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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Elite Pete on 20 May 2008, 12:16:54
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We have basic sky box and subscription at the moment but wifey wants Sky+. Can I just buy the box and connect it up and if I can do that can I buy the HD box and just connect it or do I have to subscribe to more mindless pap?
TIA :y
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There is no separate subscription for sky+ anymore...
It is free as long as you subscribe to something.
Think its another tenner a month for HD feed though :(
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Normally needs a dual LNB to support the parralel view/recording of another channel......so if you dont have one then you would need that upgrading to.
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Well remembered, yes does need 2 lengths of coax running to it :y
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Well remembered, yes does need 2 lengths of coax running to it :y
Lol, and I dont have sky!
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Hence the well remembered bit, bet you fixed an installation or 2 after the 'engineer' has left though ;D
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Replaced a brick or two after the bodging buggers have blown the face off with an SDS drill!
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why doesnt this surprise me >:(
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We have basic sky box and subscription at the moment but wifey wants Sky+. Can I just buy the box and connect it up and if I can do that can I buy the HD box and just connect it or do I have to subscribe to more mindless pap?
TIA :y
or just tell her no ;D
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We have basic sky box and subscription at the moment but wifey wants Sky+. Can I just buy the box and connect it up and if I can do that can I buy the HD box and just connect it or do I have to subscribe to more mindless pap?
TIA :y
or just tell her no ;D
You have'nt met Petes wife have you ::)
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;D ;D ;D
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Well remembered, yes does need 2 lengths of coax running to it :y
Lol, and I dont have sky!
Easy really it is basically a twin tuner PVR and all twin tuner DVB-S receivers need two independant LNB connections
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Normally needs a dual LNB to support the parralel view/recording of another channel......so if you dont have one then you would need that upgrading to.
So thats what the £30 set up fee is then.
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I would love to have my sky+ up in my bedroom without them knowing i got it up there but i dont think i can get away with it some how ;D :D
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We have basic sky box and subscription at the moment but wifey wants Sky+. Can I just buy the box and connect it up and if I can do that can I buy the HD box and just connect it or do I have to subscribe to more mindless pap?
TIA :y
or just tell her no ;D
You have'nt met Petes wife have you ::)
one of those is she? ;D
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So thats what the £30 set up fee is then.
Yep. So they can send their ham fisted muppets around to butcher your house some more. >:(
I wonder where they'd route my second LNB feed? I'm guessing it won't be the same route as the current feed - up the cavity from a flush mounted socket in the lounge, across the loft in conduit and out through the gable end just by the dish. ::) I already know they "don't do lofts". They told me that at the last house.
Nope, it'd be 8mm diameter cable through a 15mm diameter hole straight through the lounge wall, round 3 sides of the house making sure all the nails go through the damp course 'cos it's easier than hammering them into mortar, then straight (well, not straight) up the side wall to the dish.
Don't think I'll bother. ;)
Kevin
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I got my sky+ fitted last week.
Chap was quick, pleasant, left no mess, no damage to house, and it didn't cost me anything!
I thought it was a dream, but the box is still here!
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So thats what the £30 set up fee is then.
Yep. So they can send their ham fisted muppets around to butcher your house some more. >:(
I wonder where they'd route my second LNB feed? I'm guessing it won't be the same route as the current feed - up the cavity from a flush mounted socket in the lounge, across the loft in conduit and out through the gable end just by the dish. ::) I already know they "don't do lofts". They told me that at the last house.
Nope, it'd be 8mm diameter cable through a 15mm diameter hole straight through the lounge wall, round 3 sides of the house making sure all the nails go through the damp course 'cos it's easier than hammering them into mortar, then straight (well, not straight) up the side wall to the dish.
Don't think I'll bother. ;)
Kevin
Hmm
Our aerial is a large wideband thingy with radio aerial on same mast. Cables are fed through the loft and down the side of the house.
Our neighbours had a Sky box installed, threw the cable over the roof, not through the loft :o, it looks messy!
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Do your own cabling Kevin!
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Do your own cabling Kevin!
Oh, I would. Only Mrs. KW watches the shite programs anyway though.
I do need to put an amateur radio antenna up though. Been living at pretty much the highest point in Hampshire for 3 years and haven't pulled my finger out yet. ::)
Kevin
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Do your own cabling Kevin!
Oh, I would. Only Mrs. KW watches the naffe programs anyway though.
I do need to put an amateur radio antenna up though. Been living at pretty much the highest point in Hampshire for 3 years and haven't pulled my finger out yet. ::)
Kevin
Sue watches some odd stuff, most of it the equivalent of wall paper.
I like documentries and SF, there are still a few decent documentries on but SF is a little limited - Doctor Who and Heroes currently, there are other SF shows I know, but they are not on TV.
Best TV programme I can think of though is Top Gear.