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Anyone had a Satalite Dish fitted recently for HD TV. ?  (Twin wires)

We were costed £95, all but a few pennies from Freesat, (Parents are having a Wifi HD Freesat box fitted,) but I think Freesat use local installers (not their own Freesat installers.)

Is it cheaper to  phone up a local Satalite Dish installer ourselves ?

Has anyone had this done recently and was it a cheaper way of getting it fitted, also how long does it take to be fitted please ?

Another way of skinning the cat, is to sign upto Sky and get a Free Installation and Box, then after the first month drop down to the lowest package and then after a year cancel your Subscription with Sky, you get to keep the Dish and Box as you own it.

Of course without a Subscription the Sky Hi-Def will not be much use for Hi-Def channels, and you will still receive most of the none Hi-Def Free-To-Air channels, but the Dish and cables will be compatible with any Freesat box.

Ok the overall cost may work out a little more expensive, but you would have had some Sky viewing and you have spread the cost over 12 months.

Then you can go out and buy a Freesat Box got my Humax Foxsat Hi-Def PVR of Pre-loved for £100 fantastic bit of kit. in fact we even take it to the South of France with us each year for our fortnight campings in July.

Edit = Sky

Just had a look at Sky offers, and it would work out at £233 for the year, of course you have to present yourself as a new subscriber, which is easy even if you have had in the past.

http://www.sky.com/quickbuy/build 

Thank you Davyjp, Vickisdad and Francais,

The £95 ish, is just to Install Dish with twin wires for HD box only, 

(Parents are buying the Wifi HD Freesat Box separately, should arive by post soon.)

So do you reckon it will be cheaper or dearer to call in the local Satalite Installation man or go through Freesat at £95 ish ?

Thank you Jonbob71,  

Wasn't sure how much local fitters charge these days, long time ago since we ourslves had Sky + Sky Dish fitted.

Years later when Sky put up their prices really sky high we stopped paying and dropped down to just Freeview channels only through the Sky box. Then seem to remember Sky saying our card in their box would no longer work anymore (they were no longer getting any money from us.) so we bought a Freesat Box and just carried on getting free extra channels from Freesat instead.

We already have a Sky Dish fitted with Freesat Jonbob71, but  we are sorting out our elderly Parents with a Satalite Dish for their HD ready TV, they want to watch some HD, record and have Catch Up TV too.

What they have at the moment is just Free view on an old type arial, there is no arial point in their new lounge, they don't have a recorder either, they have Wifi Broadband so on this particular Wifi (no cables) Freesat Box they will be able to get the Catch Up TV too.