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What is the difference between a Sky Digibox, a Freesat Digibox and a Universal Digibox?

April 26, 2017digibox freesat sky universal

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What is the difference between a Sky Digibox, a Freesat Digibox and a Universal Digibox?

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Sky digibox enables you to watch Sky television including any subscription channels (as long as you pay for a subscription). Interactive services and HD broadcasting is available. A sky digibox can be used without a viewing card to watch the free channels however Channel 4, Film 4, more 4, E4 and Channel 5 are not available. You can only watch channels from the Astra 2 satellite. Freesat digibox enables viewing of free-to-air satellite channels, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Film 4, more 4, E4 (not including the +1 channels) and many others. HD broadcasting is available using the Freesat HD digibox and interactive services can be used e.g. ITV HD (Channel 4 HD is not available on Freesat) Universal digibox Enables watching of Free-to-air and subscription satellite channels (card interface slot required) from many satellites in Europe (not Sky Digital) (reception subject to suitable dish size) including UK channels from Astra 2, BBC World News on Hotbird 13E and Astra 19.2E.