[quote user="Clare Newsome"]
Channel 4 HD not on Freesat yet - there's an exclusive deal with Sky at the moment (believe that runs out in October).
Re my dish - Sky dish with twin LNB, fitted in October 2006 when I had Sky HD installed. We enjoy very good to excellent signal strength, too, which hel****.
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Thanks Claire-Still in two minds about the ES7001 or to retain my Monitor Audio BR2's and just go for the award winning SONY STR AV amp of a year /18months ago and just use initially as a 2.1 system to which I can always add later a Centre Speaker if I wish-The Marantz is £700 at the moment and I wouldn't be able to keep my BR2's too if I decided to go for something like the ES7001 because of space. I'd hate to waste a dealer's time in listening to it but then not actually deciding to part with almost £700 even I did come out of the shop knowing it was indeed a great one box solution
I've just had the FREESAT HUMAX installed-so quick it was too-and given my old Amstrad Digibox was 7 years the standard definition picture quality produced by the HUMAX is actually pretty good. BBC HD needless to say also looks great so I will be seeing some football later on. Waiting to watch ITV HD too when the red light comes on a little later today
BBC 3 and 4 aren't on yet too as there's a message that says This Channel is either srambled or is not yet available so I guess when they are transmitting a little later on I will be able to view them.
Can't also see SKY NEWS on there either yet though have been advised to manually tune additiional channels in which I am trying to find out how to do right now. I am told that any additional FREE channels not on FREESAT proper can be found in this way by searching via the various transponder options
I musn't knock SKY after all I've had it for 7 years but can no no longer justify £38 a month besides which I very rarely now watch premiership games or indeed any of the sports on the relevant premium channels