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Can I get a viewing card for an old sky hd box(DRX595) instead of a skyQ minibox

restyle — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:22:07 GMT

Ive always had problems with the main sky Q box connecting to the multiroom mini box in the bedroom.

Around 5 years ago a sky engineer came and ran an ethernet cable between the 2 boxes but it still drops signal quite a lot. Ive recently reconnected an old Amstrad Hd box to the old dish cable in the bedroom and that works great, except it only gets the freeview channels.

Would sky be likely to give me a viewing card for the old type box if I cancelled the multiroom subscription but kept the main Sky Q box downstairs?

Re: Can I get a viewing card for an old sky hd box(DRX595) instead of a skyQ minibox

MightyQuinn — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:24:21 GMT

Hi @restyle The simple answer is no, Sky does not allow a Q and HD subscription at the same address. You would be better off buying a Freesat box.

Re: Can I get a viewing card for an old sky hd box(DRX595) instead of a skyQ minibox

caesarome — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:25:25 GMT

it is unlikely Sky will send you a viewing card for that box as you can't have Sky Q and Sky+ boxes on the same account I'm afraid.

Re: Can I get a viewing card for an old sky hd box(DRX595) instead of a skyQ minibox

restyle — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:49:16 GMT

@MightyQuinni assumed that a Freeview box wouldn't give me any more channels than what I get on the old amstrad hd box.

Do some Freeview boxes give the option to subscribe to other channels (wife mo

stly watches crime dramas on alibi and such)?

Re: Can I get a viewing card for an old sky hd box(DRX595) instead of a skyQ minibox

Mark39 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:03:29 GMT

@restyle wrote:

@MightyQuinni assumed that a Freeview box wouldn't give me any more channels than what I get on the old amstrad hd box.

Do some Freeview boxes give the option to subscribe to other channels (wife mo

stly watches crime dramas on alibi and such)?

You mean Freesat, not Freeview. Freeview is delivered via a TV aerial. You can find a list of the Freesat channels here: https://www.freesat.co.uk/channels

I'm not aware of an option to subscribe to any additional Freesat channels.

Re: Can I get a viewing card for an old sky hd box(DRX595) instead of a skyQ minibox

MightyQuinn — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:20:01 GMT

@restyle wrote:
@MightyQuinni assumed that a Freeview box wouldn't give me any more channels than what I get on the old amstrad hd box.

Hi @restyle A Freesat box will give you the ability to record, not available on the Sky HD box without a subscription.

Re: Can I get a viewing card for an old sky hd box(DRX595) instead of a skyQ minibox

restyle — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:32:39 GMT

With no apparant easy solution to this, I'm thinking the best way forward would be to cancel the multiroom subscription (currently costing around £15/m), & to get a NowTV box where the entertainment package (inluding Alibi & Sky Witness channels), costs around £10/m

Re: Can I get a viewing card for an old sky hd box(DRX595) instead of a skyQ minibox

restyle — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:41:20 GMT

@MightyQuinn

Decided to get the Sky engineer in to have a look at he system, who found that the main SkyQ box was faulty - wouldnt talk to the Miniboxes properly & continuously dropped the wifi signal even when directly connected to the router via cable - Said it was a very common fault for that particular older 2Tb Sky Q box so we had a new box installed & also had to have a sky booster box to send the signal around 6m to one of the Mini boxes.

System now working as it should - Many thanks to the trully excellent sky engineer Ben.

Re: Can I get a viewing card for an old sky hd box(DRX595) instead of a skyQ minibox

Exiled-in-HH — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:56:37 GMT

@restyle wrote:
With no apparant easy solution to this, I'm thinking the best way forward would be to cancel the multiroom subscription (currently costing around £15/m), & to get a NowTV box where the entertainment package (inluding Alibi & Sky Witness channels), costs around £10/m

NOWTV boxes are no longer available other than second-hand😉