I have £300 burning a hole in my pocket

Do I go for a Nintendo Wii or Sky HD ?

Both isn't an option

 

wii definatly

 

Sky HD Upgraded when my existing Sky+ box died. 2 major plus points, the HD programs look great, AND if you record non-hd you get a lot more room.

 

I get the Wii and make use of the excercise the sports games give rather than just sitting on your backside.

 

current hd boxes are crap and have well documented faults wait for 2nd gen boxes while playing mario kart on the wii

 

Wii! Wait for HD.

 

Curry's HD Deal - £99
Wii - £179

I fail to see a dilema.

 

Seems to be alot of sky+ boxes dying these days.

Something worth trying for anyone with a dead or decidedly suspect sky+ box is to open it up and take out the hard drive, plonk it in a PC and run some hard drive diagnostics on it (preferably via a dos boot disk - to ensure windows doesn't mess it up).

If the PC won't boot, or it fails the diagnostic tests...£40 for a new 250gig drive (PVR specific) should coax it back into life.

 

Ive had Sky HD for the last couple of years or so and it has never failed. Its great watching - albeit not often - Scotland play on HD.

 

The deal is only for new customers, you also need to buy a Sky package of minimum £16 per month for sod all channels and also Sky HD is an extra £10 every month on top of your package and its a £30 install fee. Total of £342 for a 12 month
contract or more if you want more channels.

 

I used to have a Wii. Sold it with a month because it was basically rubbish. I'd get HD instead personally

 

Sky HD is pants, sorry. Not enough good programmes broadcast in HD to justify the extra spend.

PS3 and GT5 Prologue £299 ???

 

F1 is going to be in HD when its moved to the BBC. Reason alone IMO for HD.

If you have Sky+ you could flog the box on ebay for about 60-70 and buy a HD box from ebay for 140 ish. Have the card paired to the HD box and away. £10 a month.

2nd hand Wii £170 - So £250 for both.

 

Fair point Edd, but cant see the point of buying something now that is possibly going to drop in price later when you dont really need it now.

Also with HD is the 5.1 surround sound, to get the best out of the full experience a propper audio setup is a must, not just an HDTV.

Slightly OT, good DVD to test system.

 

SKY HD

 

wii

not enough programming yet on hd and with the extra monthly cost not worth it in my opinion. What a few years, [rice will drop, more channels will be available and the technology will have improved as well

 

Buy a chipped Wii then by the time youve played every game for like 20 pence sky HD will be free IMO its not worth the extra spend for the amount of channels you get

 

Mine was a 2nd receiver fault, no signal. And as it was one of the very earliest SKY+ boxes a HDD swap is a lot trickier as they are fussy about disk spinup times, either too slow or too fast. Tried it a couple of years ago to get extra capacity. I tried probably a dozen different HDD's from 80GB to about 160 GB, not one of them was suitable, and no I haven't got a load of "spare" HDD's lying around, just access to a variety of hardware, and advice from a satellite TV engineer and Google. I believe the later models are a lot less fussy.

 

Yup, I plonked in an old 30gig maxtor into a PVR3 when its 160gig (Seagate) drive failed, and it worked fine albeit with little recording space...which is odd as 80gig is supposed to be reserved for Sky's use.

Was a temporary fix just to get it working again. Since replaced with a more suitable Seagate 250gig PVR drive.

 

Just a quick update, bought a wii yesterday

Not had chance to use it yet so can't comment, but my feelings were Sky HD is a bit of a rip off at the moment. I'm hoping they'll start to treat long standing customers a biut better by not charging them over £300 to upgrade, when new customers can get it far cheaper...

 

Bit of advice, go to the local computer store, get it 'modified' then have a look here

http://v3.newzbin.com/browse/group/p...ies.games.wii/