Freesat to replace old Sky Box

[oldaudi]

Some guidance please,

I've got a Sky Dish with HD Sky + in the main room and an old Sky (non sky+) in a room upstairs with one feed of coax to it from the dish.

Its an old box and the majority of channels that should be available are not, I get constant errors regarding signal strength even though the test options within the EPG show full strengthish and good signal and in my view the box is knackered.

Sky wants £100s plus fitting to replace it with a Sky HD box which Im not really interested in. Its connected to a Sony Panel with S-Video and Scart connections only and the Sky HD box only has HDMI now

Is it possible to replace the box with a FreeSat box so I just get the free to air, do I need to realign the dish at all?

Thanks.

[jas xjr]

I have an openbox , no need to subscribe to sky

[Bullett]

And no need to adjust the dish, it's plug and go.

[anonymous-user]

Hmm
Funny one that. I got a Samsung freesat thingey. It wouldnt or couldn't read the dish. Was a few years ago now though. Bang back in the old Sky box and it was ok. Remember at the time googling it and there was an explanation something to do with where the programme guide comes from. As I was relocating the dish anyway I got a new one so it was semi academic. As I said a few years ago but there was definitely something amiss.
Oh and it was the same when we borrowed a mates humax freesat box too . I'm not saying it wont work it just might not be as strauight foreward as it should be but whatever happens greesat is great

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 3rd March 10:47

[Bullett]

I've done it twice now in two different houses with two different dishes and both worked first time.

[bristolracer]

Assuming the dish is all healthy just plug and go
Lot of freesat boxes are HD now so just the spec regarding analogue outputs

Dont forget to get sky to delete the faulty box from your account!