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| Customer Service | 7.5/10  |
|---|---|
| Features | 8.5/10 |
| Value for Money | 7.5/10 |
| Overall rating | 7.5/10 |
FreeSat is the new service brought to you from the BBC and ITV.
Full review by
Freeky
on 24th Sep 2008
User Rating : 5
Respect :
0
Good Points: HD Picture Quality, Dolby Digital Out, Small Size
Bad Points: SD Picture Quality, On screen logo on HD picture
General comments: This is a review of the Free Sat HD service with the Humax foxsat-hd digital box ( £150)
Installation is easy, with the exception of the post code input (it refuses to accept correct ones, use London based code & it passes!!) Connections Are HDMI, component & composite on RCA & RGB/S-Video on 2xSCART plus spdif optical & analogue audio on RCA.. Note though that the HD only works on the HDMI as it gets disabled on the component during broadcast. Satellite signal input is on standard f-type, just needs dish pointed to sky @ 28.2E
Following set-up got 131 channels, including BBC & channel 4 channels but of less consequence no channel 5, of even less importance all the ITV channels are there, just no programming worth watching on them!! There is only one HD channel at present (Sep. 08).
Picture quality of SD broadcasts is poor, though seems to be standard for sky much better to use a freeview source for these. The HD channel is great except for the permanent BBC HD logo in the corner, since the freeview SD of the same is not that far off (On a pioneer plasma with integrated receiver) I would say don't bother with this unless you are one of the few that don't care about your viewing being permanently distracted by these abominations.
The unit provides an EPG (7 day) but you loose the current programme when you select it, overall not as good as the freeview one.
Overall, not worth the money unless you are unable to receive freeview broadcasts, pity it seems satellite SD broadcasts appear to be degraded to perhaps persuade satellite viewers to upgrade?
Freeky's review and ratings | 285 words | 2 comments added.
Review by
Steve Deecars
on 5th Jul 2008
User Rating : 10
Respect :
0
Picture quality on Freesat 1080i is excellent, cancelled my SKY+ which was awful and never worked from day one. I'm using the Bush HD box from Argos which was a good deal £119 + free HDMI lead.
Steve Deecars's full review | 42 words
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