What are the pros and cons of getting Free To Air satellite TV?

(I am presuming that you are in Ireland and you are referring to the rte satalite thing so apologies if my information doesn't apply to your question)

If you have sky tv (payable monthly) you will not be affected because the subscription covers rte1, rte2, tv3 and t na g as standard.

If you do not have sky, you have two choices if you do not want to get free to air:

1. You can buy a digital satelite box to receive rte 1, rte2, tv3 and t na g, 3e and a lot of the irish radio channels. The box cost me about 110 euro and that included installation.

2. You can buy a new tv (but at present only large screen tvs have this) with the built in aerial. Lidl had them a few weeks ago with the proper built in arial. That will cost you at least a couple of hundred euros.

I have free to air as well. It's fine, you get all the itv channels which are good for the soaps and all the bbc channels along with channel 4, more 4, film 4, basic music channels etc. This is slightly expensive and does not (as far as I am aware) cover rte1, rte2, tv3 and t na g as standard because it is an UK based system. I got this system years ago, I had to pay for the dish, box and card as well as installation. It was pricey back then, it cost me over 300 euro at the time. You see the satelite dishes/boxes come up from time to time in Aldi and Lidl, they will do fine (but again won't have the rte1, rte2, tv3 and t na g) and you could pay someone locally to install it for you, if you're not happy with the channels just buy the viewing card for free to air and it should work in the box. The installation was quick enough they just have to feed the aerial in from outside at the dish.

If you live in the UK, free to air comes as standard in most new tv's so you just have to set the auto tune and it will tune it in automatically for you

Hope this info helps, don't forget to price around and make sure the company is reputable if you are buying free to air from them.

You could just buy her a freeview box for around £25 just plug it to her tv any tv is ok as long as it got a scart witch most tv made in the last 15 to 20 years do.

Free to air satellite is known as freesat threes 2 forms of this

1 run by bbc and itv only get around 140 channels cost around £200 plus for box and dish

2 freesat from sky get around 240 Chanel's cost £170

with freesat from bbc and itv you also get bbc i player and itv player built in a on demand

with freesat from sky you get more channels and costs less

Satellite tv for pc tv supplies many "cable" channels that aren't to be had via an aerial/antenna. Nevertheless, you definitely must pay for them. 80% of them are crap and will not interest you, but you on the whole have to buy the whole channel bundle, you can't decide upon and decide on. OTA (over the air) are free once you pay to put the antenna up. There aren't very many channels, but there are extra local channels than any satellite tv for pc organization supplies. And the satellite companies cost for locals. Did you will have different questions in regards to the variations?

pros: its free, you get some good channels like dave.

cons: you dont get alot of em. Pay per month like sky/cable has all the good stuff