New Freesat service
 

"GTS" wrote in message
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Yes, get the Sky £75 one as it includes a card it will get Ch4 and Five,
but remember after a few months unless you cancel there is a subscription
to pay for the subscription stations to continue. Surely this is a
better deal than your £35 + £50.

Ah, but I am only interested in Freesat 'cos of the HD channels - at last,
HD with no subscriptions.

So that's just 3 channels then (BBCHD, 4HD and Luxe), all of them covered
with DOG ****.

It should start with BBC1, Channel 4, ITV1, and later Channel 5 HD. So I
would get one of the HD PVR's....

It should have started by the government passing legislation to force Sky to
supply CAMs for standard European satellite reievers.

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"GTS" wrote in message
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Eh? why do you want to buy sky, then a few weeks later buy freesat?



presumably he wants sky to fit the dish for free and then be able to swap
when ready.

Exactly. If the prices are anything like the mooted £149 for a HD PVR,
then there would be such a rush that I am concerned you could wait ages
for a Freesat installer...

Or you could fit the disk yourself. Astra2 is easy to find.

Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.

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"GTS" wrote in message
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With the launch of the new Freesat service on Astra 2d confirmed for May,
I wondered if it is worth pre-empting the launch by getting one of the
'Sky free for life' packs from Dixons @£75, as then one of the new Freesat
receivers could simpy be swapped for the Sky box?
Prices for the Freesat receivers are yet to be confirmed but look like:
Freesat non-HD (box only) £35
Freesat HD (box only) £99
Freesat HD PVR (box only) £149
The cost of the dish and installation is rumoured to be £50, which seems a

Does that include the cost of a Dish, LNB and cable?

good deal, but the uncertainty is if you get a Sky free to view card
included in these prices, as at present that's the only way to get channel
4 and 5. If not included the £75 Sky package looks a good deal, as you get
the card too....
Any thoughts?

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Does that include the cost of a Dish, LNB and cable?

Yes, everything. Sounds cheap, but by all accounts Sky only pays about £35
to the installers for their dishes...

New Freesat service
 

GTS wrote:
: Yes, everything. Sounds cheap, but by all accounts Sky only pays about ?35
: to the installers for their dishes...

That's not quite true! Sky both supply all the installation gear and then
give the dealer a bonus dependent on the new subscription.

Then prices you are quoting for Freesat are, at best, trade ones. What the
customer will pay is likely to be higher. The Freesat HD-PVR will never
be retailed for £149!

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"Agamemnon" wrote in message
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"GTS" wrote in message
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Yes, get the Sky £75 one as it includes a card it will get Ch4 and Five,
but remember after a few months unless you cancel there is a
subscription to pay for the subscription stations to continue. Surely
this is a better deal than your £35 + £50.

Ah, but I am only interested in Freesat 'cos of the HD channels - at
last, HD with no subscriptions.

So that's just 3 channels then (BBCHD, 4HD and Luxe), all of them covered
with DOG ****.

It should start with BBC1, Channel 4, ITV1, and later Channel 5 HD. So I
would get one of the HD PVR's....

It should have started by the government passing legislation to force Sky
to supply CAMs for standard European satellite reievers.

Hear hear.

No legislation required, just a watchdog that actually does something.

OTOH the deal TB made with Rupert back in 1995 is holding - NI won't slag
off Labour (too much) if Labour doesn't kill NI's goose (by regulation or
tax)

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"GTS" wrote in message
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Does that include the cost of a Dish, LNB and cable?

Yes, everything. Sounds cheap, but by all accounts Sky only pays about
£35 to the installers for their dishes...




Not really.

In France in a DIY shed a 60cm dish with LNB typically costs around €20
or about £16 at current rate. Add a wall bracket at about a tenner and
you realise how mcuh we are being ripped off over here. A LNB over here
usually costs that much alone!


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Why is it so hard to free-ise the ch4 and 5. I'd have thought the industry
could have got its act together by now and effectively duplicated the
freeview channels on sat.

I'd also be interested to know if the receivers have the narrative channel,
ie audio description.

Brian

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"GTS" wrote in message
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With the launch of the new Freesat service on Astra 2d confirmed for May,
I wondered if it is worth pre-empting the launch by getting one of the
'Sky free for life' packs from Dixons @£75, as then one of the new Freesat
receivers could simpy be swapped for the Sky box?
Prices for the Freesat receivers are yet to be confirmed but look like:
Freesat non-HD (box only) £35
Freesat HD (box only) £99
Freesat HD PVR (box only) £149
The cost of the dish and installation is rumoured to be £50, which seems a
good deal, but the uncertainty is if you get a Sky free to view card
included in these prices, as at present that's the only way to get channel
4 and 5. If not included the £75 Sky package looks a good deal, as you get
the card too....
Any thoughts?

New Freesat service
 

Agamemnon wrote:

: It should have started by the government passing legislation to force Sky to
: supply CAMs for standard European satellite reievers.

Freesat features (principally their EPG but also red-button etc.) will also
*NOT* be available on "standard satellite receivers" - only Freesat badged
ones!

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On 29/03/2008 09:01, Brian Gaff wrote:

Why is it so hard to free-ise the ch4 and 5.

those channels signed contracts with sky, the c4 ones are due to end
soon (the film4 one already has)