Re: Freesat from Sky
 

Well I did the installation and tried the old Sky box with no card and it does work OK on FTA channels and only prompts you for the card on other channels, I even get the full Sky EPG. So you only need the £20 sky card to watch a few FTV channels

In the end I went for a proper Freesat box just to get the EPG and all the channels.

If anyone tries doing it themselves for the first time, I found this was pretty useful for fitting the connectors.

Re: Freesat from Sky
 

I have a question with regards to this,

I have just moved into a rented property that has a sky satellite on the side.

I have ordered sky for the lounge which is being installed friday, but don't see much point in going crazy for a second sky subscription for the bedroom. There is a CoaX cable to goes into the bedroom that I cannot get any signal out of using an analogue tuner, I assume this is connected to the Satellite as well and the previous tenants had sky upstairs as well. If I get a freesat box is getting it set up going to be a case of just plugging the freesat box into the coax or will there be more work involved?

Re: Freesat from Sky
 

A Freesat box or an second hand sky box can be used by just plugging it in. If you get Freesat the EPG list will be different, and not all FTA channels are listed, allthough there is a facility on most boxes to tune channels manually.