KBO / Saorview

Coat22

Hi

I recently rented an apartment in Ennis and cannot put up a dish or aerial. KBO provide TV services to the complex and the letting company told me I could connect to Saorview for free if I had a decoder.

So I rang KBO and it terminates at Sky who would be all to happy to sign me up for €28 a month. I don't want Sky I only want the Saorview channels.

I asked my landlord and was told if I had an old sky box without the viewing card I would be able to get the basic channels.

Before I spend any money has anyone had experience of something like this? The TV point is there, I presume its connected to a central dish - if I buy a saorview enabled TV and connect to it would this work? What about the "sky box with no card" option? Anyone heard of this?

Not trying to scam anything, just pick a couple of free to air channels to keep me going.

Thanks

Thurston?

As long as your apartment is connected to the distribution system from the dish, any satellite receiver will do to get any free-to-air (FTA) channels included on the system, doesn't have to be a Sky box. I'm pretty sure it's only old Sky SD boxes that are any use without a card, reverting to the UK programme guide when rebooted: with a HD box you need a UK card of some kind to get the subscription-only Irish channels off the guide & replaced with FTA UK channels. I don't think the UK channels missing from the Irish guide can even be accessed via 'other channels' with no card.

You won't get Saorview from a satellite dish, there would need to be a UHF terrestrial TV aerial included in the system too. The satellites at 28 degrees east, as used by Sky, do not carry RTE, TV3, TG4 etc. free-to-air.

swoofer

as a stop gap look at aertv ie, ennis has fibre bb now so you could be lucky. is there only one socket on the wall??

steveon

Aertv is no longer free....so not a viable option...tell your landlord you only took the place as you were told the saorview channels were free...tell him sort it or threaten to leave.....

Ennis is covered by Maghera and the signal is very strong in most parts a small internal aerial mite be suffice to provide you with the signal.

swoofer

its free for rte etc

steveon

swoofer wrote: »

its free for rte etc

AERTV is no longer free.....its €5.99 a month or you can view for a maximum of ten mins a day for free.

https://secure.aertv.ie/upgrade/