What channels are on freesat and what is needed?

sutty

Hello all, I might be moving down to Gowran Kilkenny soon and am looking to find out what is available in the area. I'm currently on NTL and was thinking that I'd like to try Freesat for the HD side of things. But what channels are there and what is needed to set it up in terms of costs?

mjsmyth

You need one of these for Freesat HD:

http://tinyurl.com/69awob

Oh and obviously a HD tv.

For channels, check out www.freesat.co.uk and for more info, check out the freesat forum over at http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=142

mj

god's toy

Or if your up for a HDTV upgrade (and a drive up north!)
Pick yourself up an Panasonic Viera PZ81.
Built in freesat receiver (you just need the dish)


Happy days.

batman2000

So what about FTV, I know it's different to FTA. If I can get a FTV card, can I then insert this into my Sky box and get the channels. ( I already have a Sky dish with one STB used for Sky+ and the other STB in the bedroom ). OR can I get a Sat Receiver, because of the EPG listing
(e.g. http://www.satellite.ie/acatalog/DIY_satellite_systems.html ) and then insert my FTV in this STB ?

byte

batman2000 wrote: »

So what about FTV, I know it's different to FTA. If I can get a FTV card, can I then insert this into my Sky box and get the channels. ( I already have a Sky dish with one STB used for Sky+ and the other STB in the bedroom ). OR can I get a Sat Receiver, because of the EPG listing
(e.g. http://www.satellite.ie/acatalog/DIY_satellite_systems.html ) and then insert my FTV in this STB ?

Yes, FTV card will go into Sky box. It won't work on a FTA box.

The Cush

List of freesat channels on wikipedia

watty

FTV really only adds Five group channels & Sky3

leex

Is there RF out on any of these FREESAT boxes? Doesn't seem to be on the Humax HD box I looked at.

watty

TV's won't have analogue RF and Digital RF (DTT) is too expensive. If there is an RF out, it should just be a loop, and only on Freeview, not Freesat.

Only SCART and HDMI makes sense. The Tv of the future either a Media Centre or a Monitor only, either way you won't use an Analogue Modulator.

leex

My reasoning for RF out is for feeding to other TV's in House - avoids need for a box at each TV point. I would indeed be using HDMI at the main TV point.

pizzahead77

I don't think any of the boxes have RF In/Out. The Bush HD I have doesn't.

Tony

As long as you want to watch the same channel at every tv

leex wrote: »

My reasoning for RF out is for feeding to other TV's in House - avoids need for a box at each TV point.

watty

The point is that shortly new TVs won't have analogue RF in. Only Digital. Esp. in the UK.

leex

Thanks Guys. No worries. I have 3 lcd tv's purchased in recent times which all have RF in. It is not practical to have a box at all of them. I guess I can use an RF modulator anyway.

I pipe DVD around the house also using an RF modulator. Unfortunately a lot of the new items with scart and hdmi out won't allow the 2 to work simultaneously which means I need to now use 2 dvd players where as one used to do the trick where I could use component out to main TV and scart out to modulator and then to all TV's in house.

BarryM

byte wrote: »

Yes, FTV card will go into Sky box. It won't work on a FTA box.

Is the 'getting' of an FTV card the same as getting a Sky card in the old days? i.e. a UK address, if your not a Sky sub? I may have missed this in the various FTV threads, if so sorry for asking....

Bye, Barry

byte

BarryM wrote: »

Is the 'getting' of an FTV card the same as getting a Sky card in the old days? i.e. a UK address, if your not a Sky sub? I may have missed this in the various FTV threads, if so sorry for asking....

Bye, Barry

Yea, that's pretty much it. Ring the Freesat from Sky number on their site, using the UK address. you'll probably need a credit card with you too.

www.freesatfromsky.co.uk