I certainly would not recommend Freesat. However, if you are a company based in Luxembourg. This company does not pay its invoices to its dealers and installers in the Czech and Slovak Republic. It uses only small companies to install satellite television and then does not pay its obligations

Bought a freesat box after dumping sky. I live in an area where I can't get a decent freeview reception so this service is ideal. I get most channels available on freeview as well as some others that are not. Also you enter a postcode when setting up to make sure you get the correct tv region. The box I bought also has iPlayer and itv player support as well if you connect to the internet. Also has an optional movie service you can subscribe to.

Although I live in a good Freeview area, 2 years ago I bought Humax freesat PVR,and Dish, cost me over £400, so I could get High Definition (over 3 years wait for Freeview HD !),and whilst the Humax box is great, the continued broken promises by Freesat over new channels is making me wonder if I did the right thing, as Freeview now has more HD channels !including ITV 2,3,4, even though Freesat is a joint BBC/ ITV project !! The higher bandwidth of freesat does give you an improved quality, but unless Freesat gets off its backside and gives us more HD channels soon, then many will disconnect and go to Freeview,(HD about to become available in my area) as this is where most new channels are going. Freesat has too many 1 and shopping channels just to make up the numbers. David

Its brilliant considering it came built in to my tv, it's slightly different to freeview(few more channels, more bandwidth for better picture quality) the hd channels are a bonus. BBC iPlayer came with an update to. I think 1 or 2 channels that are on freeview aren't available on freesat, I could be wrong though. Overall I'm very happy with it...

complete waste of money, refuses to record chosen program, records random programs that we have not chosen,90% of the time it refuses to record unless you are actually watching what you want to record, which defeats the reason for having the useless machine, and when you try recording it tells you there is no signal when the program is on in front of you.. its poo. dont waste your money...

this is a review off a freesat Bush BFSAT02SD i only had it for 4 days so far . i brought this for the bedroom as my videosender boxes are playing up at the new house .. first off this is a sd version and not hd . i have sky hd downstairs . but a older tv upstirs so sd version is needed .. the new bush freesat box is basic just a power button on the front thats it no other buttons .. on the back off the box is just a one scart socket for tv only nothing eles so bewarn .. the setup up is easy power on press ok at the signal level type in postcode select tv and thats it 10 seconds later you have all your channels easy ..picture is ok and sound is nice and clear for £29.99 its mostly for a child bedroom or someone trying it out before getting rid off sky .

Just brought myself a humax pvr Freesat box from Argos which cost me £288 which is a great buy and a one off fee and you dont have to pay a subscription like you do with Sky.
picture and sound quality is better then my skyhd box and easy to use and you have all the same features that you do with skyplus where you can record one programe and watch another and records a series link for you and gives you live pause and fast rewind which is much more smoother then skyplus and skyhd

i have just cancelled my skyhd service which i was paying £45.25 pcm so i have made myself a great saving
also i know have itvhd and bbchd for free

well done freesat keep it going tv should always be free seeing we are paying a huge tv licence fee every year that goes up and never comes down.

What a disappointment FREESAT has turned out to be. The initial advertising 'blurb 'promised a HD service to rival SKY. I spent £300 on a Humax PVR HD and a lot more on a 1018p television set in order to obtain lots of HD programmes without having to pay the Sky HD premium each month. All the non-HD programmes on Freesat I could already obtain through my Freeview or very basic non-HD Sky subscription.
What do I get from Freesat? A daytime BBC HD channel showing nothing but HD previews repeated endlessly time after time. Those of us who have gone for the Freesat HD already know what is on it and how good the definition is and those who have not got it cannot see the improved quality of the HD features anyway. After the preview comes two hours of children ' s TV. I ' m sure most of the children looking in could not care less whether the Tellytubbies are a bit fuzzy round the edges or not! After that there are usually some 'bits and pieces 'involving Jules Holland. I ' m sure he is quite a nice chap but there is only so much of anyone that one can take!
In the later evening there are usually one or two programmes which are actually worth watching in HD but even then some of them are only repeats of what we watched earlier in the week on HD! As to ITV1 ' s HD output " don ' t even go there " if you are lucky you might just find one of their HD programmes in the TV guide magazines!
What a wasted opportunity. The BBC HD channel could be putting out good programmes throughout the day which the HD PVRs could be recording to be watched in the evening.
Incidentally, I have nothing but good things to say about the Humax PVR HD. It boots up quite quickly from 'stand by 'and using it to record is simplicity itself. It is just a pity that it is given such a limited selection of programmes to record in HD.
I have taken part in the Freesat 'on line viewing survey 'and have made my views abundantly clear to those running it!
What am I about to do now? Well the Sky HD+ box is now being offered at £49 so I am going to upgrade my Sky subscription to HD and pay the £10 per month with a good grace! JohnL.

It sets me free from the problems with standard aerials. Freeview doesnt work well in quite a few areas so Freesat is ideal.

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?

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.