Telephone and TV

unless you live in spain or are going to spend more than 3 months a year out there i cant really see the point of spending 400 e on a box plus the sky fee.i get 20 channels on the tv i purchased in spain.i will take dvds to watch.watching the news in spanish will improve my spanish something i am keen to do.i am sure someone will come up with a dvd rental shop.tv in uk is rubbish and the only thing i want to watch is sport and in spain i find it much more enjoyable to watch in a bar.the last thing i want to do is spend all my holidays in front of the goggle box.i have also rented out a property on another golf course previously and not once did anyone ask for a sky tv.the renters certainly had no intention of spending their holiday nights at home!

as for telephone i am going to offer a service whereby you can take an adaptor to spain and then make free calls back to the uk.pm me if interested.

Sorry to be dim, but I am little confused. 

The plan is, that if it is possible we can take out spare sky boxes and pick up the signal without it costing us ANY money I think? 

What I am confused mostly about is the viewing card. I don't have a 'spare' viewing card. So would I just take the one I use at home?  Will that work in another box?  And then would I get all the channels that are listed on this thread or the channels I get at home? 

It's just that I have never swapped around boxes and cards before. I just leave them all where the sky man put them years ago and keep paying the bills. I thought that every sky box has its own card and that it had to be connected to a dish and a phone line. How come it is different in Spain, is it because thay are having like a communal dish.  

Simple answers only please...     

Right now, according to Polaris customer service we still do not know when satalite TV will be available...., I have heard so many dates for their communications I dont think It is worth asking anymore. Speaking with the community leader he advised that we will be discussing these servcies at the meeting.

Campasol are offering the only system in Spain that will work on Polaris world but that requires a satalite dish, from what I understand, if the dish was attached to an independant pole it will not be illigal. For the ones of us permantely living here something with the telecom needs to happen, we would be happy if we could get something in writing but no one at Polaris is prepared to do that...em

Satalite or not, that is the question for us...

I dont think the sky box fromt eh UK will work from what Polaris has told, they have the communications tied up real tight.

Terry and Jill

I asked Nika to confirm our conversation in writing and got the reply below,  ho Hum.