RE: FW: [dvduk] New Sky boxes (DVDUK : OT)

["Kenneth Watt" <kennethwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Ian,

That was my opinion and experience of Sky too, until I decided to move and
things went horribly pear shaped.

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: 	Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
Sent:	12 June 2001 19:08
To:	ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: [ukha_d] FW: [dvduk] New Sky boxes (DVDUK : OT)

Totally different experience there mate.

We have found Sky to be fine, start to finish.

We pay £15 a month, gets us everything we want (no movies, no sport)

Installation went smooth as hell, the Installation Engineer was brilliant!

Our Sky box has crashed *once*, so i don't think it's that buggy

We get stereo sound throughout (because we use composite distrib, not RF)

Well, gee, S-video is a US standard, here we use SCART. its only recently
that sets have started to come with NTSC capability, and S-video.

Customer Support has been courteous, fast and effective. we had a problem
with our subscriber records, which lost us all channels, quick phone call,
fifteen minutes later, all was well.

Sky may have some consistency problems, given that our experience has been
so wildly different...

Ian.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Watt" <kennethwatt@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:00 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] FW: [dvduk] New Sky boxes (DVDUK : OT)


> I'm guessing that with my recent experience of Sky the following
*WILL*
> apply:
>
> 1. you *WILL* pay more, even though you thought you wouldn't
> 2. you *WILL* have problems with the installation via Sky
> 3. the software *WILL* be full of bugs
> 4. you *WILL* only require mono sound aside from the main receiver
> 5. S-Video *WILL* not be required by any customer
> 6. the customer support *WILL* be non-existent
> 7. your chances of a stress-related illness by the end of it *WILL* be
100%
> over normal
>
> Sky could not organise a p**s up at a brewery, imagine them trying to
> install a multi room system - perish the thought!
>
> K.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 June 2001 17:52
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] FW: [dvduk] New Sky boxes (DVDUK : OT)
>
> NOW we are talking. to hell with this Tivo Box, lets have a
multi-tuner
> capability without getting multiple subscriptions!
>
> Myself and Jenni would like to watch different things occasionally!
>
> Ian.
>
> > > 2) Multi-DigiBox system : Sky apparently have a 4-room
DigiBox
> > > system in the
> > > works. This system will provide up to 4 DigiBoxes throughout
a
> subscribers
> > > premises allowing different channels to be watched in
different rooms
> from
> > > the same viewing card. Intriguing.
>
>
>
>
>
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