been looking at a "f5 sky open box". basically the box costs £40 odd on ebay then you pay a subscription for all the channels bt sport sky sports etc...

just need advice on this or other boxes some of you may use, im new to all this so want something simple and easy to use.

i have sky basic package atm so in the room theres a cupboard with a phone point the wifi modem etc all there so connecting it up shouldnt be too difficult i doubt.

cheers.

 

Get a Now TV box for £13, install Plex and Unsupported App Store.

 

My pal has the f5 and it works well he said. I bought an xbmc yesterday fully loaded and to be honest its ****, all of the channels we watch in chinese or spanish.

As a tv thing its ****, but, its great for movies and sports.

Go for the f5, i wish i did

 

Had an openbox with card share and it was very good. Little slower to select channels than a pukka sky box, the recording isn't as flexible but for just watching ANYTHING on the sky satellite it was bob on!

 

XBMC is a great bit of kit imho, run it on the laptop and can get literally everything all in English.