freesat on a sky box advice?

AustinByrnes

hello,

some advice please. i have been on freesat now for over 2 years and have a humax box in main sitting room and a technisat pvr in bedroom.

i see these on ebay:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Sky-Plus-PVR3-160gb-Satellite-Receiver-Box-Remote-Scart-Power-Lead-Freesat-/330713366992?pt=UK_ConEle_SatCableFreeview_RL&hash=item4d000d81d0


are these sky boxes really freesat or free to air.

freesat to me is: works off uk postcodes and will always have an 7/8 epg guide(this is the important bit)

free to air: will only give you now and next on epg.


the freesat epg has a certain channel list in certain order

a sky box channel list is in different order.

buy boxing the sky box and purchasing one of those freesat sky cards:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/GENUINE-UK-WHITE-DIGITAL-TV-FREESAT-VIEWING-CARD-MOST-POPULAR-BRAND-FREE-P-P-/130683629877?pt=UK_ConEle_SatCableFreeview_RL&hash=item1e6d59f135


does that change the sky box from free to air to freesat.

paultf

I think the Sky card you mentioned is a FTV (Free To View) card. I have one of these. I was going to get rid of Sky but the problem was the Irish EPG only had some channels available via the EPG, the rest (like ITV, etc) were got via the 'Other Channels' button which made it awkward. This problem only ocurred with a Sky HD box - a ordinary Sky box works better as all you have to do is pull the card out and the EPG reverts to the UK one.

With a HD box you can get a FTV card and this will give you the UK EPG with alot of the FTA channels. The channels are more accessible on the EPG. BBC1 is at channel 101, etc. I don't have it set up at the moment so I can't remember the full layout of the channels. But I do know you get a 7 day EPG, you can't use the 'Other Channel' button and you can't record.

Someone else here might fill you in better.

Check: http://www.adverts.ie/satellite/sky-white-freesat-ftv-fsfs-card-free-delivery/1217139