No Sky signal - recommendations..

Domo

Domo

Domo

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Just moved house. Prior to moving, phone and Internet stated my postcode was eligible for Sky TV despite being at the foot of a hill. Low and behold engineer turns up today and says no. Reason I phoned was to describe the geography.

So that's Sky cancelled. Annoying because we'd recently invested in SkyQ but we're getting refunded on all that.

Question is - what else is there? We don't get Virgin here either. We're yet to get broadband - we were on Sky but that hadn't been transferred to the new address. So options re aerial really! Crikey. from UHD F1 to using a bloody aerial!!
 
BT TV, most channels are delivered via Freeview but the subscription ones are via your internet connection. You need BT Infinity to get it though.
 
You need a satellite signal. Sky are trialling dish-less in York but they're way off making it generally available.
 
Anyway you could get a private sky dish installer to come and give you a second opinion? I thought Sky only offer a basic installation, so if it's to tricky or the dish needs to go above a certain height they simply walk away.
 
The engineer was excellent. He got onto the roof, nada. Then went to the end of our front garden with testing equipment trying to get an angle which cleared the trees on the hill behind us. He was here for a good 40 mins. The only way we can get signal is to mount the dish on a tall pole at the very front of our garden which will look awful.
 
Valo said:
Anyway you could get a private sky dish installer to come and give you a second opinion? I thought Sky only offer a basic installation, so if it's to tricky or the dish needs to go above a certain height they simply walk away.
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no, they have a particular team of installers for special installs.
 
To illustrate our predicament! Apparently - if our garden stretched to the opposite side of the road we could add a dish at a normal height. Frustratingly we can see dishes on the houses opposite. Grrr.

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Domo said:
You need a satellite signal. Sky are trialling dish-less in York but they're way off making it generally available.
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I wish they had trialled Sky Q a bit more, I'm forever having to re-pair boxes. Got a Sky Q booster and that hasn't helped, just got Orbi wifi all over the house rather than using the single BT router and still no improvement. Their solution is to run an ugly cat 5 cable along the outside of the house. None of my other devices (Now TV, youview and fire TV) have any issues.
 
Sounds like BT TV may well be your best/only option then. I've had it since March and have been pretty happy with it; the choice of channels isn't as great as Sky, but a Now TV subscription takes care of most of that. I've also got Netflix (the BT TV box has the app) and Amazon Prime Video so there's always plenty to watch.
 
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