If i downgrade from SKY+ to Freeview.......

Buzza · 13 Jan 2006 at 14:37

what funtionality on the SKY+ box will i lose?

Can i still use the SKY+ box to record and so on?

webmonkeyuk · 13 Jan 2006 at 15:26

i think you need to subscribe to atlest 1 premium package to use Sky+ for free or you have to pay £10 otherwise. might be wrong nut im sure that was the case when i was thinking of getting it

Jez · 13 Jan 2006 at 15:29

No you cannot, it'll act like a standard single tuner receiver. Webmonkeyuk is correct.

There used to be some situations where you could get it to work with certain cards, but they dont work any longer.

Buzza · 13 Jan 2006 at 16:48

Hmm i thought it would retain the basic recording functions, looks like i would have been better off getting a non SKY hard disk recorder

So its either all or nothing, SKY really does suck sometimes.

webmonkeyuk · 13 Jan 2006 at 16:56

yeh i ended up getting a dvdHD recorder as i didnt want to carryon paying for the repeated crap on sky but still wanted the use of a hard disk to record

TripleT · 17 Jan 2006 at 19:38

Do old sky boxes have any use when plugging a basic arial in? Freeview etc? :confused:

vodkacokebloke · 17 Jan 2006 at 19:59

Wont sky want to have their box back anyway? Or is it one that you own somehow. I know that i only rent my Ntl one (which they can very gladly have back in March once my 12 months are up)

cokecan · 17 Jan 2006 at 20:35

TripleT said:
Do old sky boxes have any use when plugging a basic arial in? Freeview etc?

id like to know this too. parents wanna get rid of sky as they keep bumbping the price up for the same carp programs repeated no end of times.

we bought our panasonic box from a shop a few years ago now so i assume we'd own the actual box???

CurlyWhirly · 17 Jan 2006 at 20:59

cokecan72 said:
parents wanna get rid of sky as they keep bumping the price up for the same carp programs repeated no end of times.

That's the reason why I stopped subscribing last year as they put the price up 3 times in only around 9 months!
I know they were only small price increases but it was the final straw for me.

I used to have a Sky+ digibox and asked them if I could cancel my existing viewing package and whether I could just pay the £10 for the use of the recording feature?
Sky said no as I would have to subscribe to a viewing package so I cancelled :mad:

cokecan · 17 Jan 2006 at 21:01

yeah it really is stupid, i think it actually went up about £8 since we first subscribed.. would be nice if the old sky boxes could be used to recieve freeview

CurlyWhirly · 17 Jan 2006 at 21:14

cokecan72 said:
would be nice if the old sky boxes could be used to recieve freeview

Yeah but you can't really expect that to happen as Sky knows that most people would probably cancel Sky after their annual contract was up and use their digibox to pick up Freeview channels!

I now have Freeview instead and I would never go back to Sky even though I still have the old Sky+ digibox in the attic :rolleyes:

Jez · 17 Jan 2006 at 21:23

1) Old ex-sub sky boxes will continue to receive all the free channels, just use your cancelled viewing card.

2) No you do not have to return the box at the end of a sub, after the 12 months it is yours to keep.

cokecan · 18 Jan 2006 at 14:25

ah so if we just connected it up to the house ariel and left the old viewing card in the box, we'd get all the freeview channels??? or would it work if we left it connected to the dish???

Doug · 18 Jan 2006 at 15:00

Through the dish... Sky Digiboxes don't have over-the-air Freeview tuners.

Jez · 18 Jan 2006 at 15:04

cokecan72 said:
ah so if we just connected it up to the house ariel and left the old viewing card in the box, we'd get all the freeview channels??? or would it work if we left it connected to the dish???

Err, you'd need a dish connection

YooEntSinMeROYT · 18 Jan 2006 at 22:01

All I seem to be hearing these days are people canning their Sky services & going Freeview. Quite a few of my friends have done the same.

It's about time people woke up & smelled the coffee.

I for one have never succumbed to Sky's overpriced subscription services, incorporating repeats ad infinitum!

Even though the latest house I've bought has a Sky dish on the side of it.

It will be interesting to see what sort of rip off charges they can conjure up for Sky HD this April.