New Sky Digibox review....

[Ian Lowe <ian@xxxxxxx>]

I found this on satcure.co.uk  Interesting...

A review of the new Sky Digital receiver from Pace.
It has 2 Hard drives. One holds between 8-12 hours recording. The
second
about 2 hours. This is the one used for time delay when say the phone
rings or somebody comes to the door. You simply tell the Digibox to
record. When you come back you press play and the box runs the program
from the point where it was interrupted *and* keeps on recording so the
entire program is time-shifted for you.

You will have choice how it records over previous recoded programmes.
It puts up a menu on the screen aso you can highlight programmes you
want to keep and these will not be wiped off. You can also set to it to
auto which wipes off the oldest programme).

You will be able to transfer recorded programmes to video (not films).
You will also be able to use a timer function.

Sky will be starting a new Box Office with the new box. The films will
be newer than the existing Box Office and you will have to
"Download"
them to your Digibox. You "Rent " these rather than the way you
do now.
Sky allegedly have not decided yet whether to rent by the day or by the
number of viewings. Either way, the film will wipe itself after the
hire period. Also, the hire period does not begin until you start to
watch it for the first time. You can not transfer these to video.

You will be able to watch (Record) one Digital channel and watch
another Digital channel as the box has two tuner modules. A twin output
LNB is required.

The Programme planner would cover the whole month, and you would be
able to set the record feature up to a month in advance.

The new boxes will not be covered by the free box offer. They will
first be offered to people who purchased their boxes. They would have
to exchange the old boxes and pay £50 for the new one. The LNB would
also have to be changed for a twin output type with an additional
cable.

The new Digibox is a little bit (not much) smaller than a
"normal" Pace
Digibox.

The remote is the same size, but has five extra buttons (Forward, Stop,
Rewind, Play and Pause) just below the down button.

These new boxes will be available probably in the Autumn of this year.

Disclaimer

The features described are those of a prototype viewed earlier this
year. These features are subject to change, as are all details
including price and launch date.



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e-mail: ian@xxxxxxx
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