Cheapest Sky HD package

Keith

The blue sky cards can reactivate recording, your own card won't allow recording.

A working blue card is less than the sky fee or the cost of an hd recorder

almillar

Sorry Keith - by blue Sky card what do you mean? An older Sky subscription card that's still active? Surely reactiviting recording still costs £10.25 per month, and nomoredebtplease can add this onto the card that's currently in the Sky box?

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almillar wrote: »

Sorry Keith - by blue Sky card what do you mean? An older Sky subscription card that's still active?

Yes, apparently Sky are no longer sending out the "kill" signal on these cards and so they still apparently allow recording features and HD without subscription.

Keith

The old blue sky cards if not in the box when the kill signal came never died, so still work for sky+.

Ours was in from April 2012 until we went on a free sky deal at xmas.

It even updated to the latest planner with it in the decoder!

almillar

OK, so not exactly an 'official' route then - you might have wanted to explain it a bit better...

Inner_Zone

Keith wrote: »

Get a blue sky card from ebay and you may retain free to air hd and sky+.

FTA does not require a card. Both Freesat and Freesat from Sky with HD boxes will give you the four PSB HD channels without a card. A Sky HD box with card will add CH5 HD.

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Inner_Zone wrote: »

FTA does not require a card. Both Freesat and Freesat from Sky with HD boxes will give you the four PSB HD channels without a card. A Sky HD box with card will add CH5 HD.

I think we have already established all this. The discussion had moved on to old Blue cards still possibly allowing Sky+ functionality and HD...

Inner_Zone

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

I think we have already established all this. The discussion had moved on to old Blue cards still possibly allowing Sky+ functionality and HD...

Must have missed it then? The old chestnut of FTA requiring a card keeps cropping up.

Retro_Bunny

almillar wrote: »

Yep, unless you're in love with your Sky box, replace it with a Freesat box. Humax Foxsat HDR is generally regarded as the best on here. £250 brand spanking new but can be had for less I'm sure, especially refurbed in the Humax store. Plugs in exactly the same way as the Sky box.

Apologies - I rushed a reply and linked to completely the wrong Humax (thanks to Kurtis_Blue and Inner Zone)

I've had my Humax HDR FreeSat box for two years since I moved into a rental house with no aerial but a working dish (ex-sky). Plugged it in and away it went. It's brilliant and I'd always buy Humax again if needed. Highly recommended (can't remember what I paid, but well worth it).

Ironically I'm moving again to a house with no dish, but an aerial - DOH!
Back to the Freeview+ box from two years ago...

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Retro_Bunny wrote: »

Ironically I'm moving again to a house with no dish, but an aerial - DOH!

You do realise that you don't need to involve Sky putting a dish up on the new property?
You'll need your landlord's permission, of course, but you can put one up yourself or pay an independent installer to do it for you at no great expense.