Sky freeview

gladysrocker

Hi. I'm looking for a bit of advice if anyone can help. My mother currently pays twenty something pounds a month for lots of channels she doesnt watch and has been talking about cancelling this and getting a freeview box, which I think would involve her having to get an ariel.
I thought I'd heard somewhere that if you cancelled your subscription you still got selected channels through your box, similar to freeview.
Am I right. I dont want to give her bum info and end up costing her money she cant afford.
Thanks in advance.

5bellies_2

You can get a lot of channels free with no card whatsoever. You can pay £20 - once - for a Sky FTA Card that gives you 'Freesat from sky' with the channels in that link.

gladysrocker

Fantastic 5bellies, thanks very much.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

You don't need to fork out another £20 for a FTA card. The existing card will work fine.

Antispam

You could get a freesat box about £60 for the SD version or around £120 for the HD version and watch more channels than freeview and you get free HD you use your old dish

http://www.freesat.co.uk/

Boxes

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10001&catalogId=1500001151&langId=-1&searchTerms=freesat&Submit=GO+%3E

5bellies_2

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

You don't need to fork out another £20 for a FTA card. The existing card will work fine.

Not always. Sky invalidate cards that have come from defaulted contracts and, because they don't care that much, hit a few other innocent cards as well.

albionrovers

I previously had SKY+ with full subscription package.

I now have freeview only via the same SKY+ box (now with no SKY+ functionality) with the original card in. SKY simply turned the full subscription package off.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

5bellies wrote: »

Not always. Sky invalidate cards that have come from defaulted contracts and, because they don't care that much, hit a few other innocent cards as well.

Fair comment, so let me say the existing card should work. Try it before forking out for another card.

lrr_2

When I cancelled sky I just watched the free stuff using the same box and card. Even if they deactivate the card you still get free channels - just not all off them without a card. You will see the free stuff you can get just now just by taking out your card

vale46_2

i have a old sky Digi box with a old card thats still active
here is a pretty well up to date list of channels you get on a sky digi box for free
with the sky viewing card left in the box if its active
channel list

p.s.
if sky re-new all viewing cards for there customers in April the cards that are active now will have to be replaced as they all will be turned off

[Deleted User]

These should be helpful:

"Freesat vs Freeview"

http://www.uksatellitehelp.co.uk/2007/08/02/freesat-vs-freeview/

"Freesat vs Freeview vs Sky-Digital"

http://www.techradar.com/news/television/freesat-vs-freeview-vs-sky-digital-358782