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You don't need a FreeSat receiver to get satellite HD. Mine isn't FreeSat and does. You merely need to select the correct channel number, instead of pressing the red button or whatever.

My main interest is drama - and to be perfectly honest it looks very little different on HD - due to the use of fog filters in the cameras. Basically the talent doesn't want to be seen warts and all. ;-)

Sports and some documentaries can look stunning though - it was worth the cost for Wimbledon alone. About the only sport I watch. ;-)

Ms Streisand was interviewed on Jonathan Ross last night - talk about fog filter on kill. My early VHS was capable of better resolution than those cameras were giving...

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Whose HD service are you actually using then, out of interest ?

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BBC and ITV. Plus the odd foreign one. I expect any of the other UK FTA broadcasters to be on there if and when they start up HD too.

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So it *is* the FreeSat bird that you are using, but with a Sky HD box appropriately tuned ?

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FreeSat isn't a bird - nor really even a group of channels on Astra. It's more of a custom EPG which allows 'easy' access to those in it. But you can get at least most of them by selecting them direct.

I've not got [shudder] Sky - I'd rather go without than pay that man a penny. I've just got an ordinary HD satellite receiver bought from CPC. With a rotator to pick up several satellites. Not that there's much worth watching that you don't get on FreeView. But one or two gems.

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