Sky customer with SD box will loose access to Sky cinema sd channels in May and in August will loose access to all of sky channels.
I have an older sky sd box in spare room for uk free channels but they are disappearing one by one lately, I can purchase a sky+hd box in local sat shop and can I just switch this with that older existing box and continue without any other alterations needed? tia
no the irish sky hd boxes require a UK freesat card.
Go with a Manhattan Freesat zapper box for the FTA channels, less than €100 via Amazon iirc.
Would advise to try and get the sky hd box not the sky+ hd as they have a hard drive in them and usually take ages to boot up waiting on hard drive.
As you can't record on them so no use for hard drive unless you want to take it out for pc but don't think box will run without it.
Ok thanks for that, dont need to record or anything just for watching the channels. Will ask about that viewing card.
Hi Swoofer..
To understand this correctly, you have an old sky box, with just the fta channels?
"Beamed" all around the house.. Is that done with cables, or via WiFi, etc?
Thanks
I have sky sports as well and the way it works is the SKY HD box is so old it has 2 rf outputs and I use a coax cable to a distribution box that has coax to each tv. I picked the best RF channel and used that. The tv's have analogue tuners. I have more than one box and use RF converters as well. Its very basic but works a treat. In the old days sky did a magic eye thingy and that was powered via RF 2 but sky got clever and dropped the RF outlets then the scart and now gone to SKY Q. I refuse to change.
Cool. Thank you for that.
I'll read this over and over for a few days to understand it. 🤣🤣
Yeah, I'm stuck with the bloody sky q thing, but would love to have TV coverage in other rooms around the house.
Sadly, cables aren't an option, and no way I'm paying sky for more boxes/subscriptions.
you can get a digital multiplexer, that takes an input from HDMI from a sky box and outputs a digital channel that will appear in the TV guide in a user selectable location. Hotels sometimes use them. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Encoder-Modulator-Converter-freesat-freeview/dp/B07CJS68LT
no cables and thats a major problem. Can you say why no cables and how many rooms do you want it in? Have you just got sky q? For example if box is near kitchen wall you can drill a hole through wall and run a HDMI cable. Wall would be back to back, this is just an example. Any telephone scokets in rooms?
Ok, behind the TV point in the main sitting room where the TV is, there's a socket for cables that run to the attic. But the attic has been very heavily insulated and converted with flooring, so absolutely no access to those cables.
Yes, just have sky q. Although I know there's an Amiko HD mini around the house somewhere. Haven't used it in years.
The other rooms are upstairs, although it does back onto the kitchen, but no TV in there.
No phone sockets as such. There's an old one buried at the very back of the utility room at the other side of the kitchen.
Problem is though that to fully utilize your Sky Sports sub from next month, you'll need Sky Q, Glass or Stream as a lot of events will be online streaming only with the launch of Sky Sports+. Eventually a Sky+ HD box will be as obsolete as the non HD boxes are now.
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I’m not sure who that comment is aimed at and I can only suppose without a quote It’s aimed at the poster above.Either way, play the ball not the person please.
Erm, stick with your Sky+ HD box and you'll be paying out the same money for less events, unless you've got decent broadband.
Did Sky News change frequency today? Its gone and I cant get it back…
try 11934 v 27500 QPSK dvb-s
Thanks but did it actually move?
Sky News Ireland moved on 17th July to 12.090 V 29.500 8/9 DVB-S2 QPSK
Sky News UK moved yesterday to 11.934 V 27.500 5/6 DVB-S QPSK
Another TP changed from DVB-S to DVB-S2 today - https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/comment/104922175#Comment_104922175
TP 65 https://en.kingofsat.net/tp.php?tp=8105
Thanks, pretty annoying, I have to do 4 different boxes every time this happens between the parents and the neighbours.
has anybody managed to get 11553 H 23000 working in Ireland? It has a lot of the U.K. radio stations that we loved in this house. I cannot get it to work. It’s the only transponder I can’t tune in. I even have CNN which can be temperamental. The signal intensity is coming in at 30% and signal quality at 10% which is weird as the others are all in the high 60’s-high 80’s percentages.
Luker, I checked for you and the problem is at your end. You don't say receiver but you should check the dish alignment. If dish is old the arm can drop a little. And high winds can move it. That frequency has a good signal. Lnb can be on way out as well but my guess its the dish.
also check for trees branches. leaves can block signal
thank you, really appreciate you checking that. Yeah if I was to guess, the dish would be 20 years old so perhaps needs replacing. Strange that it’s the only transponder not to work. Thanks again
I just see RTE Radio is on DVB-S2, TV channels will move quite soon too, marking almost the end of old sky boxes.
RTÉ Junior launched in DVB-S2 on Sky Ireland this morning. Oireachtas TV had it's DVB-S2 launch on Sky yesterday. RTÉ News Channel and the RTÉ Radio channels switched over to DVB-S2 in recent days. Is that every main Irish channel switched over to DVB-S2 on Sky now with the +1's left to tick off on the list?
RTÉ News and the two +1s are the 3 remaining stil to change to DVB-S2, which will probably happen next week. They have been testing for a few weeks on 12.148 H (SIDs 5158, 5804 and 6808)
The SD versions of ITV 1 & ITV 2 will close on Sky & Freesat from this October.
https://www.itv.com/presscentre/presscentre/media-releases/information-itv-satellite-viewers-sd-only-set-top-boxes
All 3 channels changed to 12.148 H today. All Irish channels on the Sky platform are now broadcasting on DVB-S2
Channel 4 moving moving Film4, E4 and More4 in the UK to DVB-S2. The SD version of CH4 will close too.
https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/channel-4-making-major-changes-on-sky-satellite-and-freesat/
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