JamieMacdonald

Hi,

The house we have moved in to does not have a TV aerial installed. This is not a big problem as we are planning to get Sky anyway.

The previous owners had Sky Plus and have left the dish - there are 2 coaxial wires coming in to the lounge.

What I am wondering is - if I connect one of the wires up to a Sky Digital (not Plus) box, will it work and what channels will I get? We're just after the freeview set of channels at the moment.

If I can get hold of a Sky Plus box, will this work at all without subscribing to Sky, even if just on the free channels?

Need access to a decent TV signal before my 37" Toshiba LCD arrives on Monday!

Cheers,
Jamie

WayneG555

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Don't think you can many (if any) channels without a card. But you can buy a freesat card from sky for about £25 which will give you the 'free' channels. You can also get them off e-bay for under £20 sometimes.

Wayne

stara

you'll get in excess of 60 channels (mostly shte though, shopping etc) you don't need a freesat card for the majority, skyplus needs a subscription to work properly.

JamieMacdonald

Cheers,

Someone brought one in to work this morning so I tried it when I got home and I can get most of the usual channels, except C4 doesn't appear for some
reason.

ITV2/3 etc. all work, but no e4, more4 etc

I think our contract with BT ends soon so will probably go for the Sky+ £26 per month basic phone/t'internet/TV package (+£10 for Sky+).