Installing sky without subcription (not freesat)

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My parents just want a "inidan" only television package, this is with the broadcast company called Zee-TV, they are offering a sky viewing card for £15.99 a month for thier main tv channels.

They are not offering any kind of installation service for SKY, so it will be up to me to sort it out for them.

I phoned a couple of Sky installers, and they would install sky for £120, but thats with a crappy Grundig box, which i would not be happy with and neither will my parents.

Could i purchase my own sky box from ebay, and once installed by the professionals, would it work with any subcription with any valid viewing card inserted into the machine?

Also which are the better sky boxes? Are any of the panasonic boxes any good, or are they quite old now?

Thanks for any help :)
 
Call me a badge snob but i dont like the sound of grundig :(

Are the panasonic STB's any good? I heard that they were malfunctioning under the new software upgrade?
 
Ok, i'm just about to buy the stuff off ebay, i told my dad i'll just install the sky, cant be that hard!

Get a dish, box, a sat finder (or use the box to show the signal strength).

Copy the location of the sky dish next door, get a relative angle and tweek from there on.

And on top of that, we get to install the box whereever we want, with better care than any installer would do!

So buying these items, any objections?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-AMSTRAD-DRX550-DIGIBOX_W0QQitemZ160022213019QQihZ006QQcategoryZ96970QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/48cm-Mini-Dish-FREE-INSTALLATION-KIT-Get-it-fast_W0QQitemZ330020097653QQihZ014QQcategoryZ29783QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I guess thats all thats needed for sky installtion, plus a quick trip to B&Q for the internal wall mount.
 
Bobbler said:
All sounds good mate, as long as you have a nice big SDS drill and a foot long bit to go through the wall? Factor those sort of items into the equation and it suddenly becomes less of a saving against getting a paid professional in to do the job.

Depends where you are planning on running the wire though I suppose.
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Hmmmm sds, indeed we do, and we have a pneumatic drill to play with too, which is fun (wait a min, there the same thing ish :/)!

I hate the idea of a worker drilling into the house without a care in the world.

Cant wait to play around with the new equiptment!
 
That was easy! Fix dish and align with the meter, cheap and easy and no hassle at all.

Got 75% signal Quality too, which i hear is good.

And i must say, sky tv is much better picture quality than NTL. And the Amstrad drx550 box is a very nice box.

Excelent picture quality and very fast, and sexy looking, the white remote is a welcome change aswell.

I might buy a dual LNB so i can get free sat in my room, you get a good variety of channels compared to freeview.

Anyone thinking about installing sky themselfs should deffo try it!
 
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