UK TV in Italy

[sjp63]

Turin to be precise. Whats the best way to get UK TV? - Big, big dish into freesat or some SKY set up?

thanks

[abels]

My old man is based just outside and Alba and he uses the Freesat which seems to get most of the UK Channels. BBC, ITV, Channel Four etc. I believe he is using a 1m dish. I know there are some Cable subscriptions that you can get. But I do not think you get all the channels as you will with Freesat.

[chris watton]

We brought our SKY+ box with us and got a local (in Turin) installer to set up the 80cm dish, and the picture's better than what we were used to in the UK!
(For this, you do still need a UK address and bank account)

[catso]

My sister lives in Florence and my Dad took her a Sky box with a larger than standard dish out, works fine.

[PAPPACLART]

try purevpn, its private VPN, so can stream uk tv live, from BBC Itv et and cathc with Iplayer and the like. really good and very cheap. I used it to watch all of the 2010 world cup action in english.

[sshenton1975]

I've been in Verona for a 2 years now and can tell you that the absolute best way is to join the following:

www.tvproxy.co.uk

You pay them about 10£ a month and you can watch everything connected through your PC

You need a fairly good connection but we have no problems

[sshenton1975]

I've been in Verona for a 2 years now and can tell you that the absolute best way is to join the following:

www.tvproxy.co.uk

You pay them about 10£ a month and you can watch everything connected through your PC

You need a fairly good connection but we have no problems

[Louis.]

sshenton1975 said:

I've been in Verona for a 2 years now and can tell you that the absolute best way is to join the following:

www.tvproxy.co.uk

You pay them about 10£ a month and you can watch everything connected through your PC

You need a fairly good connection but we have no problems

Wow a solution to watch Eastenders ! Bloody barstewards (BBC) decided to take BBC Entertainment away from all us ex-pats !!

[Nikkie B]

We have a "piggyback" set up through the laptop (connected to TV) which works pretty well for BBC 1-4 and ITV 1-4 but no Dave or films I can check the settings and costs and PM them to you if interested.

[sjp63]

In North Italy we use a freesat tele linked to a normal size dish and it works fine. the other way is to import a humax freesat box or recorder.

We get all UK freesat channels except Dave for some reason.

[Stuart70]

Lots of friends in Milan used standard sky dish and UK box and card - repositioning the dish to pick up UK Sky seemed straightforward. Guess that must depend on area / reception etc.

We used Italian Sky as I was on a weird learn Italian kick (strange living in Italy?), I wouldn't bother with Italian TV if I had my time again.

It was dreadful, no, actually it was worse than that...

made ITV1 look like quality!