Thinking of ditching Sky for freeview

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After about 7 years of having Sky, the digi-box is on it's way out so am contemplating what to do.

I'd love to upgrade to Sky+, but the cost of this to a loyal existing customer is tat compared to what is offered to a johnny come lately. (I know you can negotiate if you threaten to cancel, but it's not a certainty)

I'm currently paying £37pm which is the standard pack plus the sports package.

The missus has indicated that £37x12 = £444 is a lot of cash to pay each year for watching a bit of footy on the box, and I have to agree, especially as I have a season ticket too.

We don't really watch anything else, so was thinking about getting a freeview box instead?

Anyone got one of these, and are they any good?

Do you have to have a special aerial to get it? We don't actually have any aerial at the mo.

And more importantly, is the world cup footy on Sky or terrestrial?

cheers
pie
 
basmic said:
If you like the footy, then it might be worth your while getting a Top-up TV box.

Can buy the starter packs for £27.99, which includes your initial £20 connection fee and first months rental.
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oooh, never heard of this before. what is it? is it part of sky or freeview?
 
We have freeview and love it, when I go see friends with Sky there is never anything interesting on, as you said the only thing I would like is more sports, but I can see this happening sometime, when it started there was noi free E4, but there is now, I can see something siimular happening with a sports channel

We have got a Panasonic 40Gb Harddrive Freeview thingy, it has two tuners for freeview so its basically Sky+ for freeview, cost us around £200 from Richer Sounds (are they a competitor?)
 
an HDD freeview box sounds great.

does freeview have that planner like sky does where you can see things a week in advance and set things to record away automatically?
 
Freeview boxes are the best thing money can buy at the moment. There's something for everybody on there including radio stations.

Boxes can be bought nowadays for as little as £25. I'd get one with a HDD next time though.

Don't bother with TUTV, the extra channels are not worth the extra premium imo.
 
Yes it does, but its not wonderful (its called EPG or Electronic Programme Guide, I think) I use the TV guide in the Times to see whats on etc but its perfectly usable

You can set stuff up to record weekly as well, like I have Neighbours to record every Mon-Fri and it replaces the last days episode automatically
 
We have an indoor (loft) aerial here and can pick up everything (though I have to use a booster for my PCI cards), so it entirely depends on the signal strength in your area. The Freeview site says we shouldn't get anything wierdly :confused:

Make sure you research the box you get, we got a topuptv starter pack and the box was utterly useless. The onscreen display was awful and the "interactive" services were utter crap, and painfully slow.

TopUpTV was a waste of time for us as in theory it had the stuff we wanted, but only broadcasts certain channels for parts of the day only.
 
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