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Help please, missing channels because sky viewing card has given up.

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  • 18-12-2020 9:08pm
    #1
    shellycub
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭


    Hello,

    I'm hoping someone can help. My parents sky viewing card has given up. Have gone through resetting and still no joy.

    It will take 7 - 10 days to get a new card. In the meantime we can still get some channels but no rte, virgin, sky....

    They have a smart tv and it is an old sky box.

    Can someone tell me how we can get the missing channels back or even just the free to air.

    Thank you


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    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Saorview enabled TV? Get an Arial and stick in it will give you the Irish channel....

    Not sure on TV but some you can plug the sat in from sky box to it and get the UK Freeview channel such as BBC and channel 4 etc...


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    swoofer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,416 ✭✭✭swoofer


    say make and model of TV. Was it a sky pay card or a FREE TO AIR one?


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    LenWoods
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭LenWoods


    Log on to eBay UK and purchase an unused sky card
    Gets you lots of free channels


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    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users Posts: 13,999 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    LenWoods wrote: »
    Log on to eBay UK and purchase an unused sky card
    Gets you lots of free channels

    You reckon that will arrive much quicker than the replacement card?

    I doubt it!


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    mikeecho
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    What channels are you looking for?
    If it's the rte and virgin channels, just plug in a TV aerial and do a scan.


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    LenWoods
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭LenWoods


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    You reckon that will arrive much quicker than the replacement card?

    I doubt it!

    Ideally get a sky DRX595C connected to its own feed from the existing satellite and leave it plugged in with the UK card permanently to operate along side your subscription box,
    The cards are also available from sat planet in Ireland and adverts which may arrive quicker this time of year,
    Link:
    http://sat-planet.ie/FREESAT-VIEWING-CARD?search=Viewing card
    It won't display any Irish channels, and sky subscription cards which your likely to receive from sky used to be issued from Scotland I'm not sure if that ever changed. So this may arrive sooner I'm not a gambling man I can't really suggest which will arrive first however both deliver a promise.


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