With that, you can connect a cheap-o sat dish and still get a signal well out of range of terrestrial signals. It's amusing to me (in a kind of dark way) that I live 2 hours from 2 major cities and my over-the-air reception of television is utterly lacking, yet if you're in the middle of nowhere in any of Europe and much of the Mideast and Asia, for a few hundred bucks, you get plenty of signals from a cheap disk and simple hardware - and plenty of Free To Air (FTA) programming.
You can even get cheaper than a few hundred dollars for Satellite TV hooked to the USB port on a PC.
Dealextreme has DVB-S2 boxes for around $35
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.28533A satellite dish and LNB can be picked up for about the same cost or even for nothing. Folks are willing to give them away in the UK because they are mostly regarded an eyesore stuck on the side of the their homes and because the perceived social status of Satellite dish owners. Camouflaging your Satellite dish can sometimes be difficult.
Other boxes are available, which can be used with 'redundant' Sky Satellite dishes for use with old SD TVs via the analogue Euroscart connector.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabI...O&U=Strat15
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