Sky tv question
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Not if you have a certain package. I had normal Sky for ages and bought my dad a sky+ box for christmas. The guy just installed it and that was it. Didn't need to pay anymore a month. I have the sports+variety mix, no movies. I think i pay about £35 maybe.
You need a sky subscription to use the multiple tuners. It will cost £25 a month for the minium sky+ package.
They dropped the £10/m Sky+ sub back in July. Free now, so you only need the cheapest sub (£15 ish?).
http://stuff.tv/news/Sky-minus-subscription-equals-free/
im pretty sure that to get sky+ you need to subscribe to it, although there is no charge , thats what i was told when i got mine
You do - it's Free now, though. As long as you have some sort of Sky sub. Previously it was only free if you had a Premium Sky Sub (i.e Movies and/or Sport).
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As has been stated you need to subscibe to one of their packages.
So to have the privilage of recording, you have to pay at least £15 a month.
Bit of a con really.
Get yourself a seperate PVR like I did, hook it up to the Skybox and use it to schedule the recordings. Only difference to Sky+ is you dont have to fork out £180 a year for it, and most can't timeshift or record a different channel to the one you watch - unless like me, you have a dual LNB and a sky box in another room - so I can do that.
I have never paid them anything, I can have 2 free sky channels on the go at one, I can record one - and schedule my PVR to record multiple channels and switch over when needed. I can also transfer all the (300+ hours) of recorded programmes to my PC - and even watch them on the move. All for £0 and 0p.
But by all means, be a sucker to the Sky dominator, and happily feed them your hard earned money simply because you know no better - after all they make nearly £60 a month from each of my sucker mates who watch and record less than 8 hours of TV a week - Now thats what I call marketing
So to have the privilage of recording, you have to pay at least £15 a month.
Bit of a con really.
Get yourself a seperate PVR like I did, hook it up to the Skybox and use it to schedule the recordings. Only difference to Sky+ is you dont have to fork out £180 a year for it, and most can't timeshift or record a different channel to the one you watch - unless like me, you have a dual LNB and a sky box in another room - so I can do that.
I have never paid them anything, I can have 2 free sky channels on the go at one, I can record one - and schedule my PVR to record multiple channels and switch over when needed. I can also transfer all the (300+ hours) of recorded programmes to my PC - and even watch them on the move. All for £0 and 0p.
But by all means, be a sucker to the Sky dominator, and happily feed them your hard earned money simply because you know no better - after all they make nearly £60 a month from each of my sucker mates who watch and record less than 8 hours of TV a week - Now thats what I call marketing
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Sky is only a "con" if you don't watch it.
Of course it is worth every penny to a person who watches the channels they are paying for.
If you subscribe to Sky then get a Plus box and you can use all of the features on it.
No con - it's now a free service.
If you don't subscribe to Sky then to use a Sky+ box you'll need to pay £10 per month.
Alternatively buy a seperate PVR and do things that way.
As I subscribe to Sky anyway (not movies or sport) I get Plus for free.
It was worth every penny at £10 per month, so at free it is the best thing since sliced bread.
Of course it is worth every penny to a person who watches the channels they are paying for.
If you subscribe to Sky then get a Plus box and you can use all of the features on it.
No con - it's now a free service.
If you don't subscribe to Sky then to use a Sky+ box you'll need to pay £10 per month.
Alternatively buy a seperate PVR and do things that way.
As I subscribe to Sky anyway (not movies or sport) I get Plus for free.
It was worth every penny at £10 per month, so at free it is the best thing since sliced bread.
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Don't forget Quidco, £150 cashback at the mo or if you have any friends with Sky they should have a voucher for free fitting and £50 each in M&S vouchers each.
As has been stated you need to subscibe to one of their packages.
So to have the privilage of recording, you have to pay at least £15 a month.
Bit of a con really.
Get yourself a seperate PVR like I did, hook it up to the Skybox and use it to schedule the recordings. Only difference to Sky+ is you dont have to fork out £180 a year for it, and most can't timeshift or record a different channel to the one you watch - unless like me, you have a dual LNB and a sky box in another room - so I can do that.
I have never paid them anything, I can have 2 free sky channels on the go at one, I can record one - and schedule my PVR to record multiple channels and switch over when needed. I can also transfer all the (300+ hours) of recorded programmes to my PC - and even watch them on the move. All for £0 and 0p.
But by all means, be a sucker to the Sky dominator, and happily feed them your hard earned money simply because you know no better - after all they make nearly £60 a month from each of my sucker mates who watch and record less than 8 hours of TV a week - Now thats what I call marketing
So to "beat the system" you have to have another box in another room - meaning all that hassle just to record what essentially is freeview?
Go you, beating the system - that seems far more hassle than it's actually worth!
And besides if you pay £16 a month and watch what you want how the hell is that conning you?! They are supplying what you want and you are watching it as you want to - your little "rebel" antics come across as a cheapskate way of looking cool when really it's just a overly complicated what of "beating the system".
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You can, but you could only record the channel you were watching 
If you wanted the dual-recording functionality you'd need a seperate dish input installed, and then you'd need to ring Sky to get the card paired to the box (to activate live pause and rewind)
If you wanted the dual-recording functionality you'd need a seperate dish input installed, and then you'd need to ring Sky to get the card paired to the box (to activate live pause and rewind)
rubbish.
You only have to pay for a sky+ subscription which costs 10 quid per month. If you subscribe to their basic package (ie 2 mixes) they will give you sky+ for free so you can choose to pay either 10 quid or 16 quid and get many more channels.
I don't know how i lived without it especially now when adverts take up 25 minutes of every hour. My wife and I watched that dancing on ice. Cutting out the repeats of the previous week the inane chatting and ads we cut a 1 hour show down to 20 minutes the results show to 12 minutes to watch instead of 30.
inbetween whilst dancing on ice was taping we watched a whole episode of lost (which last around 35-40 minutes.) Had we watched these things live we'd have wasted around 1 hour or more watching catch up and adverts.
Sky+ is awsome for saving time.