Re: Sky+

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Sean,

I have:

Sky+
Sky (old box with 2nd sub)
Tivo

The Sky+ box was a straight swap for the older sky box, and is in the
lounge. Both the old sky box and the Tivo are in the bedroom (didn't see
much point in having 2 PVR's in the same room, and we watch TV just as much
in te bedroom as in the lounge..)

The Tivo has been hacked to the gills, with 120GB disk, Turbonet card,
TivoWeb etc... Recently it stopped changing channels on the sky box (I
suspect the brand new Pacelink thingy I put on it has bust), so as a
quick-fix I turned on the front blaster. This has helped, but channel
changing is still unreliable, (works about 70% of the time, so I have an
interesting lottery with what I've recorded sometimes!). This has
highlighted one major benefit of having the sky+ box as well, - the tuner
is
integrated, so channel selection is completely 100% dependable, - this is
extremely important for WAF!

Paul G.






>From: "Sean Stratton" <groups@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ukha_d] Sky+
>Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:49:59 -0000
>
>Just a quick question, someone was talking about the Sky+ box coming
with a
>Quad LNB.
>Does the sky + box require 2 sat in? does that mean 2 cables? Just
asking
>as
>I am thinking about a Sky+ system for the house.
>I will open this question up to the floor.
>I have TiVo already and I love it, Need a sky system after moving
house. I
>did keep the old digibox though.
>I was thinking of sky+ so that we can both have a PVR with sky access
>although so much stuff is repeated I doubt we would ever miss anything
with
>only TiVo.
>
>So do I go for a reg sky subscription and get a second sub for my old
box
>and use one as dedicated TiVo box and the other to watch live.
>Or do I get sky+ and use the 2nd tuner in the box to connect TiVo too
and
>hang live TV at the same time use a feed of the quad LNB and set the
old
>box
>up with only free channels.
>
>anyone got any experiance of a sky + and TiVo setup?
>
>Sean
>
>
>
>
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