Is it easy to switch from sky to freeview?

Myusernamehasgone

I am wanting to cancel my sky subscription and go to some sort if freeview although I like the record and rewind features of the sky box I would like to save money

I don't have an aerial only the dish sky put up years ago - will I be able to use that and is it easy to sort out?

penrhyn

Freeview needs an aerial as it is a terrestrial service. You would be better looking at Freesat, which will use your existing dish
.Humax make Freesat PVRs .

http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/Direct/Prod/33e37658-a4cb-40a5-a635-05b5d255287a
http://www.freesat.co.uk/

Myusernamehasgone

Thank you for that very helpful

Myusernamehasgone

Are there any free boxes that you can watch Dave or Alibi on?

R34GTT

You can cancel your Sky subscription if you're past the initial 12 months contract. The box will still receive the free to view channels which includes Dave, not sure about Alibi.

If you want to keep the recording functionality then rather than completely cancel the subscription you just ask Sky to downgrade your package to recording only which I believe costs £10 a month last time I checked.

Inner_Zone

R34GTT wrote: »

You can cancel your Sky subscription if you're past the initial 12 months contract. The box will still receive the free to view channels which includes Dave, not sure about Alibi.

If you want to keep the recording functionality then rather than completely cancel the subscription you just ask Sky to downgrade your package to recording only which I believe costs £10 a month last time I checked.

Dave is not Free to View on satellite, it's subscription as is Alibi .

OP the answer is no unless you get an aerial and a Freeview box as Dave is free on Freeview.

Kurtis_Blue

Does have a pretty good on demand-catchup service.

http://dave.uktv.co.uk/on-demand/

Alloneword

Does your TV not have freeview built in?
I got risd of sky a while ago, and went freesat route, at the same time i bought an old cheap (£40) freeview PVR to cap things like dave and quest etc, so i'm able to get almost everything i want.

All1

penrhyn

The OP does not have an aerial, just a dish. The cost of installing an aerial would probably be as much IG not more than a Free sat PVR.

Inner_Zone

penrhyn wrote: »

The OP does not have an aerial, just a dish. The cost of installing an aerial would probably be as much IG not more than a Free sat PVR.

Yes but the OP wants Dave.

penrhyn

Hmmm, aerial and YouView it is then.
OP don't do a Rod Hull.