Freesat sales top 2 million - Page 2

nashville · 07-09-2011, 18:09

You seem to be quite clever, I still have virgin tv in one room, because I was still with them for broadband & phone, although it is only a medium package it came in for free. It is good as a stand by, I miss catch up, but I just watch it on the net.

**Chris** · 07-09-2011, 18:16

I don't know about clever ...

... I just like tinkering, egged on by certain other posters on here, especially the ones with an interest in satellite dishes.

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Incidentally, Freesat's 2 million units amount to fewer than 400,000 SD boxes and more than 1.6 million HD boxes, PVRs and integrated TVs.

Its success seems to be driven partly by people cutting back spending on Sky subscriptions (Freesat claims that 47% of its sales this year have been to ex-Sky households), and partly by recognition that Freesat is a better platform for HD than Freeview. Someone needs to point this out to the idiots at ITV that still have their channels 2/3/4-HD locked behind Sky's subscription wall.

nashville · 07-09-2011, 18:39

I don,y know much about sky. I just cut down from virgin as my bill was getting to much each month. But I have no complaints about them,

danielf · 07-09-2011, 18:43

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Its success seems to be driven partly by people cutting back spending on Sky subscriptions (Freesat claims that 47% of its sales this year have been to ex-Sky households)<snip>

I had NTL/Telewest before moving out of a cabled area about 3-4 years ago. I decided to get Freeview and spend the money saved on a PVR. I don't think I'll ever go back to pay TV. I've never missed the couple of channels that VM offer that aren't on Freeview, and I'm not sufficiently interested in Football to justify a sky subscription. I do occasionally watch PPV Champion's league matches online, but generally speaking, I'm still wondering why I was paying VM for a TV package at all...

nashville · 07-09-2011, 18:58

You are right there, I feel I have saved a lot of money each month, My husband is not into football too much, if it is a big game on sky, he just goes to the local pub, or he watches in on the net,

telegramsam · 27-09-2011, 16:59

I also have Freesat hd pvr and like others wondering why ITV2,3,and 4 hd channels aren`t on here yet. Mind you I`m still waiting to get the ITV player on my Goodmans box! The message I keep getting on the screen is it`s coming soon. Well so is the second coming but I`d rather not wait that long for the ITV player! Incidently anyone know when the new satalite platform is launching? It`l certainly be interesting to see if it does well.

nashville · 27-09-2011, 17:15

I think ITV player is there if you have a PC connection. ( I maybe wrong.) But that is not convenient for everyone to set up. Never heard about the satalite platform. I miss my catch up too. But I have the recorder box which helps. Anything else I catch up on the net.

**Chris** · 27-09-2011, 17:20

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I also have Freesat hd pvr and like others wondering why ITV2,3,and 4 hd channels aren`t on here yet. Mind you I`m still waiting to get the ITV player on my Goodmans box! The message I keep getting on the screen is it`s coming soon. Well so is the second coming but I`d rather not wait that long for the ITV player! Incidently anyone know when the new satalite platform is launching? It`l certainly be interesting to see if it does well.

Astra 1N is in orbit right now and should be just about to start commercial operations, if it hasn't already. After that it's up to broadcasters to sign contracts to use it.

That's not what's been holding up ITV 2/3/4 HD though. ITV has decided it's more lucrative to have the channels encrypted and take a cut of Sky's HD charge. That's why those channels are on Sky but not on Freesat.

nashville · 27-09-2011, 17:37

I expect this will mean we would have to pay for it then.

telegramsam · 28-09-2011, 17:00

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I think ITV player is there if you have a PC connection. ( I maybe wrong.) But that is not convenient for everyone to set up. Never heard about the satalite platform. I miss my catch up too. But I have the recorder box which helps. Anything else I catch up on the net.

The pc connection is there,I can get BBCi player okay,it`s just ITV player that I can`t get. Apparently it`s only curently available on Humax boxes. What I don`t understand is why not on all Freesat boxes?

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Originally Posted by Chris

Astra 1N is in orbit right now and should be just about to start commercial operations, if it hasn't already. After that it's up to broadcasters to sign contracts to use it.

That's not what's been holding up ITV 2/3/4 HD though. ITV has decided it's more lucrative to have the channels encrypted and take a cut of Sky's HD charge. That's why those channels are on Sky but not on Freesat.

This is typical of ITV these days,sheer greedy. Years ago they made a bad investment (ITV digitals football deal) and ever since they`ve been trying to make up the loss through the viewers.