Sky+ is.....
 

......FLIPPING MARVELLOUS!!!

I had it installed yesterday and I am well impressed.

As expected it works fantastic as a recorder - so hassle free. It's the
other little features that change the way you live (is that a little
strong?), such as the pause and rewind features. Also, being able to start
watching a program you've not even finished recording... how good is that!

Here's the moment I realised it had the potential to 'change the way I live
:o)':

We had my mum round for tea last night and I was in the kitchen doing the
cooking. She was watching Sky News and the headlines came on, one of them
was of interest to both of us so she gave me a shout. Not realising I
could just mosey on through and press the rewind button just after the
relevant articale came on I dropped everything and ran through, plonked
myself in the armchair and prepared to wait and wait and wait (who know's
when the damn thing was going to come on - I could have wasted up to 20
minutes waiting for it).

Then I realised the above. So I got up, continued preparing the meal and
when the article came on I strolled into the living room, pressed rewind and
viewed it. Simple!

So that's 2 minutes of my life spent watching the article (with no stress
about things boiling over in the kitchen) opposed to upto 20 minutes wasted
of my life to watch a two minute article.

I know I've gone on a bit explaining the obvious to you lot, but it's all
new to me and I am still in the honeymoon period.

Regards

Sonars UK

Sonars UK wrote:
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I still say these features should be FREE without being forced to watch two
Premium channels!

"^Joey Joe Joe-Joe^" wrote in message
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Sonars UK wrote:
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I still say these features should be FREE without being forced to watch
two
Premium channels!


yep. so what can you so with sky+ that you cant do with a third party PVR??

"^Joey Joe Joe-Joe^" wrote in message
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Sonars UK wrote:
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I still say these features should be FREE without being forced to watch two
Premium channels!


Why?

If you don't want to pay for it, then it sounds like it's not really much value to you.

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:48:58 +0100, "spammy" wrote:

"^Joey Joe Joe-Joe^" wrote in message
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Sonars UK wrote:
|| .....FLIPPING MARVELLOUS!!!
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I still say these features should be FREE without being forced to watch
two
Premium channels!


yep. so what can you so with sky+ that you cant do with a third party PVR??

Why, pay an extortionate amount of money to Sky for the pleasure of
course!

Ollie

Remove NOSPAM if replying by e-mail.

"
yep. so what can you so with sky+ that you cant do with a third party
PVR??

Record a direct copy of the bitstream onto the hard drive -
completely 'loss free' recording (though you could get stung if you
cancel your sub and you haven't watched the recording).

Considering it's 'free' to subscribers of two premium channels,
it's pretty competitive. Obviously you don't get all the features of
TiVO but then you don't have to pay the sub either. 10 quid per month
generally is a bit OTT for it though.


Gav

Don't even bother mentioning the Tivo we are talking about the future not
the past!


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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:48:58 +0100, "spammy" wrote:

"^Joey Joe Joe-Joe^" wrote in message
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Sonars UK wrote:
|| .....FLIPPING MARVELLOUS!!!
||
snip

I still say these features should be FREE without being forced to watch
two
Premium channels!


yep. so what can you so with sky+ that you cant do with a third party PVR??

Record a direct copy of the bitstream onto the hard drive -
completely 'loss free' recording (though you could get stung if you
cancel your sub and you haven't watched the recording).

Considering it's 'free' to subscribers of two premium channels,
it's pretty competitive. Obviously you don't get all the features of
TiVO but then you don't have to pay the sub either. 10 quid per month
generally is a bit OTT for it though.


Gav

"spammy" wrote in message
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"^Joey Joe Joe-Joe^" wrote in message
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Sonars UK wrote:
|| .....FLIPPING MARVELLOUS!!!
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snip

I still say these features should be FREE without being forced to watch
two
Premium channels!

yep. so what can you so with sky+ that you cant do with a third party
PVR??

You can change channels while recording for a start. Thats the biggest
selling point for me.

In article ,
says...
"PhilÅ" wrote in message
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Yes but the quality would of been alot better on the Sky+

Maybe so, but TIvo would do gravy.

And the quality would not have been "a lot better" on the Sky+
The difference between broadcast and TiVo's "best quality" is negligible.
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Dom Robinson said this:

Yes but the quality would of been alot better on the Sky+

Maybe so, but TIvo would do gravy.

And the quality would not have been "a lot better" on the Sky+
The difference between broadcast and TiVo's "best quality" is
negligible.

Under some conditions, it's difficult to tell the difference. For example,
you probably wouldn't notice the difference if you were blind or stupid.

The majority of people would see a significant difference.