Leaving sky for freesat...

[s.m.h.]

How many of you are doing/done this?
I ask because someones' bought all the bloody Humax Foxsat + systems and I want one to stop giving piles of cash to Sky for crap films and sports I hardly watch.

What channels do you get with the Humax, or is it just the ftv channels listed on various websites?

[Mr Whippy]

s.m.h. said:

How many of you are doing/done this?
I ask because someones' bought all the bloody Humax Foxsat + systems and I want one to stop giving piles of cash to Sky for crap films and sports I hardly watch.

What channels do you get with the Humax, or is it just the ftv channels listed on various websites?

Stop paying for sports and movies then

And get rid of the news packages and maybe kids ones if you have none.

Our Sky+ is about £16 a month I think, not too bad if you make sure to record all the stuff you like!

[s.m.h.]

Sure,its one thing you can do but why pay Sky £120 p.y. when on freesat its £0?

I have the kids channels for my 2 yr old, though tbh its only 1 channel he really watches and 5 has mornings for kids so not a big sacrifice!
The only channel I will miss is Dave for TG re-runs etc...

[srob]

s.m.h. said:

Sure,its one thing you can do but why pay Sky £120 p.y. when on freesat its £0?

I have the kids channels for my 2 yr old, though tbh its only 1 channel he really watches and 5 has mornings for kids so not a big sacrifice!
The only channel I will miss is Dave for TG re-runs etc...

Dave is on Freeview

[hugoagogo]

srob said:

s.m.h. said:

Sure,its one thing you can do but why pay Sky £120 p.y. when on freesat its £0?

I have the kids channels for my 2 yr old, though tbh its only 1 channel he really watches and 5 has mornings for kids so not a big sacrifice!
The only channel I will miss is Dave for TG re-runs etc...

Dave is on Freeview

but not on freesat

[bishbash]

Get a freeview box for dave as well then, they cost less than a months sky subscription

[srob]

hugoagogo said:

srob said:

s.m.h. said:

Sure,its one thing you can do but why pay Sky £120 p.y. when on freesat its £0?

I have the kids channels for my 2 yr old, though tbh its only 1 channel he really watches and 5 has mornings for kids so not a big sacrifice!
The only channel I will miss is Dave for TG re-runs etc...

Dave is on Freeview

but not on freesat

I stand corrected. I assumed that free channels were free on both! Can you not still access freeview (if it's built into your TV)?

[john_p]

You can just cancel Sky and your box/card will continue to work for Freesat, but providing you have a decent TV aerial and freeview, I don't know if there are any channels on Freesat that aren't on Freeview?

[s.m.h.]

john_p said:

You can just cancel Sky and your box/card will continue to work for Freesat, but providing you have a decent TV aerial and freeview, I don't know if there are any channels on Freesat that aren't on Freeview?

I have sky+, and would like to record cartoons etc for little'un, though dont want to pay Sky £10 pm just to use it!

[hugoagogo]

afaik, the only free to air HD channels are BBC HD on freesat, and channel 4 HD on sky HD with some ITV HD stuff on freesat too

apart from that, freesat is pretty much the same as what you get on sky if you just cancel your subscription (I have a non-HD sky box with a 'free-to-air' card - which actually costs 20quid)

[s.m.h.]

Not bothered with HD tbh, my Panny crt has as good a picture as I could want.

Spoke to Richer Sounds today and theyre waiting for a delivery of the Humax boxes.
Anyone here got one and are they that good?

[hugoagogo]

well in that case, why do you want the new box? just phone sky, cancel the subs, and say you want to just watch free-to-air on your sky box

[s.m.h.]

Mainly to record stuff! I would rather buy a new box than pay £120 for the right to use the rather poor sky+ box.

[tossbag]

I just got one of these:
http://www.topuptv.com/

160 GB of recording space, more than happy with it, if that is of any help

[SS HSV]

Get Virgin media installed and get a Starview box off ebay - search for 'cable box'. I know someone that just bought a box and he gets all the channels for nothing and they cannot tell. It's only £5pm or free with an internet package.

[pokethepope]

SS HSV said:

Get Virgin media installed and get a Starview box off ebay - search for 'cable box'. I know someone that just bought a box and he gets all the channels for nothing and they cannot tell. It's only £5pm or free with an internet package.

Do you mean all the freeview/freesat channels, or cable ones such as Sky One etc?

[croyde]

s.m.h. said:

john_p said:

You can just cancel Sky and your box/card will continue to work for Freesat, but providing you have a decent TV aerial and freeview, I don't know if there are any channels on Freesat that aren't on Freeview?

I have sky+, and would like to record cartoons etc for little'un, though dont want to pay Sky £10 pm just to use it!

Although I have Sky+ free for a year, we also have had and still do have a Sony HDD/DVD Freeview recorder that is the same as Sky+ but for Freeview with no monthly subscriptions.

7 day EPG, Series link, pause live TV, bigger hard drive and save your stuff to DVD, play DVD/CD/MP3s all for around £200.

Edited by croyde on Saturday 10th January 11:30

[skwdenyer]

SS HSV said:

Get Virgin media installed and get a Starview box off ebay - search for 'cable box'. I know someone that just bought a box and he gets all the channels for nothing and they cannot tell. It's only £5pm or free with an internet package.

You're not seriously suggesting that Virgin still don't encrypt their signals in a way which is actually secure, are you? I thought this sort of thing died out with analogue cable when all one needed was a frequency-shifter.

[lost in espace]

Better still get a motorised dish and watch all sorts for free inc footy on thor at 1 degree.

[russ_a]

Virgin do encrypt but allegedy some rich oz chap who owns some tv channels and a few newspaoers paid for it to be cracked and then released the info on the web.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2758371/ITV-Dig...

Hence ITV went bust and te ozzir charges $$$$$ for his NDS encryption.

Thing is everyone is now watching sky for free via his own crack on virgin!!!