DIY Sky upgrade...

[thatone1967]

Really quick question... a relative has standard sky box, but is looking to get a sky+ box... She does not really have the money to upgrade is is looking at cheap 2nd hand sky+ boxes...

Is it a simple case of swapping out the boxes, or are cables upgrades needed?

[Defcon5]

You need another input from the dish for the + stuff to work I think

[Rollcage]

Sky+ is a subscription service - the recording/pause facilities dont work unless you pay the extra per month,AFAIK.

Just having the box isn't enough.

[thatone1967]

Rollcage said:

Sky+ is a subscription service - the recording/pause facilities dont work unless you pay the extra per month,AFAIK.

Just having the box isn't enough.

I thought the sky+ charges was dropped a couple of years ago?

[Marf]

Both defcon and rollcage are right, you need a multi output LNB to provide more than one signal so you can watch and record/record and record, and you need to pay the subscription otherwise all of the sky+ features will be disabled.

edit: seems thatone is correct - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?...

Edited by Marf on Saturday 20th November 22:28

[Rollcage]

thatone1967 said:

Rollcage said:

Sky+ is a subscription service - the recording/pause facilities dont work unless you pay the extra per month,AFAIK.

Just having the box isn't enough.

I thought the sky+ charges was dropped a couple of years ago?

Interesting!


Seems you need to subscribe to a package to get Sky+, but no extra charge for it.

Duly noted!