Cancelling Sky but will I still get any channels?

chickmug

Now I have Freeview I find I am watching Sky less and less but paying, a now wasted, £22 per month for it. If I cancel will I still be able to get any channels or will the Sky unit just stop working?

A friend said he had heard that for a one off payment of £20 I could still get quite a few channels and so wonder if this is true?

Ice_2

chickmug wrote: »

Now I have Freeview I find I am watching Sky less and less but paying, a now wasted, £22 per month for it. If I cancel will I still be able to get any channels or will the Sky unit just stop working?

A friend said he had heard that for a one off payment of £20 I could still get quite a few channels and so wonder if this is true?

load of rubbish...you will still get the free channels such as BBC1/2/3/4
ITV1/2/3/4/ and so on...because they are free...to watch...doesn't matter which equipment you have...sky digibox or freeview they are all free to watch...:D

KCK

You dont get channel 4 or 5. To get these you would have to pay £20 to get the Freesat card (from Sky cust service).

surreysaver

If you have Sky+, the recording facility on it will stop working as well, unless you pay £10pm subscription for it.

lee634

KCK wrote: »

You dont get channel 4 or 5. To get these you would have to pay £20 to get the Freesat card (from Sky cust service).

This is incorrect,

You will still get channels 4 and 5,

Basically when you cancel your sub, you will lose the premium channels sky 1 etc, however until sky issue out new cards normally 2-3 year rotation you card will still decrypt channels 4 and 5 for the moment do not pay any money to get a freesat card as this will be effectively what you will have when you cancel you sub

chickmug

surreysaver wrote: »

If you have Sky+, the recording facility on it will stop working as well, unless you pay £10pm subscription for it.

Nearly bought one a few months ago but went for a Panasonic hard drive recorder - phew!!

BexTech

KCK wrote: »

You dont get channel 4 or 5. To get these you would have to pay £20 to get the Freesat card (from Sky cust service).

You don't need the £20 FTV card.

When you cancel your Sky subscription your current viewing card turns into a FTV card.

There are around 200 Free To Air channels on satellite, these don't require a viewing card. Channels such as BBC channels, ITV channels, Zone channels, True Movies, World Movies, Film4, News Channels are many many more.

Then there's Ch4, Five, Five US, Fiver, Sky Three and some +1 version, these are FTV and your cancelled Sky subs card will get those as would a £20 FTV (from FreeSatFromSky) - but why pay £20 for a card, when for £0 your current viewing card will turn into one!

Ice_2

KCK wrote: »

You dont get channel 4 or 5. To get these you would have to pay £20 to get the Freesat card (from Sky cust service).

still aload of rubbish I have sky + downstairs and a digibox upstairs but no multiroom and we get C4 and C5 we also get E4 as well free....we get loads of free channels on the digibox....:)

Ice_2

surreysaver wrote: »

If you have Sky+, the recording facility on it will stop working as well, unless you pay £10pm subscription for it.

no sorry sky+ is free now ....:)

surreysaver

Ice wrote: »

no sorry sky+ is free now ....:)

Wrong. It is £10 pm unless you subscribe to an entertainment package. So if you use Free Sky (or whatever it's called) you will need to pay £10 pm for Sky+ if you want the facility, otherwise your Sky+ box will just act as a normal Sky box. It used to be free with Movies or Sports Mix, but they changed it in July 2007 to be free with any subscription:

http://mysky.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts/skytv/pricesandpackages

Sky+: Sky+ subscription required to use Personal Video Recorder features of Sky+ (free for Sky TV subscribers while you subscribe to any Sky digital package, otherwise £10 a month).

nealallen

If you look here http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/freeview.html

Basically that's what a freeview box will give you, sam as Sky will if you cancel.