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Freesat+ in non-Freesat mode.
Hello. I'm pretty sure the answer to my question is 'Yes' but I'd just like confirmation:
Would I be able to receive ALL the FTA channels on Sky by using 'non-Freesat' mode? (I'm thinking of Fiver, FiveUS etc which aren't on 'normal' Freesat). If I'm right, I won't have to use one of the Quad LNBs outputs to feed my old Sky box... Many thanks. |
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No.
Five US and Fiver etc. are not FTA, they are FTV (free to view). Take your sky card out of your Sky box and you won't be able to receive them, you need a Sky card to decrypt them to receive them. On Freesat you can receive every channel a Sky box can without the Sky card in. Hope this helps. |
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Fiver and Five US are not FTA, they are FTV, i.e. encrypted requiring a Sky card to access them. They will eventually become FTA when Five can find a couple of slots on 2D for them.
Edit: carvell beat me to it
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Thank you both, that's very useful. I take it Sky must go out of their way to annoy people - why else would it be necessary to have a card for channels that are freely available elsewhere i.e. Freeview.
Regards |
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It's a fairly complicated scheme involving which transponders the channels come from. For them to be FTA they'd have to move transponders.
But yeah, it is annoying! For what it's worth, everyone is pretty sure that Fiver and Five US will be on freesat at some point in the future. |
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Thank you both, that's very useful. I take it Sky must go out of their way to annoy people - why else would it be necessary to have a card for channels that are freely available elsewhere i.e. Freeview.
As others have suggested, if space can be found on 2D (which there's plenty of really), and a channel can afford to it - then they will probably go fully FTA. It's entirely down to money - as simple as that - if a channel can make more money going FTA, then they will. |
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Thank you both, that's very useful. I take it Sky must go out of their way to annoy people - why else would it be necessary to have a card for channels that are freely available elsewhere i.e. Freeview.
Regards |
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You live and learn. Any inferred criticism of Sky is hereby retracted!
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You live and learn. Any inferred criticism of Sky is hereby retracted!
to make room for more fta stuff.As in all things there's more than 1 point of view
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You would be completely wrong, without Sky there wouldn't be any satellite channels in the first place....
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Thank you both, that's very useful. I take it Sky must go out of their way to annoy people - why else would it be necessary to have a card for channels that are freely available elsewhere i.e. Freeview.
Regards Things have got better, and will get better still as five have declared their intention of making fiver and fiveUSA FTA eventually. |
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to make room for more fta stuff.