No difference.
It's the same kit but with no subscription to sky packages.
If you don't have a dish and box then you pay 150 for the kit and
installation. If you already have the equipment then you pay £20 for the
freesat viewing card.
If you have free sat you can subscribe to sky packages at any time you
wish but you don't have to.
The only difference between freeview and sky freesat is that with freesat
you get more channels (most of them pretty awful looking) and coverage of
about 97% of the country compared to about 73% coverage for freeview.
A bit confusing as bbc and ITV are jointly launching a freesat service
shortly too with claimed similar coverage but as yet no details of cost of
channels. As far as I can see the only advantage of the bbc/itv offering
over traditional freeview if you live in a freeview coverage area is that
the freesat is HD capable, so if you have an HD TV you can get HD
programming. The Beeb do say that all their freesat boxes will be AD
capable which would of course be excellent if it really happens, and that
there will also be freesat onboard digital tv recorders in the set top box
range. You'd hope that if the boxes are AD enabled and can record that
they should be able to record the AD too but we shall see.
Adrian Higginbotham
Project manager: Learning services
Becta
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Becta switchboard 02476-416994.
Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/
BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jackie Cairns
Sent: 24 April 2008 15:32
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: freesat
Hi Phil, John et al
Could someone please tell me, privately if you've already covered this
over the last few days, what Freesat is? I gather after browsing quickly
through recent threads that it is an alternative Sky offering covering the
Freeview channels? But why I am slightly confuzzled is because a friend
of ours paid £20 to receive the Freeview channels from Sky as a one off
payment by inserting a card into the DigiBox. And he receives AD on the
channels he watches. So what then is the difference between this £20
payment for a card to get Freeview channels through Sky, and the Freesat
being discussed here?
Thanks for any clarification.
Jackie
Email: cairnsplace@xxxxxxx
Skype Name: Cairnsplace
----- Original Message -----
From: "phil stephenson" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:42 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: freesat
Hi John,
Ok so things may have changed and we've not actually got Sky up and
running
at mo even though we're still paying our £7 per month...we moved 2 months
ago and as I said we've not got round to getting new Sky dish installed
and
probably aren't going to...however I am pretty sure that when we started
off
on Freesat we were receiving AD on channel 974 as I did watch some BBC1
programmes with AD. As I say things may have changed since when we
Cheers,
Phil
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
John Gallagher
Sent: 24 April 2008 10:56
To: access-uk-freelists.org
Subject: [access-uk] freesat
Hi Phil interesting about the ad on freesat we will check it out. can you
receive ad on 974?
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