RiceRocket Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I'd suspect most of us are on Sky etc but if you're not or know a relative who this would be ideal for then here you go. A bonus is that high-definition will broadcast free (obviously appropiate tv required). Freesat explained Freesat channels It got to be better than Freeview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelfill Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I've tried searching the tinterweb, but now it has been launched does anyone know how/if we can get ITV-HD through Sky. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatSport Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 not through a sky box, they have their own dedicated receiver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pot Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Looking at the FAQ's on their website : There are currently 14 HD channels to choose from: Sky One HD, Sky Sports HD (2 channels), Sky Movies HD (2 screens), Sky Box Office HD (2 screens), Sky Arts HD, National Geographic HD, Discovery HD, The History Channel HD, Luxe TV HD, Channel 4 HD and BBC HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelfill Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 not through a sky box, they have their own dedicated receiver Well their loss then, There will be a cold day in hell before I nip off to buy another set top box, and dish, and pay for installation merely to receive such a limited number of extra channels. It's not like I'll be missing much anyway. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Many of these channels are already FTA on Astra 1/2/whatever. I receive them no problem. They are included in Sky's package but are free-to-air anyway so not actually Sky channels. Unfortunately Channel 4, 5, and Dave all have contracts with Sky which means they are encrypted channels. Still, I'm hoping Freesat (from ITV/BBC, as opposed to "Freesat from Sky") will bring something new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 great find, the only advantage I see with this is you get free HD for a set up cost of around 200 squid (box + install) we have multi-room so not much point unless we are putting it in the guest rooms - great if you dont already have sky and aint interested in the movie channels etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 An excellent alternative to Freeview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Seems to have some more shopping channels but missing a few important ones from the current Freeview line up (Dave and Virgin1 to start). I don't have a HD telly yet either and there isn't going to be any hard disc recorder boxes for a while so I think I'll stick with normal Freeview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Thread revival: What's the latest on this? If I buy one but don't have an HD ready set can I just watch all the channels in normal vision? Are there any channels that aren't available that you can get on Freeview? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freesat#Freeview_channels_that_are_unavailable_on_Freesat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 I'll stick with Freeview then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_supra Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Thread revival: What's the latest on this? If I buy one but don't have an HD ready set can I just watch all the channels in normal vision? Are there any channels that aren't available that you can get on Freeview? I got my freesat HD box last week and yes, you can hook up the box to a non HD ready TV via scart and it'll work just fine. I've never had freeview so I don't know exactly what channels I'm not getting compared to freeview, but the ones I know about are; Dave, Virgin 1, Five US, Fiver, I can get Channel 5 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 I got my freesat HD box last week and yes, you can hook up the box to a non HD ready TV via scart and it'll work just fine. I've never had freeview so I don't know exactly what channels I'm not getting compared to freeview, but the ones I know about are; Dave, Virgin 1, Five US, Fiver, I can get Channel 5 though. cool! what did it cost? i want to go down the HD route, however don't fancy giving sky a free tenner every month for the privilege. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_supra Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 cool! what did it cost? i want to go down the HD route, however don't fancy giving sky a free tenner every month for the privilege. I got the Freesat HD box with recorder (320gb) which set me back £300, The box without the recorder is about £150. At the moment it only has BBC HD (Hopefully F1 will be shown in HD:)) and ITV1 HD but they are planning to add more, or so I've read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Can you not hook up FreeSat through your HDMI cable on your HDTV and put your freeviewbox through SCART? Then you would be able to switch and view all of the channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 I got the Freesat HD box with recorder (320gb) which set me back £300, The box without the recorder is about £150. At the moment it only has BBC HD (Hopefully F1 will be shown in HD:)) and ITV1 HD but they are planning to add more, or so I've read. Should have brought the £150 box and purchased a 500GB external Hard Drive from Maplins for about £70, would have saved about £80. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Should have brought the £150 box and purchased a 500GB external Hard Drive from Maplins for about £70, would have saved about £80. ...and he could just not bother with the 500GB external drive and saved another £70, since he wouldn't be able to use it with the £150 Freesat box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 ...and he could just not bother with the 500GB external drive and saved another £70, since he wouldn't be able to use it with the £150 Freesat box. Wouldn't he? Is there compatability issues or something? Interested to hear the info please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_supra Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Should have brought the £150 box and purchased a 500GB external Hard Drive from Maplins for about £70, would have saved about £80. I'm not very good with anything electronic, I wouldn't know how to set it all up, if It does what I need it to straight out of the box then that's the one for me:D. I'm still trying to figure out connecting the HD box up to the TV using an HDMI to DVI conector. (No HDMI sockets in TV), I get a picture for a few seconds but then it goes off, some setting in the TV needs changing I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 Wouldn't he? Is there compatability issues or something? Interested to hear the info please With the £150 box, it's not that it just doesn't come with a hard disk, it just doesn't have any ability to record anything full stop. So there's no way you can plug an external hard disk or anything like that into it. You can no doubt probably replace the 320GB disk in the one he has with a 500GB+ one at a later date though. But again that won't be an external one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 With the £150 box, it's not that it just doesn't come with a hard disk, it just doesn't have any ability to record anything full stop. So there's no way you can plug an external hard disk or anything like that into it. You can no doubt probably replace the 320GB disk in the one he has with a 500GB+ one at a later date though. But again that won't be an external one. Whats PVR when they talk about it in freesat? can you not get a £150 machine with PVR and get an external hard drive or is it linked to the hard drive in the £300 boxes? Or is it something completely different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edge Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 For £500 you can get a decent receiver, dish, rotator and built in hd or nearly anysize and have about 30 times more than sky could ever offer and never pay anything again. http://www.tripledragon.de/index.html. Will be moving over to this later on in the year as the HD stuff is not quite upto what i could be. You can also get cards to allow you to watch all the premier sporting games such as boxing football etc that you pay a fortune for each time and work out about £50 a year for a card (alot of pubs use this). Most of the latest films you can choose to watch in about 3 languages etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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