Buying a SKY+ HD box

jonny_b1

As the title suggests,I want to buy a Sky+HD box. I currently have a normal sky box With just freesat channels and I want to move to HD freesat.

Can I just buy a box off eBay and plug and play?

Any tips on what to look out for in buying a box?

jonny_b1

Bump

lilka

well in order to get HD you need to subscripe to sky to get them to turn it on...not sure about sky+, you used to have to pay extra for that too so they would have to turn it on too...so might not be as simple as just buying a box but interested to know what others think

Trampas

sky+ only works on a sky sub

jonny_b1

I don't have a sky subscribtion and don't intend to. I just want the freesat HD channels ITV,BBC and I think channel 4and e4 do one too.

Someone told me that you need a sky subscribtion to be able to use the sky+

any ideas

watty

You would be better buying a Humax HD Freesat.

The PVR on Sky+ and SkyHD don't work without a subscription. In theory Sky could even make all SkyHD boxes without subs downscale all HD.


Sky+ and SkyHD only make sense for subscriptions.

jonny_b1

Cool,thanks for the help guys. Would like at somestage to be able to record PS3 gameplay too,is there any set-up/device that would cover the sat recording and gaming recording keeping in mind I want the HD sat reception.

Cheers

Dilbert75

Just to thread-crash , if I were to get a Sky HD box with my Sky + subscription, would I have my normal Sky+ function with a HDMI connection to my tv?

John mac

Dilbert75 wrote: »

Just to thread-crash , if I were to get a Sky HD box with my Sky + subscription, would I have my normal Sky+ function with a HDMI connection to my tv?

yes (and more storage capacity)

Zonda999

Another question in this direction lads. Have sky+ with a normal sky+ box but i would like to get the free HD channels for the world cup and just in general too i guess!

So i was going to just get a skyHD box off adverts but unfortunately there a bit rare on that so i've found i could get one off ebay for a bit less. I could get a thomson box with component output(not really important for me) for less than €130. Is this a good deal? And another thing, would this box be reliable, i know one's with component went out of production in early 2008 so is it wise to get such an old box?

And another thing, i quite like the new epg, would i still get this seeing as i do not have a HD sub and have no intention of upgrading to it

Thanks for any advice!

John mac

Zonda999 wrote: »

And another thing, i quite like the new epg, would i still get this seeing as i do not have a HD sub and have no intention of upgrading to it

Thanks for any advice!

yes the new epg will be on it. without HD sub

I have an old Thompson box from 2007 (from ebay) still working fine, except i had to upgrade the power supply.