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Kymmy · 21-09-2009, 09:56

Even if he was going to set the sky box to recieve Bulgarian home sat it wouldn;t be didgy, Sky boxes are owned by the customer after a year so can be sold on, he's talking about the free to view channels (not subscription or PPV)

The ONLY issue here would be the reception of UK channels outside of the UK but the UK channels shot themselves in the foot with that one right after freesat was announced/launched..

This begs the question in that is sky going to replace the blue free to view cards as most are NOT registered to an address, it's only the subscription cards that are, so I presume that the blue cards will be good for a long time yet, even so it would only stop you watching I think 3 or 4 of the FTV channels as most now are encryption free..

The only other issue is dish size, Bulgaria isn;t on a main lobe so you;d need a decent 1meter+ size dish and even then it's not gonna be a great signal

21-09-2009, 09:56	#6
Kymmy Inactive Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 18,385	Re: Will This Sky box work Even if he was going to set the sky box to recieve Bulgarian home sat it wouldn;t be didgy, Sky boxes are owned by the customer after a year so can be sold on, he's talking about the free to view channels (not subscription or PPV) The ONLY issue here would be the reception of UK channels outside of the UK but the UK channels shot themselves in the foot with that one right after freesat was announced/launched.. This begs the question in that is sky going to replace the blue free to view cards as most are NOT registered to an address, it's only the subscription cards that are, so I presume that the blue cards will be good for a long time yet, even so it would only stop you watching I think 3 or 4 of the FTV channels as most now are encryption free.. The only other issue is dish size, Bulgaria isn;t on a main lobe so you;d need a decent 1meter+ size dish and even then it's not gonna be a great signal