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John
Anyone know if getting a sky plus box installed will allow me to pause /rewind etc my current freeview channels ?

Dan
I wouldn't be surprised if Freeview is close to redundant by the time 2013 comes around.You can get a load of free digital channels via satellite, right now.We're also likely to have much improved Internet speeds, before 2013, which could allow for better online viewing of many free channels. The 大象传媒 iPlayer is already some way down this road, even when using Jersey Telecom's current network, which is pretty slow!

Craig
I think its good that we can get a sort of freeview with a sky dish/box

Jo-Lee De Shannon
Satellite Protection is a company that deals with Sky Equipment.We are trying to find a local engineer that we could sub contract work to.Can you please help or advise. Jolee3@btinternet.com Thank you.

Howie
I am local installation engineer and we are already receiving a least 5 calls per day from customers seeking advice on the Freeview matters, many of the comments are When? How Much? Why? What do I need? are becoming a daily routine and this is 6-7 years before we get Freeview.

One thing that has jumped out to me it the rather alarming suggestion. That 1 day analogue and then a straight swith to digital, it is an impossiable task absloute abbsurd, i would suggest the person who thourght off that to come forward and speak to the local installation companys, we are already speaking in the trade and we would except to see the signal be phased in at least 2 years before, as every property would require some sort of upgrade work carried out, a straight switch would leave many people without TV, and please note there about 20-25 installers on the island, and remember what happened when Sky Digital was lauched a whole bunch of new installers poped up many of which left a trail destruction behind them for us full time installers to pick up the pieces and left many customers with poor installations, I fear a Freeview rush would give us the same problems over again.

Ryan (Host)
Janine. If you take into account the fact that Jersey has a local radio service, a local television service and this website from the 大象传媒 for an island with a population of 90,000 or so - then as a percentage of what the island puts into the 大象传媒 through the television licence we get a lot more out than pretty much EVERY other area of the UK.

There are large parts of England and Scotland that can't get freeview and won't until 2012 if at all and they don't get the local services Jersey gets either.

janine
well seeing as we currently only get 4 channels (and not even channel 5 in many parishes)then cant the states do something about this themselves? we should certainly not have to pay the whole of the t.v licence fee for a clearly inferior service as it stands 2013 is 7 years away! as for "oh you only need a digital box, and a satelite dish .." oh is that all? and how much does that cost? and how much does it cost to get someone to put it up for you? and have you ever tried getting a reply or permission from the housing department to have a dish on the roof of your housing block? or how about getting housing maintainace to attend to unlock the padlocked doors and shin up onto the roof? and as for trying to arrange for them to turn up when they said they would...? and at the same time as the men u have to pay to connect it all up? some people live in little dream utopias here in jersey where money is no object nor are such obstacles a reality nor even a consideration, while the rest of us have to consider all of the above and do without.

Jon
Warren you don't have to subscribe to Sky to get the 大象传媒 channels. All the beebs channels are available on Satellite for free. All you need is a Dish and a box and you can get those on eBay for about the same price as a good Freeview box.

Warren
The States Of Jersey should be pushing to make Freeview available in the Channel Islands alot sooner. There are many people or families who might not be able to afford subscribing to Sky etc and want more than the extra 大象传媒 channels.

Ryan (Host)
Philip. You don't have to wait until 2013 to get all the 大象传媒 channels. Like many areas of the UK the only way of getting the channels at the moment is satellite.

A couple of years ago the 大象传媒 made very single one of their public service channels available free to air over satellite.

You don't need a sky subscription either. Any digital satellite box and a dish will do. So in the same way that you'd buy a new aerial and freeview box in 2013 to get the 大象传媒 channels you can get them now by buying a new dish (an aerial in a differnt shape) and a sat box.

Philip
As Ryan said, we will get all the 大象传媒 channel covered by the licence fee in 2013, SO WHY NOT A REDUCED LICENCE FEE UNTIL THEN? Hands up who are the 2000+ black and white tele owners in Jersey...Ha HA.

Lou Morgan
Fanastic - but why not sooner?

Carl
Why not put the basic channels (大象传媒1/2 CTV & ch4/5) on one digital multiplex using one of the 4 present analogue channels (replacing 大象传媒2 for example), for a few months before our switchover? It will give everyone time to adjust without the chaos of everything changing on the same day!

Ryan (Host)
Ian, how to phrase this, I know - thanks for the smiley :)

Seriously though, although not all of the Freeview channels will be available EVERY SINGLE 大象传媒 Channel will be - so you will get all the channels covered by the licence fee, and the radio stations with it.

Jersey won't be the only area just getting the public service channels, it will be a commercial decision by mast owners whether they put other channels on in an area.

You will be default get every 大象传媒 Channel and every other public service channel available.

Ian Le Sueur
As Jersey won't be able to receive all 40 Freeview channels, I assume that we won't be expected to pay all of the annual license fee :-)