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Hi Folks

I was just wondering if any of you nice people out there would be able to help. I am fed up with SKY and I was just informed of another price increase today! Is there any system you can buy to get away from SKY and still receive football and films for free. These people are really doing my napper in. Any information would be great.

Cheers.

I very much doubt it, if you want sky sports and sky movies etc. you need sky.

I think the reticence to assist probably comes from your use of the phrase "still receive football and films for free" - tut tut....totally against Forum Rules, naturally.

This item was edited on Friday, 25th October 2002, 21:37

You could probably pick up a cheap complete analogue system for around £80.For that you would get a dish+mountings,LNB,tuner and some cables.Most will have basic instructions on how to align the dish etc.
The majority of channels FTA on 19.2 are german stations, RTL/ RTL2 / ARTE / ZDF etc.Most of these have sport or movies at some time and sports at another.DSF is a dedicated sports channel showing a variety of sports but not Champions league or English Premier League.
However you will find that if you do a browse through each channels listings, usually text page 300/301/302/303,you might find a sport (Football or motorsports)you fancy.Movies are usually a few years old and dubbed but a few on ARTE/ZDF are in their original language.Ideal if it`s a US/UK movie but not much use if it`s a French or Spanish movie.
I still use our old analogue system for watching the warm up in F1 and sometimes for the qualifying.
If there is a game in the UEFA cup with a German team you will be able to see that LIVE on RTL or DSF .Plus sometimes DSF has Bündeslige games on live.
If you were going along the analogue route I`d probably get a motorised system,that way you can view from several satellites.Eutelsat and other platforms have hundreds of FTA channels.It all depends on what you fancy.If you want the Premiership and top movies you will probably have to get Sky as they seem to hold all the cards at present.
I know the increase from £16 to £18.50 is a bit of a p***er but when compared to what cable offers for a similar price the channels in the family pack makes Sky a pretty good bet .
HTH :-)

This item was edited on Friday, 25th October 2002, 21:41

Cheers Choagy, thanks a lot mate.

Why not get a freeview box? You still get champions League footy, and five seems to be getting some more recent films on.

All for the price of a box.