John - we have had 80 plus channels for a very long time - it's you who are a few years behind - in uk news!

I use Sky's freesat service which cost's a (£20?) one off charge for a viewers card if you already own a sat reciever. - bargain!

Kevin Williams, Swansea, Wales

if this shows cartoons, anime and music videos for all my real cats out there this would be that on top and bbc and itv would have it on lock.

coolbeans, london, uk

does anybody know which satellite this is on and what are the coordinates? Can I move my existing dish?

john, colchester,

Wake Up John from Atlanta! The UK has for many years had hundreds of channels via the Sky platform, the majority for free. What this achieves is not having to take out an intial subscription to pay channels to get the platform to access the hundreds of free channels.

Chris, Barnsley, UK

Hmmm...so let me get this right - the BBC and ITV will be showing the core Sky channels - those that you can get on a freeview digibox plus some, but not Sky one or the subscription channels?, and you will need to install a satalite dish? sounds like a rival to Sky without the services!

James, Chelmsford,

Quality tv programmes like million pound reminders of when Britain was an imperial power (period dramas), nature documentaries captured in super slow motion presented by a fossil, comedies that last for a few months and then die an undignified death and sports shows in which England never win!

Seth Richardson, London,

Dear Tommy from London
The BBC have recently launched iPlayer on their web site. In my opinion as a shift worker it’s the best thing that the BBC has done since broadcasting in colour. Also the live radio coverage from their web site is very good.

James, Leicester, England

I feel sorry for all those people who bought HD IDTVs with inbuilt MPEG2 decoders.
Then we discovered that the proposed Freeview HD would be broadcast as MPEG 4 and they would have to buy another box.
Now we have yet another platform (Freesat) which cannot be decoded without yet another box.

Peter Hooper, Windsor., UK

Up to 80 channels but you don't say what channel's ?

M Rowland, Wigan, Lanc's

Finally 80 TV channels in UK! what a break through! at least 15 years behind USA.

John, Atlanta, GA

I was very keen to learn more about this freesat, but sadly haven't ITV or BBC been too good at keeping their website a decent standard. It is extremely slow and most links on the site doesn't work.

I will not try again :(

Tommy, London, UK