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[Entwood]

Do any OOF members have any experience/opinions on Freesat TV ??

The digital signal we are getting fro terrestial freeview is pretty poor, and I'm considering freesat as an alternative.

I'm also somewhat surprised at this offer from Sky ...if i read it right it's a very cheap way of getting freesat ..  £75

http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk

Any thoughts/opinions/ expert knowledge gratefully accepted ..

[Martin_1962]

Get a Humax HDR

Very clever piece of kit.

Also get your aerial sorted as Freeview picture quality is better than satellite for quite a few channels - especially ITV.

BBC is much of a muchness.

Also Freesat misses off Dave, TMF, and Virgin1 (so far) but you get Audi TV

[Nickbat]

Do any OOF members have any experience/opinions on Freesat TV ??

The digital signal we are getting fro terrestial freeview is pretty poor, and I'm considering freesat as an alternative.

I'm also somewhat surprised at this offer from Sky ...if i read it right it's a very cheap way of getting freesat ..  £75

http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk

Any thoughts/opinions/ expert knowledge gratefully accepted ..

There was a chat about Freesat the other day. Starts on page 4 or thereabouts of this thread:
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1228157819/30
 

[Nickbat]

..and can you go back to the General Help section and let me know what the 2.6 pedal trick is?    

[Entwood]

Get a Humax HDR

Very clever piece of kit.

Also get your aerial sorted as Freeview picture quality is better than satellite for quite a few channels - especially ITV.

BBC is much of a muchness.

Also Freesat misses off Dave, TMF, and Virgin1 (so far) but you get Audi TV

Had a new aerial fitted, improved things quite a bit and the picture is clear at times .. but suffers from intermittent pixellation. Fitters said it was normal for this area ?? Seems we are some distance from the transmitter.

I have been told, but don't know the truth of it, that when analogue is turned off the digital signal strength will be increased and the problem should go away, any ideas if this is true ??

No point in getting an HD recorder .. TV is not HD compatible ..  

[Martin_1962]

Yes signal will get turned up.

As to TV, your next one will be HD, we got a TV simply because it was a pain playing games on a 32", and missing the extra detail the consoles provided.

Also I have always been an early adopter.

The HDR will act fine as an SDTV PVR if you do not record BBC HD.

[Entwood]

Thanks for all the comments .. just read the link

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1228157819/30

didn't read it before as it was on about aerials .. and we just did ours !!

Seems that freesat may not be all the advertising is trying to say it is ... especially the sky version - and just why does the box have to be connected to a phone for a year if you've cancelled the "extras" after 3 months ?? - strange ....

perhaps we'll just live with what we have for a while longer ..

[TheBoy]

Get a Humax HDR

Very clever piece of kit.

Also get your aerial sorted as Freeview picture quality is better than satellite for quite a few channels - especially ITV.

BBC is much of a muchness.

Also Freesat misses off Dave, TMF, and Virgin1 (so far) but you get Audi TV

Had a new aerial fitted, improved things quite a bit and the picture is clear at times .. but suffers from intermittent pixellation. Fitters said it was normal for this area ?? Seems we are some distance from the transmitter.

I have been told, but don't know the truth of it, that when analogue is turned off the digital signal strength will be increased and the problem should go away, any ideas if this is true ??

No point in getting an HD recorder .. TV is not HD compatible ..  

ring a few aerial fitters, see what they say?  I'm 'fringe area' from Oxford transmitter, but get pretty good freeview using a cheap high gain, very directional aerial in loft, that i pointed more or less the right way....

[Martin_1962]

Thanks for all the comments .. just read the link

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1228157819/30

didn't read it before as it was on about aerials .. and we just did ours !!

Seems that freesat may not be all the advertising is trying to say it is ... especially the sky version - and just why does the box have to be connected to a phone for a year if you've cancelled the "extras" after 3 months ?? - strange ....

perhaps we'll just live with what we have for a while longer ..

Sky have nothing to do with Freesat, just happen to share the Astra cluster

[Mack]

We've got Freesat from Sky as our terrestrial signal is very poor (we live in a valley in a wood). Got this as we didn't want to subscribe to anyone, just pay once, however, with Sky, if you want a PVR then you need Sky+ which, as far as I understand it, means you have to then subscribe.

We're currently considering the BBC/ITV freesat and the Humax PVR - so be careful before you choose, they are different, and the Sky solution is more limiting.....

[Taxi_Driver]

Get a Humax HDR

Very clever piece of kit.

Also get your aerial sorted as Freeview picture quality is better than satellite for quite a few channels - especially ITV.

BBC is much of a muchness.

Also Freesat misses off Dave, TMF, and Virgin1 (so far) but you get Audi TV

Had a new aerial fitted, improved things quite a bit and the picture is clear at times .. but suffers from intermittent pixellation. Fitters said it was normal for this area ?? Seems we are some distance from the transmitter.
I have been told, but don't know the truth of it, that when analogue is turned off the digital signal strength will be increased and the problem should go away, any ideas if this is true ??

No point in getting an HD recorder .. TV is not HD compatible ..  

Your closer than me.....if your pointing towards the mendip transmitter.......i get perfect picture quality on analogue.....did they replace the coax as well?? Its usually the coax thats go naff.....not the aerial.
I had my aerial/coax changed a couple of years back.....because of crap picture quality.....now perfect....but the old aerial is now connected to the tv in the kitchen.....perfect picture....nothing wrong with the old aerial!!
If the problem is with the freeview picture......could be the freeview receiver.....i had problems even after new aerial.....gave up with freeview plus box......bloody useless thing....kept trying to get a signal from the oxford transmitter.....even after freeview gave it countless updates.....went out and bought a £15 cheapo freeview receiver....and been fine ever since  

[Marks DTM Calib]

I doubt they will wind the digital signal up .....

Occasional pixelation sounds like multipath interference or noise being pciked up from passing cars or similar

[Marks DTM Calib]

One of the interesting things is that after the analogue trnasmission are turned off, most transmitters are having the digital muxes re-tuned to take up the old analogue channel space....so a grouped antenna would now work again!