Benefits of HD box with the subscription??

lazyman · 28-06-2010 02:02PM #1

Hi all,
I am an existing sky plus customer,
I was thinking about getting a HD box without the subscription,
A lot of people have said this can be done as it would improve my sky,
However when I rang sky, the girl told me that there is no benefit at all to my picture, just to the epg, if I do this,
I she correct?
I imagined that the hdmi feed alone would make it an improvement on my existing scart connection?
Thanks and sorry if this has been asked tons of times
Lazy

paultf · 28-06-2010 02:30PM

HD+ box without subscription:-

* better EPG
* more space for recording
* access to BBC HD and ITV HD (if you have a HD TV and HDMI cable)
* ITV HD isn't on the Irish EPG so you can't record
* not sure: if you don't have Sky HD sub, is BBC HD on the Irish EPG? If it is not you can't record, like ITV HD.
* from what I have seen in other posts, most of the Sky anytime is HD so if you don't have Sky HD sub you won't have access to them

I think that's all.

John mac · 28-06-2010 04:17PM

thats about it, bbchd is on ch 143 and is recordable, also has 5.1 sound on some programs.
(without a hd sub)

luxe HD is the other hd channel.

I dont think there is any great (noticeable) improvement in pic quallity
between hdmi and scart on the sd channels.

JDxtra · 28-06-2010 04:28PM

Depending on your TV and TV settings, some people have reported a decrease in picture quality of the SD channels on a Sky+ HD box.

lucernarian · 28-06-2010 06:58PM

I'm sorting out a sky installation for someone this week, what sort of HD box are we likely to get? The customer is getting a HD box without any HD subscription as it simply came free as standard. I'm concerned I'll get some sort of amstrad muck. Are we likely to get a better brand of box like a panasonic or a pace if we ask the sky installer nicely?!:D

manutd · 28-06-2010 07:08PM

The only boxes been installed now are the Aamstrad or the Samsung 500GB box (250GB- Anytime and 250GB- recording space)

lucernarian · 28-06-2010 07:39PM

Would the installer likely give me a samsung box if I asked him for one instead of an Amstrad?

Myrddin · 29-06-2010 07:24PM

Does the installer have the freedom to choose the box? From what I remember when my Sky was getting installed, the boxes of my decoders had my name & address printed on them already.

Benefits of HD box with the subscription??

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