Steve, there is some dross on Freesat, but the Humax setup lets you delete any channels you don’t want. Example: it gives you as many local TV and radio stations near you that your signal can take, which leads to a lot of duplicated information. I just kept East Yorks & Lincs, with radio Nottingham (following footy news) and BBC East Midlands News, which serves my old home area. You might need to fit another LNB to your dish: I had to do that, wish now I had fitted a Quad connection, to get another outlet in this desktop room. Could then have, say, a 24″ Freesat TV as well as Freeview on the PC. Quad LNB:
http://tinyurl.com/y8q88hsc
Hope your Antenna Man is OK with that!
BL & Steve: here is the latest Freesat channel list:
http://tinyurl.com/y856z2p3
Click the blue “Show more channels” box and scroll down for all the OD services. There are also 2x PDF’s lower down, one for a channel list and one for regional channels.
I was chuffed when Quest went HD, watch that a lot. Quest is also putting on a sort of League football “MoTD” and showing highlights of Championship, Leagues 1 and 2, at 9. HD channels will grow on Freesat, I believe. If your TV upscales to HD, as mine does, the problem goes away. Different for higher res like 4K I suppose, but my old peepers are happy with HD.
On another thread I will start soon, I will lay out what I will do with my TV/audio setup.
BL, Ch4 taking HD out of Freesat was Ch4 asking for a higher price and Freesat would not play tha game. The sale of boxes and ads is what pays for some or all of Freesat, which was originally set up by BBC and ITV, but has many more channels supporting it now. Ch4 services are funded by the taxpayer, with ads of course thrown into the mix. TBH, I dislike Ch4 and ITV, for the amount of spin off channels, most of which are utter doss, and dross repeated on each successive channel on the same day, sometimes at the same time. There are channels emerging which will blow Ch4 away IMO.
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