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Satman & Jobin<br />
Satman & Jobin<br />
I have been involved in Communications and<br />
Electronics for all of my adult and teenage life<br />
so you could say it has been a passion as well<br />
as a career. I was apprenticed at 15 years old<br />
and qualified at 21 years. I continued<br />
progressing through the dramatic changes in<br />
the field of Communications and Electronics<br />
eventually taking management studies in my<br />
late 30's and then further Technical<br />
Qualifications to advance my career. So by<br />
utilising me to solve your problems<br />
(challenges) you are assured of a lifetime of<br />
both technical and customer service<br />
experience which cannot be gained overnight.<br />
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Satellite TV<br />
Warning - Not only is Freeview not a satellite<br />
TV term and shall be treated with suitable<br />
distain if uttered in my direction; but ‘SKY<br />
Freesat’ is NOT proper Freesat. I shall explain.<br />
Freesat (the proper one - look<br />
for the logo) is the digital<br />
satellite service introduced by<br />
the BBC and ITV. Once you<br />
have paid for installation, it is completely free<br />
thereafter, meaning no monthly subscription<br />
packages. The receivers do not have a slot for<br />
a viewing card of any sort and so you can<br />
never use it to have a SKY subscription<br />
package. However, you will get all the BBC,<br />
ITV channels, Four, Five, E4 etc, Film4, UK<br />
radio channels and any free-to-air content also<br />
available on the Astra 2 satellite. Have a look<br />
on the Freesat website : www.freesat.co.uk.<br />
There are around 180 TV and radio channels<br />
at last count. Both standard and high-definition<br />
receivers are available along with those that<br />
offer recording functions. This is now a very<br />
common set-up.<br />
You can also now buy TVs with Freesat<br />
already built-in meaning you won’t need a<br />
separate satellite receiver. However, you can<br />
only get these TVs from the UK, or online-UK<br />
retailers. Still, if you’re buying all new then it<br />
might be worth thinking about.<br />
SKY ‘Freesat’ is free-to-air TV but using a<br />
SKY digibox. It is essentially the same as<br />
above but due to needing no viewing card<br />
means it is harder to get the regional BBC &<br />
ITV stations you may require. Some sellers<br />
add the label ‘Freesat’ to confuse people into<br />
buying a box like this and<br />
not a proper one (oops<br />
Ian!). Still, if you do, there<br />
is no great harm done in<br />
reality as they do much<br />
the same job. Some<br />
would argue that this system is actually better<br />
as it allows for a future upgrade to a SKY<br />
subscription package. However, the choice of<br />
receivers is limited and is often more<br />
expensive than the proper Freesat equivalent.<br />
Freeview is nothing to do with satellite TV and<br />
thus has made me angry, so I shall sulk in a<br />
childlike manner and offer no further<br />
explanation.<br />
The correct term for satellite TV that has no<br />
subscription package is free-to-air. You can<br />
use most (but not all) digital satellite receivers<br />
for the reception of free-to-air UK TV, but<br />
without a Freesat or SKY receiver you will not<br />
have access to digital teletext, red button<br />
services or the weekly channel guide.<br />
All of the above comes from the same place<br />
(except Freeview, which is terrestrial and has<br />
made me grumpy again), which is the Astra 2<br />
group of satelites. So, if your dish is aligned<br />
to this, any box described above will get you<br />
UK TV.<br />
Finally, whilst on the subject, Freesat has<br />
announced the exclusive launch of the<br />
Fashion One channel to its line up. The<br />
international TV network is available on<br />
channel 407, offering the latest in fashion,<br />
entertainment and lifestyle news (oooooh....).<br />
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