Sky HD Box

[jonphil]

I saw what appears to be a fantastic offer in Curry's the other day... A Sky HD box for new and existing customers for £75.

I'm really interested in being able to get the free HD channels such as BBC but I don't really want to have to give up Tivo.

Does Tivo and SkyHD work together with no problems, what happens should SKY be taping a HD or SD channel and Tivo also wants to record a program?

I so wish Tivo would bring out a HD box for the UK, but after so many years of waiting and Sky's stranglehold on the market it's looking less and less likely :(

[Pete77]

The offer actually reads "When you take Sky HD with any Sky Sports or Sky Movies Channel and Join the HD Mix"

According to the Sky website that works at:-

1 Mix + Sky Movies = £34 per month or £408 per annum
1 Sky HD Mix = £10 per month or£120 per annum
plus £75 Sky HD box fee

Please correct me if I'm wrong but that seems to come to £603 in year one. Not exactly a fantastic deal.:eek::mad:

If you want to watch HD programs and still use your Tivo for everything else you will find a www.freesat.co.uk HD box will work out an awful lot cheaper. Costs £150 and you can use it with your existing Sky dish. It is supported by your Tivo for recording apart from the HD channels.:up:

[jonphil]

Maybe freesat is an option then or a HD box off ebay for £220. Just have to buy and fit a Quad LNB

[Raisltin Majere]

Wow. Thanks jonphil, that's interesting.

I cancelled my sub to sky sports when the football season ended and haven't gotten around to adding it again (I was also intending to get a HD box, but haven't done that yet either :o)

Sounds like a good deal :up:

[Pete77]

Maybe freesat is an option then or a HD box off ebay for £220. Just have to buy and fit a Quad LNB

Yes a secondhand Sky HD box would be a relatively cheap £120 per annum to run if you only want to record BBC HD programs. Or free to run if you record SD programs received on it to Tivo and watch HD programs live.

As to Raisltin I'm relieved to hear that someone who never had the £200 to spare for a Tivo Lifetime Sub now has no problem in paying £600+ a year to Sky in subs. Still at least he would be saving £75 on his Sky HD box by doing so.:rolleyes:

[Raisltin Majere]

Pete

Firstly, my personal finances and what I do with my money are absolutely no concern of yours.

Secondly, during the thread in which you helped me (:eek:) choose my new telly, I'm pretty sure I explained the reason for the change in my finances.

Thirdly, please realise that not everybody has the same circumstances and tastes as yourself. You seem to believe that because you have no desire to watch football/whatever it is a waste of money for everybody - that's incredibly arrogant and probably goes a long way to explaining why you seem to become embroiled in many more arguments than anybody else on here.

Fourthly, apologies to the OP for rising to the bait

[Pete77]

Secondly, during the thread in which you helped me (:eek:) choose my new telly, I'm pretty sure I explained the reason for the change in my finances.

I hope the new telly has been working well during the Olympics.

As to the business of subscribing to Sky I suppose that if Formula One racing was on Sky then I might well feel obliged to subscribe.

I really wonder if Sky will be able to keep up the £34 or £44 per month business though with a recession in the pipeline.

[Raisltin Majere]

I have no interest in the olympics, tbh. Although I have watched the taekwondo on iplayer (it's only viewable via the red button so I wasted a a day's worth of tivo recording trying to record the TKD)

And your post illustrates my point - paying for football = waste of money paying to watch cars go round in circles = money well spent :rolleyes:

[Pete77]

I have no interest in the olympics, tbh. Although I have watched the taekwondo on iplayer (it's only viewable via the red button so I wasted a a day's worth of tivo recording trying to record the TKD)

I suddenly became interested this year in the most obscure Olympic sports that the BBC does not seem to cover much or at all and found Softball. There has been no live coverage at all on the Interactive channels as far as I know and certainly not on the "Today at The Olympics" program but the BBC's coverage of the final of this sport is limited to a 30 second clip on their website. Nothing available on Iplayer.:eek:

I had also been interested in what Handball was like but there has suddenly been quite a bit of coverage in the last day or so on the interactive of the mens and womens matches. It appears to be closely linked to Baseball in terms of the size of the teams, rules, timeouts and the format of the court but with a smaller ball and a goal instead of a net.

As to football I don't deny the right of yourself and other people to like it. I just think the charges levied by Sky to watch it are excessive and most of the money then simply drops in to the hands of a few billionaires and their testosterone filled but not generally very well educated players.

As to Formula One it used to be much more entertaining up to the early 1990s when many more cars would regulalry break down or crash. The current monotonous mechanical reliability in the top teams has made it a far duller sport.