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Information and Services in Turkey Section => Television & Satellite in Turkey => Topic started by: Scunner on April 06, 2008, 09:15:38 AM

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner 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.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: tinkerman 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?

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on April 06, 2008, 09:35:16 AM

Bring your box and card, don't tell Sky anything  :)

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: ECHOSTAR 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

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Twin Bee on April 06, 2008, 22:08:51 PM

Thanks Keith - a great help

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Gorgeous_bird 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.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on April 06, 2008, 22:20:13 PM

You would need a bigger dish I would guess (1.5m)

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: kenkay 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 [:(!].
Ken  8)

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Gorgeous_bird 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!

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner 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  :)

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: karaokemark on April 14, 2008, 18:05:00 PM

Does anyone have a rough idea of the cost involved having a 1.5m dish installed,and can this be used by more than 1 apartment if they have their own sky box.
thanks Mark

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: ploppy on April 14, 2008, 19:38:56 PM

I'm really confused on the issue of digital t.v. in Turkey[|)][?]
Please can anyone tell me what is the best option?
Ideally would like to get sport and most english channels will have a Sky box and card to bring over, but no subscription in UK as will have to cancel here before moving over.

Any help would be most appreciated.:D

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on April 14, 2008, 19:41:32 PM

You don't have to cancel Sky when you leave the UK.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: ploppy on April 14, 2008, 19:44:04 PM

I don't really want to keep paying £45 per month for Sky, plus we will be renting our house in England, and there may be a problem if the tenants want to have Sky too!!

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on April 14, 2008, 19:48:21 PM

Well how much a month do you want to pay? If a Sky subscription isn't an option you have a choice of the few free to air channels on a Sky redundant box & card, Digiturk for around a tenner a month, or a one off payment free satellite service which is free of monthly subscription and free of channels worth even bothering with.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: ploppy on April 14, 2008, 19:55:10 PM

Sorry Scunner for being dim here, just thought it might be a problem keeping Sky and not residing in UK. Please can you tell me what channels you get with Digiturk[?]

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: bewva on April 14, 2008, 23:03:48 PM

When I was in argos last week you could get a sky package for a 1 off £75 payment. Obviously this is only the free to air channels but you get a box & I assume card as well as a dish installed.
does anyone know if this box & card will work if brought over? Maybe another option is to buy a box & card from ebay.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on April 14, 2008, 23:16:47 PM

The only problem there is that the box has to be connected to a phone line for the first 12 months, obviously not possible if it is in Turkey. As to what they (Sky) would do if they discovered it wasn't I don't know.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: chewyturk on May 18, 2008, 23:47:48 PM

What do you want to watch?
Hotbird (13e) and sirius (5e) have english language channels and no fees if you get the right box and can update the software yourself. (or get a turkish box and shops in fethiye will do it for you for a fee) + some on turksat(42e)
Currently available channels are:
Kids:
Cartoon network, disney, boomerang, jetix, cbeebies.
General:
AXN SciFi, AXN crime, BBC prime, BBC knowledge, BBC lifestyle, BBC entertainment, BBC news, tnt, cnbc-e, e2.
Films:
About 18 channels (+some adult)

There may be more, but i don't get much chance to watch tv and they're the ones i know about.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: tracy and kevan on June 22, 2008, 12:37:38 PM

a 1.5 metre dish sounds good to me i can get all the sport i need. don't suppose the wife will be to pleased though:-\. Scunner any idea as to how much a 1.5 metre dish is? i know the 3 metre dish is expensive and any suggestions as to where to go for the installation? already got a spare sky box only need to bring my card when i come out on holiday. 8)

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on June 22, 2008, 12:54:49 PM

Have a word with Gary (CBF member ECHOSTAR - search in members) - he can give you a price for the dish and installation, and comes highly recommended - by me and many others.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on June 22, 2008, 12:56:39 PM

Oh I should mention - for Sky Sports (and Sky Movies) the box and card must be the box and card paired with each other by Sky - you can watch most channels with a sky card on any box, but not these.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: tracy and kevan on June 22, 2008, 13:04:25 PM

thanks scunner for the extra info and whom to get hold of cheers

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: karaokemark on July 14, 2008, 15:16:51 PM

We are coming out to Turkey to live for a few months / years in August.Last week I had a 2 metre dish fitted on the roof, of our apartment, Keith mentioned the sky has to be connected to a phone line, my plan is for my son to have sky installed at home in the UK, with sky plus and pay an extra £10 per month for a standard box in another room, I will bring this box to Turkey, we will pay the subscription between us and I assume the the box at my sons will be connected to his phone line.We are going to have a full package so am I right in thinking I will be able to get BBC and ITV as well as all the Sky channels. Is there a better way of doing it. Any sensible suggestions will qualify for a free Efes on our new roof terrace when it is done.
Thanks
Mark

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on July 14, 2008, 20:07:51 PM

Two points here Mark:

1. The multiroom box also needs to be connected to a phone line.

2. Yes you can get BBC1 and ITV, but you'll need a bigger dish than 2m for BBC1.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: bewva on July 14, 2008, 20:10:58 PM

Mark, I'm no expert but I thought that the 2nd box also had to be connected to a phoneline for 12 months as well! Hopefully not because you have a good scheme go otherwise.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on July 14, 2008, 20:16:06 PM

A better plan is to find a good friend who is a longer term Sky subscriber (1 year+), offer to pay for them to upgrade to Multiroom, then take their original box. They get a nice new box that will be connected to a UK phone line, you get a perfectly good box that doesn't need to be connected to a phone line at all. Sky T&C's only need the box to be connected for the first 12 months.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: karaokemark on July 14, 2008, 22:38:28 PM

Keith my brother has been a sky subsciber for years he had a new sky plus box 6 months ago he is willing to let me have that box if i pay for multi room, does the actual box have to be coneected to a phone line for a year?

Thanks for your help

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: Scunner on July 15, 2008, 09:04:20 AM

Hi Mark,

Without exception as far as I know, all new boxes from Sky themselves need to be connected to the phone line for the first 12 months. After that, they don't. If you mean taking your brother's 6 month old box, it will be better than taking the new multiroom one because it gives Sky less time to catch you out. Sky+ is a good idea here anyway, as you won't be getting all channels so you can record quite a few for the "library" - i.e. record some programmes that are on when you are out or asleep for when there is nothing on worth watching.

I had a multiroom box as my first one out here - the new one delivered, not the original one. It took Sky around 5 months to realise it wasn't connected to a phone line. At this time, they contacted the friend who gave the multiroom box saying they should connect it to the phone line, or it would be billed from that point forward at normal monthly subscription rates for a single box, not just £10 a month as a multiroom 2nd box. So I ended up paying £10 to my friend for the first 5 months, and £41 per month from then on.

That all sounded a bit complicated, let me know if it wasn't totally clear!

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: karaokemark on July 15, 2008, 09:38:18 AM

Thanks Keith thats clear i will try and find someone who has a box more than 12 months old and bring that one
Mark

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: bev on July 15, 2008, 10:20:24 AM

Hi Mark
Have a look on ebay some sky boxes available, when we come over end of Aug you will have to let us know if it is all working and what channels you get. Problem is where can I fit a 2mt dish in our apartment will it be to big to go on the roof?
Guess you wont be at Turkish classes in September, good luck with the move.
Norma

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: darmontie on August 09, 2008, 04:13:31 AM

Is there any problem with bringing a Sky box into Turkey. I mean from a Turkish point of view. I heard a rumuor that you would be charged at Dalaman if caught trying to bring one into the country.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: grahamturner09 on August 10, 2008, 18:39:25 PM

Dormontie I think it is like any thing you take in to stay there permanent. If they catch you they can charge you vat

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: tinkerman on August 10, 2008, 18:50:14 PM

VAT?:D

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: grahamturner09 on August 10, 2008, 19:17:54 PM

Ok the equivalent of vat

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: tinkerman on August 10, 2008, 19:38:09 PM

They will not charge you KDV at dalaman, they may try to con you out of a few quid.

Title: Sky Channels You Can Receive With A 1.5m Dish
Post by: starman on August 11, 2008, 05:01:10 AM

not VAT but 70 euro bandrol tax.
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