Hi all, not sure if I am posting in the right place, and am asking this on behalf of my parents.
They currently (and for quite a few years) have sky plus. The box they have is being problematic in terms of recordings, many are failing. They have tried the reformat the box trick a little while ago under the instructions of the sky support people I think.
They wer told they would be charged for an engineer visit if one comes out.
The box they have is actually a refurbed one that we gave them when we moved from Sky (must be at least 4 years ago) to VM.
They do not live in a VM area or we would have gone for that straight away on cost grounds.
They do not have an HD TV and do not intend getting one unless their existing 32 inch Asda one goes - it is 4 years old currently. Last time their TV went, it was also during the world cup I think and my sport crazy Mum went out and replaced it within hours.
As they wish to continue getting sky sports and Movies, they have very little option but sky I think.
Looking at the current details, sky are offering free HD boxes but charging for the sky plus boxes? If they get an HD box I presume it can output to Scart rather than just HDMI - someone mentioned annoying messages telling them they could be watching stuff in HD etc - is this true?
Could anyone suggest the best solution? Now I look through the sky HD forums, there seems to be many problems with HD boxes and especially refurbed ones etc. (I know - happy people do not bother with forums so you only see the minority with issues - I am just comparing to the VM section I normally frequent).
I see talk of self installs - as they have all the cables for the skyplus, is it just a case of swap the box and call sky to pair the cards (if that is still how it works)
I would be really grateful for any advice as they want me to call sky tomorrow for them.
Cheers.
They currently (and for quite a few years) have sky plus. The box they have is being problematic in terms of recordings, many are failing. They have tried the reformat the box trick a little while ago under the instructions of the sky support people I think.
They wer told they would be charged for an engineer visit if one comes out.
The box they have is actually a refurbed one that we gave them when we moved from Sky (must be at least 4 years ago) to VM.
They do not live in a VM area or we would have gone for that straight away on cost grounds.
They do not have an HD TV and do not intend getting one unless their existing 32 inch Asda one goes - it is 4 years old currently. Last time their TV went, it was also during the world cup I think and my sport crazy Mum went out and replaced it within hours.
As they wish to continue getting sky sports and Movies, they have very little option but sky I think.
Looking at the current details, sky are offering free HD boxes but charging for the sky plus boxes? If they get an HD box I presume it can output to Scart rather than just HDMI - someone mentioned annoying messages telling them they could be watching stuff in HD etc - is this true?
Could anyone suggest the best solution? Now I look through the sky HD forums, there seems to be many problems with HD boxes and especially refurbed ones etc. (I know - happy people do not bother with forums so you only see the minority with issues - I am just comparing to the VM section I normally frequent).
I see talk of self installs - as they have all the cables for the skyplus, is it just a case of swap the box and call sky to pair the cards (if that is still how it works)
I would be really grateful for any advice as they want me to call sky tomorrow for them.
Cheers.