Freesat HD

bam0 said:
Sky own something like 15-17% of ITV yes, but see the announcement here; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7384928.stm ITV HD is going to be freesat only.
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Ah thanks for the link :) well I suppose it’s good for the consumer having a bigger choice of HD services, I know for a fact BBCHD is poor atm, most of it is preview shows so don’t expect too much from BBCHD, would be interesting to see what ITV show in native HD not up scaled stuff.
 
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fothsn said:
How is it? I pay £10 extra for my SkyHD sub that will be vastly superior to that of freesat.
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How do you work that out? You pay £300 (or near enough) for the box, plus £10 a month, yet you'll barely get any more HD channels than freesat will have? So expensive and definitely not "vastly superior".
 
Burned_Alive said:
How do you work that out? You pay £300 (or near enough) for the box, plus £10 a month, yet you'll barely get any more HD channels than freesat will have? So expensive and definitely not "vastly superior".
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You can get a box for £200, you get more channels on SkyHD for the £10 sub than you would on freesat that’s of course if you have a Sky subscription package, I agree if you didn’t have Sky and wasn’t subscribing to a package then freesat is much cheaper but like me being on the full package £10 for the HD channels is very good value for money.
 
fothsn said:
You can get a box for £200, you get more channels on SkyHD for the £10 sub than you would on freesat that’s of course if you have a Sky subscription package, I agree if you didn’t have Sky and wasn’t subscribing to a package then freesat is much cheaper but like me being on the full package £10 for the HD channels is very good value for money.
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Do you honestly believe that?

Seriously, you've already forked out extra for the hardware AND you're paying for the full package.

They really shouldn't be charging extra just for the privilege of viewing the content you've already paid for in HD.
 
those defending skyHD are forgetting that the freesat HD service STARTS with the current list of channels and much like DVB-T television the channel list will grow steadily so in fact FreesatHD is a much better option compared to the SKy service.
 
mrk said:
those defending skyHD are forgetting that the freesat HD service STARTS with the current list of channels and much like DVB-T television the channel list will grow steadily so in fact FreesatHD is a much better option compared to the SKy service.
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It will never be, you won’t get SkySports & Movies on freesat the biggest reason most go for the SkyHD package is the sports and movies, ITV are dire for sports coverage.
 
tripitaka said:
Do you honestly believe that?

Seriously, you've already forked out extra for the hardware AND you're paying for the full package.

They really shouldn't be charging extra just for the privilege of viewing the content you've already paid for in HD.
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Well yes I would love to get it for free, such as things in life nothing is, Sky are a company until HD is mainstream I’m happy to pay £10 for the pleasure of watching sports and movies in HD, many people spend more on silly film subscriptions per month I can get them in HD and watch as many as I want!
 
fothsn said:
Well yes I would love to get it for free, such as things in life nothing is, Sky are a company until HD is mainstream I’m happy to pay £10 for the pleasure of watching sports and movies in HD, many people spend more on silly film subscriptions per month I can get them in HD and watch as many as I want!
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I suspect that sky will soon be dropping this charge soon anyway.

You're only paying it because they basically had a monopoly on HD content delivery and, within reason, could charge what they wanted.

A little competition in the market can only be a good thing for everyone.
 
tripitaka said:
I suspect that sky will soon be dropping this charge soon anyway.

You're only paying it because they basically had a monopoly on HD content delivery and, within reason, could charge what they wanted.

A little competition in the market can only be a good thing for everyone.
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That is true :) More competition is always good.
 
I'm still unclear about this - can an old Sky box pick up the new BBC Freesat channels, for example Channel 4? Currently you need a £20 one of fee Freesat viewing card to get Channel 4.
 
Doesn't matter if they're not /all/ HD, what matters is it's 200~ channels without a subscription and only a one off payment of £150 instead of £250+ then a sub with Sky.
 
mrk said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7384928.stm

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200 channels by end of this year.

Sky = Lose tbh.
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Hardly.
With the exception of ITV HD (which is going on as an interactive service somehow), it's only really going to be the same channels that are already freely available on Sky equipment without a subscription.
FreeSat is in fact picking up exactly the same broadcasts, form the same satellites AFAIK...

You will probably be able to pick up most of these channels already if the box allows you to manually tune them.

What still needs to happen though is for these channels to be added to the EPG - but trust me, as somebody who receives only the 'free' channels on Sky, most of the 200 is likely to be utter garbage.
 
clv101 said:
I'm still unclear about this - can an old Sky box pick up the new BBC Freesat channels, for example Channel 4? Currently you need a £20 one of fee Freesat viewing card to get Channel 4.
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Well I’ve found a nice thread on the AVFourms website and it’s looking to be their own freesat box exclusive, not on sky by the looks of it.
 
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