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If you have sky TV in an apartment block...

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  • 24-11-2008 3:32pm
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    oneweb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭


    ...did you know you can get all the FREE TO AIR channels (Astra 28), just by buying a standard satellite receiver box?

    This isn't a bargain alert per-se, more of a heads-up, but I was chuffed to find out I didn't have to pay Sky a single cent to watch a good few free channels like BBC1-4, ITV1-4, C4(+1), Film4(+1), E4(+1), More4(+1), Five etc :D

    Obviously you wont get the Sky channels or RTE/TV3 from the box, but Sky sometimes provide those for free on the regular TV signal.

    It is what it's.



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    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    is that legal?


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    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,540 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    the groutch wrote: »
    is that legal?

    Yes, perfectly.

    About 100 UK channels are unencrypted and Free To Air (FTA), thus anyone with a satellite can receive them.

    The BBC and others are currently building their own system called Freesat to compete with Sky:

    http://www.freesat.co.uk/


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    pippip
    Registered Users Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭pippip


    Yeh. Its all legal.

    www.freesat.ie

    They have everything.


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    duffmagic
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭duffmagic


    The long wait for communal Sky to come to my block is nearly over. I've been planning on using my own decoder all along, but I've one snag:

    Will Sky actually hook up extra LNBs for apartments that haven't yet signed up?


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