Dolby Digital
 

Hey i currently have Normal sky, only a few months into the 12 month
contract. whats the easiet way to get Dolby digital ?

Can i buy a sony box and tell sky to swap the card over or do i need to have
my origional box connected for 12 months ?

Or do i need to get sky plus, if so can i keep my origional box or do sky
take it back

Mark

Mark wrote:

Can i buy a sony box and tell sky to swap the card over or do i need
to have my origional box connected for 12 months ?

You can swap your box anytime, Sky won't mind, but each time you do you
need to get Sky to authorise your card for the new box. This will stop
it working in the old box, I believe.

As for the Sony box, I gather it's not fully implemented in the firmware
and thus doesn't actually work for Dolby Digital.

Or do i need to get sky plus, if so can i keep my origional box or do
sky take it back

Sky Plus certainly works with Dolby Digital, using an optical lead. And
the original box is yours to keep. Sky will try and flog you a second
£10 a month sub to give you a second card that matches your existing and
thus allows you to watch Sky in another room on another TV. The Sky Plus
installation automatically includes a quad output LNB - two for Sky+ and
two spare.

Regards

Mark

Mark wrote:
Can i buy a sony box and tell sky to swap the card over or do i need to have
my origional box connected for 12 months ?
A Sony box will not output DD. Although it has an optical output you
can only use it to transfer stereo sound.

Or do i need to get sky plus, if so can i keep my origional box or do sky
take it back
Correct, the only way to get DD with Sky is to use a Sky+ box.
Your current box belongs to you, Sky will not take it back.

Andy

Is the installation offer still on sky plus ? or is £50 again now

Mark

One more thing, are you aware that only Sky Premier 1,2 and 3 and some
box office films are broadcast in DD?

Andy

Yea, but i also get to record etc on sky + i suppose, was looking at the
sony box as a cheaper option

Mark said this:

Is the installation offer still on sky plus ? or is £50 again now

Installation is still offered for £1 on the Sky website.

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:45:58 +0100, Andy Sinclair
wrote:

One more thing, are you aware that only Sky Premier 1,2 and 3 and some
box office films are broadcast in DD?


Only SP 1,2,3 broadcast DD - it was removed from the box ofice films
when SBW was removed

Siggi Ingason wrote:

I've just upgraded from a Sony box to Sky+ and can confirm that
you will not get DD on the Sony box.. I how have DD up and running on
Sky+.. The difference in sound is not a big as I expected..

The difference will only be noticeable on the Sky film channels that
show DD5.1 films, of course. It should be quite noticeable there
though.

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