11506 Advice on SKY

For choice I would suggest SkyUK but others may know different.
As you need roughly a 150cm dish for Tuscany, I assume a dish around the 2mt would be needed in Sicily to receive a decent enough signal.
There is also Freesat as an alternative to Sky............................

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I've got Italian SKY and get all the film channels in English plus Fox, some MTV, History & Discovery Channels in English. Basically, if it was originally in English and isn't on the main Italian stations (Rai etc.), then 90% of the time we get it in English.

My husband is delighted because we even get the rugby coverage in English!

Gioiosani,all sky italia channels can be changed to english via the menu>>audio>>settings, or any other language for that matter.

We have Sky Italia, and that is not quite true. Not all the channels can be changed to English. Some show programmes in German, French or overdubbed in Italian and you cannot change that to English. There is even a really irritating few programmes of NCIS that stay resolutely in Italian! However, after five years we have got very used to Sky Italia, and it is OK.

[quote=mammamia;109188]We have Sky Italia, and that is not quite true. Not all the channels can be changed to English. Some show programmes in German, French or overdubbed in Italian and you cannot change that to English. There is even a really irritating few programmes of NCIS that stay resolutely in Italian! However, after five years we have got very used to Sky Italia, and it is OK.[/quote]
Recently cancelled our Sky Italia subscription, films are mainly rubbish and repeated so many times, many B category or in languages with only Italian sub titles, so not worth the money . Sky news mainly adverts and repeats every 15 mins ...... rubbish. Even with the language settings in the box on English.

[quote=Geotherm;109199]Recently cancelled our Sky Italia subscription, films are mainly rubbish and repeated so many times, many B category or in languages with only Italian sub titles, so not worth the money . Sky news mainly adverts and repeats every 15 mins ...... rubbish. Even with the language settings in the box on English.[/quote]

i agree, we had the full package with Italian sky and the films were either old or not in English..The football was good as my husband loves to watch Roma play, but as our ( english) home team are not in the championship he just watches the bbc sport website for 2 hours on a sat afternoon ( sad hey!) . So we now buy a football match when he isnt at a friends watching it.

I have kept sky tbut reduced it though because the childrens channels are great, and i can choose language..which actually doesnt bother them what langauge it is in.

BBc prime at first is exciting if you! I have just had italian tv but it is very very repeated unless you have lived in the outback I am sure everybody has seen one foot in the grave!! and only fools and horses more than once already|

i just wait for the day bbc i player lets us watch in europe x:nah:

[quote=debswad;109229].............i just wait for the day BBC i player lets us watch in Europe x:nah:[/quote]

I found this on a website – it might help [I'm a computer dinosaur, so can't confirm it works]

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"This definitely works for accessing the BBC iPlayer from abroad, using Firefox.

1. Make a note of your IP address, if you don't know it, use a site like [url=http://whatismyipaddress.com/]What Is My IP Address? - Lookup IP, Hide IP, Change IP, Trace IP and more...[/url]

2. Find a UK proxy IP address and port from a site like this (they do get updated regularly as proxy addresses don't usually last long) [url=http://www.proxy4free.com/page1.html]Proxy List 1 - Proxy 4 Free - Protect Your Online Privacy![/url]

3. In Firefox, go to Tools, Options, Advanced, Settings. Check the box which says 'Manual Proxy Configuration' and put in your proxy IP and port into the box underneath, HTTP proxy.

It is best to only use the proxy address when you are accessing the iPlayer site as you may be blocked from other sites using a proxy"

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This link is worth looking at on Saturday afternoons for the latest footie scores

mms://live3.wm.setantauk.servecast.net/setanta_wmlz_setantanews

Geotherm,
Totally agree and we were just discussing cancelling last night when strangely enough Sky rang to sell us an upgrade (shame our Italian wasn't better as we would have told them where to go!). We don't seem to watch Sky at all now - only really keeping it for when we have guests staying. Someone told us about a basic package for around €14 per month. Does anyone know about this as we can't find any info on their web site? We have a way of getting UK programmes from a thing called The Box which is useful.

[quote=sarahandmark;109288]Geotherm,
Totally agree and we were just discussing cancelling last night when strangely enough Sky rang to sell us an upgrade (shame our Italian wasn't better as we would have told them where to go!). We don't seem to watch Sky at all now - only really keeping it for when we have guests staying. Someone told us about a basic package for around €14 per month. Does anyone know about this as we can't find any info on their web site? We have a way of getting UK programmes from a thing called The Box which is useful.[/quote]
After Sky calling us for their "sport package" last year, us saying no thank you, they added 80Euros onto our bill ........... needless to say, they got quite a few Italian swear words whenever they called again. Our bank rang them and they refunded the money rather reluctantly.
Now I just download films and recode them to DVD. Also have a satellite receiver so I can watch BBC news 24, or Euronews, or just use the internet the rest of the time.