druddle

Hello

I heard from a friend that Sky will very soon be launching a package where you pay up front (150 quid or summat like that) and you get the system installed and the Freeview channels only, and theres no subscription. Its supposed to be a package to rival the Freeview stuff through the aerial, or cable.

Anyone know any more about it, as sky.com doesnt mention it yet, and the man in Currys told me at the weekend, that the Sky rep had been round last week to tell them all about it.

Dave

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Someone was talking to me about this the other week.

He said all I need to do is purchase a box and phone sky and ask for a freeview card and they'll send one. Didn't mention what that would cost though.

Must be some truth in there

davegtt

whats the point in it though, can get a freeview box for £50, is there different/more channels then or something?

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Handy if you have an old sky box though and don't want the £10 a month crap

ChrisB

Indeed. The Freeview web site reckons I might need a new ariel but the previous owner of my house had Sky, so I already had a dish.

£30 on a second hand Sky box (bought from a fellow SNer) and I'm half way there.

Scooby-Doo

Sky see this as a step to inticing people to sign up to the subscription packages once they have the box dish etc. They will see from the menus all the channels they cannot watch but they will be able to watch the payperview stuff.

Good idea from Sky I recon.

paulr

I talked to Sky last week about it,launch date around the end of the year.

pbee

Sky will launch this after christmas rush, they have a huge take up before christmas and will not want to offer the freeview package in the same period. The £150 freview package includes dish bos installation, and yes it has more channels available than DTT.

If you have a dish and box you used to be able to buy a viewing card for about £10, dont know if you still can but a better bet, if you have everything else.

cheers


Peter

paulr

sky you can upgrade to the full package,freeview thats it.

BexTait

Those of us that live in areas that can't get freeview can get sky digital

druddle

I have a box but new house has no disk

Oh well.....

Dave

druddle

Found this link.....

Freesat from Sky

Dave

P.S. Here is a Freesat channel list

pbee

The freeview.tv offer where you could buy a card and watch FTA tv on the sky box ended in January, (after the BBC pulled funding as they aquired DTT rights).

£150 is the install with new equipment or you can buy a fresat card for £20 for use with existing equipment. Exisiting cards (series 2 ) being used for freeview purposes will be disabled December 2005.

So if you have a card from a contract that you cancelled and are using this to watch fta channels, this card will not work after december 2005, this means channels that sky encrpyts on behalf of the station will not be viewable without buying the £20 freesat card.