Can I get Sky Sports on a Digital Setup Box (ie through Freeview/TopUp TV)

jpe20

Hi folks,

I am considering ditching my sky+ setup in favour of a freeview digital PVR setup to avoid the ridiculous 400+ a year I pay for my sky subscription.

I mainly watch

Sky Sports --- Liverpool Matches only primarily for the champions league.
BBC
ITV
E4
More4
SkyNews
Most of the other channels I can live without.

Any tips?

Jules

pompeyrich

Pretty sure you cant get Sky Sports via a top up, all the rest you watch available are on freeview. If Liverpool aren't on ITV, a trip to your local should work out cheaper than £400 a year, if not you need help !!

meclive

Get NTL? I think all new customers get all 3 services (telephone, tv, internet) for £30/month or something like that.

tigermatt

Here's a list of all the channels you can get on Freeview: http://www.freeview.co.uk/whatson/index.html

You can get Sky Sports News but not Sky sports itself.
You can get all the BBC channels one , two, three and four plus the BBCi Interactive service, BBC News 24 and CBBC and cbeebies
You can get all 4 ITV channels
E4 and E4+1 are available
Can't see more4 anywhere
Sky News is there as well

http://www.freeview.co.uk/whatson/index.html

Joe_Bloggs

More4 is there as is More4 +1 and E4 and E4 +1. SKY Three is also freeview. There are also subscription channels available but they are not worth a mention in my view. If you cant see it then try an add channels option in your freeview box setup menu. There have been many shuffling of channels lately.
J_B.

LittleJo

Hi,
Please note that if you stop SKY the box will not pick up More4 or E4 etc..
Jo

wonderfullife_2

Hi
I got the Topfield 5800 pvr, freeview, all channels you want except Sky Sport and NO More subscriptions to Sky, :j get rid of sky and save yourself a fortune.

tigermatt

LittleJo wrote:

Hi,
Please note that if you stop SKY the box will not pick up More4 or E4 etc..
Jo

You need to get a proper freeview box not use your old sky box
because if you use the sky box it comes from sky's satellite and sky only give you e4 with a subscription
a freeview box gets the signal from your digitally enabled freeview transmitter and e4 etc. is automatically broadcast with freeview.

tigermatt

An extra point to note - make sure your area is freeview enabled and your tv transmitter is enabled for digital tv otherwise you won't pick it up or you would get a very weak signal from another transmitter.

Go to the freeview site I mentioned in one of my posts above, look on the homepage and there is a place to enter your postcode.

blinky

LittleJo wrote:

Hi,
Please note that if you stop SKY the box will not pick up More4 or E4 etc..
Jo

Rubbish, More4 and E4 are available on Freeview. It is widely tipped that FilmFour will be available on Freeview sometime this year.

tigermatt

blinky wrote:

Rubbish, More4 and E4 are available on Freeview. It is widely tipped that FilmFour will be available on Freeview sometime this year.

LittleJo wrote:

Hi,
Please note that if you stop SKY the box will not pick up More4 or E4 etc..
Jo

I think the poster of the second message was saying that if you continued using the Sky box without a subscription (just getting free channels) you wouldn't get E4 because sky makes you pay a subsciption for e4.

If you get a proper freeview box and connect it to the freeview service then you will get it, but not with a free viewing card in a sky box you won't get it.