Mike Henry wrote:
In , Bruce
wrote:

In my experience, the
picture quality of digital satellite (BSkyB) is not as good as Freeview;
I have both.

Did you have both before Easter 2000?


No, Freeview is more recent than that. Freeview was launched in October
2002, so to have both before then would have been impossible.


The bitrates on DSAT for the BBC in
particular used to be far higher, then they dropped them dramatically.


Isn't that because the BBC changed to a separate feed to the Astra
satellite that doesn't go via Sky's ground station? Sky have kept BBC
on the Programme Guide for the convenience of Sky subscribers but the
main BBC channels are free-to-air via the same Astra satellite.