Just before Xmas I bought a new TV - a 42" Plasma jobbie with DVB-T, FreeSat and more SCART/HDMI ports than you can shake a stick at. I also ordered, from a shop in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a satellite dish with cable and wall fixings etc.
Step 1 - get TV out of box, lift into position. Connect aerial loop from PVR to TV, connect SCART from PVR to TV. everything just worked.
Step 2 - the TV has a network connection. Find ethernet cable, connect TV to router. TV picks up network connection automatically, checks it's firmware and also successfully connects to youtube.
Step 3 - wait a week for the satellite stuff to arrive (well I did order it Xmas eve!) discover I don't have a drill the right size. Get drill and put up dish. Find that the pre-made cable is exactly the right length. Point dish in roughly the right place using dishpointer.com adjust slightly, get full signal and full quality within 5 minutes.
Oh and the Bluray player also connected to the network and flashed its firmware automatically.
So what did I do right? all the tech. just worked.
So here is a cheer to technology and all who rely on her!
Ron
Sounds fun. WD Ron. One final tweak you may wish to do is to drape a wet towel over half the dish and do a little further fine adjustment on it. The wet towel will temporarily reduce the signal so that you're no longer maxing out and fine adjustment will be more easily detectable. That way, you'll still have a picture when it rains heavily, or in current conditions, when it snows. 
It sounds wonderful 
42"?! so now you have a Home Cinema 
Everyone will want to come round for viewings.
I have noticed that things work OOtB much better than at one time. I've kept for the sake of family history (to cue a bit of 'wasn't your gutsy old grandma Merry amazing') a manual for Qucklink II from 1994, which I had to work through step by agonising step to get my first modem (9600 kbps) to work with Win 3.1. It wasn't exactly Plug and Play.
I do love plug and play when it works and it certainly did that time.
I especially enjoy intelligent hardware that looks around and says "oh there's a network, a printer, a coffee maker etc. I'd better introduce myself"
Eccles, I get the wet towel idea and that's a good trick, but had to laugh too cos it reminded me of Total Recall where he has to put a wet towel over his head to block out a signal
This is how things should be all the time, shouldn't they.
If you find out what you did right, let us all know.
He put a wet towel over his head.