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Cancelling Sky but will I still get any channels?

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  • Iconic
    Iconic Posts: 1,021 Forumite
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    Wrong. It is £10 pm unless you subscribe to an entertainment package. .[/B]

    Can you transfer the recordings made on a Sky+ box to a DVD recorder or a PVR?
    Then if you did downgrade you would not lose the recordings you had already made!
  • deejayen
    deejayen Posts: 125 Forumite
    Yes no problems -- I have my Sky + box > DVD recorder >TV -- I prefer to not use the copy function as it sometimes gives the wrong ratio (even though Sky updates say its fixed) -- Dave
  • knightstyle
    knightstyle Posts: 7,399 Forumite
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    Why not take your sky card out now, then you will see what you will get when you cancel your subscription. We only got a few channels not 4 or 5 so we paid the £20, this is not an annual charge and now get lots more.
  • surreysaver
    surreysaver Posts: 5,257 Forumite
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    Iconic wrote: »
    Can you transfer the recordings made on a Sky+ box to a DVD recorder or a PVR?
    Then if you did downgrade you would not lose the recordings you had already made!

    As long as you do it before you cancel the Sky+ subscription, yes. Once you cancel the Sky+ subscription, it deletes everything you've already recorded.
    I consider myself to be a male feminist. Is that allowed?
  • askakd
    askakd Posts: 55 Forumite
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    when you cancel sky, if you leave your sky card in the box then you will get all the "freesat from sky" channels. "Freesat from sky" is different to freeview and carries different channels and is also different to the new freesat launched recently by the BBC and ITV.
  • andrewmp
    andrewmp Posts: 1,800 Forumite
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    Channel 4 is free to air, no card required. Same as E4 and Film 4 etc.
  • BexTech
    BexTech Posts: 4,772 Forumite
    andrewmp wrote: »
    Channel 4 is free to air, no card required. Same as E4 and Film 4 etc.

    On a Sky box using the EPG, you still currently need a viewing card for Ch4.

    You can add the FTA version of Ch4 to the 'Other Channels' list however.
    It's PAC not PAC Code, it's MAC not MAC Code, it's PIN not PIN Number, it's ATM not ATM Machine, it's LCD not LCD Display, it's DVD not DVD disc... It's no one not noone, It's a lot not alot, It's got not gotten... Panini is the plural of panino - there is no S!!
    (OK my English isn't great, the sciences, maths & IT are my strong points!)
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