Freesat and Sky+

[I.Don No]

is it possible to use these two together?
would I need another cable from the dish to the freesat box?

[ChuckFickens]

Yes and yes (or 2 extra cables if it's a freesat recorder)

[Buenchico]

If you've already got a Sky+ dish it will have a quad-output LNB. One output is used for each tuner that the dish feeds. Sky+ uses two tuners (one for watching and one for recording), so you've still got two spare outputs to feed additional devices, such as a Freesat box. However, as your post implies, you'll still need another cable to run between one of the spare outputs and the new box.

If you're starting with Freesat, and thinking of adding Sky+, you'd need to find out whether the dish has the necessary quad-output LNB fitted to it.

Chris

[I.Don No]

ta muchly mate!

[I.Don No]

ta muchly to 2nd mate!

[johntywino]

I have got both,but find that we virtually NEVER watch freesat at the moment because the same rubbish programmes that are on freesat are also on Sky , so the hassle of changing from one to the other is avoided....However, every year after the football season is finished (the wife poor thing) I cancel Sky completely till footer starts again,so this year I,ll still be able to watch the 100s of rubbish channels that are on Sky for free on freesat !!!

[I.Don No]

ta muchly J