someone said they were selling them for £60 at places

so, i'm after a box, don't need it on a contract though, just need a box to replace another box, mainly for the extra recording ability

anyone?

 

sky was selling them for 60 quid with 30 install fee. not sure if the offer is still on though

 

Yes, but you can't buy one for that without a contract!!

 

bollox

so, where can i get a hd box then?

i don't need one, it's just that it's got the bigger hard drive and my old sky+ box won't record sound

 

Dojj.... there is a small site... you probably haven't heard of it...

Its called EBAY

 

i think u can get one but u have to sign up to the hd service which is a tenner extra a month.
could just do that and u get better quality and a bigger hard drive.

 

You can buy them without contract from www.dreamboxshop.co.uk but you will pay full price. I got mine from there and installed it myself a year or so ago.

 

i dont know if it will be the same the other way round, but i had a sky HD box, it knackered up after a week, so swapped back to the sky+ one untill they came out to swap the HD box, but when i put the card back into the sky+ box i only got half the channel, and no i am not counting the HD channels, lol

 

You just need to ring Sky and give them the serial number and card number and they will pair it up.

 

you don't HAVE to take out the hd subscription, just get the cards matched up

i'd swap the hard driver over as per a thread on av forums, but i'm not sure what they are on about when they say you've got to partitio the hard drive with something

 

So you can't record two programs at once and watch a third. I think I'll stick with my V+ box.

 

Who said anything about that ?

 

Dojj, who started the thread said it here:

 

Maybe he ment a bigger HD instead of recording 2 and watching one?

 

nothing about recording 2 things and not 3 though

just seemed a bit random

 

you cvan only record 40 hours on the normal sky+ box
you can record 80 hours on the skyHD box in SD
but only 20 hours worth of HD programs

if i replace the sky+ box with the skyHD box upstairs theni gain the extra 40 hours worth of recording ability PLUS i get to record the sounds as well and not static

sorry for any confusion

the sky+ system has 2 inputs so you can record 2 seperate programs, but you can still watch a 3rd recorded program

as for the extra bits of hard drive, it's for the sky anytime fuctionality

 

I,m after a viewing card for my spare box so i can put it in the bedroom tried ebay but no-one seems to have them?

 

free to air cards can be bought from sky for £20

 

Just pay a tenner a month and get multi-room. Your hardly going to miss the tenner but you get all the channels again