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sjp63
Original Poster
1,902 posts
141 months
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Turin to be precise. Whats the best way to get UK TV? - Big, big dish into freesat or some SKY set up?
thanks
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abels
601 posts
151 months
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My old man is based just outside and Alba and he uses the Freesat which seems to get most of the UK Channels. BBC, ITV, Channel Four etc. I believe he is using a 1m dish. I know there are some Cable subscriptions that you can get. But I do not think you get all the channels as you will with Freesat.
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chris watton
12,341 posts
129 months
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We brought our SKY+ box with us and got a local (in Turin) installer to set up the 80cm dish, and the picture's better than what we were used to in the UK! (For this, you do still need a UK address and bank account)
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catso
10,260 posts
136 months
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My sister lives in Florence and my Dad took her a Sky box with a larger than standard dish out, works fine.
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PAPPACLART
40 posts
58 months
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try purevpn, its private VPN, so can stream uk tv live, from BBC Itv et and cathc with Iplayer and the like. really good and very cheap. I used it to watch all of the 2010 world cup action in english.
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sshenton1975
393 posts
90 months
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I've been in Verona for a 2 years now and can tell you that the absolute best way is to join the following: www.tvproxy.co.ukYou pay them about 10£ a month and you can watch everything connected through your PC You need a fairly good connection but we have no problems
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sshenton1975
393 posts
90 months
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I've been in Verona for a 2 years now and can tell you that the absolute best way is to join the following: www.tvproxy.co.ukYou pay them about 10£ a month and you can watch everything connected through your PC You need a fairly good connection but we have no problems
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Louis.
516 posts
98 months
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sshenton1975 said: I've been in Verona for a 2 years now and can tell you that the absolute best way is to join the following: www.tvproxy.co.ukYou pay them about 10£ a month and you can watch everything connected through your PC You need a fairly good connection but we have no problems Wow a solution to watch Eastenders !  Bloody barstewards (BBC) decided to take BBC Entertainment away from all us ex-pats !!
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Nikkie B
154 posts
33 months
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We have a "piggyback" set up through the laptop (connected to TV) which works pretty well for BBC 1-4 and ITV 1-4 but no Dave or films  I can check the settings and costs and PM them to you if interested.
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sjp63
Original Poster
1,902 posts
141 months
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In North Italy we use a freesat tele linked to a normal size dish and it works fine. the other way is to import a humax freesat box or recorder.
We get all UK freesat channels except Dave for some reason.
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Stuart70
391 posts
52 months
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Lots of friends in Milan used standard sky dish and UK box and card - repositioning the dish to pick up UK Sky seemed straightforward. Guess that must depend on area / reception etc. We used Italian Sky as I was on a weird learn Italian kick (strange living in Italy?), I wouldn't bother with Italian TV if I had my time again. It was dreadful, no, actually it was worse than that... made ITV1 look like quality! 
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