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Chad · 26-08-2013, 15:54

I have SKY+HD in my living room and just SKY HD in my bedroom. I have 4 separate feeds coming from my dish. 2 feeds to the box in the living room, and 1 to my bedroom. This means I have 1 feed free.

My parents gave me their old white Thompson SKY+ box. I've hooked it up in another room using the spare feed. If has an old blue viewing card that must be about 7 years old! The box still records and I can pick up about 85% of Freeview channels and a whole host more however I'm missing things like Dave, Yesterday and DMAX.

I understand that SKY offer a Freesat card. Any idea how much this is? Also would replacing the card disable the recording functions of the old SKY+ box I have? I'm finding some of the information online to be a little conflicting and confusing.

26-08-2013, 15:54	#1
Chad cf.mega poster Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Edinburgh Services: SKY Family, SKY Broadband Unlimited, YouView, Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Boxnation Posts: 5,137	Freeview / Freesat from SKY I have SKY+HD in my living room and just SKY HD in my bedroom. I have 4 separate feeds coming from my dish. 2 feeds to the box in the living room, and 1 to my bedroom. This means I have 1 feed free. My parents gave me their old white Thompson SKY+ box. I've hooked it up in another room using the spare feed. If has an old blue viewing card that must be about 7 years old! The box still records and I can pick up about 85% of Freeview channels and a whole host more however I'm missing things like Dave, Yesterday and DMAX. I understand that SKY offer a Freesat card. Any idea how much this is? Also would replacing the card disable the recording functions of the old SKY+ box I have? I'm finding some of the information online to be a little conflicting and confusing.