Hi, just moving in to a new house and taking my sky HD box with me. i have x4 co-axial cables, 2 downstairs, 2 upstairs run up into the loft space. is there any way i can watch sky HD in the main living room and watched normal sky on the other Tv's throught the RF OUT connection? and if so what needs to be done. have a sky engineer booked for 13/2/12 but i guess this will not be a standard...

Hi. Thinking of getting a second hand Sky hd+ box. Is there any preferred make to go for please. Amstrad...Samsung...Thomson ???. Thanks. Baz. -- The more people I meet. The more I love my dog.

Hello all Current set up. Downstairs Phillips CRT TV (flat screen quite good actually) with Sky+ Upstairs: Recently puchased HD ready "Emotion" LCD TV with standard sky box (not HD or "+") and uses scart as there is no HDMI connection from the sky

Hi group, I want to move up to a freesat (not the free from sky version) PVR, I think I'll get the Humax FoxSat HDR. From my understanding I'll buy the box and will need a min of twin LNB to feed the Hummy that way i can record one channel while watching another, I know the old "round" dish will work with freesat IF I buy a new twin but more then likely quad universal LNB and move it to...

With only a small (32") TV we have not seen much benefit in having Sky+ HD so we are now considering downgrading our SKY subscription back to SD. Since we've had SKY HD for well over the required 12 month contract I can't see any problem doing this to save the extra £10 (or so) per month subscription. Our main TV is already an HD one with Freesat and Freeview and we certainly do take...

Hello wise ones (and the others) I will be spending time intermittently but up to 4 months at a time in Andalucia Will make very few calls but do need up to around 50Mb per month data. Anyone got any PAYG SIM suggestions please. Will be used on an Android phone which is unlocked.

Our Thomson Sky+ box (3 years old) has been been responding more and more slowly to the remote and over the past week channels have been disappearing: Sky One 106, Sky News 501, Disc 241, Disc 242 and many others. After Googling, I decided with some scepticism to try replacing all the capacitors in the PSU. An hour with the soldering iron and normal service is resumed. Out of the 15...

Slightly OT perhaps as it's not really a Sky problem, but can anyone recommend the best setup for my system? I'm tearing my hair out and it's spoiling my enjoyment of some very expensive kit. I have a new Samsung UE55D8000 TV and Samsung HT-D6500 home theatre amp & Blu-ray player, and 1TB Sky+HD. Initially I connected them as shown in the instructions: HDMI from Sky to HT, then HDMI from HT...

Has anyone had their set top box records a bunch of programs which they didn't set up? I understand it is possible via your mobile or a tablet applet to record stuff when your not in, but has this ever occurred accidentally to someone else's set top box and how would you prevent this happening. Just had a punch of PBS stuff recorded, a channel i hadn't heard of before now. Interesting stuff,...

Just got a secondhand Amstrad DRX-890 from Ebay and a brand new 2TB Western Digital hard drive to put in it. Because I didn't have any old recordings or pre-Darwin thingy to swap over, I used the 10.3MB "vanilla xtv" pre-Darwin image file as the "source drive" and obviously my new 2TB drive as the destination. Copy+ seemed to 'do its thing' but only took about two minutes, maybe even less,...

In the past week or so I've noticed that Anytime (often confused with Anytime+, which only works with the Sky 'broadband' package) listings are also including SBO (Sky Box Office) entries. Sure, it's 'anytime' but for a fee. I think this trend may have begun with the placement of Sky3D shows on Anytime, which, when clicked upon, tell the viewer that they have to upgrade to include the...

Most of us already know that expensive HDMI leads offer no visual or audible performance issues whatsoever over a cheap one, but some still argue it's worth paying for expensive HDMI leads and that you can "see the difference". Uhuh. I stumbled upon this article today which does some pretty definitive tests. They even went into the framebuffer to see the raw data that the TV was receiving and...

An employee of the management company for my block of 150 flats cut the cables to, and removed, 10 satellite dishes used by leasholders last week, without warning. They had been carefully situated at ground level to be as unobtrusive as possible. I have read elsewhere the following: "Tell them to go away, you are having a dish": EU statement: "GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS AND...

You can now watch CH5, 5* & 5USA without a card in Sky box

I have a Sky setup, with a subscription card and a small dish, in Cyprus. Yesterday I changed the digibox, and of course lost most of the channels. I phoned Sky to marry the card to the new dish, but after waiting more than 12 hours it hasn't happened. I will wait a little longer and then have to reuse the original box. My question is, does anyone know which signal (channel) is used to send...

Hello, I use SKY+ HD. I can't find any 3-D channels in TV-LISTING. Do you know if their are some (remember some Sky 3-D at the time !). Thank you. E Dieppedalle

I noticed the Sky+HD box had been reset the other day but not the Sky+ one so I suspected a download. Now I find I've lost a large number of channels starting with ITV1 and Channel 4 (not the HD versions). I've recycled the power and they are back. Has this been widespread? What was updated? -- Peter Pratten Please reply in group only

Amstrad DRX890 Sky+ HD box (but we don't have the HD service). I set the box to record something on Series Link because I want the whole series. It gets the original showing of each episode but also gets the repeat later on in the week, which in turn causes a recording clash because the box is already recording something else at that time. How do I get it to stop doing this and only get the...

It seems that all new TV's don't have a scart connector only HDMI or DVI-D. How do I connect my SCART only sky box? Any help appreciated

My 3 year old Amstrad Sky+ box is always reluctant to add series link on BBC1. Most other channels are instant, but BBC1 can take 5/6 attempts of timing out before it adds it. Is this normal, can anything be done about it? Cheers.