Save £154 on a 160GB Sky+ Box

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Yesterday i had Sky MultiRoom installed.

What this is, is the original Sky box was moved to another room in the house, and i had the Standard Sky+ installed. Cost £149 for the box inc fitting and £10.00 per month extra rental.

http://existing.sky.com/multiroom.asp

The standard Sky+ comes with a 40GB hard drive (record up to 20 hours of programs), but i wanted the new 160GB version but that would have cost: £399.00

For £95.00 this guy on Ebay supplies a 160gb hard drive (80 hours recording time) and the tools for changing the Hard drive over: As soon as the Sky Installer left i fitted it no problem and works fine.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5747556350&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

So now i have 160GB Sky+ for £245.00 - Saving £154.00

If the box develops a fault under warranty it only takes 15mins to put the original hard drive back in, and you do not break any warranty seals as there are none.

Thought i would share this with you.

Cheers

Adam

[dove_cazzo]

Yesterday i had Sky MultiRoom installed.

What this is, is the original Sky box was moved to another room in the house, and i had the Standard Sky+ installed. Cost £149 for the box inc fitting and £10.00 per month extra rental.

http://existing.sky.com/multiroom.asp

The standard Sky+ comes with a 40GB hard drive (record up to 20 hours of programs), but i wanted the new 160GB version but that would have cost: £399.00

For £95.00 this guy on Ebay supplies a 160gb hard drive (80 hours recording time) and the tools for changing the Hard drive over: As soon as the Sky Installer left i fitted it no problem and works fine.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5747556350&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

So now i have 160GB Sky+ for £245.00 - Saving £154.00

If the box develops a fault under warranty it only takes 15mins to put the original hard drive back in, and you do not break any warranty seals as there are none.

Thought i would share this with you.

Cheers

Adam


Interesting that Adam, definitely a worthwhile "mod" I should consider.

I have Sky+ and have had it installed for nearly a year now and its bloody great :niceone: The ability to pause and rewind, record 2 channels while watching something you've already recorded, the ease of recording :supsmiley
As I have the sports channels on my subscription I don't have to pay extra for the Sky+ so its great value.

The biggest problem I have found is that the Sky+ box sometimes locks up. If you are lucky all you have to do is remove the power for a minute, reconnect the power, leave in standby for a minute then turn it on again. If this doesn't work then sometimes you have to do a complete reset on the system and this means you lose everything on the hard disk - not good. :crybaby:

When I have spoken to Sky about this they are never very forthcoming and have sometimes even blamed us for flicking through the channels too fast! :angry: Personally I think its dodgy software :yes:

Anyway, enjoy your Sky+, just be careful to backup to video the really important stuff

DC

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The engineer said the Pace and the Amstrad suffer with hard drive problems, so hopefully with this new hard drive, it will eradicate the problem.

It is amazing to watch a live program then when one of the kids comes in the room and starts driving you mad, you can rewind back to where you missed. I have also set up the series link for the kids programs, so when i need an afternoon kip, they have all their programs backed up to keep them quite for a few hours.

Only problem is you end up with loads of repeats.

Im currently bidding on one of these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5745110021&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT, so i can put my programs on a seperate hard drive then convert them to DVD...

Sad Git springs to mind though :wallbash:

[Normsthename]

I have a Digifusion FVRT100 Freeview box with a 40 GB Drive fitted as standard that gives a measly 20 hours recording.
It can record two channels at once while you watch something already recorded and you can also rewind 'Live' television.
I upgraded it to a 120GB drive and it now gives 60+ hours of top quality recording, very easy to install took all of ten minutes, I got the information off of a forum

:beer:

Andy

[suzuker]

i dunno what you european folk are talking about. I'm guessing a sky box is like a tivo?

[Normsthename]

i dunno what you european folk are talking about. I'm guessing a sky box is like a tivo?
Yep, boxes that have hard drives built in to record more than one program at a TV or to be able to rewind 'Live' TV

:beer:

Andy