anybody know how much it costs to have it installed and how big is the hard drive in the machine.I am a sky didi customer already,thanks in advance.
Standard hard drive is 80Gb - gives approx 40 hrs of recording, there is a 160Gb version available as well but whether it's worth the extra or not is another matter - apparently it's fairly straightforward to replace the drives in them anyway - know a couple of people who have put bigger drives in. Costs etc here http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/products/equipment/skyplus
can anyone tell me do you have to pay anything per month on top of this £99,i already subscribe to sky sports,any help much appreciated!
No If you subscribe to either Sky Sports or Movies they waive the £10 fee, according to Digitalspy they are going to scrap the fee anyway...probably because they are phasing out standard Sky decoders and will in future just be supplying the Sky+ box.
RE: think it's a tenner a month nt As far as I know the extra tenner is for the HD version which costs £299 one-off fee For the normal Sky+box there's no extra monthly fee
thanks guys you,ve been a great help,don,t mind paying em £99 but certainly aint paying a tenner a month,not with all the money they,ve had out of me already!
No extra monthly charge if you have sport or films - shows on sky statement and then gets credited off. I had i installed at Christmas (after ressting for months) and it's totaly changed my veiwing experience.....I'd never want to be without it and would recomend it to everyone.
sorry to keep repeating myself,but sky,s site is crap it tells you nowt.If i order sky plus what size hard drive does this machine come with,after reading a lot of forums it states 40gb,which is nothing really!can anyone tell me who has bought one recently,what size hard drive is in it?
You'll get a 80Gb drive. The standard used to be 40Gb, when I got mine they were just starting to roll out 80Gb as standard and fortunately I got one of the new boxes - that was about 18 months ago.
No problem. If you want any other info just ask, the digitalspy.com forum is a good place to look. In terms of how much you get on the drive - I'm normally running at 20-30% free space although it's currently over 50%. I've also got a DVD recorder with a hard drive so I have offloaded a couple of films onto the hard drive there until I get around to watching them. As many people say, it completely changes how you watch TV - you don't get the idea just how until you get it. But an example - the FA Cup game yesterday lunch time, I was going down to the supermarket half hour before it started so set it to record, got back and started watching the game 20 mins after it started. Apart from sport and news it's very rare I'll watch anything as it's broadcast - particularly on the commercial channels.
i,d like to finish off this thread by saying i,m having sky+ installed,can,t wait and guess what after being offered it for £159 i then said put me through to cancellations please,they then offered it to me for £49 fitted,just goes to show eh!
