{"id":3941,"date":"2011-06-11T20:32:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2011-06-11T20:32:28","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T19:32:28","slug":"bye-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/bye-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Sky!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pigpogm\/320508641\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/320508641_0aa89629ae_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pigpogm\/320508641\/\">Home: Satellite Dish<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pigpogm\/\">pigpogm<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>When we lived in Rose Street, we had just the normal terrestrial TV channels.  However, when we moved to Newton Mearns three and a half years ago, we decided to get Sky to please the kids.  We didn&#8217;t get Sky Movies or Sky Sports, but we still paid \u00a323.50 a month on top of the TV license.<\/p>\n<p>However, the penny finally dropped last month that we were paying \u00a323.50 for just a few channels more than what is freely available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesat.co.uk\/\">FreeSat<\/a>, and that our old Sky satellite dish was perfect for FreeSat reception.<\/p>\n<p>So last week we bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0039J42LM\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thewidblo-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=B0039J42LM\">Humax Foxsat HDR 500GB Freesat HD Satellite Receiver and Digital TV Recorder<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=thewidblo-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B0039J42LM\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, and it works beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>It gives us a few channels in HD (which we didn&#8217;t have before), a bigger harddisk for recording programmes, and a more modern menu system.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re just wishing we had ditched Sky years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home: Satellite Dish Originally uploaded by pigpogm When we lived in Rose Street, we had just the normal terrestrial TV channels. However, when we moved to Newton Mearns three and a half years ago, we decided to get Sky to please the kids. We didn&#8217;t get Sky Movies or Sky Sports, but we still paid \u00a323.50 a month on top of the TV license. However, the penny finally dropped last month that we were paying \u00a323.50 for just a few channels more than what is freely available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,107,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-gadgets","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}