Hi everybody,
I need new aerial installed in my flat and was thinking about freesat dish at the same time. Does anybody know good place in our area where I can go to get some more information on that topic? Any installers recommended. I wan t sombedy do to tell me my best options here and install everything.
Thank you for any advice in advance.
stone28
Freesat installation....?
We had our aerial wired up recently & I was talking to the installer about freesat.
He mentioned not all of the freeview channels are available as of yet, probably the end of the year he thought. Plus you will have to buy a new receiver which hadn't occurred to me as well to get the new service.
In the long run it sounds great with an HD TV but you will of course have to get an ugly dish.
He mentioned not all of the freeview channels are available as of yet, probably the end of the year he thought. Plus you will have to buy a new receiver which hadn't occurred to me as well to get the new service.
In the long run it sounds great with an HD TV but you will of course have to get an ugly dish.
the first TVs with built-in freesat decoders are starting to come out now.
Reckon they should start to become standard in the next year or so, just like freeview is now.
I think it's possible to get a disk that collects more than one signal. So a sky subscription for the lounge, and HD freesat for the bedroom. that's what I'm hoping for!
Reckon they should start to become standard in the next year or so, just like freeview is now.
I think it's possible to get a disk that collects more than one signal. So a sky subscription for the lounge, and HD freesat for the bedroom. that's what I'm hoping for!
Freesat was initially set up jointly by BBC/ITV for areas that cannot receive Freeview, however it would appear that the majority of the existing users are people that want to watch HD (High Definition) on their HD ready TV's. Currently the football is being shown in HD as will the Olympics.
Freesat is only 6 weeks old so it is still very early days. It was launched with 72 channels. At the current time there are some channels (Channel 5) that are not on the Freesat Platform, however by the end of the year Freesat expect to have 200 channels working. Please note it is not the intention of Freesat to mirror freeview, so you might not get some of the freeview channels (eg Dave, Fiver) on Freesat and vice versa.
To get Freesat you need a dish (just like the ones being used for sky) and a receiver box. If you have an existing dish (oval black mesh one ) that was used for Sky this can be used as it will be pointing in the correct location and does not need realigning. You also need a receiver box. If you do have a dish you just need to connect the Receiver Box to the dish and it should work.
There are currently two kinds of receiver boxes SD and HD. The SD (Standard Definition) boxes are approximately £40; however if you want to watch it (the channels that are broadcasting HD) in High Definition you MUST have a HD Receiver, a HD TV with HDMI leads. These HD boxes are approximately £100 more than a standard SD box.
At the current time their are two main manufacturers of these SD and HD boxes; Humax (which apparently is the superior of the two) and the Alba Group who make Alba, Bush, Goodmans and Grundig. In the next month or so Humax is launching a Freesat PVR, this will enable you to recorded two Freesat channels at the same time, the expected cost of this box is expected to be around £350.00
Hope that helps.
Freesat is only 6 weeks old so it is still very early days. It was launched with 72 channels. At the current time there are some channels (Channel 5) that are not on the Freesat Platform, however by the end of the year Freesat expect to have 200 channels working. Please note it is not the intention of Freesat to mirror freeview, so you might not get some of the freeview channels (eg Dave, Fiver) on Freesat and vice versa.
To get Freesat you need a dish (just like the ones being used for sky) and a receiver box. If you have an existing dish (oval black mesh one ) that was used for Sky this can be used as it will be pointing in the correct location and does not need realigning. You also need a receiver box. If you do have a dish you just need to connect the Receiver Box to the dish and it should work.
There are currently two kinds of receiver boxes SD and HD. The SD (Standard Definition) boxes are approximately £40; however if you want to watch it (the channels that are broadcasting HD) in High Definition you MUST have a HD Receiver, a HD TV with HDMI leads. These HD boxes are approximately £100 more than a standard SD box.
At the current time their are two main manufacturers of these SD and HD boxes; Humax (which apparently is the superior of the two) and the Alba Group who make Alba, Bush, Goodmans and Grundig. In the next month or so Humax is launching a Freesat PVR, this will enable you to recorded two Freesat channels at the same time, the expected cost of this box is expected to be around £350.00
Hope that helps.