Hi Admylin; firstly, you?ll need a satellite dish with a view to Astra 2D on 28.2 East. Quizzed DH and he said cheap and expensive satellite dishes do the same job but the more expensive ones tend to weather better, have superior fittings that look better over a longer time.
www.sat.beitinger.de/astra_2D_english.html shows the size of dish needed for the area in which you live. We have an 85cm dish because we don?t want one dish for each signal (German and British). If you want one dish to receive both Astra 1 (German and Euro telly) and Astra 2 (British telly), you?ll need a bigger dish, with two antennae and it?ll look like a cross-eyed dish, basically.
There will need to be a cable from the satellite to the receiver, which will need to come in through the roof or wall, which will need to be a profi job, I guess.
In the house you need a receiver, which can be picked up from MediaMarkt, Saturn, etc, anything from ?80 - ?500. We have one by Kathrein, which does the job. If you want to receive HD, you?ll need an HD receiver (and an HD telly, obviously).
DH says it?s better to get in a profi if you or hubby are not technically minded. It?s definitely worth it and will keep you sane; when you watch the news, you?ll never want to go back to the UK! I wouldn?t know where to find an engineer but if you type sat anlage installation into google.de, it?ll come up with something.
Hope this helps but if you need any more info, just ask!