Sky Q or Freesat boxes or Freesat TVs?

kaktus · 21 Jun 2016 at 23:24

lude1962 said:
Wetek Play, has kodi installed choice of freesat or freeview tuners

I don't see this working. It's a centralized solution, not a local one for each TV where the kodi player needs to be and where the satellite network tuner shouldn't be.

The Network Tuner needs to be centralized, the kodi player needs to be localized to each TV client. The Satellite playback is via Kodi's uPnP...

The Wetek is also Android based so I imagine it suffers from the same 24p playback issue as all android players do

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lude1962 · 21 Jun 2016 at 23:43

The sat feed (via sat switch)goes into each wetek box which plugs into the tv
a quattro lnb and switch should cost about 80
looking at the available freesat tv they cost about 100 to 150 more than normal freeview tv's if you can find them as manufacturers are switching to 4k versions

Normal tv's rpi3's aerial install, and splitter /possibly amp will be the cheapest solution overall.

You may not even need an external aerial, I can run my tv off an internal 1 bought from the local pound shop, 3 aerials = £3 !

lude1962 · 22 Jun 2016 at 00:01

the network tuner system appears to be this SAT>IP

Vertigo · 22 Jun 2016 at 07:07

kaktus said:
err I don't see how this would be a simpler solution tbh.

I don't have an Aerial installed so that would need to be installed.
I'd then need to buy an amplifying multiswitch
I'd then need to buy TV's which have freeview

And this provides a solution which gives 3 TV's with lesser content then Freesat and no solution for accessing content from the NAS/home network other than built-in crap media players on TVs

Ok fair enough, although it's easy enough to get an aerial put up and a decent one will serve four TVs without an amp. As for TVs, I figured you were already going to buy some anyway.

As for media, personally I'd just use Plex and ensure the TVs you get have a Plex client available.

arch · 22 Jun 2016 at 12:34

2016 LG Tv's do offer Freesat models

http://www.lg.com/uk/tvs/lg-40UH630V for example

But any UH630 / UH661 / UH750 / UH770 models all have Freesat built in

And historically LG TV's are pretty good at DLNA stuff if you want to stream from a NAS. Not tried on the new models though

kaktus · 22 Jun 2016 at 16:39

arch said:
2016 LG Tv's do offer Freesat models

http://www.lg.com/uk/tvs/lg-40UH630V for example

But any UH630 / UH661 / UH750 / UH770 models all have Freesat built in

And historically LG TV's are pretty good at DLNA stuff if you want to stream from a NAS. Not tried on the new models though

Only issue with those is they're all 2016 models, 4KUHD and some are curved.

If I'm going down the Freesat-direct-into-TV-route ideally what I'd like is 3x 40-42 inch Sony W829B style TV's with freesat. In other words, black or dark very thin bezels, great picture quality in 1080p (no need for 4k and therefore the premium).

I know with it being 1080p I'm probably looking at 2015 models - and will probably be contained to Samsung or LG (possibly Panasonic) as they are the only ones that integrate Freesat afaik. Do you know which 2015 models would fit the bill ? (Black / Dark very thin bezels, great picture quality, no bells & whistles needed)