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Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
« on: April 06, 2008, 09:15:38 AM »
Most people won't be wanting a 3m on their roof or in their garden here in Turkey - so won't be getting BBC1, ITV, Ch4, Ch5. A 1.5m dish is another option and doesn't look that big up on the roof.

Ok, Here is a list of channels you can receive with a sky box, sky subscription and 1.5m dish. It's a while since I used a 1.5m dish so this is as I remember, there are possibly more.

I have left out all the God, Shopping channels.

Several music channels and lots of digital radio too - most notably BBC Radio 2, Radio 4, Talksport, Virgin Radio, Capital Radio

Channels marked * are also available with no subscription, just a £20 Sky viewing card.


Sky 1, 2 (3* - possible/borderline)
UKTV Gold +1
Sky Sports 1,2,3 (assuming subscription)
Sky Movies ALL (assuming subscription)
Men & Motors* (borderline)
Hollywood TV
Channel M*
Real Madrid TV* (in English)
Wine TV*
Sky News*
CNN (Borderline)
Euro News*
Pop* (Kids)
TinyPop* (Kids)
Pop Girl (Kids)
ESPN Classic
UKTV Food
National Geographic
UKTV History
UKTV G2+1
Paramount Comedy 1
Paramount Comedy 1 +1
Paramount Comedy 2
Sci-Fi
Sci-Fi +1
UKTV Drama +1
E4 (manually tuned)
Hallmark
Biography Channel
FX
Legal TV
UKTV Style +1
Eurosport
Sky Sports News (borderline)
Bloomberg News
Fox News
TCM
Animal Planet +1
UKTV Docs +1
UKTV People
Cartoon Network
Jetix
Nick Jr

In my opinion, although you don't get BBC/ITV, there is enough in there to beat Digiturk hands down for UK programmes.



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« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2008, 09:19:26 AM »
Can you subscribe to Sky out there or do you bring your current subscription and box/card with you?

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« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2008, 09:35:16 AM »
Bring your box and card, don't tell Sky anything  :)

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« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2008, 20:40:22 PM »
Blimey Keith it was a while ago looking at the list that was about a year and half ago, ill do a more upto date list some time this week.
but i must say your memorey is very good.

the problem is it never stay's the same
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« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2008, 22:08:51 PM »
Thanks Keith - a great help

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« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2008, 22:17:53 PM »
Thanks for the info.We have just cancelled Sky and we are changing to BT vision. Our sky box and card will become completely redundant. At the moment we can get the basic free channels on it but is more than we can get on the Free Digi turk satellite we have in Turkey which is next to nothing of any interest. Would we need to get our dish realigned if we brought the box and card out to Turkey.

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« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2008, 22:20:13 PM »
You would need a bigger dish I would guess (1.5m)

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« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2008, 00:19:37 AM »
GB. If you've cancelled Sky I'm pretty sure that you'll find that your card doesn't work [:(!].
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« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2008, 06:43:12 AM »
Sky cancelled and we still get the freeview channels using the card. Thought it might be worth taking the box and card to Turkey if we have the correct size dish we could at least get something a little better than Aljazeera TV!
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« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2008, 08:22:13 AM »
Correct  :)

In fact, that is the whole point - with a redundant sky box and redundant card you can get Sky News, a few kids programmes and Radio 2, Radio 4 etc plus a handful of other channels which may or may not hold your interest. The vast majority you won't get but who cares? The dish will be a one off payment probably cheaper than a 'free to air' system, and you won't be stuck with Al Jazeeri TV as your best option.

Although from memory, it may be that Al Jazeeri is one of the available channels on Sky as well  :)




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