Pay to keep Sky Box or buy Freesat Box?

Neil_Jones

brewerdave said:

macman said:

Pedant's corner: an old Sky box does Freesat From Sky, not Freeview, which is a digital terrestial service.
To all intents and purposes, the channel line up is almost identical.

With all the changes proposed for Freeview, I suspect that Freesat will become much more attractive.

But not if you don't/can't have a dish on the side of your property.

But on the other hand Freeview devices are almost impossible not to buy/obtain as it is the default digital TV option.  If the TV claims to have Freesat/satellite reception it will usually only be a "plug this in and I'll show you six million variations of C4+1" as opposed to the channel approach taken by a proper Freesat receiver.