Help! Advice needed to go from sky to freeview!
 

Hello,

I am currently paying out a lot of money each month for sky plus tv. I have been with sky for nearly 2 years.

I have heard friends talk about having freeview or freesat but I am not clued up on this. I would like to change my sky so I am not paying a monthly cost. I went to buy a freeview plus box today but then realised that The problem I have is I don't currently have an Ariel. (Only a sky dish) which means getting someone in to fit an Ariel.

Is the any tv out there which I can use which is free and I can use the dish I have at the moment? I also want to be able to record my programs like I do on sky plus! Any advice would be appreciated! As you can tell I am not a wiz at this.

Thanks
Chez

Re: Help! Advice needed to go from sky to freeview!
 

You still have a Sky dish, right?
Then just buy any freesat PVR, like this and replace the Sky box

I don't believe there are any TVs with freesat built in that can record

Re: Help! Advice needed to go from sky to freeview!
 

If you currently have a Sky+ or Sky+HD box which has two satellite inputs you could buy one of these its then as simple as plugging your two satellite inputs into the back of it and your good to go.

Re: Help! Advice needed to go from sky to freeview!
 

If you end your Sky subscription, the Sky box/card should operate in "freesat from Sky" mode, but you will lose the + recording functions unless you pay a separate £10 per month subscription just to keep those features.

Alternatively, a Freesat+ box would connect in place of the Sky+, would allow recording, and would not have a whole heap of unsubscribed channels to scroll through.

NB. Freesat desctriptions...
Freesat+ is recording
Freesat HD ... is HD (not recording)
Freesat+ HD is recording and HD
"Freetime" is the scrollback EPG with on-demand catchup (similar to Youview for freeview) - can be found on some recording, and some non-recording devices - there is a £99 HD with freetime that is not a recording one (and of course, broadband connection is required for catchup)

Re: Help! Advice needed to go from sky to freeview!
 

I have the same problem i.e. a satellite dish with two leads and have stopped Sky and want to go onto talktalk. Unfortunately the talktalk box needs a single coax cable. How can I convert the two satalite dish leads into one coax.