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Can I use a ex-Sky box to receive aerial Freeview? | Help! DiffWednesday 19 September 2012 12:42PM
Tetbury
PS Postcode is GL8 8UG
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Postcode : GL8 8UG
I wonder if anyone can help? I have BT Vision box (old grey style) and a sky + box (to which i don't subscribe). There's a satellite dish to recieve free channels which are fine but no rooftop aerial (house is very remote in a valley) so I've lost the ability to record / pause TV.
BT vision still picks up on demand and iPlayer etc - still have BT Broadband - but i can't record anymore or receive channels through BT Vision.
I can however receive the free channels through the Sky+ box. My questions is, is there any way I can transmit the free channels I receive via the dish and Sky through the BT Vision box and thereby record them, if i don't have a rooftop aerial?
Many thanks in anticipation of your replies
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Thank you JB38. The confusion re. the location may arise because some of the houses are on top of the hill yet we are loacted at the bottom end of a valley surrounded by slopes and tall trees on 3 sides.
I can still receive the fee channels by viewing through the Sky box, but nothing through the BT one.
Looks like the options are realistically going to be buy one of the Freesat Twin Tuner PVRs as you mentioned or subscribe to Sky. I think I know whose purse I'd rather fill.
Thanks again for your prompt and helpful advise
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Wednesday 19 September 2012 12:36PM
I wonder if anyone can help? I have BT Vision box (old grey style) and a sky + box (to which i don't subscribe). There's a satellite dish to recieve free channels which are fine but no rooftop aerial (house is very remote in a valley) so I've lost the ability to record / pause TV. BT visions still picks up on demand and iPlayer etc - still have BT Broadband - but i can't record anymore.
Is there any way i can transmit the free channels I receive via the dish and Sky through the BT Vision box and thereby record them, if i don't have a rooftop aerial?
Many thanks in anticipation of your replies