would a sky digibox work without an access / topup card?

brightonman123

(hopefully like a freeview box..)

found one being thrown out-

Grundig Sky digbox, model GDS300..

I have normal tv (no sky/cable), and dont want to go wasting money getting remote leads etc if its not gonna work!

DevCoder

You'll need a satellite dish but with that connected you'll get Free To Air channels,

debitcardmayhem

Q1 Does it work (ie power on etc) and display on your TV via scart
If so I think (not certain) but you need a Freesat from Sky card (someone will correct me on that too) circa £10 one off

brightonman123

thanks- no leads, a v random find!

debitcardmayhem

brightonman123 wrote: »

thanks- no leads, a v random find!

Have you got a VHS or DVD ie they will have a lead you can test it with ....

Andrew1472

brightonman123 wrote: »

thanks- no leads, a v random find!

Even if you had a satellite dish, those boxes are so old now that they are painfully slow to use. My parents got sick and tired of their one and binned it. Not worth your time and effort tbh.

googler

You don't need a card. Plug it into a dish and you get the Free to Air channels without involving Sky at all.

Simplistik

But if you have no sat dish & LNB handy or set up, then you do have a problem.
Not too easy for the layman, i use sat meters to set mine up and it can still be tricky on the more obscure sats.

brightonman123

no dish- have shared digital aerial on our building.. guess normal freeview it is then..