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.
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i had new dish fitted 3yrs ago with 1 out out lnb . I am know want to increase lnb to 4 outputs to have each tv sat with own reciever box so watching sat tv in lounge whilst watching different channel another room i stay in murcia region if ifir inverto black ultra 4 output lnb will i still have good viewing on tv for sat freesat system
You may, but you may also find that some other LNBs perform slightly better, but of course it also depends on what size and type of dish you have ( An offset IUB LNB is not designed for a prime focus dish!), and if that is accurately aligned….