Freesat or Freeview?

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GooliesOfFire wrote: »

When I had Freesat in my old house we sometimes (once/twice a year) had some problems with some channels at very cloudy weather.

If you had problems because of cloud cover, I'd venture your dish wasn't correctly aligned.
The only times I've experienced any loss of service it's either been torrential rain or a snowstorm. Even then, it's only gone off for a few minutes...

GooliesOfFire

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

If you had problems because of cloud cover, I'd venture your dish wasn't correctly aligned.
The only times I've experienced any loss of service it's either been torrential rain or a snowstorm. Even then, it's only gone off for a few minutes...

Is it an alignment issue when some programmes show poor signal and some are fine?

I meant heavy very dark clouds. I don't think it was rain and wind that caused problems because my signal was ok in rain and strong winds (not uncommon in our country after all). Only storms with heavy dark clouds were causing problems to my Freesat.

I experienced extreme weather with dark clouds, lightnings and heavy rain about 2 months ago but my Freeview was unaffected while I remembered with Freesat I had problems.

But to be perfectly fair I remember I only had some old Sky dish after previous owners who had Sky.. and I had some cheap Bush Freesat receiver. Now in my loft I've got quite a decent terrestrial aerial.

diamonds

I pulled Virgin from elderly relatives and got a Sagemcom HD Freesat from Comet for under £50 and used the old Sky dish.

HD on sport is great, Virgin kept replacing boxes with Samsung ones that did not support HD.

In 5 years Virgin bill has doubled,TV and 2MB broadband FREE upgrade to 20MB, free does not mean every year on year a price rise, most oldies only need 2MB....bye bye a 25 year customer as Virgin got greedy beyond belief....

£45 a month to £10 for mobile broadband as I gave them a old usb modem. £35 a month saving, sorted.

loracan1

Really does depend on the area. I have freesat, never had a problem in the almost 2 years I've had it in any weather, the sky box I had before did go blocky in poor weather...dish hasn't been touched in 10/15 years.

Freeview - A bit of rain sets it off, Dave and similar are not available in my area and the strongest signal appears to be from GayRabbit(?!)

When I have had both the freesat/freeview hd channels working and compared them, whilst they've been 'different' there hasn't been a change in quality of the picture, just different shading on colours.

Jenna_Appleseed

Remember there's Freesat & Freesat From Sky which have a slightly different range of channels
http://www.freesat.co.uk/what-you-get/our-channels
http://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/what-can-i-watch/

sniggings

Jenna_Appleseed wrote: »

Remember there's Freesat & Freesat From Sky which have a slightly different range of channels
http://www.freesat.co.uk/what-you-get/our-channels
http://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/what-can-i-watch/

the Sky freesat service does not allow recording, you have to pay £10 a month for them to kindly allow you to record a free to air channel on the PVR you own :eek:

(you my know that, just making it clear for those that don't.)

macman

What you are actually paying for is the decryption of the signal, which is a proprietary Sky system.
At least that's Sky's rationale.

sniggings

macman wrote: »

What you are actually paying for is the decryption of the signal, which is a proprietary Sky system.
At least that's Sky's rationale.

well that makes no sense as you can have the service for free if you do not record.

What you are paying for is the work that goes into the TV guide, for them to update the guide so the recordings can be started and stopped at the correct times.

macman

The recording is encrypted. If you cease your sub, any existing recorded programmes are still there on the hard drive, you just can't view them. Renewing your sub will make them accessible again.

sniggings

macman wrote: »

The recording is encrypted. If you cease your sub, any existing recorded programmes are still there on the hard drive, you just can't view them. Renewing your sub will make them accessible again.

no they send a signal that stops your box showing the recorded program, the whole point of free to air channels is they can not be encrypted, sky do not have a right to encrypt free to air channels.

A lot of money is needed to keep the TV guide up to date, surely if they can justify a £10 charge it's for that not encryption.