Sky +

Butlers1982

I currently have sky but was wondering if i bought a Sky+ box would it be as straight forward as plugging the box in and being able to use the recording facility/all other features?

[Deleted User]

I don't think so, my Sky+ box has a chunky double wire leading to the dish.. i suspect it won't be a 'plug and play' jobbie

stonecoldsteveaustin

Yes, because Sky+ has twin tuners, you need 2 cables running from the dish to the box

Simongooner1

sky+ definitely needs some kind of technical set up from an 'expert'. There was a special cable inserted into mine. It is well worth it though!!

Butlers1982

Its only for my room as i do have HD beaming a quality picture in my lounge, just wanted my room Sky+'in!

David_B_2

As above. Need a engineer because the Sky + uses more than one cable. That's if you want to record and watch more than one etc.

I have multi room so have a normal box up stairs. I did ask my engineer if I was to buy a Sky + box for upstairs would it work? He said yes but I'd only be able to record the one channel hence the one wire I had.

They used the same dish but added a new RMB (or what ever it's called) for the two lines coming out rather than one.

So maybe worth asking a engineer if you could just plug it in for a limited service (record one channel).

I'd also say it is well worth it, top peice of kit.

m00nie

depending on where your dish is.

you need to swap the lnb to a quad one, then run another lead from the dish to your sky + box.

if you got a ladder or a low dish you can do i yourelf. get the bits from ebay.

sky + is going to be free from july 1st also.

Moneymaker

Try a Google search for "SKY+ and Replacing your minidish LNB".