Leave Sky and go to Freesat - Any good?

emmsie123

So one of those £25 sky cards is a waste of money? MIL has one.
She gets so many free channels

robin58

emmsie123 wrote: »

So one of those £25 sky cards is a waste of money? MIL has one.
She gets so many free channels

Ok, until Sky catch up with the illegal cards. They do have fraudulent use department who go after people like your MIL.

Sky can see what you are watching and compare to what they are being paid.

This is because you have a internet connection to the Sky box.

Don't forget Sky can turn off your Sky box remotely and you will have nothing,

[Deleted User]

robin58 wrote: »

Ok, until Sky catch up with the illegal cards. They do have fraudulent use department who go after people like your MIL.

This is nonsense.

The £25 FreesatfromSky card is not illegal and is provided directly by Sky.


However, anyone cancelling a Sky subscription does not need to pay an additional fee to Sky because the viewing card in the decoder will also operate as a Freesat From Sky card and provide the same channels.

Only ex-Sky customers who have cancelled prior to Sky swapping to new cards need to pay anything extra at all.

prowla

emmsie123 wrote: »

So one of those £25 sky cards is a waste of money? MIL has one.
She gets so many free channels

I think the card allows you to record.

Without the card, you can still receive the free channels.

(P.S. You don't have to have an internet connection to use Sky.)

[Deleted User]

prowla wrote: »

I think the card allows you to record

More nonsense.

In order to record anything via a Sky+ decoder, you have to pay Sky a subscription of £10 a month if their TV service is cancelled.

The cancelled viewing card just allows viewing of all the Free To Air Channels and has no other functionality. A FreesatfromSky card is similarly limited and is only required when Sky routinely change their cards. As another pointed out, even without any card at all many channels can still be viewed.

Inner_Zone

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

More nonsense.

In order to record anything via a Sky+ decoder, you have to pay Sky a subscription of £10 a month if their TV service is cancelled.

The cancelled viewing card just allows viewing of all the Free To Air Channels and has no other functionality. A FreesatfromSky card is similarly limited and is only required when Sky routinely change their cards. As another pointed out, even without any card at all many channels can still be viewed.

No it does not, you don't need a card for Free To Air (FTA) channels at all. A card will give you the six or so additional Free to View (FTV) channels plus the regional versions of BBC, ITV etc on channels 101 to 105, based on the postcode the card was issued to. However some boxes retain these regional channel anyway.

prowla

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

More nonsense.

In order to record anything via a Sky+ decoder, you have to pay Sky a subscription of £10 a month if their TV service is cancelled.

The cancelled viewing card just allows viewing of all the Free To Air Channels and has no other functionality. A FreesatfromSky card is similarly limited and is only required when Sky routinely change their cards. As another pointed out, even without any card at all many channels can still be viewed.

Cor - Mr Grumpy is in the house today!

I clearly said "I think that ...", so whether or not that was correct, your "nonsense" reply is a bit belligerent.

And, if you were to look back, you would see that it was me who said that you can view channels without a card (in post #3); indeed I have a Sky box with no card in it with which I can view free to air channels.

macman

OP, in summary, if you want to watch Freeview, you'll need to fix the aerial cable. If you are happy with Freesat from Sky, without any PVR facilities or access to existing recordings, you need to do nothing but cancel your Sky sub. Either way, the channel line up is similar.
If you want PVR facilities, get a Humax Freesat PVR, which is a straight box swap, using your existing dish and LNB.

HappyMJ

If you keep the Sky box and cancel your subscription you may find it frustrating having all the pay-to-view channels cluttering up the EPG.

Personally I'd fix the aerial cable or get a Freesat PVR.

MoneyMate

We Have Humax Freesat box
1/ Will work off ex Sky satellite and cable if connected.
2/ It's free to use It's Great

Hope you get sorted soon :beer:

Some models have Netflix facility to use through, we find it good.