Page 1 of FREESAT - Freeview For Sky Boxes

If like me, you live in an area where freeview ain`t available..... you have 2 choices.... no digital or SKY..... (ok 3 if you include PC gimpternet stuff)....

And if like me, you find that SKY is pants....... you`ll have looked for a freeview card for your Sky box.....

But... these have long since gone... (thanks BBC)....

But fear not.... Sky now have FREESAT..... for a small fee of £150 you get install, box and freesat card.... Hurrah!!....

Hang on.. what about us punters who already have a Sky box... well fear not... a lot less advertised.... in fact almost silent... is the fact that you can buy the Freesat viewing card from Sky for £20.....

08706 061111..... option 1.... ask for the card only and hear their voices sigh.....

A quick scout around the net for Freesat will give you more info.....

My Sky subscription ran out in December and I haven`t renewed it since deiciding it`s a rip-off. Anyhoo...

I can still receive all the Freesat channels with my old Sky card - is this the norm or will these become unavailable to me in the near future? Would a Freesat card offer me anything that my expired Sky card doesn`t?

"Every time I learn something new it pushes some old stuff out of my brain!"

Have quick scout round the internet... I think.. and I may be wrong... that the Sky cards can take up to 3 months to become inactive... and that sky scramble some channels that the Freesat cards will allow....

I may be totally wrong here... but one off £20 is better than the £20 a month for the rubbish I`m getting....

My contract with Sky ran out 2 years ago - I still get all the free channels. Every christmas they offer me 3 months half price rental which I take up and then cancel after the 3 months! They even sent me a new card - although I don`t subscribe!!!

If you have a version 2 sky card (dark blue with yellow house) it supposedly will get ALL of the same channels as a "freesat from Sky" card. If you have no card you won`t get ITV1, CH4 or CH5 - that`s the only difference

Great - I have version 2 card.

It seems to me the same setup could be had for a lot less than the £150 sky are offerering it at. I`m sure you could pick up a second hand sky box and dish for around £50 and bolt it on to your wall yourself.

I re-installed my sky dish last year when I moved house and it was pretty straight forward - drill 4 holes in wall, attatch dish, set angle to 26(?) degrees and point the damn thing in the same direction as everyone elses dish! 1 minor adjustment later and I have about 80% on my signal strength and quality bars, the picture is great apart from during the absolute worst weather.

I really wasn`t happy that Sky wanted to charge me £60 to re-install my equipment so I could continue to pay them £35/month. To be honest I was a bit doubtful that it would work without more accurate positioning using specialist equipment but was pleasantly suprised when it did. Took me about half an hour.

"Every time I learn something new it pushes some old stuff out of my brain!"

Same here, my sub just ran over a year when the signal went on my dish and sky wanted to charge 60 come out and fix it, I notice that the freesat thing also does some of the channels I subscribed to sky to get, bi bi sky, hello Freesat...

Just wondering do you get Skyone or E4 on Free Sat?

I don`t want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen

No Sky One and E4 are for the payers of this world... not us paupers........

More details here....www.freesatfromsky.co.uk