Freesat - is this a good deal?

ALDI - Sunday Special Buys 30th August 2009

It's to go in our bedroom, I currently have a Freeview box going to a loft aerial. This is ok but the picture does go sometimes if it's raining. I'm not worried about HD.

It's extremely cheap I'll give you that. All satellite signals suffer from heavy rain to be honest with you. You also need to make sure you have a perfect south-east line of site. It won't work through trees or bushes.

Thanks. It's terrestrial freeview that's giving me some problems during bad weather but the aerial is in the roof. I'd have to climb on to the top of the house to fix a new aerial and it would cost £150 to get an erector to do it. I can get to a decent dish location from the garage roof, so much safer.

I had hell trying to get decent freeview signal in my room so after discovering sky gave us a quad LNB with Sky+ I got a Freesat box for my room and a Freesat HD box for the lounge (on offer argos, was £49 for the SD box and £60 for the HD box methinks). Never had a problem with it, amount of channels is unexciting atm but it's bound to grow.

Considering that includes the dish I'd say go for it. =)

I didn't bother in the end because I moved the aerial in the loft and I'm getting a much better terrestrial signal. I believe that Freeview offers better usable channels, I watch Dave a bit (Live at the Apollo reruns etc). I think I'll wait for some offers on HD receivers.

Thanks for all of the advice.

It's worth remembering that once analogue is switched off in your area, the freeview signal will improve considerably as it will move to the frequencies analogue used at comparable power.