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I live in France and they've just switched over to digital TV (TNT) and my missus has lost half of her channels that we used to get on analogue. I've changed the aerial and no amount of fiddling with it will let us pick up all the usual FTA stuff that we should be able to receive. I think I'm...

I've just been away on holiday for a week and I've come back and my sky box isn't working how it used to. I now have to type in my pin code on the movie channels, which makes it really annoying to flick through to see what's on. I've turned off all the parental controls and stuff but still no...

Thanks for the info! I have a spare sky+ box lying around. Am I right in thinking that you now get free sky+ features with any sky subscription or is there still a £10 charge for sky+. I had a look at the freesat website, but I don't think that they will be offering the channels that I want...

The type of installation that I have meant that I was restricted to using the really thin stuff.

I live in France, but also have an address in the UK that I could use to get a Sky subscription. I currently have a freesat card from Sky, but want to upgrade to be able to get E4, More4, Virgin etc. Do I need a Sky subscription to be able to get these channels. I see on the adverts that sky do...

I have a long cable run and one of those little gizmos was just the trick! They're not that expensive, so might be worth a try. P.S. when I say long cable run, I'm talking about 30m, but I am using very thin Ambitron PSF 1/7 LSO cable which I don't think is designed for the job.

Evening all! I'm living in France and have a freesat from sky card. As my girlfriend was away last week, I thought i'd treat myself to a little adult viewing. I subscribed to a channel online, then typed in my pin and the channel worked. Sweet I thought! It worked for a couple of nights, now I...

Hi, I'm living in France and want to be able to use the interactive services of Sky. I've seen these digi dialler things around, how do they work? I thought I could just change my dialling prefix to 0044 but that doesn't seem to work, why not? Cheers, Phil

Can you use a Freesat card for subscribing to premium channels? I tried it but I got a message saying that my viewing card number was in-valid. I thought the Freesat cards were the same as the sky digital cards. Is this correct? Cheers, Phil ;)

I'm still getting free channels! Have been making the most of the movie channels and catching up with all the films I hadn't seen! Hopefully I'll keep getting them for a bit longer!!! Phil ;)

Is Sky doing a deal at the moment? All i have is a sky minibox and a freesat card, but since yesterday, I can get all of the sky channels including movies and sports. Is it just a mistake from sky that they will fix soon, or is it possible that I'm lucky and will get to keep them. Phil

I've just been trying to setup my friends sky over here in France (Chamonix to be more precise). She has a 1m dish and I have previously managed to get it to work. Today when I went round to have a look, the signal strength was nearly at max but the signal quality was nearly at zero. Why would...

Hi Ian. I'm pretty new to this myself and am by no means an expert, but I can tell you that Sly Digital is broadcast from Astra 2D at 28.2E, and that you can't pick up Hotbird at at the same time using your setup. What is it that you are wanting to watch on Hotbird? If it's some free to air...

Hi all! I'm still a bit new to all this stuff. I've just purchased a technomate 1500 for use in France. I can pick up bbc and ITV, which are now free to air, but ch4 and ch5 are still encrypted by sky. Is there a cam that I can buy that will allow me to use a free to air sky card with it so that...

I think that I should be ok for line of sight, as there are plenty of other dishes on houses around us and our house sits slightly higher than most. I was hoping to be able to get away with an 80cm dish, as I've heard reports that that's the size that most people use round here. The box that I...