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Originally posted by John
If you are willing to pay the £10 a month I personally think skyhd is a better option, if the box breaks within a year you get it fixed/replaced anyway.

I'm still of the opinion they'll scrap the £10 charge in the near future.

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If you are willing to pay the £10 a month I personally think skyhd is a better option, if the box breaks within a year you get it fixed/replaced anyway.

I'm still of the opinion they'll scrap the £10 charge in the near future.

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Originally posted by John
I wasn't even £24 out, they give you a £15 credit on your account.

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£99 + £15 credit isn't a haggle, the deal is on the sky website.

I wasn't even £24 out, they give you a £15 credit on your account.

No it's not, it's for all customers.

Sorry, it's up to £99 now, I was £24 out, still much better than ebay.



[Edited on 05-11-2008 by John]

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Originally posted by ash_corsa
Im not getting into an argument about this as it would spam the thread.

Anyone in 'the trade' knows about the problems associated with Sky HD boxes, a simple google search will bring up pages and pages of angry Sky subscribers.

I could give you very a long list of our customers who have called us out due to their sky not working and its been down to a faulty HD box.
9/10 of these have had their box replaced more than once.

New Sky HD boxes (with the green stripe around the ethernet port) are 'supposed' to be free of all the teething faults of earlier HD boxes.

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Originally posted by John
If you are willing to pay the extra tenner a month don't go buying a box from anywhere. It sounds like he's going directly through Sky so he'll get warrenty so it's neither here nor there. Sorry for getting rude earlier.

Sky are doing it for 75 quid, they'll come and fit it and you'll have warranty.

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If you are willing to pay the extra tenner a month don't go buying a box from anywhere.

Sky are doing it for 75 quid, they'll come and fit it and you'll have warranty.

Wow, cheers for that xa0s!

SkyHD it is then!


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Im not getting into an argument about this as it would spam the thread.

Anyone in 'the trade' knows about the problems associated with Sky HD boxes, a simple google search will bring up pages and pages of angry Sky subscribers.

I could give you very a long list of our customers who have called us out due to their sky not working and its been down to a faulty HD box.
9/10 of these have had their box replaced more than once.

New Sky HD boxes (with the green stripe around the ethernet port) are 'supposed' to be free of all the teething faults of earlier HD boxes.

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Originally posted by ash_corsa
because you will need to pair the box with sky, once they know youve got a HD box they will charge you for the record function and the privilage to watcha few Hd channels.
Also, sky+ Hd boxes are a pile of shite, they fail again and again and if you buy one off ebay you have no warranty, so that will be £150 wasted as its almost 100% certain to go wrong

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Would upgrading to SkyHD+ be easier? Even though it's more expensive!

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Originally posted by xa0s
Why has no-one suggested simply buying a Sky HD box and plugging it into the Sky+ feeds? You don't need to pay the £10 monthly subscription if you don't want to, and you'll get all the channels Freesat will get bar ITV HD. Sky HD's PVR is second to none and the box upscales standard definition channels too. That's what I've done in my bedroom.

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Why has no-one suggested simply buying a Sky HD box and plugging it into the Sky+ feeds? You don't need to pay the £10 monthly subscription if you don't want to, and you'll get all the channels Freesat will get bar ITV HD. Sky HD's PVR is second to none and the box upscales standard definition channels too. That's what I've done in my bedroom.

Oops thought it was a PVR like the + box. Yups just 1 new feed then ;)

And yes it will run alongside Sky+ no problem.

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Originally posted by oceansoul
think u just need to take 2 new feeds from your LNB to the freesat hd box. Obvously you'd need a Quad LNB.

(LNB is the thing on ur dish that the cables come out of ;) )

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think u just need to take 2 new feeds from your LNB to the freesat hd box. Obvously you'd need a Quad LNB.

(LNB is the thing on ur dish that the cables come out of ;) )

Yeah we have SKY+ already. Will that rule out Freesat?

Freesat HD will be big, they just need to sort out the channels as some are having issues with contracts with Sky.
Channels are being added all the time though.
You will need a HDMI input though as the component outputs on all the Freesat HD boxes have been disabled for copyright reasons.
The Panasonic 81 series freesat HD TVs are excellent, we have fitted loads of these lately.

Currently you wont get channel 5 on freesat but theyre working on it :thumbs:

And Channel 4 HD.

But even so, before I can give any advice... Have you already got Sky+?

Not many HD channels on freesat...well only BBC & ITV which ain't great

It is plug and play and will work alongside Sky+ but it will need its own feed from the Satelite

Have you already got Sky+?

Any got this?

Does it need installing or is it just a plug'n'play box?

Can it work alongside Sky+?

Seems like a cheap way of getting HD tv channels.