£75 'No Commitments' Package from Sky Plus free Ipod/Payg Mobile/Phones/Hi-fi

NonGeographicalMan

ringer wrote: »

Sorry I’ve not read all the thread so this may have been covered.

Would I be right in thinking that a big advantage on this deal over free view,
Is that I would have a HD feed when the BBC occasionally broadcast it.

No this setup doesn't do HD with the box that Sky will be installing.

You could buy a secondhand Sky HD box off Ebay and connect it to the satellite dish that Sky will install (which will give you the free HD stuff), although none of the Sky+ functionality will work unless your sat dish has a Quad LNB and unless you are paying some form of Sky subscription.

NonGeographicalMan

Concretecow wrote: »

Remember that you need one box per TV/Monitor in the house. Freeview terrestrial UHF can be easily piped around the house by simple distribution, Sky box's can't.

Sorry but this is absolute nonsense as a simple satellite dish can easily be split to provide service to a number of different satellite box sets in the home in just the same was as an analogue aerial can.

We have such a setup on our apartment out in Spain where a single 90cm dish pointed at Astra as 19.2 degrees East is split between the five apartments using an appropriate splitter box immediately after the satellite.

Splitting a conventional aerial several ways requires a powered masthead amplifier and splitter and powered boosters in many cases and is no easier and often much more difficult that a split multifeed satellite install to carry out.

soa

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

Sorry but this is absolute nonsense as a simple satellite dish can easily be split to provide service to a number of different satellite box sets in the home in just the same was as an analogue aerial can.

I'm sure (for which read, I know) that Sky boxes do have an RF2 outlet, which you can plug into another telly or RF distribution system.

I use it for distributing Sky (and for that matter TiVo) round upstairs.
[Freeview box(now BT Vision) has RF feed; this goes through VCR into TiVo; TiVo output is modulated onto that feed.

That feed goes *into* Sky box and then out on RF2, so you can watch normal TV, Sky, or TiVo.

Just watching Sky in the rest of the house; happy to see the same channel downstairs as upstairs? Use RF2 and a distribution kit.

Nick_A_2

Hello, are the two mix packages fixed or can they be changed at time of registration? Would like to have Kid-Mix instead of Knowledge-Mix.

Nick.

buyitall

Nick_A wrote: »

Hello, are the two mix packages fixed or can they be changed at time of registration? Would like to have Kid-Mix instead of Knowledge-Mix.

Nick.

I changed Knowledge to Kids no probs. Felt a bit embarrassed swapping the so-called educational progs for the cartoons!:D

QQuaver

buyitall wrote: »

I changed Knowledge to Kids no probs. Felt a bit embarrassed swapping the so-called educational progs for the cartoons!:D

It's for your kids, not for you:rotfl:

mark1024

NonGeographicalMan wrote: »

No TVEi and TV5 are not free on this package but you will get overseas news channels like Euronews, France 24, Russia Today and Al Jazeerah International (all English speaking) that are not on Freeview .

Thanks. That's a real shame as the foreign language channels would have been perfect for my partners mother, who won't be keen on paying any monthly costs to receive them.

I would also say that one other benefit of sky is ease of use. Our parents have had huge problems using the various freeview recorders we boughts them (sony, hitachi etc). The sky and sky plus boxes are simply brilliant in terms of ease of use. A small thing perhaps, but the remote has big buttons, which means my mum could use one ! Most remote controls are terrible in comparison.

honest_guv

We've got NTL cable into our living room at the moment, and no TV aerial at all. I now want to put a TV in another room (too much cbeebies is bad for the brain!) The cost of putting in an aerial was at least £200, so Freesky looks good for me.

The house already has a sky dish installed from a previous occupant. Does this make any difference to the install? (I want it piped into a different room from where the Sky socket goes at the moment). Are there any other options, like just buying a sky box and running a cable myself?

Sorry, I haven't read the complete thread, but is there also an issue around having to have a phone line near the sky box?

troykelly

watch out - no E4 on freesat and that's a great channel. go for freeview!

Ruby_rach_2

Beware of this ... Double check everything! I tried to do this back in July and it caused no end of problems.

Sky got a digit of my house number wrong which was only spotted when the guy came to fit the dish, We already had a dish from previous occupants, however they said it would not be possible to use as the dish was on the back of the house - where it had to be to pick up the signal, but our lounge is in the front, the man said they would need to fit the dish on the chimney but this wouldn't cost extra.. I though great!

When he called up to arrange for the special roof fitting team to come he told them the details were wrong. The person at the head office said that to amend the record (to change 1 digit in the house number) they would have to delete the whole order and put it on the system again! However when they went to do this every person at sky I spoke to had no knowledge of this offer they claimed it isn't on their system so they wanted me to pay £100 set up fee so we could have the free sat system and they would credit it back on the account - as i only wanted it for the free sat this was not an option as i had no intention of paying for any subscriptions. they then said well you'll have to speak to someone else In total i spend 2.5 hours on the phone to sky at a high cost number and they still couldn't resolve it it then took another hour on another day to try and cancel the whole thing.