Questions for Freesat

Freesat is holding a press conference on Tuesday -- is there anything you want us to ask them? Post your questions here and we'll ask them for you on Tuesday.

Ian answered a lot of my freesat questions, but I'm still pretty concerned that freesat will be too similar to Freeview in that it'll fill up channels with QVC and other rubbish. Even if it's in hi-def, I would rather my choices weren't limited to someone trying to sell me a hoover and 'Scrubs'. What can I expect from freesat content? How likely is it that channels like Five, ITV or BBC will provide HD services?

Heres some things i'd like to hear

a) channel list
b) encyption information
c) Dish only equipment and installation? (for using a PC Satellite card instead of a box)

Do you think it will be easy to install? Because if it's just a case of climbing a ladder, screwing the dish to the side of your house and pointing it in the right direction, my dad wouldn't mind doing it himself. We don't want to waste the money of getting a dealer to just do that for us. It's not like we couldn't wire it up either.

But yeah, I want to know what the channel list is. But I also have heard a lot of other channels are currently in a contract with Sky, so what channels will be coming to the platform in the future.

Do they think they'll see channels like MTV, VH1, extreme sports, living channels etc join the platform aswell? Or will they never join?

What is the capacity of the platform?

Here are the Freesat launch channels. There are 80 now, and the freesat people are promising a total of 300 by the end of the year.

The only HD channel at launch is BBC HD, with ITV coming soon after.

I'll handle the other questions in a Crave soon. And in the Podcast on thursday

Entertainment (101-199)

BBC One (101)
BBC Two (102)
ITV1 (103)
C4 / S4C in Wales (104)
BBC Three (106)
BBC Four (107)
BBC HD (108)
ITV2 (113)
ITV3 (115)
ITV3+1 (116)
ITV4 (117)
S4C Digidol / C4 in Wales (120)
E4 (122)
More4 (124)
Zone Romantica (135)
Zone Thriller (137)

News and Sport (200-299)

BBC News (200)
BBC Parliament (201)
S4C2 (202)
Al-Jazeera English (203)
Euronews (204)

Movies (300-399)

Film4 (300)
True Movies (302)
True Movies2 (303)
Movies4Men (304)

Lifestyle (400-499)

Wedding TV (402)
Overseas Property Channel (411)
Men and Motors (450)
Movies4Men2 (306)

Music (500-599)

Chartshow TV (500)
The Vault (501)
Scuzz (502)
Bubble Hits (503)
B4U Music (504)

Children (600-649)

CBBC (600)
CBeebies (601)
CiTV (602)
POP (603)
POPGirl (604)
Tiny POP(605)

Special Interest (650-699)

Teachers TV (650)

Radio (700-799)

BBC Radio 1 (700)
1Xtra BBC (701)
BBC Radio 2 (702)
BBC Radio 3 (703)
BBC Radio 4 FM (704)
BBC Radio 4 LW (705)
BBC Radio Five Live (706)
BBC Radio Five Live Sports Extra (707)
BBC 6 Music (708)
BBC 7 (709)
BBC Asian Network (710)
BBC World Service (711)
BBC Radio Scotland (712)
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal (713)
BBC Radio Wales (714)
BBC Radio Cymru (715)
BBC Radio Ulster (716)
BBC London 94.9 (718)

Shopping (800-849)

QVC (800)
Price Drop TV (801)
Bid TV (802)
Pitch TV (803)
JML Lifestyle (810)

Interactive (900-949)

BBCi

Regional (950-999)

(also accessible via BBC One/BBC Two)

BBC One London (950)
BBC One Channel Islands (951)
BBC One East (W) (954)
BBC One Northern Ireland (957)
BBC One Scotland (960)
BBC One Wales (964)
BBC Two England (968)
BBC Two Northern Ireland (969)
BBC Two Scotland (970)
BBC Two Wales (971)

ITV regionals accessed via ITV1 London

Ulster
STV Scottish East
STV Scottish West
ITV1 Wales
ITV1 Border England
ITV1 Central West
ITV1 Granada
ITV1 Anglia East
Channel TV
STV Grampian North

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