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New Freesat advert

View the new advertisement promoting Freesat

View the new advertisement promoting Freesat
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Freesat, the service that provides lots of free to watch television and radio channels using a satellite dish are promoting their subscription-free offering in the run up to Christmas.

Freesat's Will Abbott says: "We've brought Team Freesat back together on Freesat1 to create an entertaining campaign with a simple message – that in the face of increasing complexity and choice Freesat offers customers an easy way to enjoy brilliant TV, catch-free."

Here is the latest promotional clip:







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David
Friday 18 November 2011 11:22AM
Well I have had it for 3 years and not over the moon about them.
Dissapionted with the HD selection they give, only BBC1, ITV1 and CH4.
Think they should add Five (another thread on this site does say I think this year), Film 4 and maybe other BBC and ITV could be added. Anyone seriously wanting HD via Satellite should consider SKY free or subscription versions before deciding.
Looking at new TV sets seems easier to buy a built in Freeview HD than Freesat built in.

What did the advert mean by ON Demand TV?
I can only get BBC iPlayer is that it?
On Demand TV I see mentioned these days is a CH4 brand.
Alanjc
Saturday 19 November 2011 4:08PM
Hi David, Not sure what equipment you're using but there are now 5 HD channels BBC1 HD,BBC HD, ITV1 HD, Channel4 HD and as well as BBC IPlayer there is now ITV Player on 903, not a bad start for free, me thinks!
David
Saturday 19 November 2011 5:54PM
Sorry missed the 109 BBC HD out, do not realy count that as a proper program, have heard that if BBC2 goes HD this HD one will go off.
( There is a Japanese News program as which I forgot).
It is Panasonic Freesat Tv and only after 3 years will it now do BBC iPlayer as I understand it Panasonic will not upgrade further.
I have enquired of Panasonic which of their present TV sets will do all the new specs coming out in the near future and the ITV player plus the CH4 and Five ONDemand, they have as yet not responded. Done this just in case I go for larger screen size this Christmas. I not want to get caught out again as I did in 2008.
stu
Thursday 1 December 2011 5:32PM
@Alanjc are you running a humax box as i cant get itv player yet only bbciplayer :(

i have a sagem hd box
Paul
Friday 16 December 2011 8:37PM
I have a Humax freesat HD box and have just purchased a bipac 7800n router. Can I now watch iplayer on my tv and do I need to connect through my telephone cable.

thank you
Briantist
Monday 19 December 2011 8:43AM
Paul: Connect the Humax box to the router using a cat5 patch cable. The router should be connected to your internet in the appropriate way.
Enver
Tuesday 3 January 2012 12:48PM
Hi, folks,
I have moved into a new flat 6 months ago. in E1 area, there is a sat dish used by previous owner, so i just connected my tv with freesat faction to it, it was working fine until one week ago, it shows no signal. the satdish has no power cable only a sat cable in the house. is that my dish problem or there is sat coverage problem in my area? please help.
David Jackson
Tuesday 10 January 2012 8:21PM
Although I read this site, most of it I don't understand. However, I would like to share something which might shed light on some problems. I live in Chelmsford, Essex. I use a single aerial (external) which has a powered splitter attached. One cable runs down to my Panasonic TV, the other to a Philips TV. The Panasonic has tuned itself to London, the Philips to Anglia. (This is because of the local news shown ) How many reported problems are a result of the TV tuner I ask myself
Dave Lindsay
Wednesday 11 January 2012 1:30AM
David Jackson: Crystal Palace uses lower frequencies than Sudbury (which I assume your aerial is directed at). Run the automatic tuning scan with the aerial unplugged up until 25%.
David
Wednesday 11 January 2012 6:36AM
To stop that problem I had to take my powered splitter out and use a normal 'Y' splitter.
Avril
Sunday 22 January 2012 9:50AM Horsham
We are due to switch to Digital in April 2012 Crystal Palace transmitter.
I have sky at the moment but would like to switch to Freesat what do I need equipment wise.
I have Sky + box in the lounge and an ordinary sky in the other room. The one programme we would like to have is Quest
jb38
Sunday 22 January 2012 10:47AM
Avril: Are you sure you are not meaning Freeview rather than Freesat? as the switchover you refer to doesn't involve Freesat reception issues which makes me think you are possibly meaning the former.

As far as Quest is concerned then you will be able to view it on Freeview Ch38 as it is "not" on the satellite service Freesat, and if you want to have the same facilities as with your Sky+ then a Humax Freeview HDR-FOX T2 should fit your requirements, although with one exception and which applies to all PVR's, that being they do not have RF modulators built in the same way as Sky boxes do, with the exception of Sky DRX595 which doesn't either, so if you want to feed the signal through to another room as is done with Sky, then you require to purchase a separate modulator.

You will of course require a normal aerial if you do not already have one.
jb38
Sunday 22 January 2012 2:11PM
Avril: Just to add, that if you decided that Quest wasn't so important after all then you could just use a Freesat PVR, as the "F" connector plugs on the end of the two leads from the dish would just require to be transferred over from the sockets on the Sky box to the two sockets on a Freesat PVR, in this case being a Humax FoxSat HDR which like the Freeview equivalent can be obtained with various sizes of hard drive, the normal being 320Gb and slightly later 500Gb, but obtainable with up to 1TB.

As far as feeding to another room is concerned, the situation is the same as with the Freeview device, you cannot without an additional modulator, or for higher quality a device known as a "Digi sender", the sender plugged into the boxes scart socket, and with the receiver into the scart socket of a TV in another room, no wires being involved.
Avril
Sunday 22 January 2012 3:24PM Horsham
Thankyou for your answers,I am trying to work out which options would be better going for Freesat and PVR as they have more programmes as opposed to Freeview, the signal for freeview is very hit and miss particularly if it is raining! Is it possible to swap between Freesat and Freeview to get Quest just using the remote?
KMJ,Derby
Sunday 22 January 2012 4:03PM
Avril: Crystal Palace should deliver a much more reliable signal after switchover as the power increases to 200kW on each mux. You can keep your ordinary Sky box in the other room as it will continue to receive non-subscription channels, including when using your Sky card, any free-to-view channels that are soft encrypted and which a freesat box cannot decode.
jb38
Sunday 22 January 2012 4:12PM
Avril: As regards to your Freeview reception, Crystal Palace is located at 28 miles away and as such wont really become more reliable until April 18th when as you know it switches over to high powered operation, an event that should make a huge difference to anyone who presently only receives it in an erratic fashion.

But just to reiterate a point, Quest is only available on Freeview (via a normal aerial) and "not" on Freesat, so its really a case of either waiting until April when the signal improves before purchasing a Freeview PVR, or alternatively not waiting and go for a Freesat PVR straight away, as it has to be admitted that with what you are presently using going over to Freesat has the absolute minimum of inconvenience, plus not having the worry of signal problems as satellite reception is 99.9% of the time excellent.

Of course you do have another possible option, that being to go for a Freesat PVR without waiting, then come April purchase a cheap Freeview box (not PVR) for around £30 or so purely to enable you to view Quest, as both can be coupled into your TV. The only thing to remember though is that PVR's (all) cannot record from externally connected devices, so you wouldn't be able to record Quest.
jb38
Sunday 22 January 2012 4:23PM
KMJ,Derby: Yes, you are quite correct on that point KMJ, and I suppose with a dish feed cable already being in the other room it would be exceedingly convenient just to retain the Sky box, but the reason I didn't suggest it was because of the Quest issue of it not being able to be viewed without a subscription, as I checked this on my own Sky box with ex subscription card installed before posting as I wasn't quite sure if it was free to view or not, which on my box it wasn't.
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