Should ch 4 HD be encrypted?

[Ojustaboo]

As title says, I would have thought it was a free to air channel, it appears not?

[martyd]

not yet contract with sly

[Sicilian]

There will be free channel. Go to your bouquets, press green for satellites, scroll down to astra28.2 and select services astra28.2, look in there for a non encrypted channel4 HD

[hashman]

i think it needs a freesat card (like normal SD channel 4)

[paul362]

i think it needs a freesat card (like normal SD channel 4)

No it is free just on a diffo transponder, It has to be free because of the free-sat roll out.

[hashman]

oh yea my bad, i confused with channel 5 maybe,
but there is one of the channel that i thought was free to air until my sky card was taken out and i realised it was freesat infact

[Sicilian]

Here's the list of freesat channels: -

http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.Main&PHPSESSID=elo9a65a5656lv37ttks4p1br7

So of them will be encrypted on sky's transponders, so you will need to find them on another transponder.

[Ojustaboo]

There will be free channel. Go to your bouquets, press green for satellites, scroll down to astra28.2 and select services astra28.2, look in there for a non encrypted channel4 HD

Can only find two, both encrypted

[Sicilian]

Have tried a scan of astra2/eurobird1 ?

[Ojustaboo]

Have tried a scan of astra2/eurobird1 ?

Just tried.

Still no luck Just the two Ch4 HD channels being listed, both encrypted.

Even went thorough all the channels at the beginning with numbers instead of names, on the off chance one of them was ch4 HD

[Sicilian]

What settings did you use for the scan?

[Ojustaboo]

I'm a total newbie at all this ,

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menu - setup - service searching - manual scan

Tuner - Tuner A: BCM7335 DVB-S2 NIM (internal) DVB - S2
Type of scan - single satellite
satellite - Astra 2 / Eurobird 1 - 28 east
Network scan - yes
Clear before scan - no
Only free scan - no

[Stanman]

C4HD is not on freesat at the moment so wont be FTA, though will be FTV with upto dat Sly card

[Ojustaboo]

Thanks, have my old Thompson Sky HD box in the attic, pretty sure it has the white card in (only stopped using it last September), so maybe that would work, or do I still need to pay sly a one off payment to receive the freesat stuff?

[hashman]

no, if you have a sky white card, that is by default a freesat card
just update entitlements and you can decode channel 4 HD