bobg said:
Mrs BG wants to watch French German and Italian TV and just saw an ad for a laptop dongle that suggested that it could do that. Anybody had any experience of them please? I'll presume I'll need a 30 ft aerial..........
Many satellites cover much of europe, it is only in this rather odd set of islands that people believe Mr Murdoch's propaganda that satellite=sky.
If you point to slightly different bits of the horizon you can get all kinds of channels, whether they are worth watching is anybody's opinion. Many STBs throughout europe will pick them up. So yes, the dongle probably does work.
You're best off researching it and then seeing what channels you can get on what set of satellites
www.kingofsat.net is the best.
I'm afraid I don't watch them myself but it's not a greatly challenging task of working out what you could get, as I don't watch the channels I've not really looked into it in detail.