saor view / free view

I'm on the look out for a 12V TV DVD combo. I need to be able to receive the Irish saor view channels.

Does anyone know if a free view tv (Which I think is the UK equivalent) will pick up the saor view channels?
Reason for asking I can only find 1 unit that ticks all the boxes but it's €300 but there's loads of free view equivalents that are cheaper but I'm afraid to take the chance

This one is 12volt soar view with dvd and less than the €300
http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-10-218279

my basic understanding of this is that Ireland and the uk are very close to the satellites that our dishes point to to pick up the likes of sky. you can see the 4 astra satellites in the sky on a clear night.

as you move more south down through Europe they become further away and require a larger dish and obviously you must move it accordingly if it's not an auto finder.

there was a topic on here last summer where someone documented their reception as they traveled through europe

It depends on dish size Nick.
The Astra footprint was reduced a couple of years ago making it difficult to receive a signal where it previously had been fine.

We use a snipe which is claimed to be the equivalent to a 60cm dish. It now works fine until on a parallel with Bordeaux. We can receive some channels further south but the regular UK type channels are harder to get.

I have read claims from people receiving the likes of ITV and BBC much further south so I assume they must be using a larger dish.

Our system allows us to select different satellites but I would also need to know the channels I want and I can't be bothered as we go in summer and hardly use the TV. It is possible to retune ours and select a certain satellite or number of satellites but again I haven't tried it and I would be unsure how many English speaking channels there would be.

I bought the walker 24 inch 12v tv from power city and they delivered it to n ireland i can get all the freeveiw channels plus the rte channels in enniskillen