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Getting Sky TV abroad

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Arfhurdaly
Arfhurdaly Posts: 194 Forumite
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Hi

I am going to move to Poland soon for 2 years, and i want to know how i get sky tv abroad.

Can i use my old sky box, and just get a viewing card?

Are there any companies which specialise in this?

Regards,

Arfhur
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  • Leigh-Anne_60
    Leigh-Anne_60 Posts: 512 Forumite
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    I dont think you can legally get sky abroad. We looked into for our house in Turkey. We would have to have had a 3 metre dish, brought our box/card over from UK and carried on paying monthly DD without letting sky knowing we were using it abroad

    It may be totally different for Poland - so i dont know if this will help:confused:
  • Inactive
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    Arfhurdaly wrote: »
    Hi

    I am going to move to Poland soon for 2 years, and i want to know how i get sky tv abroad.

    Can i use my old sky box, and just get a viewing card?

    Are there any companies which specialise in this?

    Regards,

    Arfhur


    Yes to using your old Sky Box, it depends on which card you mean, a Freesatfromsky one is £20 ( one off payment ).

    You may well find that the dish will need to be large !!!!!
  • Arfhurdaly
    Arfhurdaly Posts: 194 Forumite
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    I read it was 3m if i wanted ITV or BBC. But could get away with 1m for the rest.

    So did you sky tv work in turkey?
  • Inactive
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    3 Metres is one huge dish, it will need to very securely fixed and of high quality, due to wind factors, well over a £1000 for a properly installed system, I would guess.;)
  • moonrakerz
    moonrakerz Posts: 8,650 Forumite
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    Looking at this I would probably think at least 3M, sig strength tends to drop off rapidly toward the edges of the footprint.

    http://sat.beitinger.de/astra_2d.html
  • Leigh-Anne_60
    Leigh-Anne_60 Posts: 512 Forumite
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    Arfhurdaly wrote: »
    I read it was 3m if i wanted ITV or BBC. But could get away with 1m for the rest.

    So did you sky tv work in turkey?

    We never bothered in the end - the 3m dish would have swallowed our garden - would have also set us back £1200:eek:

    But know it does work as we pay for our friends subscription for his bar (he has a 3m dish)
  • knightstyle
    knightstyle Posts: 7,017 Forumite
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    Anyone tried this? http://www.sattube.com/ It offers loads of channels anywhere in the world using sat dish and PC.
  • Arfhurdaly
    Arfhurdaly Posts: 194 Forumite
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    So if i had multi-room in the uk, could i take the multi-room box and card abroad and it would work?

    3m is a massive dish, 100kg in weight too. I was told the same, but live in a flat so its impossible.

    I really miss sky sports, not expat bars here either.
  • hammy_the_hammer
    hammy_the_hammer Posts: 1,824 Forumite
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    Arfhurdaly wrote: »
    So if i had multi-room in the uk, could i take the multi-room box and card abroad and it would work?

    3m is a massive dish, 100kg in weight too. I was told the same, but live in a flat so its impossible.

    I really miss sky sports, not expat bars here either.

    have you thought about adsl and a slingbox
  • knightstyle
    knightstyle Posts: 7,017 Forumite
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    Please tell me how that works as we have tried but because our ISP is not UK based TV from the UK is blocked.
    If anyone knows a way round this please tell.
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