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I've used an FTA sat receiver and found the number of channels available sorely lacking. In fact, I'd say there's better stuff on Freeview. I think if you're going to the hassle of putting a dish up, you might as well pay 13 quid and get 100-odd channels.

But for £13/month you get: Sky One, Sky One, Discovery Home & Leisure, Bloomberg. That's it, everything else is available FTV - the Value pack is a bit odd! The ways to get a FTV card are/have been:

- An expired Sky card
- The old "Solus" card paid for by the BBC
- The £20 Free2View.tv card (was only available for about 6 months)
- www.freesatfromsky.co.uk (£150 inc. installation, £20 for just the card)

It is a hassle putting up a dish but everybody I know with Freeview needed an aerial upgrade anyway so you might as well pay a man to put up the dish. I have hand-aligned dishes and it is a hassle but not hugely difficult. We had the main TV downstairs with the Sky "Family Pack" but other sets coming off a Philips quad LNB (£50).

A comprehensive list of channels is here:

http://www.wickonline.com/fta.htm

Gareth