SKY anytime + question

moonbeep

Hi Folks


Was wondering how much this is to set up and if there is any monthly fees.


Many Thanks

poppy10_2

moonbeep wrote: »

Hi Folks
Was wondering how much this is to set up and if there is any monthly fees.
Many Thanks

http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/anytime-plus/set-up/

Free if you set it up yourself; £40 if you want an engineer to do it for you (but really all you need to do is plug an ethernet cable from your broadband router to your sky box).

No monthly fees, although it will use up a lot of bandwidth on your internet connection, so if you don't have an Unlimited internet account then you will hit your monthly usage cap very quickly.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

poppy10 wrote: »

No monthly fees, although it will use up a lot of bandwidth on your internet connection, so if you don't have an Unlimited internet account then you will hit your monthly usage cap very quickly.

You must have Sky Broadband to use Anytime+.

JasX

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

You must have Sky Broadband to use Anytime+.

For now.... apparently the rest of us will get access to it on other ISPs at some unspecified point in future

BackOnTrack

Is this the same service that you can get via the xbox 360?

No it isn't just googled it. But the xbox 360 sky content is quite good (for films anyway) and I was enjoying it till my xbox decided it was time to rrod on me after 4 years.

Fifer

JasX wrote: »

For now.... apparently the rest of us will get access to it on other ISPs at some unspecified point in future

According to whom? If that happens soon, I might stick with Sky. If not, I'm jumping ship. I complained to Sky about them restricting it to Sky Broadband subscribers (that's not even an option for us) but they just rubber-eared the complaint.

JasX

Fifer wrote: »

According to whom? If that happens soon, I might stick with Sky. If not, I'm jumping ship. I complained to Sky about them restricting it to Sky Broadband subscribers (that's not even an option for us) but they just rubber-eared the complaint.

http://www.techradar.com/news/television/sky-still-in-talks-to-bring-anytime-to-other-isps-901602

and

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/33434/sky-anytime-plus-video-on-demand

notably on the second interview they were demo'ing it to jouranlists as being already perfectly functional on a non sky ISP

Its just an account/registration issue and sky being their usual a*shole selves about it for the moment

...also reports on other forums are its SD only and 'not that great' but a small plus if you can access it

Fifer

I'd just like to have access to catch-up TV from the terrestrial channels. I'm using a small HTPC at present, but I'd like something a little more technophobe-wife friendly. You View might be tha answer. I've looked at Sony Intenet TV, but it's iPlayer and Demand Five only, FetchTV is iPlayer only. No-one other than Virgin (we aren't in a cabled area) and BT Vision seem to carry 4OD or ITV Player.

JasX

Fifer wrote: »

I'd just like to have access to catch-up TV from the terrestrial channels. I'm using a small HTPC at present, but I'd like something a little more technophobe-wife friendly. You View might be tha answer. I've looked at Sony Intenet TV, but it's iPlayer and Demand Five only, FetchTV is iPlayer only. No-one other than Virgin (we aren't in a cabled area) and BT Vision seem to carry 4OD or ITV Player.

I just bought a long DVI/HDMI cable (<£10) and audio cable (£8 optical now but used to have a £2 3mm to 3mm stereo lead) and wired my PC into my flatscreen and sound system.

If we've missed anything on iplayer/4OD/ITV I just pull it up on the PC, drag it over to the flatscreen and with HD streams these days is indistinguishable from 'proper' TV

could easily do the same from a laptop

Fifer

I do that using a miniITX based PC I keep under the telly, but my wife would like something turnkey and straightforward to drive from a remote.

wavey_d

poppy10 wrote: »

Free if you set it up yourself; £40 if you want an engineer to do it for you (but really all you need to do is plug an ethernet cable from your broadband router to your sky box).

No monthly fees, although it will use up a lot of bandwidth on your internet connection, so if you don't have an Unlimited internet account then you will hit your monthly usage cap very quickly.

If you phone up, be careful. I phoned them and they said I had no choice to pay the setup fee, even though I argued that I didn't need any equipment, just the box activating. So I hung up, and phoned again 1 hour later, and got it activated for free straight away.

It really does seem to be hit and miss when you phone Sky. Some of there staff are excellent, some really don't seem to know much at all about the products/services they offer :huh: