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Old 11-08-2008, 19:21   #7
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Re: Freesat set-up: an introduction, with photos!

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Originally Posted by Chris T View Post
It's a bargain basement product, but it's for a holiday flat so it's only going to get a few weeks' use per year - not really worth spending much on it.

Regarding the look and feel of the interactive stuff, I think that is dictated by the screen designer rather than what transponder the TV channel comes from.

In fact I think there must be separate transponders for BBCi on Freesat and on Sky because isn't the whole interactive thing dictated by the software in the box? Freesat doesn't use the same one as Sky.
I know they are defintely using the same transponders. They have to send two lots of data (Open TV and MHEG I believe) but its the same transponders. They also now do both DVB and Teletext subtitling, DVB for the Freesat boxes.
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