I believe you need a FreeSat set top box and a satellite dish to receive FreeSat. A FreeView tuner will not decode FreeSat.
There seems very little info on which channels will be available and which will be HD. However, the little I've heard has been that it will feature quite a few HD channels, such as BBC-HD. But this is hearsay so pinch of salt time...
Regards, Frank.
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Posts: 4188 | Location: UK | Registered: Wed 09 August 2000
To clarify I meant a free to air sat box. I have one in France it is pointed in the general direction of the sky satellite, I used to have a SKY box, but now it receives free to air programmes. BBCs etc. Will it pick up the new sat or is it in a different part of the sky from the Sky satellite?
Posts: 1669 | Location: sunny cheshire | Registered: Sun 24 February 2002
Given the rolling switch to Digital Terrestrial Television, this development begs the question of whether there is any need for the replacement Terrestrial service once the UHF analogue transmitters are turned off.
Perhaps if the Televsion UHF frequencies were freed up, then mainstream analogue VHF Radio broadcasts could be left alone, and DAB abandoned, given the current state of crisis of DAB, and the Digital Radio future be left with Satellite broadcasting, which seems to have been better as a Digital Radio source than the terrestrial version.
Another choice broadening type of radio, if without much quality is Internet Radio, which will continue to grow I am sure.
George
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