Re: New Freesat service


"Andy Burns" <usenet.jan2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:13us5trlil6na49@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 29/03/2008 10:10, Agamemnon wrote:

Who's going to buy a BBC receiver which is incompatible with European standards, can't tune into other satellites or transponders apart from the ones pre-programmed into it and which can't decode and can't be upgraded to decode any of the encrypted Sky channels.

Do you know that it won't be capable of entering freq/pol/rate/fec by hand?

Does it have DiSEq. If not it can't control a motorised dish and I'm not going to enter the details of 1600 channels for Hotbird by hand.


BTW are Sky still charging for people to record programmes their PVRs?

Not any more, all subscribers get that option included (but loose it or have to pay separately for it if they stop subscribing)

So the only reason, the only, only reason for getting Freesat is so you don't have to pay Sky to record the free channels via the EPG, which you can already do on Freeview and since most of the Freeview channels will still be encrypted using Sky's proprietary encryption system it will only be BBC and ITV channels you can record or even watch.

Why don't the BBC just support the standard European EPG and then people can just but a standard European Satellite PVR instead of their new "Betamax" ?

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