Freesat, the downside?

unhappyvirgincustomer_2

juliescot wrote: »

Shame that some the channels I wish to watch are on the Sky platform only so I pay for them.


Freesat may be fine but if it doesn't show what I want to see then it is of no use at all.

Of course, you are free to pay whatever you want to to watch whatever you want to but for me there isn't a single channel on sky that isn't already available for free on freesat I would either pay anything for nor would want to watch either.

BargainGalore

Ignore the :spam: from red neck cheapdeals

cobnobbler

unhappyvirgincustomer wrote: »

Of course, you are free to pay whatever you want to to watch whatever you want to but for me there isn't a single channel on sky that isn't already available for free on freesat I would either pay anything for nor would want to watch either.

I got rid of Sky last year after 12 years and I can't say I've missed it. But I didn't have sports, every now and then I would get films when there was an offer on, but the films were so old I had usually seen them.

Lube

Grow op cheapdeals and stop spamming your clap trap on a UK web site

Lube

I know one thing they are dumb cheapdeals

isofa

Apparently if you point out to a US spammer (cheapdeals), someone without even a basic primary education (kindergarten if you are reading) ,that the US and UK are different countries and spam isn't tolerated here, you are a racist. Goodness what an erudite, intelligent chap you are.

Looking forward to your IP address being traced and you reported, which will happen soon...

juliescot

unhappyvirgincustomer wrote: »

Of course, you are free to pay whatever you want to to watch whatever you want to but for me there isn't a single channel on sky that isn't already available for free on freesat I would either pay anything for nor would want to watch either.

And for me there are quite a few that are not on freesat - so there you go.

To each their own

gjchester

robredz wrote: »

HD box is £129

They do, its a Foxsat HD. IT CANNOT record anything and it has ONE tuner. Tesco has it's blurb wrong.
It's makers blurb is here
http://www.humaxdigital.com/global/products/product_stb_satellite_foxsathd.asp


Roughtly a SD Freesat box comes in at £50-£60. HD boxes £100 to £120 and the Recorders £250+ (the panasonic is £1K with the blu-ray recorder built in!)

Leopard

juliescot

juliescot wrote: »

If you are serious about HD then Freesat at the moment has little to offer
http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.HDschedule

Yet,

juliescot wrote: »

To each their own

Therein, could you but see it, lies your contradiction.

There are many who like what is shown on BBC HD (and, sometimes, on ITV HD). And who perhaps don't want to spend as much of their lives as you do watching television. So, for them, it's enough.

The secret is to record the FreeSat HD programmes that one does like while watching on Freeview things one wants to see but aren't broadcast in HD on Sky anyway.

By doing this, one builds up a backlog of BBC HD programmes to view at times when there's nothing that one wants to watch being broadcast on Freeview.

Personally, the only thing I'd like to watch from Sky HD is Channel 4 – and that's coming to FreeSat HD anyway. I'm not going to pay Sky £330 (or more) for a year just to receive it in the meantime.

As you say, to each his own.

If you don't want (or need, for terrestrial aerial reception resons) FreeSat, that's fine – don't buy it. But don't criticise, by implication, those who do like what it offers in HD and are happy to spend a one-off £245 to receive it free, forever. They don't criticise you for choosing to pay Sky, with your own money, for other programmes which you want to watch but which they don't.

Especially on a MoneySaving site when the alternative is to pay Sky £330 a year to watch your own television.

Please don't think I'm attacking you! I'm just pointing out to you gently that there are other ways of looking at it and that your own preferences and perspectives aren't necessarily shared by others, who are not necessarily fools because their personal preferences are different to your own.

I could well afford Sky HD but I choose not to because for me there is nothing on it that justifies its not inconsiderable expense when I am content with FreeSat HD. (And what this saves me, moreover, would pay for renting a lot more Blu-ray discs that I would ever have time to watch anyway!

alanrowell wrote: »

If you like sport then Sky is the best but I wouldn't get it just for films as unless you are a 24x7 watcher of films, it's cheaper to rent the DVD

And if you rent the Blu-ray, at 1080p the picture quality of that knocks the socks off watching it on Sky HD anyway.

juliescot

Perhaps I did not explain myself well enough

If you are interested in HD content then there is little on Freesat.

There is much more available on Sky.

To each their own was meant to infer that should you not wish to pay for this extra content then so be it.

Why do you comment on how much television I watch as I have given no indication of how much I watch?

"The secret is to record the FreeSat HD programmes that one does like while watching on Freeview things one wants to see but aren't broadcast in HD on Sky anyway."

The issue for me is that the programmes I wish to watch are not on Freesat or Freeview so your solution, like Freesat, is of no use to me.

I am not criticising those who have gone down the Freesat route, if I come across as doing so then I apologise. Freesat does not serve my HD or SD viewing needs so I would not purchase it.