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Freesat ITV regions
britishtrident - 31/8/09 at 07:38 PM

Am I correct in thinking Freesat receivers pick your local ITV1 transmision during setup by asking you to input your post code ?

Reason why I am asking is my local iTV broadcast company STV looks like it is in financial trouble and sinking fast as they no longer broadcast big budget ITV network shows because of the high fees they have to pay the network instead they now give us haggis and sporan drivel. Then Freesat might be answer for me without having to pay the Murdoch empire dane geld --- Rant warning ! even if Sky were free I wouldn't have in the house.

Rant warning 2 -- With Fresat I could also avoid the tcheuchter vision Gaelic offerings BBC2 Scotland forces on decent oridinary lowland Scottish viewers on Thursday in the early evening in place of Eggheads.



[Edited on 31/8/09 by britishtrident]

AndyO - 31/8/09 at 08:12 PM

the one I've got didn't need a postcode and gets all BBC and ITV regions

CraigJ - 31/8/09 at 08:16 PM

ours just scans and picks up what it wants, up stairs we have 1 region Newcastle i think and down stairs we have Yorkshire ITV. no idea why. we are in Yorkshire by the way.

scootz - 31/8/09 at 09:05 PM

Mine is pretty erratic... channels change daily!

gdp66 - 31/8/09 at 09:56 PM

you can get free sky, ie non subscription channels. Just ask them for a freesat card. and you pay for the receiver.

mark chandler - 31/8/09 at 10:33 PM

In B&Q yesterday I noticed they were selling a sat dish, cable and a freesat box for £40

Picks up all the sky free ones without a card

mistergrumpy - 31/8/09 at 10:42 PM

Are you still getting that Gaelic crap on Thursdays. I remember it well. Cuntas I think it was called. There was never a Gaelic word for anything after the year 3 A.D. so it used to be hurdy gurdy gurdy the wheel, hurdy gurdy...

Peteff - 1/9/09 at 08:23 AM

quote:
Originally posted by mark chandler
In B&Q yesterday I noticed they were selling a sat dish, cable and a freesat box for £40

Picks up all the sky free ones without a card


Is that a freesat box or a freeview satellite box ? I've been looking for a reasonable freesat box as you don't get the EPG with freeview satellite and there is a difference.

RAYLEE29 - 1/9/09 at 11:04 AM

Hi we bought the b&q satelitte package it took a little while to set up the dish (theres a site that you put your postcode into and it shows you where to point it ( VERY CLEVER)) it works well and we get all the regions on it you can input your favorites so you dot have to scroll through endless bbc1's or itv's
For a budget system id recomend it
Ray

[Edited on 1/9/09 by RAYLEE29]