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Originally Posted by the-cable-guy
? how can anyone get confused ? its simple really FTA means that any receiver can view the channels, FTV means that a viewing card & a Videoguard receiver are required but you dont pay a subscription. aswell as getting five's channels you also get Setanta Sports News as it is FTV. the BBC & ITV have been FTA long before freesat ever came along so thats beside the point.
btw ITV is FTA not FTV & it has been for along time as have all of their channels.
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Again, you're - mistakenly - equating your own expert knowledge of this subject with that of the man in the street. The difference between free-to-air and free-to-view is not plain and obvious, unless you have a certain amount of background understanding in this area.
Sadly your expertise in the technical side of this subject doesn't extend to the communication of it to the non-technical public. But as I said earlier, that's why you're an installer, not a marketeer.
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again you cant compare equipment that isint even out yet as no one (other then testers/engineers etc) has used it.
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Again, you can. It's simple. It goes something like this:
The Freesat spec, as published to hardware manufacturers, includes both ethernet connection and software in the box to drive it.
The Sky spec, as published to hardware manufacturers, specifies an ethernet connection (for the HD box only, so far as we know) but there is currently no software to drive it.
And why are you speaking as if only a handful of developers have ever had their hands on this, when the Panasonic freesat-integrated HDTV, with ethernet, was demo'ed to a room full of journalists at the Freesat launch the other week? It's not still in development, it's a finished product that is being manufactured ahead of a launch that will begin with their plasma range as early as next month. As stated on their own website:
http://www.panasonic.co.uk/html/en_G...l#anker_711712
Oh, I'm forgetting, the option of an integrated TV set and a working ethernet port sort of blows your Freesat-offers-nothing-new argument out of the water, just a little bit. That'll be why you're scrabbling about for spurious reasons not to include those inconvenient facts in your comparison of the two services.
