Sky FreeSat in addition to Subscription

village_life

Hi

We currently have Sky Digital in our living room, but have appaling terrestrial signal so need to get something sorted out for our conservatory.

We dont want to get into paying £10 per month for Multiroom as thats an ongoing expense, so are looking at FreeSat from Sky

I am told though it costs £150 to get it set up and installed.... I know you can get a freeview card for £20 and sky boxes are available on reputable auction websites ;-)

Does anyone know if and how its possible to rig up a privately purchased sky box to our main dish, and enable us to get freeview in one room whilst not affecting our standard subscription service?

THanks

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Assuming you have a spare space on the LNB up at the dish, you can just run a cable from there to wherever you want in your house.

As you say, pick up an old Digibox from Ebay and pay £20 for your Freesat card.

Zagu

If its not important to watch different channels in each room, Id get a TV sender unit. Gigavideo is one I can recommed, but there are a few of them about.

windym_2

Sky are dropping the £10 charge for Skyplus. Check this out.........

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=5239946#post5239946

Moneymaker

Doesn't apply to Freesat. You'd still have to pay £10 a month for the recording facility.