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Tezcatlipoca · 10-10-2010, 19:06

You'll be able to receive all the Free to Air (FTA) channels (free, unencrypted) without a viewing card. A viewing card is only necessary for the Free to View (FTV) channels (free, encrypted). Sky do a "Freesat from Sky" viewing card (£25), which gives the FTV channels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...hannels_at_28E

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freesat...S_Viewing_Card

One thing to note though: You will not be able to make use of the Sky+ box's actual Sky+ PVR features without a Sky subscription for that box (e.g. Multiroom, to mirror the main box's subscription onto the 2nd box, or a Sky+ subscription, to simply give the 2nd box PVR abilities).

10-10-2010, 19:06	#3
Tezcatlipoca Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cambridge Posts: 16,760	Re: Second Sky box but no subscription You'll be able to receive all the Free to Air (FTA) channels (free, unencrypted) without a viewing card. A viewing card is only necessary for the Free to View (FTV) channels (free, encrypted). Sky do a "Freesat from Sky" viewing card (£25), which gives the FTV channels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...hannels_at_28E http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freesat...S_Viewing_Card One thing to note though: You will not be able to make use of the Sky+ box's actual Sky+ PVR features without a Sky subscription for that box (e.g. Multiroom, to mirror the main box's subscription onto the 2nd box, or a Sky+ subscription, to simply give the 2nd box PVR abilities).