Sky instalation and options

Leedash

Hi I've been given a sky plus box,no dish,how much would sky charge for a dish/installation,I only want a basic package ie freeview,on it no movies sport etc,I wouldn't mind broad band but don't know how to go about this

spike7451

Sky won't install it as it's not supplied by them.You'll have to go to an independent & there you're looking at around £100+ depending on the job.

macman

You can't receive Freeview through a Sky dish, it's a terrestial service via an aerial. Using a Sky box you can receive the Sky FTA channels (Freesat from Sky) without the need for a subscription.
Broadband is nothing to do with your TV service, it is delivered either via ADSL over a BT phone line, or via cable if you are in a VM cable area.

Heinz

spike7451 wrote: »

Sky won't install it as it's not supplied by them.You'll have to go to an independent & there you're looking at around £100+ depending on the job.

Remember too that the Sky+ recording/playback functionality will not work unless you take out a Sky subscription (minimum £10.25/month) and, without that, the box will just be a (free channels) satellite receiver.

spike7451

Heinz wrote: »

Remember too that the Sky+ recording/playback functionality will not work unless you take out a Sky subscription (minimum £10.25/month) and, without that, the box will just be a (free channels) satellite receiver.

Well spotted Batman!;)

vburns85

Heinz wrote: »

Remember too that the Sky+ recording/playback functionality will not work unless you take out a Sky subscription (minimum £10.25/month) and, without that, the box will just be a (free channels) satellite receiver.

as Heinz says about the minimum £10.25/month is all you can get from sky, if you decide that you want to go down this road then they will charge £30 installation, even if you have the equipment they still want to get an engineer out to install it all properly, I have a dish here and said to them that I got a mate that has an old sky box (I say old it was a refurbished sky+ thompson box) which i can get for free and the previous tenants at the address I reside at already had dish her (cable's still sticking through wall and connected to dish) and was told that it would be £30 install still (although I got free install as I am taking movies pack 1 for 1 month as suggested by the bloke on the phone then just phone up after 30 days and cancel it saving me £22)

hope you come to a decision soon