Dec 012012
Is Freesat TV in Spain as good as Sky TV in Spain?
Freesat digiboxes receive the same “free to air” satellite television channels as a Sky box.
Free to air channels are those channels that do not require a Sky viewing card to watch.
So a Sky box with no viewing card receives the same channels as a Freesat box.
Freesat boxes in Spain use the same satellites and sa,e frequencies for the channels as a Sky box in Spain uses.
There are no seperate Freesat satellites, or special Freesat frequencies that can be used that are any different than a Sky box in Spain uses.
So if you are in Spain, and want UK TV in Spain, then if you are in an area of Spain that requires a 2.4m Portuguese satellite dish for reception of BBC TV for a Sky digibox in Spain, then you will still need a 2.4m Portuguese satellite dish for reception of BBC TV using a Freesat box in Spain.
There are some differences between using a Freesat box in Spain and using a Sky digibox in Spain. Obviously, a Sky box will be able to read and use a Sky card, where are the Freesat box cannot, which is useful for the few “free to view” channels like Sony TV, Motors TV and Viva TV. A Freesat HD PVR is able to record onto its built in hard disk drive, yet to record using the built in hard disk drive on a Sky+ or Sky+HD digibox you need to be a Sky TV subscriber. These differences ar the same whether you are watching UK TV in Spain, UK TV in France, UK TV in Italy or in England.