Freesat connection

[Hughes 66]

I am about to purchase a freesat box.My sky dish has only one lead from dish.Will i be able to get HD pictures on my HD tele or will it only work on normal digital pictures only.

[36TEAK36]

Is it an HD Freesat box you are purchasing? I am fairly sure that the box needs to be HD otherwise you will just get standard digital TV.

sorry, but I don't know if you also need an additional cable from your sky dish.

[redman41]

you will only get HD from Freesat if you purchase a HD digi-box. The HD box probably requires 2 inputs from your dish as it probably has a hard drive for recording programmes.
Panasonic are the only manufacturer at present with inbuilt HD Freesat in their Televisions, doing away with the need for a digibox.The same applies for Sky HD i.e you need a HD box

[VHG]

Why not look at the help on the Freesat web site

http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=help.C ategories

[Hughes 66]

Thanks for you answers.The HD box works from 1downcable and the HDMI cable connected to tv and hd box.Ididn't want to be able to record so I didn't need a recordable HD box.All seems well.