Channel 4, 5 & 6

mazzyk

Hi,

I'm very impressed with everyone's satellite knowledge here - I only found out yesterday that I could get ITV channels through my Sky dish (with the help of the information on here). I now have a selection of various ITV regions through Adding Channels.

I've read a lot of the posts here and am I correct in assuming that for now I wouldn't be able to do the same for Channel 4 and 5 from the Uk as well as the new Channel 6 from Ireland?

I did manage to follow the same procedure for adding channels for Channel 4 and it did show in my list of Other Channels but when I selected to view it came up with a message 'This channel is not available' - similar to the one I get for Film Four as I'm not a subscriber.

So do I need to purchase an alternate card to get these other 3 channels? I have a Sky package (paid monthly) and no aerial. Should I get one from UK? Or is there another way of setting up channels?

Thanks!

jhegarty

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=51268521&postcount=2


Channel 6 is only on cable/mmds...

Pal

When you get bored with the limitations of a Sky box and it's ADD CHANNELS feature, you might consider a modest (less than €150) investment in a FTA receiver. LIDL and Maplins are often the cheapest.

in short, your Sky dish is looking at a fixed location of 28.2 degrees.
you only get what's available there.

there's hundreds more tv channels waiting to be discovered.

CivilServant

Pal wrote:

When you get bored with the limitations of a Sky box and it's ADD CHANNELS feature, you might consider a modest (less than €150) investment in a FTA receiver. LIDL and Maplins are often the cheapest.

in short, your Sky dish is looking at a fixed location of 28.2 degrees.
you only get what's available there.

there's hundreds more tv channels waiting to be discovered.

What other good channels are there?

Pal

I like sports TV. Some good free ones are Planeta Sport, RAI Sport, Sportitalia, DSF Sport, Dubai Sport.

here's a full list

http://www.flysat.com/fta.php

CivilServant

I got sky+ installed recently and the engineer gave me all the itv and extra bbc channels and channel4 too. He said that it would be switched on in a few weeks. Anyone heard anything similar?

Mitzy

Had sky+ installed last week & the engineer said that Channel 4 would be available in the next couple of weeks

Mossy Monk

i would look forward to that except i have heard it a thousand times already

i will believe it when i see it

channelsurfer

hmmm sounds like more dodgy engineer talk. did they actually give you channel 4 or say it will be switched on?

Tony

Mitzy wrote:

Had sky+ installed last week & the engineer said that Channel 4 would be available in the next couple of weeks

I know of no moves to make ch4 available

Ulsterman 1690

Channel 4 is unlikely to be available free to air before 2008 at the earliest

Unless you can source a FTV/Freesat card from the UK you wont get it in the Republic

channelsurfer

I would say the installer was probably talking about film four going fta/ftv. no guarantee that even that will be available without a uk viewing card either.

byte

Yes, I think there was some confusion over FilmFour going FTA, and rumours abound that C4 was also going FTA.

But, from what I am aware of, C4 will not be FTA the same time as FilmFour. I'd agree with Ulsterman1690 in saying 2008 if ever.

Mitzy

You can get FTA cards on ebay for about €32 - well worth it!