Sky Freesat
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- Kibkommer
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Sky Freesat
Hi - I just found this out and thought I would share it in case there's anyone else out there exploring their tv options. Sky do a Freesat viewing card which costs £25 if you're an existing customer and then you can watch free to view tv. There are more chanels to watch than on Freeview and all you would need is a sky dish and sky box. We have both and are thinking of Sky, but using the Freesat in another room and linking both boxes to the sky dish.
Apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know.
Moyra
Apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know.
Moyra
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- Kibkommer
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Re: Sky Freesat
Hi Mozgor
When u say existing customer is that in UK?
When u say existing customer is that in UK?
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- Kibkommer
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Re: Sky Freesat
You don't have to be an existing customer, but it's more expensive if you're not http://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/. The good thing is you have no contract and the have no way of knowing where you're watching it.
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- Kibkommer
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Re: Sky Freesat
Here's a link to a company in the UK who can arrange a viewing card if you don't already have a Sky account
http://www.insatinternational.com/freesat.php
http://www.insatinternational.com/freesat.php
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Re: Sky Freesat
Sounds Good i am on it
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Re: Sky Freesat
one thing that it looks like you have missed is that we are outside the normal sky foot print here in cyprus and am lead to belive that you will need a big dish to try and get the signal ?
Karaman, its not all wax jackets and green wellies anymore
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- Kibkommer
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Re: Sky Freesat
You are right that I didn't mention it, but thought peeps would realise you need a dish. The 1.8 dish is big enough I am told.
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Re: Sky Freesat
Not for BBC, it isn't!Mozgor wrote:.......The 2.8 dish is big enough I am told.
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- Kibkommer
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Re: Sky Freesat
True, but having read some posts on the 'old' forum as BBC have changed the satellite they use, even a large dish wouldn't work anymore?
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Re: Sky Freesat
Absolutely correct, I just didn't want a 'newbie' reading this, and thinking that they would be able to get absolutely everything with a 2.8 M dish.Mozgor wrote:True, but having read some posts on the 'old' forum as BBC have changed the satellite they use, even a large dish wouldn't work anymore?
Actually, doesn't a 1.8M dish get most UK programmes? - I don't know the details (I use T'Internet for UK TV) but it might help someone else if you happen to know...
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Re: Sky Freesat
Hi - you are quite right and thanks for pointing out my error, it is a 1.8 dish not 2.8 as stated above. Will amend my original post just to keep things correct.
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Re: Sky Freesat
Has anybody got this TV system? If so how much is the dish?
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Re: Sky Freesat
I would also like to know if anyone has this, I have a Sky subscription and a 1.8m dish and from Sky's list of channels you get, there are virtually none that I can receive at the moment. All BBC channels are not available here and we lost ITV as well, that accounts for a lot of the channels. We also cannot get Channel 4 or 5, and we lost 5USA, also in the small print on Sky it says that you may have to purchase another card from time to time, whenever they feel like it.