Sky Digital Boxes.

One of my Sky boxes died rcently - so I paid £65 approx for a maintenance call from Sky - I got a refurbed box and LNB - plus a 3 month warranty

Buying secondhand you could be in the same situation in a short while with a dead box.

For Sky+ you have to take out a Sky+ rental of about £11 a month - unless you have one of the expensive Sky packages

Sky+ is a good value spend

With Sky+ you get a 4 way LNB which means that you can run Sky+ box plus two other Sky reguler boxes off the same dish

Derek,

I have seen new Sky Digital boxes for about £70, so that's the way I'll probably go. I,ve read somewhere that if your current subsciption is over £30 / month there's no charge for Sky+. Obviously if the LNB is different will I need to install a different cable from the dish to the receiver.

Justyn.

Justyn.

For Sky+ you need a 4 way LND AND 2 coax cables from the dish to the box (so you can receive/watch/record 2 channels at once).

If you are on the full package you will not have to pay extra for the Sky + subscription.

The advantage of taking a service call was that the Sky man re aligned the dish as well as fitting the new LNB and setting up the Sky Box

As others have said you will need a new LNB fitted and cables ran as well as an extra subscription though as you're on a decent package it should be free.

Sky do have a bit of a thing with doing offers for "brand new customers only" which can be a bit of a sod!

I feel a little sad saying this as it's "only TV" but Sky+ really does change how you watch TV - I frequently find myself in the car reaching for the rewind button and that's when I'm listening to the radio

For the last word I'd look on the forums on digitalspy.co.uk - there's a lot of knowledge over there.

cheers,
Paul

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Originally posted by Paul Hutchings:
I feel a little sad saying this as it's "only TV" but Sky+ really does change how you watch TV - I frequently find myself in the car reaching for the rewind button and that's when I'm listening to the radio

Paul,

Agreed. I have an equivalent box for Freeview (the Pace one, which doesn't do the auto-rewind thing in the same way). There are a load on offer out there, though (see Dual-tuner Freeview PVRs.

The best aspect for me is recording lots of radio stuff and replaying it when convenient. For me, there's so much fascinating or funny stuff on Radio 4, but never when I want to listen to it.

There was a statistic in New Scientist a few months ago that a large & growing proportion of radio audiences are listening to radio through their TVs because of the multiplicity of channels on Freeview, and the convenience of these boxes.

My iRiver MP3 player gets close to being able to do this with FM radio. Maybe with Rockbox?

cheers, Martin

Would it be possible for me to carry out the technical changes ie new LNB and wiring mods (Were shortly be starting to build an extension anyway so cabling can then all be hidden), and just phone Sky to swap me over to Sky+. I already pay the highest monthly subscription so this should cost me nothing, or does,nt it work that way?

I'm already having withdrawl symptons, with BBC1,BBC2, HTV (Wales) and S4C that's all on offer (It's the land that time forgot).

What did we all use'd to do before Sky?

Justyn.

Hi
If you tell Sky you are about to cancel your subscription they will do almost anything to hold on to your account.
Recently some repairs I needed went from costing £120 to £60 to the fee being waived because I stuck to my guns.
Regards
Jim