Get Free Satellite TV - Comments Page 1

Satellite installers inform me they will not send the signal via my own in wall co-ax cables and that I have to have a hole drilled through my house wall and have co ax cable snaking around my baseboard or top of my walls.

It is not an option I will consider when I already have co ax cable hidden in walls throughout my house. It would be really easy to hook into these cables at the box, just like my cable company does now.

Anyone else been told that? And anyone know why they have this "rule".

30 dollars a month? Mine is over a 116 dollars a month and I am sick of it.I only keep it for my daughter so she can watch disney ch, cartoon network and scifi channel(and internet service). I really with there were an alternitive

EDITOR'S NOTE: This page lists packages starting at $30, $35, $40, and $45 monthly. http://www.dish.com/entertainment/packages/offers/value/

I found a FREE basic online TV service with about 9 channels -- they also have a paid subscription similar to full cable TV.

ustvnow.com

I pay a fortune for basically ONE channel! There is only one channel I can't access by other means and actually, my antenna brings in all the local channels even clearer than my DirecTV so for poorer picture and only one channel I pay over $80 a month! This may be the year I give up watching my favorite baseball team because I can't justify this expense any longer! This channel is my regional sports channel & isn't even on any of the basic packages so I have to pay this huge monthly fee. It's ridiculous-highway robbery! Why can't they do ala carte? So frustrating!

I've dumped cable and gone to capturing the free high definition digital TV signals floating through the air using an affordable digital antenna that works with my existing coax cable (http://superproductreview.info/DigitalAntenna) and a TiVo unit (http://superproductreview.info/TiVo).

Now I'm saving over $100 month. Got my investment back in just two months!

I used to know about this ... Totally forgot / didn't realize it could still work. Does anyone know if my HD Tivo box, with the card slot for the cable company's card, can handle FTA satellite without an additional box? Obviously, it's capable of running decoding algorithms...

Could nof forward to a friend. Can you help?

I discovered Free to Air satellite TV in 2008. It's a great source for international news, news and sports feeds, special events, as well as programs from around the world. As Bob said, check out the Free to Air forum at http://www.satelliteguys.us/ for lots of info on FTA TV.

For R Jay: Put your mouse pointer in the blank line directly below here. Hold the left mouse button

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while you move the mouse pointer into the blank line directly above this sentence. When you see the cryptic computer gobbledegook light up BLUE, press the "C" key while holding the "Ctrl" key. Now go to your email and prepare a new message to send to your friend. After you address the message and enter a subject line, put your mouse cursor in the message area of the new message and click the left button. Then press the "V" key while holding down the "Ctrl" key. If you want to include a message along with this magic "code", do it before you do the "Ctrl" + "V" trick, or you may have trouble. Sorry I assumed you didn't know anything, but I hope I covered everything. Best of luck and enjoy computing!

Im from Ghana and have heard about FTA and im doin more research abt it but i have also heard that, you can get free internet access through your FTA and want to know if its right. If it is how does it work and how can i configure that maself. Please i will be glad if you can help me?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I've not heard about free internet access via FTA, sorry.

Who is responsible for scrambling all our TV signals in the first place making people have to pay for expensive descramblers and pay pricey monthly subscription fees to receive any channels whatsoever? I used to deliver hundreds of the C-band satellite dishes in 48 ft. trailers and all satellite channels were totally free! Why would our Gov't allow the gigantic satellite/cable TV companies to perpetrate/perpetuate such a heinous scam onto the consumer? Esp. senior citizens on Social Security this is very expensive for them. Can recall elections be held to give these elected politicians the boot and/or file class action lawsuits against them? Dish satellite network cut my KNBC, KCBS, FOX west L. A., KPIX San Francisco, KOMO Seattle/Tacoma, Denver 5 Superstations, Network One, The Water Channel over 12 years ago and never gave me a refund or price adjustment whatsoever. So what is next on the Gov'ts agenda, scramble our short wave radio signals so people can not tune into foreign countries? If America got trillions to spend on foreign aide we should be able to have free TV signals............

How do I apply for free programming .Please let me know.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Not sure what you mean... what sort of free programming are you thinking of?

Will this method of "free" satellite TV work in RVs?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sure, the satellite dish can't tell if you mount it on a house or an RV.

My Verizon bill for 5 TV's hit $207 a month including internet and phone which I don't need.. Dropped the whole thing and got Cox internet for $39 a month and bought 5 $17 TV antennas.... I get dozens of channels here in Los Angeles, all of the major networks plus some good movie channels. The only thing I miss is the Golf Channel... for over $160 a month I can live without it. Not sure I'd get much more over free satellite... If I want to see a game or something not broadcast over the air, I just go to a bar or the golf course.

I live in a travel trailer, with a winegarde 1000 automatic sat dish. its set up as a dish network dish. I have cancelled Dish networks. what do I need to do to the sat dish. and where do I get a good receiver, or perhaps a DVR?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Not sure what you mean. If the dish is owned by Dish, I assume they'll want it back.

labillyboy - what kind of antennas for $17. and what do you use them for? When I had my own house I had the largest antenna that Radio Shack has and put it in the attic (no antenna were allowed in that sub division) and got great programs - ABC - CBS etc and others..

my question is this if anyone of you have knowlegde please tell me that i want to see all indian channels free is there any receiver made for it

I remember the early 90's with a directable 10 foot dish that picked up hundreds of channels on C-band. If you liked a channel, you could subscribe to JUST THAT CHANNEL (or any other you liked) for from $1 to $3 a YEAR and it was perfect reception and just what I thought subscription/pay TV should be... yes, pay for just the channels I want to watch instead of a "package". Since then I have never had cable but with my outdoor antenna here in Costa Rica, I get 35 local channels which is enough for me.

Where can I buy the satellite and all the stuff to get free satellite tv

Do you have to have a receiver for fta satellite?

EDITOR'S NOTE: How else would you receive the signal?