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What's the story with HD BBC on Sky?

  • 01-03-2014 10:32PM
    #1
    The Governor
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    Just after tuning in some FTA on my Sky box. I can get BBC 1 & 2 in HD but not 3, 4 or BBC News HD it wants a symbol rate of 23.0, I only have the 22.0 and 27.5 options any have a work around?


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  • #2
    swoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭swoofer


    no work round, closed box or uk card


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,460 ✭✭✭✭watty


    About €90 for a proper Freesat HD box.
    No subscription.

    An out of sub Sky box is "crippleware" these days. 10 years ago it made sense.

    I bet if you have a sub less that 10% of viewing is pay Tv!


  • #4
    The Governor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 949 ✭✭✭The Governor


    watty wrote: »
    About €90 for a proper Freesat HD box.
    No subscription.

    An out of sub Sky box is "crippleware" these days. 10 years ago it made sense.

    I bet if you have a sub less that 10% of viewing is pay Tv!

    Yeah we have a sub with Sky for the sitting room, I'd say 95% of of my viewing is actually the paid channels :p


  • #5
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,509 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    The Governor wrote: »
    Yeah we have a sub with Sky for the sitting room, I'd say 95% of of my viewing is actually the paid channels :p

    If you watch an average of 4 hours a day that would be around 1.5 hours of BBC in the week. Even if you had them on HD all the content is not in HD. Like BBC News skype reportage or BBC 4 showing 1970's Top of the Pops.

    So you don't really need them:)


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