Can I use a ex-Sky box to receive aerial Freeview?

^{Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 2nd October 2014 at 13:10}

I am afraid not.

The satellite receivers cannot receive Freeview and vice-versa. Whilst the underlying technology is the same (DVB) the satellite receivers do not have the capacity to receive the DVB-T terrestrial transmissions, only the DVB-S satellite ones.

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Monday, 12 May 2014

yorky
5:36 PM
Portsmouth

hi jb no i was with now I'm with virgin sorry it's yorky

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6:40 PM

yorky: In that case will have blocked access to the recording and playback side of the Sky+ box when your expired or was cancelled, this done via an over air download into your viewing .

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