Considering getting rid of Sky

billyhead

Folks,

I have a sky subscription and a sky box and satellite and due to household cutbacks I was thinking of getting rid of the subscription all together. If I ring them to cancel it will I still get channels available to me, and if so which ones?

Max Power1

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055520627

gtg60

billyhead wrote: »

Folks,

I have a sky subscription and a sky box and satellite and due to household cutbacks I was thinking of getting rid of the subscription all together. If I ring them to cancel it will I still get channels available to me, and if so which ones?

This is a regular question, you should really have a little search before asking.

Anyway, turn the box off, take the card out and then turn it back on again, that's what you will receive.

billyhead

Thanks,

If I turn off the box and take the card out. When I put the card back in I presume I will get what I got prior to taking the card out. I know its a stupid question.

Gunther_Gloop

billyhead wrote: »

Thanks,

If I turn off the box and take the card out. When I put the card back in I presume I will get what I got prior to taking the card out. I know its a stupid question.

The card will work again after you put it back in.

But the Sky unit is not really a useable system without a Sky sub. The free channels are rubbish and adding the 'other channels' is alright, but 'surfing' to them afterwards is a pain.

You would need to buy a different box really.
Read the thread I posted a while ago if you haven't already. Hopefully we'll get some responses on there.

I know it's frustrating for those-who-know to be asked this kind of question all the time, but it's equally frustrating for newbies to be pointed at long threads that don't actually give the information actually sought. (I have read them and I have searched believe me ...possibly there is something I've missed, but it's buried deep in there if so).

Hotblack Desiato

Gunther_Gloop wrote: »

But the Sky unit is not really a useable system without a Sky sub. The free channels are rubbish and adding the 'other channels' is alright, but 'surfing' to them afterwards is a pain.

We've dropped our Sky subscription, still use the box, and what you say is not the case.

Free channels are rubbish??? BBC1-4, ITV1-4, Ch4/More4/E4, all BBC TV regions, and all BBC national radio channels are all in the default UK EPG, you don't have to add them under 'other channels'.

For what we watch, it's a lot better than when we had our Irish sub active, true we got RTE on Sky (get it on aerial now) but had no BBC3/4 etc. or ITV, or BBC radio in the programme guide, had to add them in under 'other channels'.

Sky rip off their Irish customers in terms of what they charge, but also in that we get a worse EPG than an expired box!!! Some way to treat your customers.

I have heard rumours that some boxes are locked to the Irish EPG and will not default to the UK EPG with no card, I don't know if that is true or not or whether a factory reset could fix it. If you pull your card out, reboot the box and get the UK EPG then you are fine.

Edit: Sky+ will not allow recording without an active subscription, but you can record the analogue output on an external recorder.

billyhead

Thanks Ninja900 for the info. Will i have to retune all these FTA channels if I pull the card, or could they just coome up when I browse through the channel

ninja900 wrote: »

We've dropped our Sky subscription, still use the box, and what you say is not the case.

Free channels are rubbish??? BBC1-4, ITV1-4, Ch4/More4/E4, all BBC TV regions, and all BBC national radio channels are all in the default UK EPG, you don't have to add them under 'other channels'.

For what we watch, it's a lot better than when we had our Irish sub active, true we got RTE on Sky (get it on aerial now) but had no BBC3/4 etc. or ITV, or BBC radio in the programme guide, had to add them in under 'other channels'.

Sky rip off their Irish customers in terms of what they charge, but also in that we get a worse EPG than an expired box!!! Some way to treat your customers.

I have heard rumours that some boxes are locked to the Irish EPG and will not default to the UK EPG with no card, I don't know if that is true or not or whether a factory reset could fix it. If you pull your card out, reboot the box and get the UK EPG then you are fine.

Edit: Sky+ will not allow recording without an active subscription, but you can record the analogue output on an external recorder.

John mac

no ,

snaps

You can also add channel 5 in the other channels. You could spend 30e or so on a UK FTV card and get all the correct channels in your epg (Including five, sky 3, Viva)

I think its the old Grundig boxes that wont provide a UK epg without a card.

pa990

freesat pvr ftw

Stinicker

pa990 wrote: »

freesat pvr ftw

Agreed, BBC HD has documentaries at night which a far far ahead of any of the Sky+HD crap. I have a Panasonic G10b with integrated Freesat which also does RTE DTT so I get all the nice free channels and RTE in digital quality which is better than RTE on Sky because I get RTE News Now and the Digital teletext, TV3 is off air at the moment but anything they have is on ITV on Freesat anyway. I think I will axe the Sky when my contract is up in June.