FreeSat on Samsung MU6400?

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willhub

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I'm assuming this is what the "Sattelite" connection on the back is for?

Recently got rid of Sky and was thinking I'm going to need another cable to connect to arial but I guess I can just use Freesat? Is there any better service than freesat also that doesn't cost the world and utilised this port?

Thanks.
 
Only advantage I found with freesat on this model tv was the ability to record freeview whilst watching freesat (obviously need a usb hdd connection to TV and ariel and freesat to dish).
Whatever the case I'd still rather pay and use SkyQ any day of the week then any built in freeview/sat abilities personally.
 
The simple answer is no.

Freeview and Freesat both provide the same core channel list as part of the Public Service Broadcasting remit. This is basically what the licence fee is about. Once you get past the core channels then there are some relatively minor differences in what's offered, but not enough for most people to completely bin one or the other.

FWIW, I've found Freesat to be marginally better picture quality than Freeview because it doesn't appear to be so heavily compressed. Also, you won't have to worry about retuning. Freeview is going through another round of channel shake-ups as the 700MHz band is being prepared for sale to the mobile phone operators.

The satellite tuner built in to your TV is designed to pick up from the Astra group of satellite transponders at 28.2 degrees east. This is basically Sky and Freesat. There are some channels in the group that don't appear on the regular Freesat EPG. These tend to be foreign language channels. Have a look at the International subsection of the Astra channel listing HERE These channels can be manually tuned with a Sky box. I'dd be surprised if your TV satellite tuner couldn't do the same.

There are more satellites up there whose transmission footprints cover some or all of the UK. However, to pick up from them you're definitely going to need an external tuner box and a second dish pointing in a different direction. These are mostly the European satellite channels: Astra 1 at 19 degrees east (mostly German, some French and Spanish). Eutelsat hotbird at 13 degrees east (Italian, Polish, French, Thai, Chinese, Arabic, Russian). Atlantic bird 3 at 5 degrees west (only French free to air channels). Whether any of these are of some interest to you is your decision. There's a basic beginners guide HERE

If you're looking to supplement what's available via Freesat without an ongoing monthly commitment for a full TV subscription then you might want to have a look at YouView.
 
I managed to get it to work cheeers, only 4HD but I think there is a problem with the splitter box in the building.

It's also picked all Sky channels but they're encrypted. There is an enormous amount of indian, Pakistani and some African channels that I've never came across on Sky.

I live in flats so can't really get a second dish or mess with the current one so I suppose it's impossible for me to access many channels?

Weirdly enough the receiver already picks up all these sattelites so I decided to try Hotbird and scam but most channels are encrypted or just Sky channels it seems.
 
willhub said:
I managed to get it to work cheeers, only 4HD but I think there is a problem with the splitter box in the building.

I live in flats
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If you live in flats then the property owners may well have multiple dishes on the roof that then go to a combiner which sends all the signals down a single cable. If that is the case then you might want to try hooking up an adapter and plugging in to the TV's aerial socket. You may find that you get Freeview that way.

Also, as @silverblack said, 4HD and All-4 (their catch-up service) has been removed from Freesat. This is over a disagreement about the cost to host.

willhub said:
It's also picked all Sky channels but they're encrypted. There is an enormous amount of indian, Pakistani and some African channels that I've never came across on Sky.
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Already dealt with in the 5:00pm reply. Have another read and click on the LINKS.
 
I'm confused it seems like some parts of the internets suggest that Sky Freesat is different to "Freesat", however most recent info on this I could find was from 2015, has this changed or is the case?
 
Is it possible with these other boxes to recieve channels you otherwise wouldn't be able to without moving the dish.
 
I use the Sky CHs line up to get 4HD but you won't get any Sky Chs that ship sailed a while back lol.

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willhub said:
I'm confused it seems like some parts of the internets suggest that Sky Freesat is different to "Freesat", however most recent info on this I could find was from 2015, has this changed or is the case?
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A lot of it comes down to the EPG; that's the program listing guide. Sky has its own EPG. If you have a Sky box with a lapsed subscription then you'll still be looking at Sky's EPG and that'll include all the subscription channels you can't get without the monthly payment. The Fressat EPG won't show these since they aren't available on that platform. Both systems dip in to the same pot for the channels though. If you're watching BBC1 HD then it's the same feed whether you're viewing by subscription Sky, or a by non-subscription Sky box, or by Freesat HD.

All of the above though presumes that we are talking about a person in their own home with their own dish pointing at Astra 28.2 East and comparing a Sky box with a Freesat receiver.

You live in a communal property. The signals in your living room come from a far more complex set of receiving gear probably somewhere close to the roof. All bets are off as far as making any exact predictions as to what you might be able to pick up. Quite how you've got Ch4 HD via satellite is a bit of a mystery unless you're picking it up directly from the transponder (Ch4 HD: 11127 V DVB-S QPSK 22000 5/6) outside of the Freesat EPG. The rest of the channel packages depend on what the property owner are providing in term of signals from dishes on the roof and how those signals are distributed to each flat.
 
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