Replace Expensive Sky Stream

Replace Expensive Sky Stream

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bad company

Original Poster:

18,717 posts

267 months

Friday 3rd May
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Our stream puck works perfectly well be we’re really fed up with Sky’s price increases particularly mid term. In our last house we had Freesat which worked really well. We didn’t want a satellite dish in our new house so tried Freeview which was awful in comparison with limited stations and functions.

Is there an equivalent to Freesat that works through broadband? We want to able to view and either record (prefer) or stream on demand our favourite stuff. We also want to be able to view a standard tv menu as below. Would Apple TV fit the bill?


jinkster

2,253 posts

157 months

Monday 6th May
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Have you looked at the EE version. It might be worth calling into the shops for a demo.

megaphone

10,772 posts

252 months

Tuesday 7th May
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The Freeview channel list is usually pretty similar to the Freesat channel list, do you live in an area with limited Freeview coverage?

Which channels do you watch?

Skys EPG has always been one of the best, the EE/BT EPG is not bad, not as good as Sky but still ok. I have a Humax/BT box which has Freeview, I don't have a subscription. It works very well, has all the recording options and all the basic streaming options.

Edited by megaphone on Tuesday 7th May 08:08