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No idea and need advice.
Hello there,
My old thompson sky box has recently died on me and I am wanting to get a new box. What would be best for me as I live in Germany with no payed service. Freesat+ , HD with HD drive.Or any other option. Ideally i would like to record the channels while watching another. Anything would be better than the normal freeview. Thanks in advance S&F Rob p.s. I also have a freeview card from sky. |
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Hello there,
My old thompson sky box has recently died on me and I am wanting to get a new box. What would be best for me as I live in Germany with no payed service. Freesat+ , HD with HD drive.Or any other option. Ideally i would like to record the channels while watching another. Anything would be better than the normal freeview. Thanks in advance S&F Rob p.s. I also have a freeview card from sky. At the other end of the spectrum you can buy very cheap (~ 25 Euros) Free To Air receivers in Germany which will let you watch all the non-encrypted stuff from UK or again more than one satellite with again a suitably equipped dish. To help you further it would be best if you give a "wish" list of what is important to you. For example if you definitely need Fiver for example then you would need to stick with a $ky box and flea-bay would be the place to go. |
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Thanks for that.
What is important is having the ability to watch ITV's Corry and Emmerdale previews and catchups like on any Sky box. Also i would like to still watch BBC3 and 4 and Sky3 if possible. With a slot for the sky card. A normal Sky box would be good with Freeview+, but dont you have to pay 10 pounds a month for the recording option. Also what boxes would you recomend. Thanks again Rob |
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What is important is having the ability to watch ITV's Corry and Emmerdale previews and catchups like on any Sky box. However if Sky 3 is important to you then you will need to stick with a $ky system as it is not available with FreeSat nor Free To Air. To give you a rough idea you can compare what you are used to with $ky to http://freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.Main and http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&p...q&filtre=Clear plus http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&p...q&filtre=Clear All of the above is available for free
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SKY+ only offer a sub from £10 a month just for recording, if you don't pay the sub you can't record the box just tells you to upgrade to the 1st package.
Your only option is a Freesat Humax to record, but you won't get sky 3 - You will get BBC3 and 4 though. There is only 1 freesat box that records at the moment and thats the Humax Foxsat, there is more coming soon but this is the only 1 on the market. http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...al+TV+Recorder There is a slot fitted for a sky card to be inserted but the card has to be put into a sky box every so often otherwise it just de-activates itself - It was possible to decode SKY3 and 4HD with a CAM fitted but the NEW Sky white cards have put a stop to that. |
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