What type of SKY Box should I get

I am going to have a communal system installed sometime next year but only
one feed, there is no way to get two its official. I am going to subsribe to
the SKY Sports pack so should get the SKY + features free. I know this will
not work properly with one feed but would I be able to get a SKY HD box, and
get the freesat HD channels without paying SKY the extra £ 10 for SKY HD or
do you need to pay to recieve them.

In essence would there be any point in me getting either a SKY + box or SKY
HD box with one feed and a SKY Sports pack subscription over a standard SKY
Digital box.

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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I am going to have a communal system installed sometime next year but only
one feed, there is no way to get two its official. I am going to subsribe
to the SKY Sports pack so should get the SKY + features free. I know this
will not work properly with one feed but would I be able to get a SKY HD
box, and get the freesat HD channels without paying SKY the extra £ 10 for
SKY HD or do you need to pay to recieve them.

In essence would there be any point in me getting either a SKY + box or
SKY HD box with one feed and a SKY Sports pack subscription over a
standard SKY Digital box.

With a single feed would it be worth getting the SKY + HD box and the
Variety & Knowledge packs with Sky Sports 1 HD for £ 32.39 ex VAT this seems
ideal and I hear with the latest EPG on the SKY + HD boxes there is a single
feed mode. This means that as long as you put the box into standby mode
before recording and you do not record stuff back to back, the box will wake
up and record from one channel without problem.

If I had the box on and was watching something I would not be able to record
something else at the same time, but I could watch freeview terrestrial and
put the box into standby and record something whilst watching freeview or
make sure not to record anything whilst using the SKY HD box.

The other option is to get SKY + box and Variety + Knowledge pack and the
Sky Sports pack for £ 31.73 and then buy a SKY HD box seperately and pair it
so I could get the free HD channels BBC HD and ITV HD but then I would have
no other HD channels but I would have Sky Sports 2.

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
The other option is to get SKY + box and Variety + Knowledge pack and the
Sky Sports pack for £ 31.73 and then buy a SKY HD box seperately and pair
it so I could get the free HD channels BBC HD and ITV HD but then I would
have no other HD channels but I would have Sky Sports 2.

Instead of the above of course I could get just get a SKY + box and the
Variety + Knowledge packs and Sky Sports 1 for £ 23.91 ex VAT a month then
buy a SKY HD box off eBay and pair it in order to get the free HD content
without SKY HD content.

Can I actually do what I have said above or is it not possible, I see SKY
wont let you have a HD box without taking out a subscription but if you buy
one off eBay then surely it will let you have the free HD content once you
have phoned Sky to pair it with your viewing card.

"Nick Le Lievre" wrote in message
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Can I actually do what I have said above or is it not possible, I see SKY
wont let you have a HD box without taking out a subscription but if you
buy one off eBay then surely it will let you have the free HD content once
you have phoned Sky to pair it with your viewing card.

You can do what I said above just gotta pair the HD box with the viewing
card but I had a better idea, get a SKY + HD box, Variety pack and Knowledge
pack and Sky Sports 1 for £ 32.91 ex VAT a month then cancel the HD pack
after a year bringing the monthly cost down to £ 23.91 ex VAT and then you
already have a SKY HD box and will get the free HD content and will have had
SKY Sports et al in HD for a year, its works out £ 108 extra for the year
but you will have a SKY HD box at the end of it to use with free HD.

On Dec 8, 4:47*pm, "Nick Le Lievre"
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I am going to have a communal system installed sometime next year but only
one feed, there is no way to get two its official.

What do you mean, 'it's official'? Do you mean some mean little ****
who has in his own home a fully functional HD box has decided upon it?
No-one should be installing systems with only one feed. It's absurd.
The cost difference is not great. Your system will not comply with the
Sky Homes IRS spec.

Bill

I don't see how its going to work with one feed.
Having said that around here the council have given up and are now allowing
flat dwellers to have Sky put up dishes all over the place as their in house
system is basically rubbish!
Brian

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On Dec 8, 4:47 pm, "Nick Le Lievre"
wrote:
I am going to have a communal system installed sometime next year but only
one feed, there is no way to get two its official.

What do you mean, 'it's official'? Do you mean some mean little ****
who has in his own home a fully functional HD box has decided upon it?
No-one should be installing systems with only one feed. It's absurd.
The cost difference is not great. Your system will not comply with the
Sky Homes IRS spec.

Bill

On 9 Dec, 08:39, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
I don't see how its going to work with one feed.
Brian Gaff - bria...

It will work just with limited functionality, I do not see the point
in getting a standard box when they are not really any cheaper... a hd
box will work and the pvr function will allow me to record just about.

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 19:21:01 -0800 (PST), "
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On Dec 8, 4:47*pm, "Nick Le Lievre"
wrote:
I am going to have a communal system installed sometime next year but only
one feed, there is no way to get two its official.

What do you mean, 'it's official'? Do you mean some mean little ****
who has in his own home a fully functional HD box has decided upon it?
No-one should be installing systems with only one feed. It's absurd.
The cost difference is not great. Your system will not comply with the
Sky Homes IRS spec.

Bill


Bill,

It may be my imagianation or it may be a faulty memory due to my
advancing years, but I'm sure I read somewhere that Sky are/have
developed a piece of kit that will permit Sky+ to fully function with
only a single feed from the LNB. There is also fibre distribiution
from the LNB, which AIUI, only requires the one fibre feed.

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"Petert" wrote in message
It may be my imagianation or it may be a faulty memory due to my
advancing years, but I'm sure I read somewhere that Sky are/have
developed a piece of kit that will permit Sky+ to fully function with
only a single feed from the LNB. There is also fibre distribiution
from the LNB, which AIUI, only requires the one fibre feed.


On Sky HD Boxes there is now an option called single feed, this does not
mean the box can record two things at once or watch one whilst record
another it never will with one feed. It will however record one channel with
one feed I think the only caveat is that you must put the box into standby
before recording otherwise it still gets confused and also I read something
about back to back recordings not always working but there is some sort of
workaround.

Its not perfect but the single feed option is a step forward its still not a
perfect single feed recorder, they are still some shortcomings as mentioned
but its still more useful then a standard box and you also can get HD with
it.

"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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In , "Nick Le Lievre"
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I am going to have a communal system installed sometime next year but only
one feed, there is no way to get two

...Bzzt. Of course there is a way...

its official.

...That just means you're eager to be fobbed off. :-(

To be honest I will be satisfied with the single feed mode on a SKY HD box,
the SKY + box does not have it so I need a SKY HD box... which suits me
anyway I was would like at least BBC/ITV HD, if I want to record something
on any channel just need to put the box into standby before recording
starts, I may not be able to record back to back (but I read somewhere there
was a way around this) but that is not a biggie.

So really with the single feed mode the box becomes a viable option as a
PVR, I have a media center PC which will be able to record 2 things at once
from freeview terrestrial so this will take a load off the SKY HD pvr which
can just be used for recording occasionally from the SKY tv channels and
freesat channels I cannot recieve over FTA.

If I want to watch something on SKY then there will be no recording, except
that allowed on my media center pc from freeview terrestrial. I am not in
the market for a SKY HD subscription yet but this time next year or perhaps
a bit earlier I will be and I quite like the deals they have on at the
moment, FREE SKY HD box with a £ 30 installation charge and a £ 32.39
monthly payment for Variety, Knowledge and SKY Sports 1 + the HD Pack which
I can cancel after a year if I do not get value from it.