Have your say & ask the experts

Andy Clough:

It will be interesting to see what happens to Freesat when Freeview HD launches later this year.

It seems to be getting more confusing by the minute! - I have freesat, but only because I liked the Panasonic TV's and got a good deal on the model with built in Freesat (and freeview as well). This meant I could get rid of the boxes that plagued my TV cabinet as I still have my old sky dish on the house.

What will really fry my noodle would be if Freesat did take a turn for the worse on the HD access front and Freeview HD became more of a major player as I would then miss out unless I bought yet another box and be back where I started. I would however, still have a cracking picture

So is it worth getting Freesat or stick with freeview ?

Reason for asking is that my aerial needs replacing ( Ih ave sky HD but its handy to be able to watch something else when your recording two programmes)

I live in Norway where the sat signals are rather weak on the Sky/FreeSat systems and despite having a professional 1.2 metre ChannelMaster dish and a 0.2dB LNB, I frequently get picture breakup from the BBC & ITV channels during extremely bad weather or snowstorms when viewing on my Sammy HD, but switching over to my trusty Humax HD receiver, the picture is perfect.
The audio/video quality from both systems is excellent via HDMI on a Sony 52W4500 with colour rendition slightly more accurate when viewing on the Humax although there is not much in it.

I'm really curious to see if the imminent FreeSat iPlayer will work over here as all the units are connected via fibre network.
By the way, turned on the Humax today to find they have redesigned the GUI which was rather a nice surprise.

I think FreeSat is important if only to give Sky and Virgin competition.

Here's hoping it lives longer than my original Nokia Dmac BSB system all those years ago . . . .       ;-0

Tonya:

I'm really curious to see if the imminent FreeSat iPlayer will work over here as all the units are connected via fibre network.

It won't at all outside the UK,unless you can spoof a UK ip address.