i know nothing about sky service but the goof lady keeps banging on about it.can you get it without having a dish.........and are there any good offers she keeps talking about some bit of kit that tapes whole series ? help please
Some Sky services are available over the web and also Virgin Media carries Sky thru cable, both don't require a dish, any other way is to the best of my knowledge-impossible.
If you get sky plus you can set it to record a whole series you can also pause live TV.
You can get sky channels through cable and so you wouldn't need a dish but I'm not sure if if you can get the same features such as pausing live TV, series link etc. You will also have to check that you can actually get cable in your area.
[cite]Posted By: Barn Door Varney[/cite]If you get sky plus you can set it to record a whole series you can also pause live TV.
You can get sky channels through cable and so you wouldn't need a dish but I'm not sure if if you can get the same features such as pausing live TV, series link etc. You will also have to check that you can actually get cable in your area.
Virgin Media do a V+ box which is like Sky+ but much better IMHO (So you can pause live TV, record series etc). Twice the recording capacity, record two channels at once and watch a third etc. Plus all the On Demand stuff. Great piece of kit in my view.
[cite]Posted By: Barn Door Varney[/cite]If you get sky plus you can set it to record a whole series you can also pause live TV.
You can get sky channels through cable and so you wouldn't need a dish but I'm not sure if if you can get the same features such as pausing live TV, series link etc. You will also have to check that you can actually get cable in your area.
Virgin Media do a V+ box which is like Sky+ but much better IMHO (So you can pause live TV, record series etc). Twice the recording capacity, record two channels at once and watch a third etc. Plus all the On Demand stuff. Great piece of kit in my view.
And the other great thing about Virgin Media is you get free access to Setan... oh.
Just be very aware, Virgin Media's customer services is, well, appalling and virtually non-existent. If it all goes well then you have no problems, when it goes Pete Tong, worry!
For the record, Sky have improved lots in my opinion. My HD box kept failing, so they came out and replaced it with a brand new one, no fuss.
i sometimes absolutely loathe virgin media. esp their customer services but the last time we had ap roblem, we had someone understand us and book a fault check and was fixed no problem. dont know if that was a one off or a vastly improved service?
Never sign up for the insurance cover, I have the full package with Hd, the lot. Last year it played up so we phoned them when told it would be X amount for the call out plus parts or £400 should we need a new box, we asked to be put through to the cancellation dept who imediately sent an engineer with a new box who told us they will try it on, but if you theaten to cancel they will do it for free. But dont try it if your on the basic package apparently they switch it off.
This is of no help at all: just a little story. A while ago my then neighbour had an enormous dish put up and the signal was so strong that we could receive it next door.We weren't aware of this 'til one evening March Jr. said 'what's this then?'. He'd been fiddling with the portable T.V we used for computer games, so I had a look and it soon became obvious we were watching 'Red Hot Dutch' or similar. Then it changed to a feature film and later on back to a porn channel. This wasn't just a one off, we could receive it every night. Jr. rigged up the video to it (we're talking pre-DVDs here) and he had a nice little earner going flogging the porn films at school! The problem was that when they had a non-porn film on we'd be watching it and then they'd change the channel. You felt like banging on the wall and shouting 'Hang about, I was watching that!'. So yes, you can get Sky without a dish, you just need a neighbour with a big one, so to speak!
Sorry Curbs, it is absolutely true although the boy's business venture didn't last long once I found out about it (funnily enough he works for Sky now). It was only the one T.V that could pick up the signal, I think because it had an indoor adjustable ariel, and only one room where it was possible to get a decent picture. Should you ever have the pleasure of bumping into Mrs.M she will confirm every word, and she don't fib! I could go on about this ex-neighbour for a while: the women, the cars, the parties but I'm not one to gossip!
[cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]Sorry Curbs, it is absolutely true although the boy's business venture didn't last long once I found out about it (funnily enough he works for Sky now). It was only the one T.V that could pick up the signal, I think because it had an indoor adjustable ariel, and only one room where it was possible to get a decent picture.
And the fact that it was an analogue signal. At a guess. Not too sure that it would work with digital signals, but I'm certain that i will be proved wrong.
[cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]Sorry Curbs, it is absolutely true although the boy's business venture didn't last long once I found out about it (funnily enough he works for Sky now). It was only the one T.V that could pick up the signal, I think because it had an indoor adjustable ariel, and only one room where it was possible to get a decent picture.
And the fact that it was an analogue signal. At a guess. Not too sure that it would work with digital signals, but I'm certain that i will be proved wrong.
Yes, but, it's analogue only upto the dish, then gets converted to digital on its route down the wire into your sky box, if the signal was strong enough and MARCH51 had a decent sized aerial himslef close by, there is a possibility he could pick something up if the analogue bounced off the dish.
Can't help you chaps because, as with computers, I'm ignorant as to how these things work etc. I do know though that much of the stuff was coming via his VCR because he would rewind or fast forward films which was very annoying. We're talking13/14 years ago.
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You can get sky channels through cable and so you wouldn't need a dish but I'm not sure if if you can get the same features such as pausing live TV, series link etc. You will also have to check that you can actually get cable in your area.
Virgin Media do a V+ box which is like Sky+ but much better IMHO (So you can pause live TV, record series etc). Twice the recording capacity, record two channels at once and watch a third etc. Plus all the On Demand stuff. Great piece of kit in my view.
Only thing you dont get with Virgin is the interactive on the football, so no fan zone or switching games on Champions League nights.
For the record, Sky have improved lots in my opinion. My HD box kept failing, so they came out and replaced it with a brand new one, no fuss.
I do not believe it!
Yes, but, it's analogue only upto the dish, then gets converted to digital on its route down the wire into your sky box, if the signal was strong enough and MARCH51 had a decent sized aerial himslef close by, there is a possibility he could pick something up if the analogue bounced off the dish.
Sounds like Del Boys