FreeSat

Two years ago I bought a freesat recordabletv box. A week ago the I had a problem which freesat customer services eventually told me that the hard disk had failed and the bloody thing was now useless. After only 2 years and a £280 outlay I lost all of my recordings, some of them quite valuable to me. Of course the warranty wwas only for 1 year and despite a stiff letter of complaint I received no redress.

Dont buy one of these unless you want to risk the same thing

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

Since leaving my Sky package almost five years ago I have saved myself £1000 in TV bills. My Humax box did however crash this year but I was able to buy another one at half the price of my original one. Freesat has been terrific especially with the red button features on BBC which can be watched in HD. ITV is not so good a picture when watching catch up programmes but for me the best thing about my Freesat is that I can choose where I get my ITV from. I live in Scotland but I am tuned into Granada so I don't get STV . STV didn't have HD but they do now. Will I get the new BT Sport channels, who knows?

Whatever happens I am still watching my Samsung TV and my Humax box free of charge, now that's The Real Deal!

I had been looking for a decent replacement for sky for a while. I live in an area where digital coverage is poor and we have no access to cable so I thought the only option would be Sky. After very poor customer service and a hefty Sky bill each month that seemed to randomly fluctuate I decided to look at Freesat. I cancelled Sky and purchased a Bush Freesat HD box. Installation was a piece of cake! It just plugs straight into your existing satellite dish and after inputting your postcode you are good to go. My Bush box works very similar to Sky plus HD so you should have no trouble finding your way around. You are given access to over 150 channels and what was surprising to me was the fact that most of the channels were the ones I had been paying Sky to watch. With a quick google you will find several video tutorials showing you how to add even more free-to-air channels! I love it. I treated myself to a Netflix account to watch on my Playstation 3 and now not only am I spoiled for choice I now have no ties to Sky.

One happy customer! I am glad I took the chance!

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...

Basically my freesat is the worst thing in the world!!!!!!! Most of my channels don't work and the picture breaks up all the time and i've tried resetting it loads, but upstirs on my other TV we i have Sky and freesat and it works perfectly but when i want to watch something on any ITV or 4 based channed it messes up and it makes me angry because i paid £50, at first it was really good, even bbc one doesn't work!!!! it is the worst thing i've ever bought and such a waste of money. Everyone else i have read about loves it and thats great but mine really isn't even worth watching. Tbh weather has nothing to do with it it never ever works and if it's a little bit rainy or windy none of the channels work. It's making me so so so angry!!!!!!!1

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 .