hi, i am in uk at the mo. can anybody tell me if i can buy a sky plus unit in uk and use it in spain. I only have a free view card.
thanks, pat

Our SKY + box from the UK works here fine, although the sat man who re fitted it here said that he has a lot of the boxes fail over here, but I think thats just inherent in the standard SKY box that SKY supply.

Yes ours works just fine. The main problems with them I believe is the power surges but there isn't much we can do about them!

Except buy a power surge protector

Valid point but some of them still melt (great power in the south lol)

The quality of SKY + boxes has had quite a lot of coverage on the BBC programme Watchdog, seems some people have had up to 5 fail and have to be replaced, if you've got one that works, keep it.

thanks for your replies BUT..I have a sky freeview card...... now... can I still buy a sky plus box here in UK and take it out to spain and use it with the free view card, I dont want to buy one if its no good with this card.I dont have a subscription with sky.
thanks, pat

Don't know to much about this, we have pink and blue jobs in our house and this is a blue job. We brought our sky box with us (no subscription with sky) we had a small dish on the roof left by the previous owners and we picked up very limited English speaking channels, (not the main ones) lots of Germany and some Spanish as we were not living here full time that suited us fine.

Once we moved here we invested in the biggest satellite dish you could imagine and bought the basic sky card from the man who fitted up the dish
(90 euros for the card). We receive enough channels to keep us happy as we are not great TV watchers. I do not think your free to view card will work here certainly not without a dish. If I am wrong I am sure some one will correct me.

I was under the impression that a Sky + box will not work as a recorder unless you either pay Sky £10/mth or have a premium subscription.

Without it, it behaves just like an ordinary Digibox.

Can someone confirm that?

Buy a DVD recorder, cheap as chips now.

The sky+ box uses a hard drive to record; and the workings of it are all just electronics. It works because the double LNB brings in two separate signals, so you can either stop/start the action or watch one program while you record another.

The subscriptions are just for the two lots of signal you are using - the card says what programs you can watch.

I may be missing something, but why on earth would you want Sky here ????????

Ooo!!!!. Now you've done it Get yer tin hat on

They've just dropped the £10 subscription for non-premium subscribers. The box has full functionality now for all subscribers (min £15/month package).

It won't have Sky+ fuctionality with a Freesat card.

I've got an original 2001 Sky+ box, still going strong, although I did put an 80gb hard drive in last year when the original 40gb one went kaput!!

1. To watch golf. Spanish golf coverage is woeful. A couple of weeks ago Teledeportes (a Spanish freeview channel) covered the Spanish Ladies Open from Castellón.

Tee shot, quick ad break, ball landing!!

Long put, quick ad break, ball in hole!!


2. Too many more reasons to mention...