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woofwoofwoof wrote: »

Does the sky+ box have to be connected to a phone line?

No. it doesnt. you are 'supposed' to though.

have a phone extension lead handy if sky whinge when they come out but the fitters dont generally care.

nickcardwell

pgilc1 wrote: »

No. it doesnt. you are 'supposed' to though.

have a phone extension lead handy if sky whinge when they come out but the fitters dont generally care.

Just to add..

when i first got sky+ we decorated the hall way, and sky was unplugged from the wall, it refused to work until it was plugged in....

Perhaps that was just in the first year

Rockman

Is there any real advantage of having Sky+?

Bigcammy

I got Sky+ installed just after they dropped the £10 a month charge for it and I think it's brilliant. I honestly didn't think I would get as much use out of it as I do. I can watch what I want when I want without the hassle of video tapes or recordable DVDs.

The pause live TV is excellent, as is the rewind live TV. I give it a big thumbs up :T

nickcardwell

Rockman wrote: »

Is there any real advantage of having Sky+?

oh yes.

Say you watch eastenders every night, you can set sky+ to record it every night.

If you flicking through the tv mag to see whats on later on the week, you can set it to record.


You can build up a bit of a library of films to watch in your own time as well.

We record a lot of stuff on a friday night , but never watch it until later on in the week.

Also if you record something on channel 4 thats an hour long, when you go to watch it back, you can fast foward the adverts and it will only take 45mins to watch.


We upgraded the hard drive (from a 40gb to 250gb) and its been brilliant (its now got 125hrs of recording time)

DesG

And don't forget the remote record feature, that is now one of the best features.

Pop on to sky.com select the program, and they send a message to your sky box to record the program.

Cheers, Des.

sam_jm

does anyone know of any decent sky Hd deals? been thinking of getting it for a while now

ABBEYGIRL_2

what exactly do the installers do when fitting sky plus? do they cause any mess or drill holes thanks

DesG

ABBEYGIRL wrote: »

what exactly do the installers do when fitting sky plus? do they cause any mess or drill holes thanks

Yes on both counts

They have to fit another cable from the dish to your box. They also have to fit a new quad lnb on the dish, but shouldn't be any mess.

If you get a decent fitter you could ask him if he could use shotgun cable through the existing hole so not making any mess. He may not do it, but it doesn't hurt to ask

Cheers, Des.

nickcardwell

ABBEYGIRL wrote: »

what exactly do the installers do when fitting sky plus? do they cause any mess or drill holes thanks

if your upgrading from sky , the big difference is, instead of one cable coming from the satellite dish to the receiver ,you get 2 cables instead.