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Whether you can get them all without the card I don't know .
Thanks for the responses Ken. No you cannot. If you do not have a card then all you get is the free to air channels which are not encrypted. Just remove your card and you will see what I mean.
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If you have had your sky box turned off, (or if it is just breaking up,) when you plug it back in to the mains press the back up button at the same time, keep pressing until 4 lights light up, then wait for your box to update, also if you go in to the channels on the hand set you can press add channels to get the ones your missing, if you are in a bad reception area for channel 4, you can use 135 to watch channel 4+1.
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I also cannot get reliable freeview. That may change when they increase transmitter powers but until then, the only subscription free solution for me is satellite. It bugs me as well Krull, we think alike. I will follow Snelly's advice and see what happens on BBC/ITV's freesat.
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I also cannot get reliable freeview. That may change when they increase transmitter powers but until then, the only subscription free solution for me is satellite. It bugs me as well Krull, we think alike. I will follow Snelly's advice and see what happens on BBC/ITV's freesat.
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Crazy though it is, you can get SKY Sports News (ch 83 on Freeview, ch 405 on Sky) on Freeview but NOT with Sky's Freesat card, you have to "upgrade your subscription" to receive a SKY channel freely available on the terrestrial competitor!
Lots confusion on this forum between Free-to-Air (FTA) channels which is what any satellite receiver will receive (including a Sky digibox without its card but impractical to "add" all the channels available which are not on its Electronic Programing Guide (EPG)).
Free-to-View (FTV) which are the terrestrial channels your TV licence entitles you to receive, basically FTA plus the still encrypted channels like Ch4 & Ch5 who are contracted to remain with SKY's EPG until April I think, then become FTA.
The £20 non-subscription "Freesat" card from SKY gives all the FTV channels plus a lot of others (radio etc) it chooses to give you (but not Sky Sport News for one!). Hopefully the coming Freesat card from the BBC will give more?
Then there is Freeview which is a completely different terrestrial system through your aerial which has an EPG made up of all the FTV channels plus lots of others it makes available for free, which are not neccessarily free on satellite or cable (Sky Sports News for one).
"Some of the channels on the Freeview service are subscription only on satellite, specifically: UKTV History, Dave, Virgin 1, TMF, The Hits, Sky Sports News.
You will still need to keep your Sky viewing card. If you stop subscribing on a Sky contract, you can keep using that card to watch Channel 4, five, five US, five Life and Sky Three, the so-called "free-to-view" channels. (All ITV channels are now free-to-air).
It is not possible to plug an aerial into a Sky Digibox to receive Freeview channels because the boxes have not been designed this way.
You will continue to get the full Sky EPG listings; you just will not be able to watch subscription channels.
A card is not needed to watch BBC services, but it is needed to get the correct BBC ONE and BBC TWO regions on 101 and 102."
Noel.
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Crazy though it is, you can get SKY Sports News (ch 83 on Freeview, ch 405 on Sky) on Freeview but NOT with Sky's Freesat card, you have to "upgrade your subscription" to receive a SKY channel freely available on the terrestrial competitor!
A not so subtle bit of advertising for Sky Sports me thinks???
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Hopefully the coming Freesat card from the BBC will give more?
Noel.
I hope not with a card! Such a move would make the boxes more expensive and in any case with unencrypted free-to-air channels, a card should not be necessary.
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