My Icecrypt STC3250CCIHD box gives me loads of free satellite channels, in theory the TV should do the same, but it doesn't. I will guess the TV is either only picking up horizontal or vertical not both, but that is just a guess, since I use Sky Q with that TV it does not worry me, the LNB I have is a hybrid so 4 normal outputs and two special sky.
The free to air satellite is a world better than freeview where I live, Moel y Sant transmitter does not do commercial channels, so no "4Music, 4seven, 5SELECT, 5STAR, 5USA, Aljazeera English, BBC Four HD, BBC News HD, Blaze, Blaze +1, CBeebies HD, CBS Drama, CBS Justice, CBS Reality, Challenge, Channel 5 +1, CITV, YAAAS!, Dave, Dave ja vu, DMAX, Drama +1, Film4 +1, Food Network, Forces TV, FreeSports, GB News, GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, HGTV, Horror Channel, ITV2 +1, ITV3 +1, ITV4 +1, ITVBe +1, More4 +1, Now 70s, Paramount Network, PBS America +1, pick, Quest +1, Quest Red, Quest Red +1, Really, RT HD, Sky Arts, Sky News, Smithsonian Channel, Talking Pictures TV, TCC, Together TV, Yesterday +1" which means freeview is silly, don't know why they bother transmitting.
So I can use a Sky Q box, in 3 rooms, I have 4 boxes, so I use the Icecrypt STC3250CCIHD box in my bedroom, I have an old Sky box, but it uses a SCART lead, not HDMI, so the picture is not as good, so it's a toss up, the Icecrypt STC3250CCIHD box which is HD and good picture, and old Sky box which has a good program guide but poor picture.
In the main TV's with satellite are free to air, not freesat, the difference is the electronic program guide, freesat has a 7 day guide same as Sky, free to air is in the lap of the gods, mine I get the guide for program being watched, and some others, but not all.
In the main I retire and want to watch the same program as I was watching on Sky Q, so not problem, I know Drama works and Gold does not, so I know if free to air will work, and which program, even with commercial freeview which I could get in Flintshire, satellite was still better.
