Freesat/Freeview

[Cheib]

Just bought a house and moving in next Friday....current owner only uses Sky and there's no TV aerial.

I am going to get Sky connected up but also want to get Freeview/Freesat set up . If I go down the Freesat route is it worth getting a TV Aerial for Freeview too ?

[JimbobVFR]

Do you like Dave? Not available on Freesat so might be reason enough.

[Cheib]

JimbobVFR said:

Do you like Dave? Not available on Freesat so might be reason enough.

Watch it every now and again but not required watching!

[anonymous-user]

FV gives you a bigger choice of boxes than FS. And Dave, if that matters. IMO the picture quality through FS is marginally better than FV. just be aware that if you go down the FS route and use a hard disc recorder you will need two cables from the dish to the recorder (assuming you want to be able to watch X while you record Y).

[Brian Trizers]

We faced the same thing when we moved in, but didn't want Sky. This was five years ago, when Freesat had HD but Freeview didn't, and we were in a weak Freeview area at the bottom of the list for digital switchover. So we bought a Humax Foxsat HD and it was OK, provided it wasn't raining and there were no leaves on the trees. Otherwise we wouldn't know how the vertical channels would look, or whether the horizontal channels would appear at all.

Switchover finally came along and we took BT TV with the option of Sky Sports 2 when there's cricket to watch, and Freeview - now with HD - for everything else. Haven't touched the Foxsat since. Ought to get the ugly dish taken down too.