free Sat

[superaussie]

Since freeview has become useless for snooker and other sports i had decided to get a sky subscription but i have now found out that by getting free sat i can have a choice of at least 6 sports streams for bbc i compared to freeviews 1 stream.

Does anyone know much about free sat and whether its a good investment

thanks

[RGCirencester]

You get both red buttons on freesat still, but you lose channels like Virgin 1, Dave and Five USA. Of course they are replaced with other channels but I really like Virgin 1 and Dave
Best thing would be to have both freesat and freeview.
If you buy a HD freesat box you can also watch BBC HD and ITV HD.

[superaussie]

You get both red buttons on freesat still, but you lose channels like Virgin 1, Dave and Five USA. Of course they are replaced with other channels but I really like Virgin 1 and Dave
Best thing would be to have both freesat and freeview.
If you buy a HD freesat box you can also watch BBC HD and ITV HD.

cheers

[wildJONESEYE]

Since freeview has become useless for snooker and other sports i had decided to get a sky subscription but i have now found out that by getting free sat i can have a choice of at least 6 sports streams for bbc i compared to freeviews 1 stream.

Does anyone know much about free sat and whether its a good investment

thanks

do you get eurosport on freesat ?

eurosport is a must for snooker fans.

[Bigmeek]

You get both red buttons on freesat still, but you lose channels like Virgin 1, Dave and Five USA. Of course they are replaced with other channels but I really like Virgin 1 and Dave
Best thing would be to have both freesat and freeview.
If you buy a HD freesat box you can also watch BBC HD and ITV HD.

Do you just plug it in to the telly or do you need to get a satellite dish or cabling? I heard
on the telly yesterday that there was a FREEVIEW box going on sale this weekend which gives HD. Is this something new?

[leelee]

Do you just plug it in to the telly or do you need to get a satellite dish or cabling? I heard
on the telly yesterday that there was a FREEVIEW box going on sale this weekend which gives HD. Is this something new?

you need a satellite dish for freesat. ive not heard about hd freeview must be new ?

[RGCirencester]

you need a satellite dish for freesat. ive not heard about hd freeview must be new ?

Thats why the second red button has gone from freeview. Not sure about the channels themselves I think they are planning about 3 or 4 HD channels on freeview, so you will need a HD box.
But in the long run satellite is a much better proposition for having lots of HD channels.

Freesat would require a satellite dish, if you used to have sky and the dish is still installed you could use that dish but I don't know if you would have to re align it for freesat. I imagine you would.