Replacing a tired Sky digibox

misterjingles

wookie wrote:

hi you can buy an brand new sky box from around £80, and thats with postage these days from many online retailers, if you are after a sky + box they again retail for around £140. these can be found on a serch from google.
try to avoid buying from E-bay.

i hope this helps:p

can someone point me to these £80 boxes ?

What about maplins ?? - found these as a possible replacement

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=1&criteria=viaccess&ModuleNo=97598&doy=2m1

Dennis99

misterjingles wrote:

can someone point me to these £80 boxes ?

What about maplins ?? - found these as a possible replacement

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=1&criteria=viaccess&ModuleNo=97598&doy=2m1

That box will only get the free to view channels that the "Sky" box can receive not anything needing a card, you can only use a "Sky" subscription card in a "Sky" box.

FannyHill

If you don't need a card the channels are FTA (free to air).If you need a viewing card like the £20 Freesatfromsky card to get ch4,5,Sky3,Five Life and Five US the channels are FTV (free to view). I don't think the Maplins receivers can take a card so you will only get the FTA channels. That's still quite a lot and you get the radio stations as well.

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Joey

Perhaps I can suggest you delete the free phone number from your post and only give it out by PM?

Otherwise it will probably be withdrawn by Sky.

FannyHill

misterjingles wrote:

can someone point me to these £80 boxes ?

What about maplins ?? - found these as a possible replacement

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?TabID=1&criteria=viaccess&ModuleNo=97598&doy=2m1

Melksham Satellites have a new Sky box and Freesatfromsky viewing card for £99.

You can also try Simplydigital.

quoia

chrisw wrote:

How much?? I've had two off the Freecycle scheme for zilch. 1 Amstrad and 1 Toshiba both working perfectly.

I agree - try Freecycle - I got a mint condition silver Grundig digibox on Xmas eve