Following on ......

...... from my "it's better tv" post, here's picking your brains .......

Now, I'm not a fan of the "green-eyed monster in the corner of the room" (TV), but my wife is and she watches all the rubbish they dish out (rubbish to me, laaaaike!). So, in Spain last week, I bought a new satellite dish and LNB to set up for receiving all the freesat channels over there.
Bugger! Later that night after I bought it, my mate says, "Hey, all our telly channels have gone off"! and, after enquiring, everybody elses channels have gone off too!
It turned out that the satellite, which supplied said channels for free, has been switched off. So it looks like I bought the dish etc., for nowt.
But, all's not lost. Another lad told me, "I can do you a firestick if you want, everything on it, €40, but you'll need internet access".
Then another said, "there's one called 'Kabelio', everything on it, it's about €200 a year".
Another said, "just get a free VPN and the internet, you can get anything you like with that"!

It's a minefield and a minefield I know very little about. So, has anybody on here got, or know of, any free satellite or internet accessed TV setups?

There seems to be a never ending market for 'dodgy box' free TV sales but, they get cut off because the techo dept wizards track them down, Then the bandit techo wizards form a new box which gets found out and the circle goes on, and on, the best way is to buy a legal one from Amazon.

We once purchased one of those tv boxes. I think it was something like £50 per year. I thought that it was too good to be true, and it certainly was!

It kept buffering, pixelating, cutting off, no sound etc so it ended up in the bin Even if you buy an Amazon ( ot any ) firestick I think you have to have it "chipped" to include the premium channels like movies, sports etc?
Then I would imagine you could finish up with the same streaming problems.

Hmmmmmmm.. Anybody know 'owt?

All that is, Tonker, is the Spanish version of the dodgy box

Tonker

On Freesat it is the Standard Definition (SD) channels which have been switched off LINK because most people now have HD TV's and TV Boxes, so as long as you are using an HD TV and or HD TV Box you can still receive the Freesat channels, but as regards the online streaming via broadband, that can be tricky, and as previously mentioned free streaming services never last long, the media companies have deep pockets, and they employ scientific experts to close down the pirate TV services.
Most new TV's now have a built in Satellite receiving capability, you just plug it in to a Satellite dish or a TV Aerial or both, has well as the broadband