boxst

Hello

Father Christmas managed to bring me Sky Plus, and wow it's amazing.

Looking through the listings and just pressing record and pausing live television (well, all the things the adverts say!) and it just works smoothly.

Now to upgrade the hard disk ..

Steve.

Tiggs

i still dont understand this!

even over xmas with afew movies stored up and loads of kids TV we never got CLOSE to 100% useage......if you need to watch that much you are watching too much!

boxst

Hello

Well, with two very young and active children my wife and I don't manage to watch anything really. Hence it's great to have a quick scan and record things. But then, of course, we can't actually manage to watch it all...

So after a week or so, it's about 50% used (10 hours). It should only take a few minutes to upgrade the drive to a 160gb one.

Steve.

Oldfella

iTrader: (3)

How big is the standard hard drive?

boxst

Hello

The standard drive is 40gb, although Sky have started to sell an upgraded 160gb one but it's expensive.

Steve.

Tiggs

standard is 20 hrs......if you ever have a back log of 20 hrs you need to give up because you cant watch it all (and if you do sit and watch 20 hrs your eyes will go square!)

Oldfella

iTrader: (3)

Hi, Mr Square eyes here, another question, is the standard H/D an ide type and is an operating system held on it?

boxst

Hello

It's a standard hard drive, no operating system.

Have a read here: http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...d.php?t=156344

Steve.

Oldfella

iTrader: (3)

Thank you

andy1505

Think sky plus is the way forward, but a word of caution. We are on our third box in one year and that has now brocken 6 weeks after the guarentee ran out. This is not a one off both my next door neighbor(2 boxes) and my father (2boxes) have had problems. I am writing to sky to see if they are willing to help, they should.

SinghSuperStud

iTrader: (2)

Hi,

sorry to hijack this somewhat slightly but can you buy a Sky + box outright ? ie. not pay the extra £25/month for it ? Was looking at buying a DVD recorder with HD drive but the Sky+ does the job a whole lot better I think but without the ability to record to DVD/CD etc.

Thanks, Jai

boxst

Hello

I bought the Sky+ box "outright": In that I paid £199 from an independent retailer.

I still have to pay Sky £35 a month to receive all the television programmes though.

Steve.

bluenosewrx

iTrader: (2)

I have just bought a Philips DVD recorder with 80GB hard drive with Tv guide plus,just like Sky + but without the subs,maybe not as good as sky +,but i pay no extra and can still transfer all programs to disk instead of deleting them.just my opinion .

Mac.

Scooby-Doo

I'm on my 4th box, 3rd LNB and 2nd dish and this one stil freezes once in a while. It is better than the previous efforts though.

Buzzer

Do these boxes link in any way to your existing "normal" box

ie can i put the old one upstairs and put the new one downstairs?

boxst

Hello

If you'd like to give Sky another £10 per month, then you can keep your existing box active.

Steve.

Buzzer

Cheers Steve but....................

Does that mean that my kids can watch what they want to watch upstairs on the existing sky box and me and the missus can watch something different on the "new" Sky + box downstairs.

So all i would pay is £200.00 for the Sky + and an extra £10 per month for the other box to remain active.

Oldfella

iTrader: (3)

Yip, but if your kids are like mine they will still want to hijack the +box to record on

Buzzer

LOL a good clip round the ear ole will sort that out

I shall have to purchase a sky + box now then