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I don't have Sky.
Through work I've been offered free installation and HD+ box and half price on any package I want for a year, including the HD upgrade. I think I'd take the basic channels, Movies 1 and the HD upgrade.
Can anyone help me establish what happens when I cancel at the end of the year, as there's no way I'm paying full price? Freeview picture quality is rubbish for me, so I just want the basic channels in decent quality.
As I understand it, I'd still get any free to air channels (so the Freeview channels I currently get). Would I get them in HD though, where they're available, with no Sky subscription? And would I lose any other features, like the EPG, Sky+ recording, setting a programme to record via the iPhone app, etc? I assume I'd at least lose the latter, but is it possible to still use it as a basic PVR, perhaps with HD on free channels?
I'd look at Freesat HD but I can't install another satellite dish on the property, so would be sharing a neighbour's dish. I assume I can't share their Sky dish but receive Freesat instead of Sky through it, so Sky is the only option for decent picture quality.
Through work I've been offered free installation and HD+ box and half price on any package I want for a year, including the HD upgrade. I think I'd take the basic channels, Movies 1 and the HD upgrade.
Can anyone help me establish what happens when I cancel at the end of the year, as there's no way I'm paying full price? Freeview picture quality is rubbish for me, so I just want the basic channels in decent quality.
As I understand it, I'd still get any free to air channels (so the Freeview channels I currently get). Would I get them in HD though, where they're available, with no Sky subscription? And would I lose any other features, like the EPG, Sky+ recording, setting a programme to record via the iPhone app, etc? I assume I'd at least lose the latter, but is it possible to still use it as a basic PVR, perhaps with HD on free channels?
I'd look at Freesat HD but I can't install another satellite dish on the property, so would be sharing a neighbour's dish. I assume I can't share their Sky dish but receive Freesat instead of Sky through it, so Sky is the only option for decent picture quality.