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Tommy G

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Tommy G

Tommy G

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Just moved into our first house

 

Looking to get sky and never been a customer before - I want sports and the mrs wants the movies.

 

Looks like we will have to get the top package - think that is £67.

 

Anyone got any advice? We have a TV in our bedroom but the previous owner doesnt have an aerial by the looks of it - will I be able to watch TV upstairs without this, it is a freeview TV an relivively new.

 

I want to avoid paying £11 a month extra for multi room if poss - but may be worth it if I have to fork out a cpl of hundred quid to get someone to whack an aerial on the roof.

 

Help much appreciated

cambridgefox

cambridgefox

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Just moved into our first house

 

Looking to get sky and never been a customer before - I want sports and the mrs wants the movies.

 

Looks like we will have to get the top package - think that is £67.

 

Anyone got any advice? We have a TV in our bedroom but the previous owner doesnt have an aerial by the looks of it - will I be able to watch TV upstairs without this, it is a freeview TV an relivively new.

 

I want to avoid paying £11 a month extra for multi room if poss - but may be worth it if I have to fork out a cpl of hundred quid to get someone to whack an aerial on the roof.

 

Help much appreciated

Have you got an I pad?if so you can connect your sky to that and watch movies/ live sports on that.Mot ideal but a solution and it's no extra cost.
Tommy G

Tommy G

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Have you got an I pad?if so you can connect your sky to that and watch movies/ live sports on that.Mot ideal but a solution and it's no extra cost.

 

Yep we've got an i pad

Jimothy

Jimothy

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Have you got an I pad?if so you can connect your sky to that and watch movies/ live sports on that.Mot ideal but a solution and it's no extra cost.

SkyGo on a laptop wired up to a TV with a HD would do the job surely?

cambridgefox

cambridgefox

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SkyGo on a laptop wired up to a TV with a HD would do the job surely?

Probably,I'm crap with technology so for me to connect to an I pad was a major life achievement ,including a laptop would have been a step too far.
Tommy G

Tommy G

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Probably,I'm crap with technology so for me to connect to an I pad was a major life achievement ,including a laptop would have been a step too far.

 

Same with me, an accountant and technophobe...

glenny_fox

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If you know anybody that has sky sports/movies that would be willing to let you be one of the registered devices on a laptop/ipad that would save you paying monthly for movies and sports.

 

Been a godsend for me since I've been using my cousins :)

Tommy G

Tommy G

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Can you choose where the dish is fitted? our house is a 200 year old cottage and dont really want a sky dish plastered on the front tbh

Grandad.

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Can you choose where the dish is fitted? our house is a 200 year old cottage and dont really want a sky dish plastered on the front tbh

 

I think you can have minimal input, they will put it wherever the best signal is mate. 

 

Regards to having it in your room, once you have Sky, sign upto Sky Go, HDMI cable into your TV and you're good to go. :D

Tommy G

Tommy G

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I think you can have minimal input, they will put it wherever the best signal is mate. 

 

Regards to having it in your room, once you have Sky, sign upto Sky Go, HDMI cable into your TV and you're good to go. :D

 

Without sounding stupid what is the purpose of the hdmi cable?

Beliall

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You cant have high definition piturr without it. Sky plus hd boxes only have hdmi output.

Hdmi = high definition media interface.

Trumpet

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Shouldnt be an issue as the previous owners sky dish is still on the front of my house I just havent had time to get up the ladder and remove it yet...

 

Might be worth keeping it up there, as I believe they have to generally face the same way.Could be wrong.

Maybes

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If you have an xbox you can run skygo through that as well. 

 

I would imagine you can with a ps3/4 but I don't actually know.

Tommy G

Tommy G

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Might be worth keeping it up there, as I believe they have to generally face the same way.Could be wrong.

 

When they do the installation they surely give us a new dish anyway? As we are new customers

Haydos

Haydos

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If you have an xbox you can run skygo through that as well. 

 

I would imagine you can with a ps3/4 but I don't actually know.

 

Have they made that free to use yet? I'm sure last time I tried you needed xbox gold membership to access the sky app.

Soar Fox

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Sky are cvnts, go with Virgin media the lesser of two evils.

Also with Virgin you won't have a big dish sat on your house and cables running down the back/front of it and through your house.

nothin2seehere

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Satellite dishes MUST point toward the satellite, otherwise they won't receive a signal. Ever wondered why they're always on the same wall if you look at a row of houses?

 

They won't necessarily install a new dish, unless the old one is unserviceable.

 

I use my in-law's Sky login for Sky Go on my laptop and, as someone else suggested, connect the laptop to my telly with an HDMI cable. Works really well for free :)

m00nie

m00nie

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alwaays 12 month half price offers going as someone mentioned earlier. try moneysavingexpert site to see if any on there. 

 

you could always then pick up a second hand box and run a co ax from the dish to the bedroom, would give you the freeview chanels free.

Tommy G

Tommy G

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We got an ok deal in the end.

 

First 6 months  all in for £33 per month including multi room.

 

Then £63 a month thereafter with multi room.

 

Keeps the mrs happy upstairs while I watch super sunday

 

They are replacing the sky dish with a new one

 

the advertised price was £78.50 with full package and multi room

UpTheLeagueFox

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Rung Sky threatening to leave and join Virgin Media, they offered me a fiver off per month. Balls to that. Will leave it a couple of weeks before trying to get a better deal. Haggling is the way forward.

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