Sky / Sky+ alternatives

Hello,

We're moving house next week and in the process of deciding what to do
about our Sky+. We're renting and so the landlady isn't happy about
having a dish on the house as the previous tenants had Virgin, brrr.

We had a nightmare with NTL / Virgin in the past hence the move to Sky
and Sky+ and would like to stick with them.

I think I know the answer to this but do we absolutely definitley need a
dish to get Sky / Sky+?

If not then what are the alternatives? I guess it doesn't have to be
Sky+ as we're used to the convenience of being able to record things for
viewing later and are happy to consider alternative products.

TIA

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:52:02 +0000, Moif Murphy
wrote:

I think I know the answer to this but do we absolutely definitley need a
dish to get Sky / Sky+?

Yes.

But if you have a balcony or garden, (or, at a stretch, a decent
south-facing window) then you could consider one of the 'concealed'
satellite dish replacements, which might be less visually offensive to
your landlady.

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I think I know the answer to this but do we absolutely definitley need a
dish to get Sky / Sky+?

If not then what are the alternatives? I guess it doesn't have to be Sky+
as we're used to the convenience of being able to record things for
viewing later and are happy to consider alternative products.


Well, you could do worse than the BT Vision system. Freeview PVR with dual
tuner for 30quid and nothing more to pay.

Downside is you need to (obviously) be able to receive freeview, have BT as
your ISP and have decent download speed for on demand stuff. Depending on
your viewing habits you may find the subscription stuff to you liking,
personally I make do with Freeview and the occasional free BBC replay
content.

Hasn't made me want to get rid of my Sky HD box - yet, as there's certainly
some features absent, but certainly worth a look IMO

Alan

"Moif Murphy" wrote in message
...
Hello,

We're moving house next week and in the process of deciding what to do
about our Sky+. We're renting and so the landlady isn't happy about having
a dish on the house as the previous tenants had Virgin, brrr.

We had a nightmare with NTL / Virgin in the past hence the move to Sky and
Sky+ and would like to stick with them.

I think I know the answer to this but do we absolutely definitley need a
dish to get Sky / Sky+?

If not then what are the alternatives? I guess it doesn't have to be Sky+
as we're used to the convenience of being able to record things for
viewing later and are happy to consider alternative products.

TIA

What subscription services do you use? If your basically a FTV person than
any decent Freeview Twin tuner PVR from the likes of Humax will work off an
aerial. Freeview does have problems for a few so you need to check what
reception is like. You might even have to pursuade the landlord to upgrade
the aerial.

If you watch SKY subscription channels then you need to continue with SKY
some how. Check if you have a window which faces roughly south. If that is
the case you could fit a portable caravan dish rather than a sky fixed dish.
Such a dish would stick to the window using suckers.