Milamber

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I'm looking at getting Sky+ and just binning my old video recorder.

Is it possible to just order the box without increasing my subscription level or getting multi-room? This doesn't seem possible via the website.

MattW

Unless you subscribe to 2 premium channels it is an extra £10 pm

ScoobaSteve

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Would recommend it to anyone..so easy to use

AudiLover

How much is the sky+ box these days? Anyone know where I could get one cheaply?

ScoobaSteve

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Think Sky were doing a deal for £49 recently,but thats if you never had Sky before.

Apparition

Crikey !! We had to pay £200 , but that was about 3 years ago now.
Yes, you do either have to subscribe to at least two premium channels OR pay £10 per month on top of your usual subs.
We wouldn't be without it. The live pause facility alone is worth its weight. If the phone rings or the doorbell goes, we just freeze whatever we're watching.
And now we can record two progs at once, superb.
Yve

Milamber

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O don't want to pay an extra £10 per month. How about ebay or one of the local sky installers can they sell then directly?

ScoobaSteve

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Any retailer can sell you a box,its up to you wheteher you take out the basic subscription and pay the extra £10,or upgrade to 2 Premium channels and dont pay the £10 a month.
We need to get a bigger hard drive for ours.One day maybe

Milamber

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This is my fault and not yours steve but I don't quite understand your post. So I can buy a sky+ box froma retailer but not use it unless I take out a subscription? Can't I just buy it, plug it in and use it?

ScoobaSteve

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Think you can swap over boxes,but cant use the facilities that Sky+ offer unless you subscribe.Think this is right

Milamber

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Alright, just done a calculation, dropped some channels I don't watch and even with the £10 per month its £28-00 per month. I can just about live with that.

ScoobaSteve

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Go for it...you know you wanna

Mogsi

Your dish will also need modifiying so your Sky+ box will need to be installed by an engineer...

Paid £99 for mine a few months back with 6mths 1/2 price package ( returning customer )

ScoobaSteve

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Thanks Mogsi...forgot about the dish

Lee247

Best thing we ever did, it's superb

hectic

dish ( well LNB) needs *upgrading* to a Quad.... ANOTHER cable needs to be run .from dish to the back of your sky plus box..( one cable for 'viewing'.... one for 'recording'..) and unless you either subscribe or pay the 'extra' tenner ,.. its about as useful as a hairdryer to a fish.....
HTH

dharbige

Dish doesn't need updating, but as already mentioned, a quad LNB must be installed and at least one extra cable run. You don't need an Sky installer to do this though, you can do it yourself if you want. (I did!)

Also, just to confirm you MUST "subscribe" to the sky+ service, otherwise the box will just act like a normal digibox (i.e. no recording, no live pause etc.) The £10 Sky+ subscription is waived if you subscribe to at least 2 premium channels.

hectic

SURE i just said that in the post previous to yours!

Milamber

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Thanks everyone, the wifes just said "no" but I think she meant yes

hectic

tell her she'll have a VERY NICE Sky man that'll come round.. Erect his ladders.up against the wall,... and Bang a box in for her in no-time.. sure she'll come round..

CooperS

Tell them you want to cancel, is there anything we can do to keep you sir...?

Well I would like a Sky+ box, but I don't want multiroom, and I want it free....

Worked for me

Milamber

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HECTIC - FPMSL

Milamber

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1 more thing

What benefits are there over a normal HD recorder? £10 per month for the subscription makes it more expensive in the long run.

Iain Young

The major benefits over a hd recorder are...

• Program based recording. You just say what program you want via the sky guide rather than entering a start and end time. This means it is easier to program, and if a program is delayed, it will compensate.
• Series link facility, so it will automatically record all episodes of something, even if they are on different days and different times.
• You don't have to be watching the channel that you are recording (you do with a hd recorder).

There's probably more, but that's what I find useful

OllyK

That's only partially true, and depends on the provider updating the program information when there is a delay. IME they are rather lax at doing this.

hectic

its wot i do fella... smile all day..

MartinM

...and you're buying into a (probably) soon-to-be-redundant technology, seeing that the new Sky HD box has integral Sky+ capabilities.

So the advantage is that there will probably be qiuite a lot of Sky+ boxes on eBay soon.

Probably....

Milamber

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OK, ignoring MartinM completely I have gone ahead and ordered Sky+.

As an existing customer they wanted me to pay nearly £160 more than a new customer which I felt was a bit steep.

So I called the customer services number and spoke to a nice lady in Mumbai who put me through to the sales department. They told me in no uncertain terms that there would be no DEALS and that if I cancelled I would have to wait 5 years before I could re-subscribe as a new customer (my fecking ****).

I told himI had been looking on the website and a new customer gets it for £89 equipment cost AND free installation, immediately and without hesitation he told me "Oh if you've seen it on the web site we will match that" Took me by surprise to be honest after all his tough talk at the beginning.

I have ended up with Multi-room, Sky+ and only pay an extra £10 per month and £89 equipment cost. Bargain.

Any ideas on how to tell the wife?

BOB.T

Tell her what? It's always been like that

Milamber

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