New house with a Sky Dish

[fullbeem]

I have just moved into my new house with my partner and 13week old son, dining room looks like a bombs hit it with our worldly posessions everywhere. First thing i do is sort the television out.

Hooked up the freeview box and rescanned channels but the signal for E4 and the like is ste. The house has a sky dish and the front room has two aerial cables, one which returned not signal which i guess is for the sky dish.

Is it possible to purchase a "used" sky box and run it without paying a monthly fee to SKY. Im assuming I can and get the free channels.

[V6]

AFAIK you can use an old sky dish to receive freeview, yes.

[Plotloss]

V6 said:

AFAIK you can use an old sky dish to receive freeview, yes.

Not Freeview, Freesat

[fullbeem]

Plotloss said:

V6 said:

AFAIK you can use an old sky dish to receive freeview, yes.

Not Freeview, Freesat

But from the details in another thread, won't I then have to get a Freesat from Sky card costing £20?

[Plotloss]

fullbeem said:

Plotloss said:

V6 said:

AFAIK you can use an old sky dish to receive freeview, yes.

Not Freeview, Freesat

But from the details in another thread, won't I then have to get a Freesat from Sky card costing £20?

If you use an old sky box, yes. £20 one off cost.

If you buy a freesat reciever, no.

[fullbeem]

ta

[RacingPete]

Though it is worth doing a cross check on the channels you can get on FreeSat vs Freesat through Sky compared to upgrading the ariel/connection to the TV and a freeview box.

I have just got FreeSat box (Humax Foxsat HDR) and if you are use to Sky or Freeview you may find the channels limiting!

[fullbeem]

Well got my Panasoic skybox off eBay for £20 delivered. Plugged it in and got all the free channels (BBC3 & BBC4, E4 etc.) without needing a sky card. Only missing so far More4 and Dave but i get Babestation instead. Ill move the freeview box upstairs so Dave & More4 can be viewed there.

[Adam B]

fullbeem said:

. Ill move the freeview box upstairs so Dave & More4 Babestation can be viewed there.

EFA

Edited by Adam B on Monday 20th April 10:50