2328 Sky Tv

Looked through the threads on sky tv cant find the help I need
can any one tell me what size dish I need to get for italy Hoping to take
sky receiver with me but dont know what size dish I need to get uk channels

Mum has a 95cm dish in lanzarote but not sure if that is big enough
Has any one taken their sky out and if so can you advise me. I know it sounds stupid I am not bothered I am moving for a better way of life and to adjust to the italian way of life.
But you know what kids are like these days (They are may want to come back and stay with their father if theres no uk tv to start with) Want to make the transision as smooth as possible age 16 and 13 is a problem with any one but no uk tv and my life would be a night mare.
PLEASE can anyone advise me on what I need to buy

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General chat about Italy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 07:31

You need to try harder there are plenty of forum messages about this subject. See my own post at [url]http://www.italymag.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=527[/url]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 08:13

[QUOTE=WiredEyes]You need to try harder there are plenty of forum messages about this subject. See my own post at [url]http://www.italymag.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=527[/url][/QUOTE]

Thanks
I have looked at the threads but it still doesnt tell me what size dish I need how big maplins do a 1.8 metre dish is that big enough I am 65km from parma

I want to take my sky dish from the uk:mad:

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 09:31

In the message I sent a link to I say that I used a 90cm dish to get all but the BBC, itv, c4, c5 channels and a few more UK-centric channels. These are almost impossible to get outside northern France and the UK as they are on a narrow beam that only really covers the UK, if thats what your after then sorry I wouldn't hold out much hope even with a 1.9m dish.

Here is what I would suggest, bring your current sky dish and see how well it works and what sort of signal you get (You should be able to pick something up), if your desperate for UK-sky (Sky1 should be receivable) then increase the size of your dish, else I really would suggest Sky-Italia.

Sky Italia has a lot of English content, 95% of movies that are English originals can be seen in English, there is BBC prime with all the BBC favs, a bunch of FOX channels. PPV movies, Discovery and NatGeo channels news, sports and kids channels in English. Plus it's not quite as expensive as UK sky and you'll not be paying for a bunch of channels you cant even pickup.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 09:44

Hi there

This may or may not be of help but we have just had our Sky dish installed for free with 2 months free membership, then 22 euros to pay and a one year contract. The dish, that I just measured, is 85cm.
However, we are in Puglia, maybe it makes a difference where you are but I don't think so. Correct me if I'm wrong please someone, because I hate giving incorrect info.
Maybe you could just contact Sky and ask them?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 10:36

Hi Kym
hope this link helps.
Karens post may help.

[url]http://www.italymag.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=2253[/url]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 10:45

Kym, in a nutshell, it is a waste of money trying to use a UK card and /or decoder in Italy, most of the programmes you may receive will fade out during the evening, everyone I know who's tried it has eventually moved to Sky Italia, and use the language preference to get English programming, and, remember, you get Eastenders an hour before UK viewers, so can ring and tell them the ending half an hour before the programme starts over there :)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 11:10

[url]www.sky.it[/url] has most of the info but it is all in Italian. For about €30 per month and €99 installation and dish, you get all the channels including most of the terrestrial channels. The Sky are mostly doppio audio which means you can select and receive programs in their original language. Channels include Fox and Fox Life which are generally American, Some BBC, an eccentric channel called Jimmy which has oddball comedy Dr Who and Star Trek, soppy Hallmark, BBC World News, Sky News, CNN etc etc, National Geographic, Science, History, 6 channels of cartoons, and about the same of music channels. We paid this and also got 6 channels of movies nearly all available in English. You pay extra for Sport. Generally the local electrical store will set up everything in a flash when you arrive. You’ll get your TV sorted before you have a divan to watch it on.
All in all you can get all the rubbish you need. Our boys were glued to it and the adults didn’t get to see anything. After five years of being here we recently moved house and left Sky. No one misses it. We hire DVDs occasionally and watch Italian TV. Oh yeah, and they fight less about whose turn it is to watch.
There are many issues about moving with teenagers, I sympathise with you. Maybe try and get them into sport as soon as possible if that’s their thing. Basketball is big as well as soccer.
Good luck - keep a diary

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 11:15

sorry kym the browser is

[URL="http://www.skytv.it"]http://www.skytv.it[/URL]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 11:20

And, the other good thing is that once your Italian improves, you can switch to Italian as the language of choice...