freeview vs freesat? I'm a noob and don't know which to go for

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Whats the main difference?

Freeview needs an aerial and freesat uses a dish.. Freeview has less range and freesat has more range. thats all I know so far.

What are the main differences? I am looking up to comet site for installation and freesat in 2 rooms is only £120 where freeview in 2 rooms is £190.

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Note: I already have a sky dish installed but I think its broken or needs a new LNB. Should I buy a freesat box now, test it with my current sky connection and see if it works or just pay for someone to install a new dish?

Looking at getting the HUMAX FOXSAT-HD box.
 
There are a few differences; freesat provides BBC HD and ITV HD and lots more other channels than freeview does however, freeview has Dave and freesat doesn't!
 
Got a freesat box from argos today and it works perfectly! was watching the world cup in HD.

I bought the HUMAX FOXSAT-HD box for £140.

I just need to get freesat in different rooms now. How do I go about doing that? Do I just buy another box and get split the coxial cable and feed it upstairs?
 
So, I need to buy a new LNB? Can you point me to which one to get? Its for a sky dish.

I figure out how to get the coaxial cable to every room. Easy to do myself I should I get a cable guy in?

I have an original sky dish btw.
 
You need a quad LNB for more than one room. It's very easy to fit, and laying the cables is also very easy.

I have both Freesat HD and freeview. There's never anything much good on either of the HD channels. Freesat has a lot more channels, yet it doesn't have Dave! Also my freeview box is a 160gb twin tuner, so I much prefer it.
 
World cup is on the HD channels. :P

I already have a coaxial cable drilled upstairs when I had sky but its in the other room. I just need a longer cable or extend that cable onto another one?

Found this LNB

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£40 seem like a good price for a quad LNB?
 
I don't think I can do this on my own. I'd need to drill a hole to get the cables through then water proof the hole.

Costs £130 for comet to install this in multiple rooms.
 
drilling is easy tbh, just make sure you drill at a slight angle so water doesnt get in, and get a good hole cover aswell, and get some reasonable good satalite grade coax with matching colored wall clips.

the only job thats not so easy is lining up the dish.
 
yeah the drilling is a piece of cake, even a cheapo 10quid hammer drill and a couple of quid long bit will get through with relative ease.

I would run the newer shotgun cable if doing new runs.
 
Bought the quad LNB plus the sky LNB connecter but how do I get the old lnb off? Does it just slide out? Its the old old sky dish.

Looks just like this.

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