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Help me decide what TV service to get

tw0nk · 2007-08-29 09:26:10

Hi All, I just moved into my new house and I have awful reception for the 4 Irish channels, so I want to get a proper TV service like chorus or sky or something. I live in Enniscorthy in Wexford and chorus informed me that they will not install their mmds service in my house as a house in my estate failed a signal test. So…

29-08-2007 9:26am

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tw0nk

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Hi All,

I just moved into my new house and I have awful reception for the 4 Irish channels, so I want to get a proper TV service like chorus or sky or something. I live in Enniscorthy in Wexford and chorus informed me that they will not install their mmds service in my house as a house in my estate failed a signal test.

So what does that leave me with? I dont particularly want high charges for the service and I dont need movies or anything but I would like to have decent sports, mostly soccer and rugby.

What are my options and what are the costs involved?

Thanks in advance...

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#2 29-08-2007 9:47am

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tw0nk wrote:

I want to get a proper TV service like chorus or sky or something. I live in Enniscorthy in Wexford and chorus informed me that they will not install their mmds service in my house as a house in my estate failed a signal test.

So what does that leave me with? I dont particularly want high charges for the service and I dont need movies or anything but I would like to have decent sports, mostly soccer and rugby.

What are my options and what are the costs involved?

Thanks in advance...

Chorus isn't a proper tv service anyway. This leaves you with Sky. Through Sky Digital you have access to all the sport channels.

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#3 29-08-2007 2:00pm

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Well Ive been reading posts on lots of forums, some of them say you can point a dish at some other satellites and pick up all the soccer matches for free etc, is this possible or just dreaming?

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#4 29-08-2007 2:01pm

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you're dreaming

click here

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#5 29-08-2007 2:08pm

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You can get the basic Sky "2 Mix" package for 21.50 euro a month. You can then either go with Sky Sports ontop of that or go for another sports channel like Setanta.

The Sky.com/ireland site shall give you info on the choice of packages and how much extra the Sports channels are. Setanta are seperate and are 18 euro a month for 9 channels iirc.

Sky service would be a lot better than Choras I find.

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#6 29-08-2007 4:14pm

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You dont need to subscribe to get the basic BBC and ITV channels -see "free to air" sticky threads

If you have a multisatellite FTA you might have some look finding free football on satellites other than the Astra 2(Sky/BBC) satellite but its rather hit and miss and the recently some satellites (like Turksat) have taken the football channels off their "West beams"

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