Freesat

[Unsureme]

Am I reading the advert for Freesat wrong? Do you need an extra dish as well as a Sky Dish to receive the HD Pictures? Thanks for any replies.

[vehelpfulguy]

Freesat from the BBC/ITV will work with a Sky dish, so you could cancel Sky then re-use the dish.

If you want to carry on using Sky (not sure why you would want to unless it is for HD) I think you have to fit an extra device (a Quad LNB) to the dish.

[Unsureme]

Thank you,vehelpfulguy, Argos are selling HD Boxes for �119 so will it be OK to just plug and play?(I am staying with SKY mainly for the Sports)

[sp1214]

If you believe in perfection I believe their could be some discrepancy between the positioning of the Sky dish with that of Freesat.

The recommended angle with Sky is between 25 - 27 % and that of Freesat I believe is 28.2%.

[Postdog]

Yeah I am not a techy, but when I saw this post earlier I tried to find the answer to your question. Ended up getting very confused as there is a Sky Freesat as well as the BBC/ITV one, but one thing I did see was that the BBC/ITV one has a smaller footprint (just for the UK), so presumably is on another satellite, and also presumably is somewhere else in the sky.

As you have Sky, why get another, as some - if not all - are bound to be duplicated?

[Unsureme]

Thank you,all for your help. Looks like I'll have to bite the bullet and stump up the �249 Sky are charging existing customers for HD.

[Cakeboy]

Ring Sky and speak to them, I rang them about HD and they only wanted �99 for the box plus �60 installation which is �150 less than quoted on the website.

[Unsureme]

Cakeboy, I rang and they were adamant they wanted the full amount,guess it depends who you speak to.