How to keep BT Sport

Dan-Dan

Is it possible to cancel sky sub , keep sky box , and pay for recording facility ? (i know , cake and eat it !)

poppasmurf_bewdley

Dan-Dan wrote: »

Is it possible to cancel sky sub , keep sky box , and pay for recording facility ? (i know , cake and eat it !)

Yes, £10 per month.

andrewmp

Dan-Dan wrote: »

Is it possible to cancel sky sub , keep sky box , and pay for recording facility ? (i know , cake and eat it !)

Yeah, it's £10 a month, but you're better off cancelling the lot, then they'll offer you 50% off to stay as soon/before it goes off, that way you'll get the original bundle for the same price.

iniltous

Dan-Dan wrote: »

Hi

Looking to ditch SKY TV but keep BT Sport

We have SKY BB , and Phone , and pay BT directly and watch via the sky box

What set up can i achieve where i can keep BT Sport but get rid of sky and move over to freesat ?

any advice welcome

thanks

If you cancel Sky TV the card remains 'active' and works as Freesat from Sky card so you keep most if not all the channels you would get with a Freesat system
your BT Sport is nothing to do with Sky apart from BT pay Sky to manage access and have an appearance on the Sky EPG , so your BT Sport shouldn't be affected,
if you want to keep the PVR functions on the Sky box it's (I think) £10 /month , so a year of this almost pays for a Freesat box that has PVR built in for free,
Proper Freesat boxes don't have a card slot, so you cannot watch BT Sport on a 'proper' Freesat box, as it's not a free service it's conditional access so the box need to have a conditional access system built in, so Freesat PVR but no BT Sport, freeview from Sky, get BT Sport but no PVR functions unless you pay Sky £10/month, or have both Sky box for BT Sport and a Freesat box (for about the same price as 12 months of Sky PVR ) , another box under the TV though

macman

Why pay Sky £120 pa forever just to keep the PVR facilities? Why not buy a Humax Freesat PVR, keep the Sky box and switch to Freesat from Sky when you want to access the BT Sport channels? A simple splitter should allow you to feed to the required box.

Dan-Dan

the only thing is , i only use BT Sport for the UFC , which is on in the middle of the night , hence the need for PVR

I know , first world problems

headpin

macman wrote: »

Why pay Sky £120 pa forever just to keep the PVR facilities? Why not buy a Humax Freesat PVR, keep the Sky box and switch to Freesat from Sky when you want to access the BT Sport channels? A simple splitter should allow you to feed to the required box.

That assumes that you have enough sat feeds from the LNB for both boxes. You will need at least two I assume: one for the Sky box and one for the Freesat box? But, if you have a PVR Freesat box then I presume it will need more than one feed? So, if you have a quad LNB that will be fine assuming you're not wanting a "multi room" set up. But, if you have/had just the one Sky box you may need to run another cable from a spare teminal (if there is one) on the LNB?

So may not be as simple as just mix n match of satellite boxes. Need to think LNB and cabling too!