Freesat: 80 channels, £150, or £200 with HD inc. installation

mike_paterson

Oliver27 wrote: »

Thats Not quite corecct you can watch BBC HD on a Sky HD
box without having to have a Sky viewing card

How can I do this Oliver - it does not work on my sky plus box - I pay £21 per month or something ridiculous, but this does not give me the BBC HD channel.

spaceman5

kmdelune wrote: »

I'm not sure if I'm signed up for another 12 months with Sky just because I have a new box with them..

Any help is much appreciated!
:j

i am pretty sure u will be tied up to another 12 month contract from the date of the installation of the new sky+ box, i know we wa, as we did exactly the same as u, 8 months ago, so only 4 left, but then we will just go with freesat from sky, dont see the point of forking out for another box when skys freesat gives u alot more channels to choose from than this new thing from bbc/itv, oh except the one hd channel that can watch 6 hours a day, sound like a bargain to me

spaceman5

mike_paterson wrote: »

How can I do this Oliver - it does not work on my sky plus box - I pay £21 per month or something ridiculous, but this does not give me the BBC HD channel.

dont know how u can watch hd on sky for free, but you cannot watch hd content on sky+ box, u need a hd box for that

tc80tc80

MartinG wrote: »

tc80tc80 wrote: »

Any problem with getting the Dixons offer mentioned earlier in the article....



Got the Dixons deal last summer when it was a 6 month offer. Phoned to cancel and they couldn't do it on the system (after 30 minutes on the phone). So cancelled in writing.
Lost count of the number of letters I got from them threatening/reminding me of my contract and that I owed them £19.99 per month. Phoned again (by the way don't forget Saynoto0870!) and again. Transpired that their system couldn't cope with 6 month contracts as everything was for 12 months. I will NEVER have anything to do with Sky ever again. Took about 8 weeks to sort out.

So what you are saying is that five minutes after it is installed and working, start the cancellation process and I should just about have enough time before the four months is up. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

dairycottage

How can I discover whether or not the coverage will be good for me...I can't get freeview...!

IanBroadhurst

dairycottage wrote: »

How can I discover whether or not the coverage will be good for me...I can't get freeview...!

Should be fine as it comes from space :rotfl:
Seriously though, it will have the same coverage as sky - meaning the vast majority of the UK (someone correct me if Im wrong), and unless you live in a forest with really high trees all around you, you ought to be fine.

baldie

Any-one know if I could use freesat system in Spain. I want to get just a few channels-Just bbc1 would be enough without paying a monthly fee, I already have a dish and box, but recently lost the signal. Area- Moraira nr Javea/ Denia-mid Costa Blanca. Hope you can help out there !!! Baldie

tc80tc80

baldie wrote: »

Any-one know if I could use freesat system in Spain. I want to get just a few channels-Just bbc1 would be enough without paying a monthly fee, I already have a dish and box, but recently lost the signal. Area- Moraira nr Javea/ Denia-mid Costa Blanca. Hope you can help out there !!! Baldie

Checkout http://www.flysat.com/ebird1-beam.php

These are the Eurobird coverage maps for Sky digital so Freesat should match.

Here is the Astra 2 coverage.....

http://www.flysat.com/astra28-beam.php

and here is the channels that Sky has and which satellite those channels are being put out on.

http://www.flysat.com/sky.php

Since you can use a Sky dish to get Freesat without re-aligning the dish. In theory at least (don't you just love a good theory?) Most of the Freesat channels would possibly reach to Spain.

caseyjones_2

Simon_c wrote: »

It depends on your dish.
there's two parts to it. The dish, and the receiver (LNB). The old receivers only had space to connect 1 sky box.
Sky+ receivers have an LNB with 4 sockets (A sky+ box uses two of those).
Now, I think that all new installations since sky+ was announced use this 4port LNB. Wiring in extra sky boxes is as simple as running a satalite coax type wire (easy to get from B&Q) from the dish to the room. We used one in the kids play room for their TV until I got a cheap (and quite hopeless) PVR for xmas for them.

So, if you run a new cable down, you could even put a sky box and a freesat box in the same room.

Thanks. We don't have a Sky+ box. Might be worth having the installation option done I think.

ScratchandSniff-->[X]

DAV9000 wrote: »

Hi,
The number of channels available is tiny; BBC, ITV, CH4, FIVE, Sky news and one or two others.

That's a bit poor - you can get more than that over a broadband connection with Zattoo...