Quality and availability of Sky channels in Warsaw

Cesc!

I know there are some threads about this but they don't really answer the specific questions I have.

i'm moving to Warsaw in 6 weeks and am thinking of "bringing" Sky with me. i will be living on the 4th floor where there is already some kind of one-metre dish on my balcony. so at worst, if it is the wrong type of dish, I can replace it with another correct dish to get Sky (but may be limited to that size of dish). My questions are:

1) What is the quality of the reception on those channels I can get likely to be like?
2) Apart from BBC and ITV (which i understand you can't get without a massive dish), are there any other major channels that won't be available?

3) If i subscribe to Sky Sports and movies, will I get them?! Or will I be wasting my money!?

Cesc i boze narodzenia

tim

i presume that you are going to subscribe to sky tv back in the uk and bring the receiver ect to poland.i know a lot of polish people who bring decoders and dishes of cyfra or polsat here to the uk and have no problems at all.the quality is the same as in poland. i think it works the same with sky in poland.at the end of day a signal from the satellite should be no different in both countries.i used to have just a normal dish back in poland and could watch 2 or 3 british programs but i had to direct the dish to a hotbird satellite(another one is astra-mainly german programs).it's a bit tricky but with help of another person should be ok.

No different to your Krakow experience i'd imagine, with a modern sky box and a 1m dish correctly alligned the reception quality is excellent.


E4 but there is a way to get the Irish E4 instead.


Yes you can get them and it really depends on your taste as to whether you are wasting your money.

Hi. My understanding on how it works is that you get your satelite dish pointed at the right angle and satelite and you can connect up your sky box and receive the programmes. Reception is as good as in the UK. I inquired to a company satservice.pl. They might be able to give you more details. Beware though as they sell subscription to Sky. I inquired if they provided the service in poznan. They told me that they did not install satellites dishes there(in poznan) but could provide me with the sky subscription. They told me to get a local company to install a satellite dish and point it at a certain satellite at a certain angle. Unfortunately i dont have the details to hand.

Try and pay for your subscription in the UK as any company providing subscription to sky over here seems to add on a nice little sum for themselves.

1) Depends on the digibox you have. With my Panasonic DSB-30 I have suffered signal failure twice in five years (both times in bad snow storms).

2) No there are not.
3) You will get them (I've had Sky sports for years) but you can not get pay-per-view unless you have a clever box of tricks which can phone Sky over the internet and fool the Sky computer into thinking your digibox is calling from the UK.

Forget about using any of the local providers to get a Sky subscription, they add on stupid money. Just find somebody in the UK you can semi-trust and ask them to subscribe for a Sky card you pay for. They just tell Sky they want to have a second box but can't hook it up to a phone line because of the way their house is laid out so they can't have the Sky "Multiroom" package. Sky don't care as long as they get paid from a UK bank account (or credit card) and have a UK address to send statements to.