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[Sotos]

SKY TV is not illegal in Cyprus, it is just not quite legal!

Makes sense

since when has piracy bothered anyone in cyprus

never I just felt I should give this information

How can nova greece be illegal since it is advertised by mulitchoice?!

Nova Greece is advertised by Multichoice in Cyprus? I think you are wrong. They advertise Nova Cyprus.

[Grande_assiette]

And remember that receiving Sky in Cyprus is illegal. The same for Nova Greece

Dear Sotos

SKY must not "knowingly" supply a subscription to anyone who will receive it out side the UK / Ireland.. as this is where they have righted for the rights to show sports / movies ,etc.

Over 23% of Skys subscribers are reckoned to be outside the UK

I know many Cypriots who subscribe to Nova Cyprus in London on Hotbird...AND who watch Nova Greece in Cyprus...

SKY, Nova, ART , etc are not going to complain about each other's "poaching" as they would lose subscribers.

It is not PIRATING as the subscription is paid for.

With a large dish one can receive unscambled content from the UK ( 8 BBC channels / ITV / Men and Motors / SKY news / CNN / BBC Radio 1-7/ BBc4 Lw.... blal bla ... I guess you'll be saying we should pay the UK TV licence fee, too ? )

PS .. I'm biased as this contributes to my livelihood !

GA

[Grande_assiette]

I have a 4.2m dish in Nicosia and get most sky+ channels but not all...

I think you can use a smaller dish on the coast tho, 3.2ish

Mark at big screen tv is superb, give him a call on 99323300

He knows all the tricks for sky tv and has all the equipment as well..

Hi G.Man .. it's 4bigtv.. but thanks for the referal ))

GA

[Grande_assiette]

we've just had a system called showtime installed, a heck of a lot cheaper then sky and you only need a small dish, plenty of choice, films, sport, documentaries, news, something of everyone.

Dear Eternal

What you say simply isn't correct .. allow me to explain

One can get most of the SKY channels on a 1.5-1.8m dish - there are so many 2nd hand ones about - where ppl have upgraded to get BBC etc

for £13 UK / month one can get more than 30 quality channels .. ( UK Gold / Living / Discovery/ Nat Geo / Animal planet..and the adverts are at least in English and the program guides are easy to navigate.) there are more than 50+ channels available, but many are Shopping channels.

If you aren't a huge sports fan the £13/ month SKY Mix of Entertainment and Knowledge is the BEST value package available in Cyprus, in English

As ever, I wish to point out that I am biased - as this contributes to my livelihood

GA

[G.Man]

GA, is that u Mark?

Didnt realise you are a member here..

When I get back from UK, I want to chat to you about possibly getting some other channels/sats, and whether I need another dish or I will get sufficient signal on my existing dish...

[eternal]

Depends how desperate you are to have BBC, on showtime they do show english soaps, also all the Discovery channels/animal planet/BBC food/5 movie channels and premier sports (which i could do without but i guess hubby has to have something) intotal 50 channels.

for the set-up and equipment +a whole yrs subscription it cost me 480.00cyp and i must say i'm very happy.

[Grande_assiette]

GA, is that u Mark?

Didnt realise you are a member here..

When I get back from UK, I want to chat to you about possibly getting some other channels/sats, and whether I need another dish or I will get sufficient signal on my existing dish...

Yes Mark,

it is me ..another Mark !

..sad to say although you have a 4.2m you will need ANOTHER dish to pick up other channels s

.. isn't time you went to HD ??? !! ) Next week will have constant supply of HD SKY + boxes - most excellent receivers ))


Mark

[Grande_assiette]

Depends how desperate you are to have BBC, on showtime they do show english soaps, also all the Discovery channels/animal planet/BBC food/5 movie channels and premier sports (which i could do without but i guess hubby has to have something) intotal 50 channels.

for the set-up and equipment +a whole yrs subscription it cost me 480.00cyp and i must say i'm very happy.

Dear Eternal,

precisely my point .. it is possible to pay £50 more and get double the amount of discovery channels, choice of time to view.. UK ads... and 14 soap channels )

But as you say.. if you want Footie.. Showtime excellent choice as far less than SKY !

Take Care

GA

[G.Man]

GA, is that u Mark?

Didnt realise you are a member here..

When I get back from UK, I want to chat to you about possibly getting some other channels/sats, and whether I need another dish or I will get sufficient signal on my existing dish...

Yes Mark,

it is me ..another Mark !

..sad to say although you have a 4.2m you will need ANOTHER dish to pick up other channels s

.. isn't time you went to HD ??? !! ) Next week will have constant supply of HD SKY + boxes - most excellent receivers ))


Mark

Sadly < have just had to pay £335 for a new HID bulb for my TV so cant afford to upgrade to HD yet...

Maybe soon tho...

[MR-from-NG]

I couldn't possibly live without my Sky TV, it's like my life support machine, switch it off and I'll die.

I get my service from a company in London called Insat International. They are the best.
Their website is www.insatinternational.com .