topic Re: Viewing local Tv on HD+ wothout card in Sky+

Viewing local Tv on HD+ wothout card

Stonewaller — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:39:23 GMT

I have sky+ HD box which I use without viwing card, this gets all the stations I want, but local news go to news does ot relate to my region. Is there anythig I ca do about this. Do I eed to buy a card and if so what/where.

Re: Viewing local Tv on HD+ wothout card

GD1 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:43:52 GMT

@Stonewaller Without a viewing card the ITV channel defaults to London normally, a valifd viewing card would stell the box which postcode area you are in and assign to the correct region for news.

Re: Viewing local Tv on HD+ wothout card

Stonewaller — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:21:28 GMT

well this one defaults to central although thats neither here nor there unless I move lol 🙂 So what card can I get to enable me to see the news without subscribing to anything as the free to air channels are more than enough

Re: Viewing local Tv on HD+ wothout card

Mark39 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:25:38 GMT

Sky no longer provides Viewing Cards for Sky+ boxes, I'm afraid, unless it's a replacement where a customer has an existing Sky subscription.

A standard Freesat box might be a better option.

Re: Viewing local Tv on HD+ wothout card

TimmyBGood — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:53:59 GMT

@Stonewaller

As @Mark39 indicates, a Freesat receiver would let you input your postcode to get the appropriate regional television variations: where a Sky+ box is in use without an associated Sky subscription there's no mechanism to achieve the same result.

Re: Viewing local Tv on HD+ wothout card

nigea99 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:56:22 GMT

@Stonewaller wrote:

I have sky+ HD box which I use without viwing card, this gets all the stations I want, but local news go to news does ot relate to my region. Is there anythig I ca do about this. Do I eed to buy a card and if so what/where.

hi @Stonewaller

It is a very long time since I had a SKY HD box & I don't know what functionality it has without a card.

You might be able to manually tune your local region - although it may not appear in any TV Guide listings.

One thing when manually tuning ITV regions do not show which region just get listed as ITV so it can be a bit laborious to get the one you might be interest in

For tuning paramters see:Astra 2