Comments on: Freesat vs Freeview

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:23:33 +0000

Clifford: No, don’t think so - the footprint is quite tight on the UK. Maybe with a very very large dish, several meters in size but that’s just speculation.

By: CLIFFORD

CLIFFORD — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:21:29 +0000

Dear sir/madam, I live in Nigeria and wanted to ask if the freesat will work with our sat. dish here in Nigeria. If yes how can i get one to buy.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:44:42 +0000

Lol Thanks for the help im going to get both freeview and freesat for my tv =] cant wait and ill have best of both . If You can affored both and can recivie both get both you will be best off.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:15:36 +0000

Peter:
Sure, why not. Freeview is terrestrial and Freesat is satellite based, two different things. You can switch between them without a problem.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:31:43 +0000

My TV has freeview built in. Can I install freesat? If, yes, will I be able to switch between the two?

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:06:01 +0000

Joe:
One way to see which channels you get for free with Sky is to just pull out the Sky card from the digibox.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:18:38 +0000

On freeview you get about 10 good channels such as Dave,tmf,bbc 3,the hits,film four, itv2,more 4,E4,uktv history and all of the plus one channels. Do you get all of these channels with sky free sat for free after the 4 months with the 2 mixs is finished and you have the standard 200 free channels as advertised by sky. Do you get these channels for free and if possible a list of channels that come for free (not including the sky mix channels you get for four months)with sky free sat.Thanks

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:07:31 +0000

Robert: Any FTA receiver will let you watch the Freesat channels (except ITV HD which is exclusive). But you wouldn’t get a proper EPG and no interactive services. That’s all.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:55:07 +0000

Can someone tell the technical stuff? Why do I need a “special” freesat receiver? Would it work with my old Humax CI-5100? Basically will it work with any FTA or CI receiver that are used to receive Hotbird or Astra signals? Thanks, Robert

By: bob

bob — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:38:06 +0000

freesat is compatible with sky dish just get yourself a dvb-s card hook it up and your good to go, tv picture is the same, sound i think is better than dvb-t, and i can get channel 4 but as yet none of the five’s or sky three, and i have 325 tv/radio channels that are watchable and listenable there is more but these i have excluded from my line up as pure dross, most of what you can watch/listen comes under just dross