Is satellite dish worth installing...

builder007

I mean... Is there actually something worth watching without having to pay monthly subs for premium channels.

Just a thought

Atlantic Dawn

Yes lookup Freesat, plenty to watch.

Gerry Wicklow

List of free channels currently available on a normal dish

builder007

Is any of that in HD or UHD?

dxhound2005

All of those with HD in the channel name, e.g. BBC One HD, are in HD. The last three entries on the link are UHD channels.

Gerry Wicklow

All the main channels such as BBC 1, 2, 4 News, CBBC, Cbeebies, ITV1, Ch4 and Ch5 are HD. Chances are that any decent UHD channel would be sub only for the foreseeable future.
N.B. Irish channels are NOT free on a standard dish. You would need a conventional aerial for them.

Capt'n Midnight

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

All the main channels such as BBC 1, 2, 4 News, CBBC, Cbeebies, ITV1, Ch4 and Ch5 are HD. Chances are that any decent UHD channel would be sub only for the foreseeable future.
N.B. Irish channels are NOT free on a standard dish. You would need a conventional aerial for them.

Technically speaking Irish channels are available on Satellite. But there's lots of setup and niggles.

For 99% of people Saorview by aerial is a better option.

And yes there are two UHD demo channels on
http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear



If you aren't addicted to sports it's a lot easier to ditch subscription TV. You can use Netflix or whatever to top up some channels. It really boils down to what you consider unmissable.

builder007

To be honest sports are not a thing at all. Could live without a single sports channel. What is unmissable is BBC documentaries and educational content for children. But of course not all content is made the same. I would like to minimise US content and maximise UK and IE content...

Simi

builder007 wrote: »

To be honest sports are not a thing at all. Could live without a single sports channel. What is unmissable is BBC documentaries and educational content for children. But of course not all content is made the same. I would like to minimise US content and maximise UK and IE content...

Freesat then. It has all the UK free to air channels

builder007

Thanks guys. Looks like sat is the way to go then.

Gerry Wicklow

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Technically speaking Irish channels are available on Satellite. But there's lots of setup and niggles. ....

True. That's why I specified "standard dish"

Capt'n Midnight

builder007 wrote: »

To be honest sports are not a thing at all. Could live without a single sports channel. What is unmissable is BBC documentaries and educational content for children. But of course not all content is made the same. I would like to minimise US content and maximise UK and IE content...

Freesat has all the BBC's , like CBBC, and regions too.

Just record the Music docs on BBC 4 already, even if it's a kind of music you can't stand they are usually worth watching just for the back story.

Yesterday does repeats of BBC docs.

PBS does NOVA which a lot of the time is Horizon with a different narrator. C5 HD does a lot of war docs too.

For the very young, get DVDs of their favourites so you can repeat them ad nauseum.

greasepalm

would a multi sat system be of benefit to him?

stimpson

I moved into a new house and planned to get a dish installed for Freesat. After using iPlayer/All4 for a couple of weeks (with a DNS service) I'm not sure if I'm too bothered about the expense of a dish for the little that I use it. Most of what I watch come from online services.

Capt'n Midnight

greasepalm wrote: »

would a multi sat system be of benefit to him?

An octo LNB costs a lot less than a distribution system, and you only need one cable per box or TV, unless it's a recorder.


If you want more than one satellite it gets messy because Freesat just works but is 28 E only. To see other sats you need a second box, or use non-Freesat mode (which at best blocks freesat recordings) or a linux box and tweaks - though this can mean RTE (use card/dongle for Saorview) and BBC on one remote control.

Yes you can add Saorsat as a second satellite , but no advantage over Saorview.

Apart from news there isn't a lot of English content on other satellites, and even then it's usually as a second Audio channel and as original language so if it wasn't made in English you probably won't get an English dub, also subtitles will usually be in the language of the channel.


The latest Freesat boxes, the Linux boxes and the Custom Firmware on the old Foxsat HDR all allow scheduling from an app or web management.

greasepalm

aye got a few octo lnbs in use and 3 feeds in one room for 28.2 + a combo box,and a unused motorised sat dish for the moment,i still thought there were a number of english speaking ones on multisat but was a while ago.

Gerry Wicklow

greasepalm wrote: »

aye got a few octo lnbs in use and 3 feeds in one room for 28.2 + a combo box,and a unused motorised sat dish for the moment,i still thought there were a number of english speaking ones on multisat but was a while ago.

Mainly only news channels are FTA in english on other sats. Apart from DW, most are already on 28E

jelutong

There's three sports channels on Freesat.
Front runner,Freesports and Motors TV.