Re: B&Q Satellite - Ross freesat box and dish
Freeview uses a traditional rooftop aerial and relies on traditional terrestrial broadcast signals, except the channels carried on those signals are encoded in a digital rather than in an analogue fashion. Freeview is what you will be left with after 'digital switchover' is complete in your area. Almost all TVs now sold in the UK have a Freeview tuner alongside the old-fashioned analogue tuner.
Freesat is the BBC and ITV's solution to the problem that Freeview digital terrestrial TV will never reach 100% of UK households (in fact it will never reach as many households as the analogue service it is replacing). It broadcasts via satellite and requires a satellite dish. An old Sky dish will do just fine. Very few TVs have a Freesat tuner built in, and so will require a DVB-S set-top box. If you use a Freesat-branded set-top box, you get the Freesat EPG (electronic programme guide) and additional services such as the BBC iPlayer (on some set-top boxes, but not all of them at present). If you use a non-Freesat, free-to-air satellite set-top-box, such as the Ross equipment sold by B&Q, then you will have access to the same channels as Freesat but not the bells and whistles. The Ross box should work just fine with your old Sky dish.
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