Installation costs ? Surely you can put the box in yourself.
Steve
Repartition, anyone?
Not possible as I understand it - I looked into retrofitting my Sky Box with a 1TB drive and it was widely understood that you had to sacrifice a massive amount of space for Anytime whether you used it or not… and there was no known hack to solve that problem. I think it might even have been a 50/50 split.
At least they are being honest with the advertised size.
Sky+ is a 50/50 split I think. What a waste though, turned anytime off a long time ago.
Records shows your subscription might not even cover & means your box doesn't go into ‘proper’ standby overnight as thats when it downloads (we turn ours off at the wall anyway)
Totally useless feature in my opinion & wish they give me some extra space when turning it off!
Two things,
1. The Anytime partion was alway set size not a % size so if you replaced the drive with a larger one, the Anytime partition size remained the same.
2. It'll be interesting to see how this box performs and if the hardware is updated or if the newish Sky HD epg performs better on this box than it does on the older HD boxes.
jimborae
2. It'll be interesting to see how this box performs and if the hardware is updated or if the newish Sky HD epg performs better on this box than it does on the older HD boxes.
According to some people who have it on AVForums it's much more responsive than the older HD boxes.
I keep thinking about upgrading the drive in my Sky+ box, it doesn't support Anytime though so probably would get 100% of the space. HAve yet to upgrade to HD…
kellyharding
I keep thinking about upgrading the drive in my Sky+ box, it doesn't support Anytime though so probably would get 100% of the space. HAve yet to upgrade to HD…
If it's one of the really old Sky+ boxes with a 40gig drive then yes you will get all of the space. A 250Gb drive used to be a good size to put in these but it depends what 5200rpm ide drives are available I suppose. Be aware that some 7200rpm drives caused problems with these old boxes.
jimborae
If it's one of the really old Sky+ boxes with a 40gig drive then yes you will get all of the space. A 250Gb drive used to be a good size to put in these but it depends what 5200rpm ide drives are available I suppose. Be aware that some 7200rpm drives caused problems with these old boxes.
Yes, mine is one of the Pace V2 boxes, one of the Sky refurbished ones I think.
I still its unfair to charge your existing customer for more to install than you charge a new customer…
Virgin are much the same too.
Give the same deals to all
rabbid
I still its unfair to charge your existing customer for more to install than you charge a new customer…
Virgin are much the same too.
Give the same deals to all
Depends how you look at it.
No doubt they'd justify it by saying that the charge to existing customers represents the cost, and that it's discounted to new customers because the new customers represent a revenue and profit stream that they otherwise loose out on. In other words, it's a discount to reduce the barrier to uptake and to encourage new customers, set off against future profits.
Also …. they can get away with it. ;)
*Prays virgin does similar and releases V+ for free*
On XL for VM and have a standard box, no need for the HD box as we have a SD tv still but would be nice having the recording facilities on the box due to our old recorder showing its age and quality is suffering :(.
Sorry, but £60 charge for ‘installation costs’ is just taking the wee.
Just how difficult is it to unplug HDMI, power, modem and two sat cables, swap boxes and plug in said cables? Might have been interested as my current HD box is starting to misbehave and I'm likley to build up quite a backlog of series to watch over the coming months, but not at that price.
If it weren't for my other half's serious addiction to FX, Living and Sci Fi channels (OK, and my serious addiction to live footie) I would seriously consider quitting Sky. :mad:
Just don't anybody tell her that, OK? :eek:
phoenix198
Sorry, but £60 charge for ‘installation costs’ is just taking the wee.
Just how difficult is it to unplug HDMI, power, modem and two sat cables, swap boxes and plug in said cables? Might have been interested as my current HD box is starting to misbehave and I'm likley to build up quite a backlog of series to watch over the coming months, but not at that price.
Still takes time to go to your place and do it all. £60 is roughly a standard hours charge for a technicians time.
You say it's easy, could you ask your mum to do it? And I don't mean step by step, I mean give her the box and let her get on with it.
Wonder if they would let you keep the old box too… winging their way to a ebay near you!
Virgin had a really mad scheme for V+ installation. If they had come to install the V+ box and taken away our standard box then it would have cost £75. However, because we got them to put the existing box upstairs (which meant running new cable) it only cost £35?!
I hope Virgin start offering some form of HDD upgrade for the V+ box. It's a really cool bit of hardware, but now I finally have an HD TV the drive is a little small. (Its 80 hours standard def or 20 hours hi def.)
Neo_VR
Wonder if they would let you keep the old box too… winging their way to a ebay near you!
Yes you would keep your old sky box.
Funkstar
Still takes time to go to your place and do it all. £60 is roughly a standard hours charge for a technicians time.
You say it's easy, could you ask your mum to do it? And I don't mean step by step, I mean give her the box and let her get on with it.
Not a ‘technician’ in my book, more a ‘fitter’ with a driving license although that's beside the point which is that while some people might need help to swap over a Sky HD Box a great many people don't. Which is why (say) Comet offer installation as a chargeable extra rather than build the cost into the product.
But then Sky have no real competition, do they?
Which might in part explain their utterly carp customer service.
Thing is with Sky, it's always a con one way or another. It's a free box, with £x installation, or free installation with a £x box. Or a combination of the above… what name the money goes under is largely irrelevant - the point is you cover the cost of the box in the end.
snootyjim
what name the money goes under is largely irrelevant
To us yes, but I wonder how this goes through their accounts at the end of the year? Not that it makes any difference, I just find it interesting. I bet the installation and the equipment charges are billed to different departments or divisions.