Sky+ box Kaputt.

Stimpyone

After about a week of making clicking sounds my sky+ box has finely given up the ghost ( on feckin Christmas Eve and all!! ). I've been on to sky and they say that I require a call out. I've heard that this will cost me around E130.

So my question is how much would a new box cost me and where would I get one from.

Thanks for your help.

sdanseo

New box could cost you nothing depending on how old it was/under warranty.

If they try to con you into paying €130 for a callout and it was only bought fairly recently then it clearly wasn't fit for the purpose, so scream the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services act at them and threaten to bring them to the Small Claims Court.

All this depends on how old it is.

Otherwise, my Sky+ box cost €149 once-off when being installed a couple of months ago.

watty

Or you could replace the hard drive, Does watching live TV still work? If the box is dead then a Power supply fault.

Stimpyone

watty wrote:

Or you could replace the hard drive, Does watching live TV still work? If the box is dead then a Power supply fault.

I should have mentioned in my earlier post that the box is around 2 years old Watty, I can still watch TV, what does changing the harddrive intail?

Johnny Storm

Here's soem stuff on replacing the HD in a sky plus. Do a Google for "sky + upgrade" for loads more info.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=156344

Dub13

There are a couple of Sky plus boxes for sale over on Adverts.ie.