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bit pricey if you get sports and or movies. Sky + is great if you have young kids who always kick off at the least appropriate time or if you keep needing to go for a wee.
after reading and posting on here...
just called sky and got rid of sky sports and they knocked £3 off my unlimited broadband. £21 a month better off.
he tried to temp me to drop sports an dget discovery channel, but again after 3 week you have watched it all and its repeated....
i'd like to add when i said PVR's are sh*te, i was talking about the £70 one i bought my mum from argos... it was a nightmare + coupled with the fact her signal was shite!
We've just got a new telly with Freeview & Freesat built in but we want a device that'll do what a Sky+ box will do (ish) The Sky's going. Sick to death of paying £35 a month to flick through repeats.
Right - looks like I'm going to be getting a new PVR at this rate.
no...
get a humax freeview/freesat pvr.
This looks good - especially the development of I-player functionality... 🙂
http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product.asp?ProdRef=10095&cat=stb#
i've got the Humax Foxsat HDR box and it works well, though ideally you need two satellite feeds as sometimes it gets confused and doesn't foce a channel change to record something with only one feed.
HD Quality is great and its got all the usual live TV pause, rewind stuff. I often pause a program on Channel4, then start watching it twenty minutes later to fastforward through the ads!
iPlayer is also good, though the initial menus can be a little slow. Might be the connection speed though?
I've replaced it with a Media PC now which does all of the above as well as freeview, bluray, music library, downloaded videos, 4od etc.
I aint got one of those dish things unfortunately and where I live is too posh to allow them
eh? wouldn't you need one to get Sky anyway?
Where I live we can't get freeview or cable so I got sky a couple of yrs ago and went for the sky+ box. Just cancelled the subscription as we weren't watching any of the premium channels. I think we'll miss the sky+ functionality (you can't watch stuff you've got on the sky+ box without an active subscription) but there is always iplayer, and in 6 months I will have saved the cost of a humax freesat PVR anyway.
Also got a Humax freesat box on another telly which we actually watch much more.
We did have the sky sports subscription and it really grates that I was basically subsidising premiership footballers wages....
If I got Sky then I'd get a dish but the neighbours would complain we were bringing the area down.