Would you get sky if you only had one input?

Hank_Marvin · 24 Nov 2011 at 14:25

You can still use anytime just not anytime +.

neil_g · 24 Nov 2011 at 14:38

rafster said:
There will likely be a multiswitch, connected to Quad LNBs on the communal dish.

must be locked away somewhere, its not with our meters

Andr3w · 25 Nov 2011 at 07:06

Hank_Marvin said:
You can still use anytime just not anytime +.

Whats the difference?

Eddie182 · 25 Nov 2011 at 08:56

tigerstyle said:
borrow a neighbours?

Andr3w, try this, it's what I did while I was stuck in the block. I jjust got a 30m coax cable on eBay and ran it out of my window to the communal living room next door, but you could do the same to a neighours room.

Alternatively save the money you'd spend on sky and escape from the block and live out ASAFP.

Andr3w said:
Whats the difference?

Anytime+ is the true on demand service where programmes are streamed. Whereas Anytime is just whatever programmes Sky push out to your box, and the programmes are simply recorded onto a seperate HDD partition when the box is idle.

tom_nieto · 25 Nov 2011 at 14:10

I use sky+ HD with a single feed. It's a nuisance but I still get all the HD channels and premium content and use the recording functionality to record things when I'm out.

Fluke? · 25 Nov 2011 at 17:15

The trick to timed recording (ie- when you're out) with a single feed sky+ box is to look on the planner and go through the motions of setting a program to record, that starts prior to the one that you actually want recording - but make sure it is still on when the wanted one starts. You then set the program you want to record as well.
You will find that the first recording fails but the one you wanted doesn't

so...
set to record prog1 @ start time 19:50 - 20:30 <--- this one will fail
set to record prog2 @ start time 20:00 - 21:00 <--- this one will work

Once this has been done a couple of times it becomes second nature. Even this missus can do it!

lucid · 25 Nov 2011 at 17:31

Fluke? said:
The trick to timed recording (ie- when you're out) with a single feed sky+ box is to look on the planner and go through the motions of setting a program to record, that starts prior to the one that you actually want recording - but make sure it is still on when the wanted one starts. You then set the program you want to record as well.
You will find that the first recording fails but the one you wanted d!

But you only need do this with existing Plus boxes. Anyone putting in a recording box is going to get a HD box now. They have"Single Feed Mode". This means no need for false recordings. That is Andr3w's situation.

Begbie · 27 Nov 2011 at 19:12

I used it for a while, bit of a pain but still works. Now I'm in a fancy block with two inputs

Now would rather use other means to watch TV, so cancelled my sky to save some cash.