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mally1

mally1

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Looking to reduce costs, currently paying £60 a month, anyone changed from sky to another similar provider (I'm not in a cable area)
 
Depending on your viewing requirements it might be better to get a humax free sat recorder and a nowtv box. Decent HD humax boxes are around £150+ and offer pretty much what sky+ can do. The nowtv box is a sky product that uses broadband (think you need 2mbps) but you can buy vouchers for sports/movies/entertainment off eBay. You will get a voucher for your particular option when you buy the box. Some good deals on HUKD at the mo.
 
mally said:
Looking to reduce costs, currently paying £60 a month, anyone changed from sky to another similar provider (I'm not in a cable area)
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If you have an old PC lying around with HDMI on the video card, get a satellite receiver card with 2 inputs and install Mythbuntu (if you only have one LNB on the dish you can split the cable). Get a wireless mini keyboard with trackpad. Hey presto ALL the free terrestial and satellite channels for free and a DVR with EPG to boot. No re-alignment of the Sky dish required. If you have the PC, you can do it for less than £120

Bonus is you can also use the internet on your HDTV if you have a network connection to the PC
 
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All depends what you want it for. Movies can be quite cheap with Netflix etc, and live sports feeds are normally available over the net.
 
Dreambox, comes to mind as a m8 has one and says it's good, I just use freeview and anything her indoors wants is on bbc Iplayer.

Dreambox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
dreamboxshop.co.uk

Have a look and see if they're any good for what you want.

But as mentioned before a freesat or now TV box is a good alternative. (can you not get a free card for the existing Sky box? You used to for about a tenner)

One good trick is tell Sky you're thinking of leaving, they offer you deals to get you to stay ;)

I watch a lot of movies but stream them from the PC onto the Xbox/TV.
 
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colonel45155 said:
Dreambox, comes to mind as a m8 has one and says it's good, I just use freeview and anything her indoors wants is on bbc Iplayer.

Dreambox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
dreamboxshop.co.uk

Have a look and see if they're any good for what you want.

But as mentioned before a freesat or now TV box is a good alternative. (can you not get a free card for the existing Sky box? You used to for about a tenner)

One good trick is tell Sky you're thinking of leaving, they offer you deals to get you to stay ;)

I watch a lot of movies but stream them from the PC onto the Xbox/TV.
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Dreambox is just what I suggested except it's in a pretty box and comes with a huge price tag :)
 
I recent got an android box (XBMC) plug and play comes with a hdmi lead connect it to the router and tv plug it in and away you go!

It has movies, box nation and sky sports plus lots more... It is cheap to buy and free to watch there are a few channels that ask for a donation but I've not used them yet, probably won't as I'm a greedy git.

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It's all this crap that's getting me really 'excited' about moving back to "Welsh Wales"
Was told today that there's meters on the water supply there and they won't allow you to have your own deep well as we have here. Has anyone successfully challenged that?
Is there any free TV any more? My wife was surprised at the cost of gas/petrol until I told her that price was per liter... We're bitching at $3.45 a gallon...
 
Delta,

There us still free to air tv, but the tv license means it's not free but still affordable! The only issue is it is crap!

As I remember the well is possible subject to survey and approval but the application will cost you a few hundred quid without any guarantee.

Fuel costs are a joke so if you don't like fuelling the cars over there you will be devastated when your doing it here.

Regards

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