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

kmdelune

jchrishall2000 wrote: »

Question for those with a Sky sat system installed and who are thinking of cancelling Sky subscription:
(http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/?pID=6)

So is there a way yet to get the £20 Freesat card for nowt from Sky (or elsewhere)? (Apart from stealing it!) I don't like the principle of paying £20 to Sky for very little in return. What do I get for my £20 - will I even get the Freesat menu displayed on screen or will I get a jumble of channels whose number I will have to remember?

What about cancelling from Sky and just using my current Sky card? What channels will I get?

I have the exact same questions!
I ended up staying with Sky cos I got offered Sky+ box for just £49...
Probably tied up for a new 12 months contract now.. not sure though.
But I am still thinking about cancelling to get Freesat from Sky.

Answers to the above questions will be very helpful :j

Biggles

Just 'bumping' this one, as I was surprised to see no posts in the last few days.

I'm interested in taking Freesat, especially because there isn't anything much more MoneySaving than a satellite service with no contract and no subscription!

MissMuppet

I'm looking into getting freesat, I have just moved house across the other side of town and have managed to lose the freeview channels I had and gained the ones I didn't have... very weird! The channels through the aerial are rubbish so at the moment not a great TV experience for me... I will probably go with installation from somewhere, although could I then take the dish with me if I moved again???

Clowance

jchrishall2000 wrote: »

What do I get for my £20 - will I even get the Freesat menu displayed on screen or will I get a jumble of channels whose number I will have to remember?

What about cancelling from Sky and just using my current Sky card? What channels will I get?

TTFN,
Chris

Don't know the answer to using your current card, suggest you try it before spending money?

However we did pay £20 for the card from sky, and bought an old sky box off ebay to connect to a cheapie lidl satellite, and you use your normal remote and get your normal menu of channels, but if you try and access a pay channel it simply tells you it isnt available. HTH

And I am tired of all the fuss about freeview etc, despite living in an area with a quarter of a million people we wont be able to get it until 2012 and even then not channel 5, which we also cant get on terrestrial. GRRR (rant over)

ashcarrot

Im loving my freesat, got a Humax box and octo lnb fitted the satellite myself which i relatively easy if ya have a satellite finder (£10 from currys). Waiting on the PVR and this box will go into a bedroom.

SAVEMEAFORTUNE

Is there any way to take advantage of the £75 sky forever package AND the "refer a friend" free sky+ box?

TechnoBadger

MissMuppet wrote: »

I will probably go with installation from somewhere, although could I then take the dish with me if I moved again???

Wouldn't be worth it. A dish by itself is worth very little.

adr0ck

jchrishall2000 wrote: »

What about cancelling from Sky and just using my current Sky card? What channels will I get?

all the ones on freesatfromsky

your existing card will just be freesatfromsky

philippa35

Yes I noticed that my reception got worse in May and I have tried to contact the bbc and freesat as I believe that they downgraded the reception so that the freesat would look attractive - marketing ploy. It does not seem that a lot of people are noticing this - my reception is awful for sport now and most programmes are a little less crisp and almost fuzzy at times ...
Not sure what else we can do. I have written to watchdog - but they are the BBC!

Biggles

AlanUdale wrote: »

Do it yourself just look where the sun hits your home at 10am thats where your dish goes

I hoped that would give me a clue as to whether I could get a dish where I was planning, but then I realised that's got to depend on the time of year.

I assume that means 10:00 GMT (not BST) - what time of year is the sun at the right height? At 11:00 BST in August the sun is surely much higher than the satellite?