Alternative to Sky

sloughflint

Utterly cheesed off with Sky. So much so have given 30 day notice to cancel.
had sky for years and don't know of any alternatives. Are there any or has this s***ing company got complete monopoly?

Skint1

Try NTL Telewest Freeview Topup TV
Joe

Omertron

Check on the ntl (https://www.ntl.com) or Telewest (https://www.telewest.co.uk) site to see if you are in their areas, they will have the closest choice of channels from what you are used to at Sky (although they probably lack some of the shopping channels)

Other than that, freeview (https://www.freeview.co.uk) will be your next best bet with or without the extra channels provided by top-up tv (https://www.topuptv.co.uk)

sloughflint

Omertron wrote:

Check on the ntl (https://www.ntl.com) or Telewest (https://www.telewest.co.uk) site to see if you are in their areas, they will have the closest choice of channels from what you are used to at Sky (although they probably lack some of the shopping channels)

Other than that, freeview (https://www.freeview.co.uk) will be your next best bet with or without the extra channels provided by top-up tv (https://www.topuptv.co.uk)

thanks but no am not in either area.
We think we can live without loads of channels but I know hubby will miss sky sports. is there any way round this one? Can we watch via pc?

sloughflint

Also if freeview is available ( according to website, we are), can we expect decent reception or will we need to change our aerial as it's quite an old one. we can't get channel 5.

lee634

you will still be able to use sky but only on the free to air channels
Include ITV2 and 3 BBC3 and 4
there are a few others as well

sloughflint

Trouble is we can't get a signal at the moment so can't get any channel at all. Can't tell if it is the box that is the problem. if I took the box to my parents who have basic sky ( we have sky plus), would I be able to swap boxes to check if mine is a problem ie would their card work in my box?

pizzaboy

you can get footy on pc if you have a look around ,this is one site you can find out about it and browse there forum

http://www.freefootball.org/

ariba10

sloughflint wrote:

Trouble is we can't get a signal at the moment so can't get any channel at all. Can't tell if it is the box that is the problem. if I took the box to my parents who have basic sky ( we have sky plus), would I be able to swap boxes to check if mine is a problem ie would their card work in my box?

No each card is for a particular box.

lee634

ariba10 wrote:

No each card is for a particular box.

but yes you will be able to check if the box works as the card is not required to see if you have a signal

hobo28

sloughflint wrote:

Also if freeview is available ( according to website, we are), can we expect decent reception or will we need to change our aerial as it's quite an old one. we can't get channel 5.

Try this site to see what sort of signal you may expect.

http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe?

You may need to pay for an aerial upgrade which can work out quite expensive if you need someone to fit it professionally. If you can do it yourself, you can prob. pick up a decent aerial from Argos for £50.