I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow to receive Freesat HD?
>I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single > wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my > subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow > to receive Freesat HD?
>I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single > wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my > subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow > to receive Freesat HD?
John B wrote: > I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single > wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my > subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow > to receive Freesat HD?
Yes, it should work. Just swap the Sky box for a Freesat HD one.
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>I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single > wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my > subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow > to receive Freesat HD?
> "John B"<nos...@nospam.please> wrote in message > news:gv9ef5luc98cuckv2h9vigjkr0ceqpuggv@4ax.com... >> I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single >> wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my >> subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow >> to receive Freesat HD?
> It depends what it is pointing at !
Which bit of "which I currently use for Sky" isn't clear?
"John B" <nos...@nospam.please> wrote in message news:gv9ef5luc98cuckv2h9vigjkr0ceqpuggv@4ax.com... >I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single > wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my > subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow > to receive Freesat HD?
I have made this comment here before, but your question is further evidence that Freesat would gain many more customers if they would make it clear on their website, printed literature, and point of sale advertising, that an existing Sky Digital dish is perfect for Freesat. They just can't seem to bring themselves to utter the S word. -- Graham.
> "John B" <nos...@nospam.please> wrote in message > news:gv9ef5luc98cuckv2h9vigjkr0ceqpuggv@4ax.com... >>I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single >> wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my >> subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow >> to receive Freesat HD?
> I have made this comment here before, but your question is further > evidence > that Freesat would gain many more customers if they would make it clear > on their website, printed literature, and point of sale advertising, that > an existing > Sky Digital dish is perfect for Freesat. They just can't seem to bring > themselves > to utter the S word. > --
I have Freesat HD and I get some BBC programmes in HD and a few ITV1 programmes per week in HD. So I can't understand anyone changing to Freesat from Sky for HD.
>> "John B" <nos...@nospam.please> wrote in message >> news:gv9ef5luc98cuckv2h9vigjkr0ceqpuggv@4ax.com... >>>I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single >>> wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my >>> subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow >>> to receive Freesat HD?
>> I have made this comment here before, but your question is further >> evidence >> that Freesat would gain many more customers if they would make it clear >> on their website, printed literature, and point of sale advertising, that >> an existing >> Sky Digital dish is perfect for Freesat. They just can't seem to bring >> themselves >> to utter the S word. >> --
> I have Freesat HD and I get some BBC programmes in HD and a few ITV1 > programmes per week in HD. > So I can't understand anyone changing to Freesat from Sky for HD.
not having to pay 10 pound per month to be allowed to record programs, perhaps.
Yeah funny they won't say that, as its almost like Hoover is to vacuum cleaners now. Interestingly, some of these queries in flats may well be due to the fact that some installations seem to have had labels attached to the wall plate with the Sky logo on them.
I suspect this may well have made the installation a little cheaper for the advertising? Who knows.
Brian
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> "John B" <nos...@nospam.please> wrote in message > news:gv9ef5luc98cuckv2h9vigjkr0ceqpuggv@4ax.com... >>I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single >> wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my >> subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow >> to receive Freesat HD?
> I have made this comment here before, but your question is further > evidence > that Freesat would gain many more customers if they would make it clear > on their website, printed literature, and point of sale advertising, that > an existing > Sky Digital dish is perfect for Freesat. They just can't seem to bring > themselves > to utter the S word. > -- > Graham.
> ... Interestingly, some of these queries in flats may well be due > to the fact that some installations seem to have had labels attached to the > wall plate with the Sky logo on them. > I suspect this may well have made the installation a little cheaper for the > advertising? Who knows.
Sky install in small-to-medium blocks of flats free if a certain number of flats sign up at the same time.
If it was more widely taken up it would reduce the fungi-farm of dishes sprouting from tenement walls.
>Yeah funny they won't say that, as its almost like Hoover is to vacuum
cleaners now. Interestingly, some of these queries in flats may well be due to the fact that some installations seem to have had labels attached to the wall plate with the Sky logo on them.
So many times in a week I say "So you do have the option of satellite," and then before they can jump up with a big whine about Sky, "and that would be Freesat, which is nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with Sky." Some of them continue say what they were going to say when they heard the trigger word 'satellite' without listening, such is the power of the 'S' word, and the hatred many people feel for it. I end up jumping up and down saying, "It's nothing to do with blankety blank Sky!"
> "John B" <nos...@nospam.please> wrote in message > news:gv9ef5luc98cuckv2h9vigjkr0ceqpuggv@4ax.com... >>I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single >> wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my >> subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow >> to receive Freesat HD?
> I have made this comment here before, but your question is further > evidence > that Freesat would gain many more customers if they would make it clear > on their website, printed literature, and point of sale advertising, that > an existing > Sky Digital dish is perfect for Freesat. They just can't seem to bring > themselves > to utter the S word. > -- > Graham.
> %Profound_observation%
Probably because they have bluffed them with legal action threats (like all those pubs that had footie on foreign channels.
> So many times in a week I say "So you do have the option of satellite," and > then before they can jump up with a big whine about Sky, "and that would be > Freesat, which is nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with Sky." Some of them > continue say what they were going to say when they heard the trigger word > 'satellite' without listening, such is the power of the 'S' word, and the > hatred many people feel for it. I end up jumping up and down saying, "It's > nothing to do with blankety blank Sky!"
Maybe you should just tell them they can get Freeview-from-a-dish.
>> "John B" <nos...@nospam.please> wrote in message >> news:gv9ef5luc98cuckv2h9vigjkr0ceqpuggv@4ax.com... >>>I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single >>> wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my >>> subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow >>> to receive Freesat HD?
>> I have made this comment here before, but your question is further >> evidence >> that Freesat would gain many more customers if they would make it clear >> on their website, printed literature, and point of sale advertising, that >> an existing >> Sky Digital dish is perfect for Freesat. They just can't seem to bring >> themselves >> to utter the S word. >> -- >> Graham.
>> %Profound_observation%
> Probably because they have bluffed them with legal action threats (like > all those pubs that had footie on foreign channels.
except that that's still trundling through the courts, so isn't a bluff
>> "John B" <nos...@nospam.please> wrote in message news:gv9ef5luc98cuckv2h9vigjkr0ceqpuggv@4ax.com... >>>I live in a block of flats with a shared dish, each flat has a single >>> wall outlet which I currently use for Sky. I am about to terminate my >>> subscription to them and was wondering if this shared dish will allow >>> to receive Freesat HD?
>> I have made this comment here before, but your question is further evidence >> that Freesat would gain many more customers if they would make it clear >> on their website, printed literature, and point of sale advertising, that an existing >> Sky Digital dish is perfect for Freesat. They just can't seem to bring themselves >> to utter the S word. >> -- >> Graham.
>> %Profound_observation%
> Probably because they have bluffed them with legal action threats (like all those pubs that had footie on foreign channels.
What possible threat could have been made to Freesat? It's perfectly legal for a company to mention the name of a competitor. Something like "A dish that was originally installed for Sky Digital is perfect for Freesat"
> So many times in a week I say "So you do have the option of satellite," > and > then before they can jump up with a big whine about Sky, "and that would > be > Freesat, which is nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with Sky." Some of > them > continue say what they were going to say when they heard the trigger word > 'satellite' without listening, such is the power of the 'S' word, and the > hatred many people feel for it. I end up jumping up and down saying, "It's > nothing to do with blankety blank Sky!" >Maybe you should just tell them they can get Freeview-from-a-dish. >Owain
The problem is that I don't want to do anything to increase the confusion between Freeview and Freesat. It's bad enough already. But even the use of the word 'dish' would lead to "Dish? Do you mean satellite dish? No no no no no! We won't have Sky! No no no no no!"
"Bill" <wrightsaeri...@f2s.com> wrote in message news:VomdnUCF9vd-KmXXnZ2dnUVZ8ridnZ2d@pipex.net... > On 9 Nov, 17:06, "Bill" wrote: >> So many times in a week I say "So you do have the option of satellite," >> and >> then before they can jump up with a big whine about Sky, "and that would >> be >> Freesat, which is nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with Sky." Some of >> them >> continue say what they were going to say when they heard the trigger word >> 'satellite' without listening, such is the power of the 'S' word, and the >> hatred many people feel for it. I end up jumping up and down saying, "It's >> nothing to do with blankety blank Sky!"
>>Maybe you should just tell them they can get Freeview-from-a-dish.
>>Owain
> The problem is that I don't want to do anything to increase the confusion > between Freeview and Freesat. It's bad enough already. But even the use of > the word 'dish' would lead to > "Dish? Do you mean satellite dish? No no no no no! We won't have Sky! No no > no no no!"
> Bill
Got it. (It worked for Unilever) I decree from this day Freesat will be called I Can't Beleve It's Not Sky
But what case would that be? BBC is a partner in Freesat, is it not allowed to promote its own products now? "Next on BBC One, the News" or "Next on BBC One, the News, or if you have a satellite dish you could choose to watch Sky News, or Sky One, or Sky Movies, or Sky Sports, or......."
In a sop to avoiding their monopolistic position (which I fully support!!), BBC usually caveat with "other satellite and cable services are available", but I can't see any reason why Sky would have a cause of action in the courts if BBC started promoting Freesat actively as something that could be used where existing Sky equipment was in place.
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