Satellite dish or dome

We are having an Oyster dish fitted in a few weeks time so this does concern me a little. We have a Cello tv with inbuilt freesat, we do record programmes at the moment using our free standing dish. If our system was to drop the dish everytime we switch the tv off or on standby that would be an issue for us. Will be talking to our dealer about this.

Write your comments here...Ours has the built in Avtex/Oyster TV so its all intergrated, yours will just have the control box that would  control the dish so I think it would be OK as your TV would not be controlling anything.  The Avtex/Oyster TV that comes with the system has different software to the normal Avtex TV's and an interface to change countries etc. 

I would ask when you go to make sure but my gut feeling is it will be fine and a geat system it is too.  If we were asked what extras we wanted on the next MH Oyster would be one of the first thing onthe list over an awning we have not used yet (probably cos we have not been abroad) but we use the TV always in this country.

Thanks Michael, we will confirm with the installer first but agree with what you say about yours be an intergrated system while ours will be stand alone. Glad to hear the Oyster lives up to its name.

Living as we do in the UK, the windiest part of Europe, it's a dome for me as it's wind, rain, etc., proof unlike a dish which has to be taken down in high winds / rain.

Yes you loose sat signal a wee bit further north, but unless you're taking your holiday in that small (say 80k) band it really doesn't matter.

As they say, there's b* all to watch anyway most of the time!

I have had both an Oyster and a Camos. The Camos was easy to remove and swap over when I changed vans, it was also an autoskew and to be honest I never really appreciated much benefit and from what I now read autoskew is not really that effective in smaller dishes. One other issue which effected the camos was rain. Heavy rain would completely shut the signal off, this was not an isolated fault as it happened in both the domes I owned and my friend suffers with the same issue.

The Oyster in the current vanis the 85cm twin LNB. I use a Sky+ Box and have no issues as highlighted by BoleroBoy, perhaps I am just lucky. My dish remains up when the TV is on or off but auto retracts when the handbrake is released

Which do I prefer, both have issues. The Oyster will get me a wider coverage in Europe. However, is effected by wind, but never had a real issue where I have had to stop viewing. However, we did have disturbed viewing with the Camos due to the rain issue more frequently. Based on that I would go for the Oyster.