Freeview via one off payment Query?

Enough to make you wonder who is putting money into some of the rubbish. I
mean we are getting rubbish on freeview, but its nothing compared to what
you get from a satellite!

Brian

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"Robert" wrote in message
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On Jan 17, 1:46 pm, "bm" wrote:
As Freeview will not be available in my area until 2010 I am considering
getting Freeview by paying a one off payment to install a satellite dish.
Could someone explain what hardware is involved.
In other words apart from the dish do I have a setup box as well ? If so
do
I have to have separate setup boxes for each TV I own?
I have no wish to have one of the Sky packages.
Blair

On a typical dish installation You have a dish with an LNB on it, a
cable linking it to a box and anotehr cable from box to TV. You select
the channels on the box,not the TV . For non-subscrption Tv (and
radio) the box might be a 'sky box' in which case it will give you the
free channels including 4 and 5 ("free to view"), or it might be
another type of "free to air" box which will give you the free
channels exccept 4 and 5.

the box only outputs one channel at a time and it comes out either on
a scart cable or (for some of them but not all) on an 'aerial' type
cable that goes into an conventional analgue tv or video recorder
aerial input.

You cannot watch different channels on different TVs with a 'single
box' system like this. nor is it asy to simply connect more boxes
onto one dish output. This is becayse the box sends commands to the
dish about which polarisation to use. two boxes cannot both command
one dish iunless it has a special 'multiple output' LNB.

You will get hundreds of channels and find nothing worth watching on
98% of them.


Robert

Brian Gaff wrote:

Enough to make you wonder who is putting money into some of the rubbish.
I mean we are getting rubbish on freeview, but its nothing compared to what you get from a satellite!


Its paid for by the advertisers, and in the end nobody is making
you watch television Brian, so if you don't like what your
watching, either turn it over and watch something different, read
a book or go out.

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:01:24 -0600, "James" wrote:

Robin Faichney wrote:

Remember there is two versions, might be worth looking at the
both before spending any money.

http://www.freesat.co.uk/home.php

Not yet available so difficult to look at.


What's Not yet available so difficult to look at ?

BBC+ITV Freesat
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:13:53 +0000 (UTC), Brian McIlwrath
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Robin Faichney wrote:

: Or buy the gear secondhand then get a £20 card from Sky, the total
: should be less than half that, if self-installed. I'm in the middle of
: doing that right now, awaiting a digibox off eBay that cost £12
: including carriage! Of course it might not work, but at that price
: it's worth the risk.

Some larger retailers (Currys/Comet??) are offering a deal (from Sky) which
comprises FreesatFromSky (free STB + installation) *PLUS* 4 months of Sky
subscription (to 4 "Mixes") - all for £75 - there is NO committment to keep
the subscription after this point.

Very hard to beat!

I can't find anything about this on either Currys or Comet website. On
Dixons it says sold out, more available from November! Are you sure
this is available now?
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Robin Faichney wrote:

: I can't find anything about this on either Currys or Comet website. On
: Dixons it says sold out, more available from November! Are you sure
: this is available now?

Seems to be sold old on the Dixons web-site (as you say!). I am sure that
I saw it on display a couple of weeks ago at my local Currys.digital
(ex-Dixons) store.

I have found it (and it appears to have stock and be "available for
collection" at my local store!) at www.argos.co.uk. Argos item code
532/1502

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:29:01 +0000 (UTC), Brian McIlwrath
wrote:

Robin Faichney wrote:

: I can't find anything about this on either Currys or Comet website. On
: Dixons it says sold out, more available from November! Are you sure
: this is available now?

Seems to be sold old on the Dixons web-site (as you say!). I am sure that
I saw it on display a couple of weeks ago at my local Currys.digital
(ex-Dixons) store.

I have found it (and it appears to have stock and be "available for
collection" at my local store!) at www.argos.co.uk. Argos item code
532/1502

OK, thanks for that, though for reasons I won't bore you with I've
decided not to go for it.
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"Brian McIlwrath" wrote in message
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Robin Faichney wrote:

: I can't find anything about this on either Currys or Comet website. On
: Dixons it says sold out, more available from November! Are you sure
: this is available now?

Seems to be sold old on the Dixons web-site (as you say!). I am sure that
I saw it on display a couple of weeks ago at my local Currys.digital
(ex-Dixons) store.

I have found it (and it appears to have stock and be "available for
collection" at my local store!) at www.argos.co.uk. Argos item code
532/1502

Yes just tried and is available at my local store.
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...1502&x=27&y=14

What a bargain, as long as you read conditions and watch if you have to
cancel the subscrition of £19 per month at the appropiate time.

You would be hard put to get a new terrestrial aerial for that price!
How on earth is the BBC/ITV freesat going to compete with that?

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Please reply to News Group

in the end nobody is making
you watch television Brian, so if you don't like what your
watching, either turn it over and watch something different, read
a book or go out.

Seems a very negative attitude to take towards constructive criticism, James ?
Is there a reason for that ?

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On 18 Jan, 11:33, "David" wrote:
"Brian McIlwrath" wrote in message

...

Robin Faichney wrote:

: I can't find anything about this on either Currys or Comet website. On
: Dixons it says sold out, more available from November! Are you sure
: this is available now?

Seems to be sold old on the Dixons web-site (as you say!). I am sure that
I saw it on display a couple of weeks ago at my local Currys.digital
(ex-Dixons) store.

I have found it (and it appears to have stock and be "available for
collection" at my local store!) atwww.argos.co.uk. Argos item code
532/1502

Yes just tried and is available at my local store.http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...?storeId=10001...

What a bargain, as long as you read conditions and watch if you have to
cancel the subscrition of £19 per month at the appropiate time.

You would be hard put to get a new terrestrial aerial for that price!
How on earth is the BBC/ITV freesat going to compete with that?

By letting people have a PVR without paying a £10/month subscription.

By allowing CAMs to be made which will integrate into other compatible
equipment.

By advertising it every hour on every BBC channel.

However, for many people, none of this will matter, and they will go
with the proven, currently cheaper, Sky system.

Cheers,
David.

On 17 Jan, 16:51, "bm" wrote:

Thanks to all who replied. I have now to digest the information and decide
on what course of action I should take.
But at least I now have a lot more information to go on

I haven't seen anyone mention the obvious: there are channels on
Freeview that are not available on Freesatfromsky. More still that
won't make it (immediataly) onto Freeview from the BBC and others.

There are even more channels on free satellite that are not available
on Freeview, but to many people these channels are of little or no
value.

Compa

http://www.ftasat.co.uk/
FTA=works with all boxes
FTV=only works with Sky box with card (inc. Freesat card)

http://www.freeview.co.uk/channels/?__SITE=public&p[0]=channels

Cheers,
David.