Sky+ Box as a Freeview recorder?

YoungBlood

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I have been contemplating lately about canceling my whole sky package as I realy dont watch enough TV to justify paying for it anymore, but I was wondering if I did this would I still beable to use the sky+ box to get the freeview channels and use the same sky dish, as we have no aerial on the house.

Also would I still beable to use the sky+ box to record the freeview channels as I would hate to miss my daily dose of aussie soaps :D

I would ring and ask them but only have my mobile and dont fancy being stuck on hold forever.
 
Jez said:
Yes to the first bit, and no to the second bit. :)
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Would you not be able to just pay the £10 a month subsciption for the sky+ services, thus enabling the record etc. functions for the freeview channels?
 
You most certainly can pay just the Sky + subs and use the box to record freeview chanels. It has been known for people to have a bit of a battle with sky customer services to get them to set this up. Persistance will be the key.
 
It'll be something people have argued for. I asked them this question a while back and they told me that i must take up a channel package.

TBH though i cant see the point in just getting the free channels when you can have virtually everything for only another £18
 
Why pay £10 per month for a Freeview PVR when they exist for a one-off cost for less than a years subscription of the above?
 
Tesla said:
Why pay £10 per month for a Freeview PVR when they exist for a one-off cost for less than a years subscription of the above?
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Yes, and Freeview has a better selection of channels than "Freesat from Sky" as I believe they call it.
 
DJ Baz said:
Yes, and Freeview has a better selection of channels than "Freesat from Sky" as I believe they call it.
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Marginally, true though.

Do not overlook the aerial. A less than substantial aerial can cause many fustrating issues.
 
well :mad: the last 2-3 days I have had the dreaded no signal is being recived error on the box, phoned them up and did the whole reset the dish thing and still no good :(

They wanted £65 for an engineer to visit, which I think is kinda high considering the prices of the subscriptions, I told them I could not afford it right now and would just leave it a few days and hope it fixes it's self.

He actually said that might do the trick as all this hot weather could be causing the problem :confused:

Is it difficult to re-allign the dish yourself, are there special tool's required?
Meh, maybe I'll just throw bricks at it while shouting is that any better?? through the window :D
 
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