Accessing UK and Sky TV in Spain
Feb 15th 2016, 5:44 pm
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Re: Accessing UK and Sky TV in Spain
TV? why bother?
Feb 24th 2016, 1:51 pm
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Just wondering when the satellite sun outage starts to happen here in Alicante.
Been getting a momentary 'no signal' in the morning and possibly also later in the evening. Is this normal in the second half of Feb?
Been getting a momentary 'no signal' in the morning and possibly also later in the evening. Is this normal in the second half of Feb?
Feb 24th 2016, 2:50 pm
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It starts to cause problems at around 11am from around the end of this week, through to the end of next week if I have read the calculator correctly.
Mar 10th 2016, 6:39 pm
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Who give a toss whether it is illegal or not. The worst that can happen if you are fool enough to tell them you are abroad is that Sky will cut you off. However bear in mind that their subscribers in Europe are around 1.5 to 2 million people so if they cut us all off they would lose getting on for a billion a year. They are not going to do it.
Eventually all satellite broadcasts will cease as it is cheaper for this to be done on line rather than paying for expensive satellites. When that happens there will be a cat and mouse between service providers and VPN companies as each tries to find proxy servers and hide their functions.
A good site for news about what is happening is Latest Astra 2E news and potential loss of BBC & ITV satellite channels in Southern Spain and Portugal. which strangely enough is a UK site and not associated with Sky. However they do update virtually on a daily basis what is happening in the satellite world.
Eventually all satellite broadcasts will cease as it is cheaper for this to be done on line rather than paying for expensive satellites. When that happens there will be a cat and mouse between service providers and VPN companies as each tries to find proxy servers and hide their functions.
A good site for news about what is happening is Latest Astra 2E news and potential loss of BBC & ITV satellite channels in Southern Spain and Portugal. which strangely enough is a UK site and not associated with Sky. However they do update virtually on a daily basis what is happening in the satellite world.
Mar 10th 2016, 8:01 pm
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Just use camposat.tv from your computer to TV set..
Mar 11th 2016, 4:51 am
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Mar 11th 2016, 4:55 am
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Re: Accessing UK and Sky TV in Spain
They have just over 10m TV subscribers, I doubt a fifth are expats.
and it is not just cost, but coverage - satellite still offered the best coverage for the whole of the UK, better than terrestrial, and better than internet.
And with UDH / 4k and now 8k, and the amount of data required, at least for now satellite offers the best (and cheapest) coverage.
Yes during the current satellites lifespan there will be a move to more internet based TV, especially more "on demand and catchup", but for live not too sure.
For the next batch of satellites in 12+ years time, the move to online will all depend on how much of the UK has access to "high speed" internet.
Last edited by The Guy; Mar 11th 2016 at 5:05 am.
Mar 11th 2016, 11:04 am
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Re: Accessing UK and Sky TV in Spain
Very Interesting we are currently looking into taking our Sky box with us when we move. A friend does Sky installations for a big caravan site and told us as long as the 12 month contract is up when you first take sky you can disconnect the phone line with no problems. We have multiroom at the minute so have 2 boxes I was thinking of when we do move. Give 1 sky box to my sister and pay the bills there then take the 2nd box to Spain.
In a ideal world I would just let her have the sky and I would have the sky go but it is blocked. I was reading you can have something called iptv without the need for a box or dish.
Does anybody have bein sports in Spain?
In a ideal world I would just let her have the sky and I would have the sky go but it is blocked. I was reading you can have something called iptv without the need for a box or dish.
Does anybody have bein sports in Spain?
Mar 11th 2016, 2:21 pm
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Re: Accessing UK and Sky TV in Spain
BeIN Sports Spain - via cable companies and Movistar+
BeIN Sports France - via French subscription
BeIN Sports Mena - dish at 26 east and a MENA subscription.
All available in Spain, take your pick...
BeIN Sports France - via French subscription
BeIN Sports Mena - dish at 26 east and a MENA subscription.
All available in Spain, take your pick...
May 4th 2016, 11:31 am
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As it seems you're not noticing the delete messages from all of your previous posts, I've left this one and will reply to it in the hope that you see this - you CANNOT use the forums this way, please re-read Site Rule 9, thx.
May 4th 2016, 11:35 am
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