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

jpe20 · 2006-01-21 11:05:10

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…

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Rex_Mundi Posts: 6,312 Forumite

21 January 2006 at 7:29PM

tigermatt wrote:

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 (or More 4) 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.

This post is spot on.

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