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Digital TV Cost Cutting Article - Discuss What You've Been Offered

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  • muddled
    muddled Posts: 27 Forumite
    Would welcome some advice please. We currently have Sky and want to move the tv from this room into another room which does not have a TV point. Do we have to use the Sky to put in a connection to the dish or can we use another company? Are there any disadvantages to someone else which is our preference?

    Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
    Thank you
  • Ibanez
    Ibanez Posts: 180 Forumite
    I cancelled my sky package in April and have been on free to air since, I called sky to ask if they had any offers for me to come back and have just been offered any package half price for a year, with a rolling month contract, IE I can cancel it with only a months notice.

    You never know until you ask I guess :D
  • robd831
    robd831 Posts: 302 Forumite
    muddled wrote: »
    Would welcome some advice please. We currently have Sky and want to move the tv from this room into another room which does not have a TV point. Do we have to use the Sky to put in a connection to the dish or can we use another company? Are there any disadvantages to someone else which is our preference?

    Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
    Thank you

    Just buy some satelite cable and some connectors and put in a connection from the point it would enter your sky box and run the cable to the next room into the new box. It's just like and extention cable for the electric. Make sure that you strip and join th cable correctly and screw in the connectors and it will be okay. My OH is always changing the location of the TV and I find this easy to do ! try maplin or Screwfix for the cable and connectors.
    Don't pay for a company to move it, save money and do it yourself :j
  • muddled
    muddled Posts: 27 Forumite
    robd831 wrote: »
    Just buy some satelite cable and some connectors and put in a connection from the point it would enter your sky box and run the cable to the next room into the new box. It's just like and extention cable for the electric. Make sure that you strip and join th cable correctly and screw in the connectors and it will be okay. My OH is always changing the location of the TV and I find this easy to do ! try maplin or Screwfix for the cable and connectors.
    Don't pay for a company to move it, save money and do it yourself :j

    Thank you for this - I think even I can manage this by myself!
    Muddled
  • Firefly
    Firefly Posts: 3,024 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    robd831 wrote: »
    Just buy some satelite cable and some connectors and put in a connection from the point it would enter your sky box and run the cable to the next room into the new box. It's just like and extention cable for the electric. Make sure that you strip and join th cable correctly and screw in the connectors and it will be okay. My OH is always changing the location of the TV and I find this easy to do ! try maplin or Screwfix for the cable and connectors.
    Don't pay for a company to move it, save money and do it yourself :j

    :confused: Not sure I'm quite as clear on those instructions as Muddled. However I do have a sky box that is sat unloved and unused. Can I put this in another room to use for a freeview box?

    Has anyone accepted the offer of an HD sky box but not had the £10pm subscription and just used it as a normal box? Come the day of the revolution when Sky tv is free you'll be streets ahead.
    Do not allow the risk of failure to stop you trying!
  • robd831
    robd831 Posts: 302 Forumite
    You just make an extra length of statelite cable and extend the run from the original cable using male and female connectors. You just need to make sure you have the cable stripped and inserted into the connectors the correct way otherwise the signal is lost.
    Google came up with this page that might help explain it better
    http://www.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/accs/page8.htm

    Hope this helps, hunt around though for best deal on parts and cable etc
  • robd831
    robd831 Posts: 302 Forumite
    sorry, link removed from above post

    search Google for "connectng and extending satellite cables" and you will find exactly how to do it....
  • suzybloo
    suzybloo Posts: 1,104 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Just saved 8,20 per month with sky when asking them if there were any deals going as having to re-vamp finances - especially with the VAT rate going back up - got 20% discount for six months! worth a try!
    Every days a School day!
  • WE stopped paying for Sky over a year ago, but are still able to recieve some channels, however a message came on screen last week to say our card had expired but it still works.....but the regional news has switched to Central instead of Granada, it seems strange that we can view a regional channel but not our own, has anyone else had this problem? We contacted SKY and they said we had to purchase a new card for £20.:rolleyes:
  • danielley
    danielley Posts: 744 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    suzybloo wrote: »
    Just saved 8,20 per month with sky when asking them if there were any deals going as having to re-vamp finances - especially with the VAT rate going back up - got 20% discount for six months! worth a try!

    Thanks Suzybloo - I have just called up and firstly I asked to go down to the base package £23 a month (so no movies or sports) the guy seemed happy to do that (Sky must be feeling the pinch too!)

    Then I asked if before he did that, did they have any offers on? He came back with the 20% for 3 months which means my payment goes down from 48.5 to 38.8. I will downgrade fully when thats up, but I suppose I'll be wanting the movies and sport for a few extra months in the winter :)

    I've just realise I only got 3 months doh! Also I am tied in for a month, so no further changes to my package, which is a bit odd.
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