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On 30 Aug 2021 at 11:34pm malling resident wrote:

Just after some advise (awaits the replies)
Ive just cancelled my sky q subscription and am sending the equipment back to sky but i still have an old sky hd box in the loft and was wondering if i could just plug it in to the cables and are able to still recieve the free channels?
Hopefully there is a sky engineer in lewes that reads this forum.
Thanks

On 31 Aug 2021 at 1:08pm Amber wrote:

Hope this helps.

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On 1 Sep 2021 at 10:50am Green Sleeves wrote:

Yeah, the old box should work as essentially a freeview digibox. They will just block the subscription channels.

On 1 Sep 2021 at 10:58am malling resident wrote:

Just out of interest ive tried connecting the old box to one of the 2 cables and its saying im not getting a signal so maybe need to get the lmb changed(what ever one of those are) any more info much appreciated thx guys

On 1 Sep 2021 at 2:25pm Green Sleeves wrote:

Ahhh sorry, Sky Q is not something I'm overly familiar with. Looks like for Sky HD, it needs to be hooked up to a satellite dish, where as Q delivers content through broadband.

I guess you don't have an aerial or sat dish anymore? As most modernish tellys have freeview built-in and just need to be autotuned (and connected to the aerial) and you should be good. Sky HD presumably still requires the dish to be active.

On 1 Sep 2021 at 2:30pm malling resident wrote:

Yeah sky dish still here because you still get the signal for sky q through it but after reading the first reply and looking on the link looks like i will need a new part fitted but rather than going and getting a part which i know nothing about just thought id see if there was a tv engineer on here that could offer me some advice