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[Closed] Freesat/sky box hybrid

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Last time the Sky "engineer" left, as a passing comment, he said that we could use our Sky digi box to watch freesat once our sky subscription has expired. I assume that this means that the viewing card is invalid or had a stop put on it.
Is this true? Anyone had any experience. We have several good digi boxes, a 4 way LNB on the dish and it would be nice to run freesat in the bedroom. The idea is to save buying a freesat box really.
Your experiences gratefully recieved.


 
Posted : 22/05/2011 6:31 pm
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Yes you can do this, I think the card is £20 from SKY. You can't record anything though unless you pay them £10 /month.


 
Posted : 22/05/2011 6:51 pm
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He probably meant the channels which are free on SKY.

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/free-to-air-channels/

You may need to buy a £25 viewing card to get it to work, not sure if your old one would work-ours did until they 'updated' them

http://www.sky.com/shop/freesat/home/faq/#6

Hope this helps.
Andy


 
Posted : 22/05/2011 6:57 pm
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Sky and freesat are the same - boxes and all. Just a different card controlling what you are allowed to watch.

However Sky+ won't work.


 
Posted : 22/05/2011 7:02 pm

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