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Ray Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 07:06 +0100, stinga wrote: >> On 20/05/08 17:49:31, M.Blackmore wrote: >>> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 08:32 +0100, george wrote: >>> >>>> I've been reviewing my TV aerial requirements to get the best digital >>>> reception and I noticed the blurb on free-sat TV. >>> Does this freesat - which I'd never heard about - use Sky dishes, i.e. >>> are satellite dishes "generic", thus saving us the cost of buying a >>> dish? We've still got the old sky receiver as well, tho' never used it. >>> >> Simple answer yes... >> Just plug the receiver in and off you, you will only get 'now and next'. Want the >> EPG? Pay sky a one off £20 freesatfromsky card and you are go to go. > > I'm actually wondering - > I know I can get the sky freesat channels but the new freesat service > from the BBC & ITV as announced on the news last week, can the sky dish > be used with this service if I were to get a freesat receiver ? > Reason being that you can get the new boxes with support for HD built > in. > The standard sky box and their version of freesat doesn't. > > Ray > > yes. freesat works with a sky dish. as mentioned already all freesat does is give you a subset of the channels available on sky. but it does this with a nice interface and, if you buy one of the more expensive freesat boxes, HD tv if you have an HD tv TV. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html