Sky+ Box

My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the Entertainment
Extra package. As each box fails, I buy a new one on eBay for £20. I am
about to buy the next one to have in stock. If I buy a Sky+ box will she be
able to record on it - if we can overcome being 83 and not too good with
technology? Do I just move the card as usual or is there some ritual with
Sky?

Geoff

"Geoff Pearson" wrote in message
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My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the
Entertainment Extra package. As each box fails, I buy a new
one on eBay for £20. I am about to buy the next one to have in
stock. If I buy a Sky+ box will she be able to record on it -
if we can overcome being 83 and not too good with technology?
Do I just move the card as usual or is there some ritual with
Sky?

Geoff



You have to pay for the recording facility and if you stop paying
you loose access to your recordings.


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

On Jun 23, 5:16*pm, "Geoff Pearson" wrote:
My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the Entertainment
Extra package. *As each box fails, I buy a new one on eBay for £20. *I am
about to buy the next one to have in stock. *If I buy a Sky+ box will she be
able to record on it - if we can overcome being 83 and not too good with
technology? *Do I just move the card as usual or is there some ritual with
Sky?

Geoff

I did exactly the same thing a couple of years back, she won't have to
pay any extra, will probably need to phone Sky to match the card to
the box to enable recording. The major PITA for me was only one
satellite feed, which makes scheduled recordings a bit fiddly.

In article ,
Geoff Pearson writes:
My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the
Entertainment Extra package. As each box fails, I buy a new one
on eBay for £20. I am about to buy the next one to have in stock.
If I buy a Sky+ box will she be able to record on it - if we can
overcome being 83 and not too good with technology? Do I just
move the card as usual or is there some ritual with Sky?

Geoff

You talk as though you expect the boxes to fail very frequently. I don't
have a Sky box myself, so I don't know how reliable they are, but if
they really fail that often then it seems like very poor piece of kit. I
would expect a modern piece of consumer electronics to last for five
years or more unless I was unlucky.
--
John Hall
Johnson: "Well, we had a good talk."
Boswell: "Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84); James Boswell (1740-95)

On Jun 23, 7:37*pm, John Hall wrote:
In article ,
*Geoff Pearson writes:

My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the
Entertainment Extra package. *As each box fails, I buy a new one
on eBay for £20. *I am about to buy the next one to have in stock.
If I buy a Sky+ box will she be able to record on it - if we can
overcome being 83 and not too good with technology? *Do I just
move the card as usual or is there some ritual with Sky?

Geoff

You talk as though you expect the boxes to fail very frequently. I don't
have a Sky box myself, so I don't know how reliable they are, but if
they really fail that often then it seems like very poor piece of kit. I
would expect a modern piece of consumer electronics to last for five
years or more unless I was unlucky.
--
John Hall
* * * * * * *Johnson: "Well, we had a good talk."
* * * * * * *Boswell: "Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons."
* * * * * * * *Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84); James Boswell (1740-95)

My first (Pace) box was used for 8 years with no hassles, maybe reboot
once every 6 months. I replaced that with a newer Grundig(IIRC) box
from a charity shop as it was considerably quicker in operation. That
was recently replaced by a Pace V3 Sky + box from a charity shop.
None of them have needed anything more than a reboot over 14 years of
combined operation.

On Saturday, 23 June 2012 17:16:31 UTC+1, Geoff Pearson wrote:
My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the Entertainment
Extra package. As each box fails, I buy a new one on eBay for £20. I am
about to buy the next one to have in stock. If I buy a Sky+ box will she be
able to record on it - if we can overcome being 83 and not too good with
technology? Do I just move the card as usual or is there some ritual with
Sky?

Geoff

There is no extra chg for recording. If you get a HD box there is a facility to let it record from 1 lead and you get the free HD channels. If she can work the original handset, she wont have any problems with the HD one as they are basically the same. Easier to get a quad LNB and put in an extra lead..would only cost about £50.

On 23/06/2012 17:16, Geoff Pearson wrote:
My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the
Entertainment Extra package. As each box fails, I buy a new one on eBay
for £20. I am about to buy the next one to have in stock. If I buy a
Sky+ box will she be able to record on it - if we can overcome being 83
and not too good with technology? Do I just move the card as usual or
is there some ritual with Sky?

Geoff


you'd have to ask them to make it happen - but it wouldn't cost extra.
only thing is, to work properly it needs two feeds rather than the one a
normal sky box uses.

--
Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.

On 23/06/2012 19:11, Woody wrote:
"Geoff Pearson" wrote in message
...
My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the
Entertainment Extra package. As each box fails, I buy a new
one on eBay for £20. I am about to buy the next one to have in
stock. If I buy a Sky+ box will she be able to record on it -
if we can overcome being 83 and not too good with technology?
Do I just move the card as usual or is there some ritual with
Sky?

Geoff



You have to pay for the recording facility and if you stop paying
you loose access to your recordings.




he said she has a subscription - recording will cost no extra.


--
Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.

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On 23/06/2012 19:11, Woody wrote:
"Geoff Pearson" wrote in message
...
My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the
Entertainment Extra package. As each box fails, I buy a new
one on eBay for £20. I am about to buy the next one to have
in
stock. If I buy a Sky+ box will she be able to record on
it -
if we can overcome being 83 and not too good with technology?
Do I just move the card as usual or is there some ritual with
Sky?

Geoff



You have to pay for the recording facility and if you stop
paying
you loose access to your recordings.




he said she has a subscription - recording will cost no extra.





Oops, missed that. I stand corrected.


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

What I'd like to know is why are you buying sky boxes when they go wrong,
surely Sky should replace them.

Brian

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On 23/06/2012 19:11, Woody wrote:
"Geoff Pearson" wrote in message
...
My mother-in-law has a basic Sky box and pays £24.50 for the
Entertainment Extra package. As each box fails, I buy a new
one on eBay for £20. I am about to buy the next one to have in
stock. If I buy a Sky+ box will she be able to record on it -
if we can overcome being 83 and not too good with technology?
Do I just move the card as usual or is there some ritual with
Sky?

Geoff



You have to pay for the recording facility and if you stop paying
you loose access to your recordings.




he said she has a subscription - recording will cost no extra.


--
Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.