For Sale: Thomson Sky+ box - Page 2

Ken · 19th January 2007, 13:28

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Originally Posted by JohnDotCom

Im afraid with sky basic you can only record the channel you are watching. You would need the Plus box offered above for sale, with a Dual LNB on end of Dish and 2nd run of cable (or quad LNB and have a box in each room like extra FreeView boxes only Freesat Boxes, you can get extra basic boxes from £20!) The catch from Sky is that if you don't subscribe to at least the basic package plus films OR Sport you have to pay £10 per month for the facility. You record onto the hard drive inside the Plus Boxes. What a rip off of a otherewise great idea.

Thanks John

Are you saying if I got an outside aerial and two Freeview boxes then I could in theory watch and record two channels at once? The thing is I can't upgrade to digital NTL because I can't do that on their digital service. They are slowly switching off their analog channels so I have to do something within the next few months or so. Plus doing it with freeview would make the whole telly thing a lot cheaper of course.

Rich

Sorry to hijack your thread

Ken

yp53 · 19th January 2007, 14:24

And of course you can whip out the puny 40GB drive and drop a big 250GB+ one in. I must get around to watching stuff I recorded in 2005....

This sometimes means that the case cooling fan comes on permanently but you'll find that if you disconnect the fan, it doesn't get very hot anyway if you use a 'modern' disk drive.

JohnDotCom · 19th January 2007, 16:22

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Originally Posted by Ken

Thanks John

Are you saying if I got an outside aerial and two Freeview boxes then I could in theory watch and record two channels at once? The thing is I can't upgrade to digital NTL because I can't do that on their digital service. They are slowly switching off their analog channels so I have to do something within the next few months or so. Plus doing it with freeview would make the whole telly thing a lot cheaper of course.

Rich

Sorry to hijack your thread

Ken

Yes Ken you could. Once Analogue is turned off you will need a FreeView Box for each TV & or Video anyway, (Unless you using scart to record same channel on video, then you would not need a seperate box). If you use a seperate feed from a Aerial Distribution Amp you can then run any number (up to the number of outlets on Amp) of Boxes, to TV's in other rooms.

Going further if you do all the inputs into a decent AV amp, with recent LCD set, with certaing facilities you can watch picture in picture on screen at same time. I'll leave that one for now as it starts getting expensive what with HDMI, LCD Screens and 7:1 THX amps.

Ken · 19th January 2007, 17:19

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Originally Posted by JohnDotCom

Yes Ken you could. Once Analogue is turned off you will need a FreeView Box for each TV & or Video anyway, (Unless you using scart to record same channel on video, then you would not need a seperate box). If you use a seperate feed from a Aerial Distribution Amp you can then run any number (up to the number of outlets on Amp) of Boxes, to TV's in other rooms.

Going further if you do all the inputs into a decent AV amp, with recent LCD set, with certaing facilities you can watch picture in picture on screen at same time. I'll leave that one for now as it starts getting expensive what with HDMI, LCD Screens and 7:1 THX amps.

I have an LCD HDD telly which is full of sockets around the back, I think I will have to look into this a bit deeper. Thanks for your help John

Ken

Rich · 19th January 2007, 18:56

Blimey...

So, does anyone want to buy it then?

Ken · 19th January 2007, 19:09

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Originally Posted by Rich

Blimey...

So, does anyone want to buy it then?

Sorry Rich it all went a bit off topic. Post it again Rich...........no extra charge

Rich · 19th January 2007, 19:18

Lol, cheers Ken

JohnDotCom · 19th January 2007, 20:13

Yea Sorry Rich about Hijacking your For Sale Topic.
It is a very good unit, what size Hard Drive has this one got fitted?

Rich · 19th January 2007, 20:20

No probs on the hijack gents, draws people to the thread

Just the standard 80GB model on this one John, easily upgradeable by all accounts!

Rich · 24th April 2007, 21:14

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Originally Posted by Rich

Yours for £75+Postage (or get a free cup of tea if you collect, we've got loads of it!)

*bump*

Reduced to clear, £35 to the first person who's willing to collect (I'm 3mins from M6 J25).

The free cuppa offer still stands

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