Sky multi room?

dawny_blue

I've recently separated and moved into my own house with my 3 sons, I've got Sky (which is a bit of a luxury I couldn't really afford but it made them all happy) my 2 eldest sons are earning money so have paid to have multi room in their own rooms.

My youngest son however has a nice new digital freeview tv in his room but when plugging the aerial into it it doesn't get a signal. I can't really afford to get someone out to fix his aerial or pay for multi room (as they charge £60 to come out and £60 for a box) just at the moment but I wondered as the previous owners had sky in that room (so the cables are there) could I just buy a 2nd hand sky box and it'd work or would I need to go through sky whatever, or are there any other options I could get the tv receiving channels?

many thanks for any advice (it's taking a bit of getting used to having to organise everything myself for my family...lol)

Dawn

penrhyn

Assuming the satellite feeds are connected to the LNB and its functional then yes plug in a Sky box and you will get most of the free to air stations. If you want all thats available you can buy a freesat from Sky card for around £20.

Or get your son to pay to get the aerial fixed.

dawny_blue

my son's only 10 so can't really pay towards it, but I'll give that a try thanks

bonzer

There's also FreeSat, which is where you just buy a box and plug it into a dish and can get most of the Freeview channels. This is somewhat similar to Sky's free offering and does work with a normal Sky dish.

Does he have a PC? You can actually get most of Freeview free on the net, in which case you could probably plug the PC into the TV as another option.

http://www.tvcatchup.com/