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Freesat from Sky v direct from Freesat
I'm considering replacing Sky with Freesat.
My options seem to be:
1. Freesat from Sky which costs £25 for a viewing card
2. A Humax box starting from £89 with no recording ( more expensive with hard drive for recording).
3. A TV with Freesat built in - I'm not sure if these record. I need to check.
I'd appreciate any advice or help in making the decision.
My options seem to be:
1. Freesat from Sky which costs £25 for a viewing card
2. A Humax box starting from £89 with no recording ( more expensive with hard drive for recording).
3. A TV with Freesat built in - I'm not sure if these record. I need to check.
I'd appreciate any advice or help in making the decision.
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2 The single tuner Humax HB1000S freetime box is capable of recording, you just have to add a usb hard drive.
3 Many TV's will also record to a usb drive but they are very inflexible as you can only record what you are watching
Thanks for your help
Yes that would make sense as it will give you basically the same facilities as your Sky+HD just with less channels, even though it will be more expensive than a non recording box that difference will soon be made up from the now missing Sky subscription.
Will the 2 cables enabling recording and viewing at the same time be connected to the Sky box?
You won't need the Sky box, just unplug it and connect the cables to the Freesat box.
The Humax Freesat box connects in exactly the same way as the Sky box using the same cables. If you want to watch the occasional event on Sky Sports then the £9.99 Now TV box may give you your fix.
I pay £74 a month at the moment. This includes multiroom. The second set is in the kitchen and hardly used. A £49 box will be fine for this.
I already have Amazon Prime which has lots of online movies. Renting from iTunes is not too bad for occasional use.
Apart from some sport, there's nothing much on Sky that I'll miss and the £179 for the box will be paid for in a couple of months.
It's looking good:D
Thanks for your help everybody. :cool:
Just weighing up the options myself as will be looking to cancel in a couple of months
If I recall correctly, Sky charge £10 a month for the privilege of recording your own TV programmes If you're not a Sky subscriber. It makes going over to Freesat a no-brainer.
Check this article out here http://recombu.com/digital/news/what-is-freesat-from-sky-free-satellite-tv-without-a-subscription_M11295.html although you don't get C5 HD any more. There are so few extra channels, it really isn't worth bothering with freesat from Sky. This is what you get with proper BBC/ITV Freesat though: http://www.freesat.co.uk/channels
The more I learn about Freesat, the more attractive it seems.
Apparently I've been with Sky for 13 years but now can't wait to change. It's like having a divorce.
I'm missing the football and also ITV4-HD but the saving is worth that and some of the saving has gone into purchasing blu-ray and DVD box sets to make up for that.
I wonder if ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 etc realise how many viewers they lose by only being in HD on Sky for some of their channels.
You do not need to
buy a FreesatFromSky (FSFS) card at £25 (at least until the next encryption change) as your cancelled subscription viewing card will act as a FSFS card.
Not required see post above
If ypu are cancelling Sky you do NOT need to purchase the FSFS card
But do Freesat viewers really boycot those channels just because they're not HD? I know I certainly don't, I'm not going to miss a program I enjoy just because it's not in HD.
Yes I realise why they do it, I was just wondering if they have the calculation correct.
Dave is a weird one as it's on Freeview but not freesat.
I do. For example there is football on ITV4 tomorrow night, I would have watched this if it were in HD but I'm not wrecking my eyes watching football in SD. (Ironically I wouldn't have watched these matches if I had Sky and therefore ITV4HD as I'd have a football overload from the PL but would watch them freesat ITV4HD if that existed).
Also I haven't been watching the repeats of "The big bang theory" because of not E4HD. Another thing I would have started on E4 would have been "The 100" though I don't know if I'd have continued. I'll by the box set of "The walking dead" when it comes out rather than watch SD on freesat.
I'll watch SD for some things (e.g. Blake's 7 DVDs) but not something new that is available in HD.