Sky contract

Beware of Sky. Eventually got through. They insist I pay £21-50 before any discussion on any services. Despitet he fact I had a 12 month fixed cntract they say they expected me to give them 21ays notice to terminate. Impasse at present.

We downsized to a bungalow in October. There was a SKY dish and associated cabling to 3 of the rooms. I decided to remove everything as I prefer Freeview. 

The cabling is in the bin and the dish and mounting bracket are in the back garden awaiting the next trip to the council tip.------------- Unless of course, somebody wants them for free. 

K

You could have plugged a FreeSat box straight into that setup.

I've got a Sky box, but I've fitted a multiple LNB to the dish and run a couple of FreeSat boxes as well, one of them being a hard disk recorder (Panasonic).

Very glad of this setup, last hurricane blew my Freeview TV aerial down.

I have looked for an alternative to the sky box but not found one that can be connected to the dish. BT only supply a box that fits an aerial..Anyone know of a Freeview and recording box that I can substutute for the Sky Box. If it can take BT Sports even better.

I have looked for an alternative to the sky box but not found one that can be connected to the dish. BT only supply a box that fits an aerial..Anyone know of a Freeview and recording box that I can substutute for the Sky Box. If it can take BT Sports even better.

Humax make excellent freesat receivers that have similar functionality to the Sky+ box. I think they used to make one that was capable of recieving both Freesat and Freeview, but I am a bit out of touch now so not sure if they still produce one. Connects direct to the sky dish. Also the humax boxes have all the catch up functions (BBC Iplayer etc) You wont get BT sport though.

Have a look on some of the AV forums, they are a very useful source of information.