Sky+ Box

On 24/06/2012 08:34, Brian Gaff wrote:
What I'd like to know is why are you buying sky boxes when they go wrong,
surely Sky should replace them.

Brian



the box belongs to you not sky.
having said that, on the 2 occasions when i have had a box die - one
sky+ and one sky HD box, on both occasions they have replaced them for
free when i threatened to cancel my subscription.

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

"Woody" wrote:
"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.


Not true. You only have to pay for the recording facility if you don't have
a subscription.

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Adrian

"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

Thanks to all - I'd overlooked the twin LNB issue (with associated cabling).
I buy boxes because when they go, we need immediate resumption of service -
a day or two of fretting would not work. So £20 a time is no problem and
now the same sum gets a +box. The real problem is avoiding complexity.

On Jun 24, 1:55*pm, "Geoff Pearson" wrote:
"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

Thanks to all - I'd overlooked the twin LNB issue (with associated cabling).
I buy boxes because when they go, we need immediate resumption of service -
a day or two of fretting would not work. *So £20 a time is no problem and
now the same sum gets a +box. *The real problem is avoiding complexity.

You can work round it by connecting the feed to tuner 1, then set up a
manual recording scheduled to run all day, every day. That way the a
second recording i.e. something you actually want to record - will use
tuner 1 and it should work. It can get a bit baffling for technophobes
though.

airsmoothed wrote:

You can work round it by connecting the feed to tuner 1, then set up a
manual recording scheduled to run all day, every day. That way the a
second recording i.e. something you actually want to record - will use
tuner 1 and it should work. It can get a bit baffling for technophobes
though.

Why not just set 'one feed' in the settings menu?

Bill

On Jun 25, 12:35*am, Bill Wright wrote:
airsmoothed wrote:
You can work round it by connecting the feed to tuner 1, then set up a
manual recording scheduled to run all day, every day. That way the a
second recording i.e. something you actually want to record - will use
tuner 1 and it should work. It can get a bit baffling for technophobes
though.

Why not just set 'one feed' in the settings menu?

Bill

That option isn't available on Sky+ boxes (at least not mine, maybe it
disappeared after an OTA SW update?), although it is on Sky+ HD boxes.