BlueCorsa
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Originally posted by Cavey
£200 for the boxes, and then £50 installation cost, as you can't just do a straight swap for a normal sky box, has to be set up (that's what i was told, and told people anyway)
That's what it used to be about 6 months ago anyway.
Yeah, Sky+ boxes need to have 2 feeds from the dish as it has 2 tuners, unlike the normal Sky boxes which just have 1 tuner and need 1 cable
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James_DT
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The Sky+ box was £150 (which was only £50 more than a normal box) about 3 months ago, and it's now £89 from Sky.com
[Edited on 04-06-2005 by James_DT]
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slugger_54132
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its a lot more expensive if your an existing cutomer, sky basically offer the box and installation at a discounted rate for new customers.
I GOT IT FREE THOUGH AND I WAS AN EXISTING CUSTOMER!!! won a competition at work!
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BlueCorsa
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Originally posted by James_DT
The Sky+ box was £150 (which was only £50 more than a normal box) about 3 months ago, and it's now £89 from Sky.com
Hey, I paid £200 for mine just over a year ago  And that was as a new subscriber!
Best thing to do once you're with Sky is just to ring them up and say you'll cancel and they let you have pretty much whatever you want 
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Steve
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i paid £89 for it
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Steve
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are the hdd's just normal ide drives?
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Cavey
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http://www.pycs.net/users/0000348/weblog/2004/05/29.html
" The box takes a standard IDE drive and many people upgrade it to 120G for 60 hours ..."
Apparently so.
(Not read that link, so it might be bollox  )
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Steve
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trouble is, you open up the box you void warranty i think
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Cavey
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yes, you would. Risk you take really aint it.
Same as chipping a playstation and all that
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Steve
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pmsl "The torx screwdriver didn't fit very well and the screws holding the drive in would not budge. I snapped a drill drilling the old screws out."
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BlueCorsa
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What a chump, would only do it if the box is over a year old - keep the original hard drive as well, then you can put it back if something else in the box fcuks up.
The original drive in the machine is a 40GB Maxtor I believe, any normal IDE drive should fit.
The Sky160+ box has other differences apart from the bigger hard drive though - it has a USB port on it, but it's disabled. Would be nice if they put in a feature to let you rip programs off onto PC, but I can't see it ever happening. When you record something on a Sky+, it stores it in an encrypted state and plays it back through the viewing card when you watch it, so that means you couldn't rip something and watch something at the same time.
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Steve
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cant you hook up an s video out to the PC then you will be sending the video in unencrypted state ?
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BlueCorsa
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Originally posted by Steve
cant you hook up an s video out to the PC then you will be sending the video in unencrypted state ?
Yep u can, but it's a pain in the ass because it has to re-record on the PC in realtime, then if you want to burn it to DVD, it has to be transcoded which takes hours.
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