please help picking all entertainment for my new house

smilerxxx

Hi everyone

I was hoping to get some help picking the best options for my new home. We should have the keys in 2/3 weeks. We currently have sky and sky broadband (rented accommodation) himself is still in contract for broadband (due to expire in feb) so we may have to buy that out or keep it.

The house can get the works from everyone. We tend to watch sky atlantic sky living and on demand a lot. Although come to think of it its actually catch up I use a lot But I'm open to suggestions. We watch a lot online too. I want to put a TV in the kitchen and the bedroom and possibly another room too and I would be delighted with free to air in those rooms but I don't know how I get these set up and from whom.

So basically I need suggestions on broadband, TV packs, multiroom or freesat (don't need phone but I think most make you take it ). If we could afford sport it would be great for himself. Currently we don't have it. Rugby is the only sport that would be needed

Thanks in advance. Sorry if this is the wrong place feel free to move it if so

kooga

main room stick to the sky tv package ( and keep the remaining part of your contract with both sky tv and broadband). After that either go with eircom efibre or upc broadband only. So i would recommend an octo lnb on your sky dish and install an aerial for saorview

kitchen saorview and a freesat box

bedroom as above

other room as above

for sport as he likes rugby you have to either choose sky or the setanta pack as the rugby coverage is divided up as follows

Pro 12 sky, tg4 bbc ni bbc wales and s4c
aviva premiership BT
Top 14 sky
Internationals rte, bbc and sky

this is just a quick rough guide, hopefully others will contribute. best of luck

smilerxxx

If it helps with offers I was going to get sky in my name for the new house to avail of new customer deals. I think the old owner had Eircom and I didn't see a satelitte. Himself had sky for years so is out of contract for the TV but not the broadband. It costs €85 a month for sky variety plus HD and broadband.


How would I get the saorview/freesat installed? I wouldn't know how to do it myself he doesn't know either :-(

Thanks for response

Edit: I don't mind laying out an initial payment to set up all the freesat boxes.

kooga

putting in your name is an option. might be cheaper to buy out your broadband contract i don't know

another option, would be to contact irish satellitte and aerial insatallation ISSA. click on the map where you live and find an installer in your area and discuss your requirements.

smilerxxx

Oh excellent I will look into ISSA.

So it might work out I get the best of everything if I get UPC broadband for €52 pm then sky variety plus hd (no sport but we could get offers during the year maybe) for €45

I thought €80 would be a good ball park but considering the quality of upc broadband it should be worth it.

I also bought an android box running xbmc but its unusable in this rented house as I can't directly connect it to the router and the wireless connection renders it useless. Maybe with upc this will add to our tv.

Thurston?

kooga wrote: »

another option, would be to contact irish satellitte and aerial insatallation ISSA. click on the map where you live and find an installer in your area and discuss your requirements.

It's ISAA: Irish Satellite & Aerial Association. I haven't been able to get onto their website the couple of times I've tried in the last week or 2, much less click on any maps.

smilerxxx

I googled it and realised it was ISAA and I couldn't get into either.

I was looking at sky and UPC and the new customer offers aren't great. Sky have a free Samsung galaxy s4 but it needs to be ordered by 4-12-14 and I'm afraid to order before I have the keys. Although I would prefer to have everything lined up and ready to go there are too many variables.

Thurston?

I presume you noticed the phone no. in the Google result, or maybe try a PM to this guy, who seems to be 1 of their 'higher-ups'.