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On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:42:18PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about Freesat?
>
> I have one Sky dish which has 3 cables coming off it - 1 to my study which
> I've never used and 2 going to the lounge which is happily driving my Sky+
> box.
>
> _Apparently_ if I buy a HD Freesat box from say Currys, I can connect it to
> the spare cable in my study but the bloke at "Freeat from Sky" tells me I
> won't get anything without a £20 card which I must buy from them. However
> he was adamant you can't get HD over Freesat - which is at odds with
> www.freesat.co.uk as I pointed out to him. He seemed to be saying
> "Freesat from sky" is different to Freesat
Yes, they are different. Freesat (as in freesat.co.uk) is done by a
consortium involving the BBC, Channel 4 and (I think) ITV, and has HD
content -- as you point out. "Freesat from Sky" is a completely
separate service, run by Sky and introduced, as far as I can tell, to
confuse customers and entice them away from Freesat to Sky (or to stop
them from leaving).
The "Freesat from Sky" concept is therefore, by some large margin,
the nastiest, most cynical piece of destructive marketing I've seen in
quite some time.
Stay well away from Sky, don't talk to them, don't believe anything
they say, and you should be all right. :)
(All IMHO, AFAIK, YMMV, etc)
Hugo.
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