Freesat versus Virgin V+
Phone the helpline today to enquire about the free sat STB as I want one that records. There not out yet but will be at the end of the year.
I cannot wait as this will save me a fortune as all I watch is BBC, ITV, C4 and BBC HD, bonus to get ITV HD as Virgin do not offer this. All this for nothing a month. I think when this box does come out it will be a big kick up the a$$ that V+ need to get there HD content sorted. Anyone agree? |
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I doubt it to be honest, the V+ is hailed as a PVR first and a HD content viewer second, I don't think we'll see a big rise in real HD channels for a long while, the ammount of VOD HD content I would have thought will increase in leaps and bounds however.
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Yes you can buy movies but you have to pay more than what you would pay at any blockbusters. Most of the channels aren’t even worth watching except Bravo for the UFC |
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Top of my Crimbo list this year is the Panasonic Viera TV with built-in Freesat tuner, so no STB required: http://www.johnlewis.com/230483473/Product.aspx However a Freesat-enabled PVR is a close second, and I'll be buying both together if budget permits. I'm not really interested in VOD, as you have said, that's what the ability to record stuff for yourself is all about, and when you have a PVR rather than the limited space on a DVD recorder or on old VHS tape, you can afford to set the thing to save everything you might possibly want to watch for days in advance. VOD of course means you don't even have to remember to set up a recording, but personally I don't think it's quite the vast leap forwards it's made out to be. Anyway it's all a little academic for me, I'm off-net so I can't get cable. Only Virgin ADSL in our house. I'm an ex-sub of Sky, and I still have a standard Sky SD box, but I can't wait to ditch it for Freesat. |
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I cannot help but think I’m paying way over the odds every month just to have HD telly with V+ when I will be able to get it FREE when this new box comes out.
V+ and SkyHD will have to make there services far more attractive and competitive once this box comes out. |
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BBC services are meant to be free, and while you could, technically, get BBC HD without subscribing to a Sky service (you could, and still can, by buying a free-to-air satellite receiver that's not even Freesat approved or branded), in the absence of any clear consumer branding or marketing it was effectively unavailable to the vast majority of TV viewing households in the UK. |
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Well all the Freesat boxes have Ethernet ports on the back. There is talk of this being used to link up to your broadband connection to enable you to do VOD via BBC iPlayer, and potentially, in the future, ITV Catch Up, 40D and Demand Five.
The Freesat PVR boxes and V+ box could be direct competitors in the near future. |
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will you still have to have a bt line with freesat? i don't really like bt :confused:
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