Sky Plus box question

I have just been given a Sky Plus box. We already have an ordinary Sky
subscription. I'm not exactly clear how I stand with this. Can I just
plug in the Sky Plus box, put in the card from the ordinary box and
just run a 2nd. coax down from my dish into the Plus box?

I get the impression that I have to inform Sky and plug in a telephone
connection and no doubt pay them some money. Rather than ask Sky about
this (who obviously will be biased) can anybody tell me the best course
of action with this?

Thanks

"Pete L" wrote in message
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I have just been given a Sky Plus box. We already have an ordinary Sky
subscription. I'm not exactly clear how I stand with this. Can I just
plug in the Sky Plus box, put in the card from the ordinary box and
just run a 2nd. coax down from my dish into the Plus box?

I get the impression that I have to inform Sky and plug in a telephone
connection and no doubt pay them some money. Rather than ask Sky about
this (who obviously will be biased) can anybody tell me the best course
of action with this?

Thanks

Until you inform Sky none of the recording functions will work. Once
informed, you'll either have to pay the tenner a month charge, unless its
waived because you have 2 or more premium channels. Plus, you'll need a new
LNB unless your LNB already has a spare feed on it which is unlikely (I
believe) if you have a standard isntallation. And you probably need to get
the dish realigned as a result of putting in the new LNB!

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Thanks for that - My LNB definitely has a spare feed. What about the
telephone connection. I'm not keen on connecting but do Sky insist on
it?

"Pete L" wrote in message
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Thanks for that - My LNB definitely has a spare feed. What about the
telephone connection. I'm not keen on connecting but do Sky insist on
it?

No - you didn't buy it from them

Loz

loz wrote:

Thanks for that - My LNB definitely has a spare feed. What about the
telephone connection. I'm not keen on connecting but do Sky insist on
it?

No - you didn't buy it from them

The extremely vague (and hence illegal) T&Cs of the Sky+ appear to
require a phone connection for 12 months. In practice you will
probably need the phone connection briefly in order to activate the
recording functions but once that is done it will never be checked, so
it can be removed.

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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:00:58 +0000 (UTC), "loz"
wrote:


"Pete L" wrote in message
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Thanks for that - My LNB definitely has a spare feed. What about the
telephone connection. I'm not keen on connecting but do Sky insist on
it?

No - you didn't buy it from them

Loz

But they still insist on the telephone connection.

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"Jomtien" wrote in message
...
loz wrote:

Thanks for that - My LNB definitely has a spare feed. What about the
telephone connection. I'm not keen on connecting but do Sky insist on
it?

No - you didn't buy it from them

The extremely vague (and hence illegal) T&Cs of the Sky+

LOL. They might be invalid, or disputed, but they wont be 'illegal'.

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Tumbleweed wrote:

The extremely vague (and hence illegal) T&Cs of the Sky+

LOL. They might be invalid, or disputed, but they wont be 'illegal'.

UK law prohibits unfair contract terms. Terms that are deliberately
vague and imprecise could easily be considered unfair and, as such,
illegal.

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Fed up with on-screen logos? : http://logofreetv.org/
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Mike Henry wrote:

the contract doesn't require
it unless Sky perform the installation. (Unless they have changed the
contract.)

The last Sky+ T&Cs I saw were incredibly vague and could be taken
either way.

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"Jomtien" wrote in message
...
Tumbleweed wrote:

The extremely vague (and hence illegal) T&Cs of the Sky+

LOL. They might be invalid, or disputed, but they wont be 'illegal'.

UK law prohibits unfair contract terms. Terms that are deliberately
vague and imprecise could easily be considered unfair and, as such,
illegal.

a **** load of assumptions there;

1) that they are *deliberately* vague and imprecise....that would take a lot
of proving, if only because millions have signed them and no one has taken
SKy to court so far (AFAIK) so very few people have considered them
imprecise.
2) That that is illegal to be deliberately vague.
3) That that aspect of the ts&Cs themselves, are unfair. They could be
vague but not unfair.
4) That that is illegal, rather than null and void.

IANAL but AIUI, unfair ts&Cs are not 'illegal' they are simply invalid and
dont apply. Its as if they werent there at all.
In other words, someone could have Ts&Cs in small print that you never saw
when signing, that said 'Jomtien must sacrifice his first born to me if he
ever mentions Tivo again' but the only effect of that would be that they
dont count.

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