sky plus or pvr box

mymatebob

bellslea wrote: »

can someone please tell me what is best sky+ or pvr box for a non freeview area

It depends.

One is not necessarily better than the other they are just different.

You can upgrade to Sky + for £99 online

bellslea

yes i know i can can upgrade for £99 but it also costs £60 to set up . total cost £159
roughly same price as a pvr box

Leopard

I've read, in other threads, that if you state convincingly that you want to cancel your existing subscription for Sky+ they will let you keep the Freeview channels on your Sky+ box, along with EPG, live pause, dual-recording ability and so on - only on the Freeview channels - for £10 a month. At £120 a year that might be worth considering in addition to a £300 Humax twin HD FreeSat tuner with hard drive.

I'm intending to buy the Humax box anyway and then review the Sky situation when I've archived off on to DVD all the films currently stored on my Sky+ box's 250 GB drive!

I can't see it being worth us keeping Sky+ for £456 a year in SD, let alone paying a ridiculous £805 (or £955) for a year of Sky+HD, once we've bought the Humax HD twin-tuner/recorder and linked it to our Sony (terrestrial) Freeview DVD burner with hard drive.

Hell, it only cost me £1,115 to buy a 52" Sony LCD television and £180 to buy a Sony Blu-Ray player. Three years of no Sky+ (or 18 months of no Sky+HD) would more than pay that back by itself!

I'll be hard pushed even to consider keeping Sky+, on Freeview only, for £120 a year, once I've got the Humax HD FreeSat up and running.

I suppose that if you can take the free Sky broadband and free Sky landline telephone package it softens the blow a little. But our exchange has not been unbundled (by anyone) and doesn't appear to be scheduled for it. So, that's not a practical option for us even to consider.

Leopard

bellslea wrote: »

can someone please tell me what is best sky+ or pvr box for a non freeview area

bellslea wrote: »

not in a cable area or freeview area. only sky or 4 channel t v

If you're not in a Freeview area, nor a cabled area, and you don't want HD television, Sky+ only makes sense if you want to watch the additional channels (e.g. films and/or sport - at additional cost) that you can't get, free, from a FreeSat box with twin tuners and a hard drive.

bellslea

looks like a pvr bx will be best .

DatabaseError

pvr=personal video recorder...the sky+ box is one, the freeview ones are, as are the freesat ones...
what are you hoping to record...if it is a simple as "I want to record sky 1 while watching something on another sky tv channel" then you may not have much choice!

savemoney

Dont you mean freeview+, those boxes you shown are freeview not freesat

Currently only one pvr for freesat+ made by Humax

You can get SD freesat and HD freesat boxes plus freesat+ with twin tuners

Leopard wrote: »

If you're not in a Freeview area, nor a cabled area, and you don't want HD television, Sky+ only makes sense if you want to watch the additional channels (e.g. films and/or sport - at additional cost) that you can't get, free, from an SD Freesat box with twin SD tuners for £130 with a 160 GB hard drive (or for £170 with a 320 GB hard drive)..

DatabaseError

I meant freeview+ (if you meant me) but the OP isn't in a freeview area, so looking like a sat only solution...and s/he already subs to sky (I think)...seems a no-brainer!

savemoney

No I quoted #25

DatabaseError wrote: »

I meant freeview+ (if you meant me) but the OP isn't in a freeview area, so looking like a sat only solution...and s/he already subs to sky (I think)...seems a no-brainer!

DatabaseError

savemoney wrote: »

No I quoted #25

Yes...later in your post....before that....oh....nevermind...

/me storms off muttering something about time to cook tea..starving childen.....etc...