Updated sky viewing cards

Sky are replacing all the pay cards free and sending them to the registered address of the card.

If you used a third party then obviously they have the address and its down to them to get the card and send it to you. Some charge less ,some charge more,depends how many middlemen are involved

If the third party has gone out of business or passed away there is not much you can do but if it is a pay card you will still be charged because as far as sky are concerned,you have received your card and are using it.

You can't call sky as they will want the registered address. Thats why these companies charge a fee for doing it all for you.

I advise anybody interested in starting a pay package to use their own(or friend/relative) address so that in the future they will have control of their own account. sky have done a card change before and they will probably do it again.

As for free to view cards, they are available from sky for 20 pounds sterling and it has to be sent to an address in UK. When your card goes off you will lose Five,Fiver,Fiver Usa, Sky three and the new strong itv's.The rest work without a card.

A good quality sky digibox will tune into a strong ITV and CH4 only with a card inserted. Finding a digibox is no problem but sky are in the process of replacing ALL their blue cards with the new white cards. Unfortunately only the pay customers will receive the new ones free of charge through the post but you can purchase a free to view/freesat card from sky but they only supply to UK addresses. They are about 20 pounds sterling.

Or maybe the new line booster on your long sat cable has improved your current ITV. ;-)