Martin Keene Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 I've got a Sky dish on the front on my house from the previous occupiers. I've noticed you can buy second hand Sky boxes on Ebay. Any body know what happens if you plug a secoond hand box into a dish without subscription? Do you get the basic Sky package? Or would you just get the same channels as a Freeview box? TIA Quote
Blatman Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 You'd get the same channels as a Freeview box. Remember though that Sky switched off the analogue signals some years ago, so if you buy an analogue box, you'll only get the channels that still broadcast in analogue. You *might* find that if it's an analogue dish (large-ish and round) it may not receive the digital signal too well. If you buy a second hand digi box with no viewing card, you can ask Sky for a "Freeview" card, and they should send one to you without too much argument. They *will* try and sell you a package though... Quote
Martin Keene Posted August 1, 2005 Author Posted August 1, 2005 Ta... It is is digital dish, ones of those oval things. We've already got a Freeview box, I was just curious to see if we'd gain anything buy changing. Quote
Frau Vesty Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 You'd get the same channels as a Freeview box. No you don't, the sky freesat package is different to freeview and you need a satellite receiver box which is different to a freeview one. www.freesatfromsky.co.uk I believe is the site which compares the two. The freesat card is a one off fee of £20 and decodes channels 3,4 and 5. Everything else is free to air and received without a card. If you already have a fine terrestrial signal then you don't need the card from freesat. Among all the crap, you get BBC1-C5, BBC3 and 4, ITV 2 and 3, and men and motors, as well as most radio stations and a full complement of shopping channels and various other bits and pieces. Full list and comparison with freeview is available on that weblink, assuming it's still active. I know coz we get them all free to air over here Quote
Blatman Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 No you don't, the sky freesat package is different to freeview and you need a satellite receiver box which is different to a freeview one. www.freesatfromsky.co.uk I believe is the site which compares the two. The freesat card is a one off fee of £20 and decodes channels 3,4 and 5. b*******. That's changed since the last time I looked at it... Quote
Martin Keene Posted August 1, 2005 Author Posted August 1, 2005 You'd get the same channels as a Freeview box. No you don't, the sky freesat package is different to freeview and you need a satellite receiver box which is different to a freeview one. www.freesatfromsky.co.uk I believe is the site which compares the two. The freesat card is a one off fee of £20 and decodes channels 3,4 and 5. Everything else is free to air and received without a card. If you already have a fine terrestrial signal then you don't need the card from freesat. Among all the crap, you get BBC1-C5, BBC3 and 4, ITV 2 and 3, and men and motors, as well as most radio stations and a full complement of shopping channels and various other bits and pieces. Full list and comparison with freeview is available on that weblink, assuming it's still active. I know coz we get them all free to air over here Interesting, although it appears the one channel I really wanted it for, Motors TV, is not included... Quote
chrisbin Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 Well just to confuse things further I think things have changed again.....cos you can get M&Motors (Martin, I know you only want it for the cars......) on Freeview... If you haven't got it showing then do a resest/retune and you should find that its there... Quote
Barry Ashcroft Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 He said "Motors TV" not "Men & Motors" two diferent channels. Barry Quote
Frau Vesty Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 You can't get motors TV on freesat - don't know about freeview. You used to be able to, but then they took it away about 4 months ago and made it a subscription channel. Westy was most upset. But recently they have unscrambled men and motors so now we get wall to wall copper choppers and the sweeney instead. Oh joy! But I think M&M is on freeview as well. Quote
westy Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 Apparently though, having M&M allows for a replacement game to drink along with Dallas: Swig along with Sweeney Quote
chrisbin Posted August 2, 2005 Posted August 2, 2005 He said "Motors TV" not "Men & Motors" two diferent channels. Barry Sorry! Still, I'm sure that M&M interests him just as much...... Quote
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