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Old Jan 25th 2009, 10:24 pm
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Question Sky?

Hi all,

I know you can get Sky tv in NZ, but is it worth bringing our Sky+ box with us?
Will it work in NZ?
Or will we have to buy a new one when we arrive?
Has anyone else took theirs?


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Old Jan 25th 2009, 10:46 pm
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Originally Posted by iwannagonow
Hi all,

I know you can get Sky tv in NZ, but is it worth bringing our Sky+ box with us?
Will it work in NZ?
Or will we have to buy a new one when we arrive?
Has anyone else took theirs?


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nope no point atall in bringing it with you, we brought ours and it does not work .... bummer
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We have found the my sky box here much better than the one in uk.. here you can be recording 2 channels and watch a 3rd rather than having to cancel a recording etc, much better
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Originally Posted by carolineshewan
We have found the my sky box here much better than the one in uk.. here you can be recording 2 channels and watch a 3rd rather than having to cancel a recording etc, much better
Same as the UK isn't it? record 2 & watch a 3rd.

We struggle to find anything decent to watch on 1 channel at any one time neither mind 3!!!!!
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no in the uk, if you are recording 2 programmes you can either watch something on your sky plus or cancel one of the recordings to watch tv.. where as here you can have 2 channels recording and watch a 3rd, good for if you have 2 on other channels recording back to back , nothing worse when you just getting into a program and you have to cancel it or change channel
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Sorry, it's Virgin TV in the UK that's the same, not Sky+ (I knew one was the same!!!)

(re. recording 2 & watching 1 that is!!)
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never tried virgin only the sky plus, wish i had now though lol
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Originally Posted by carolineshewan
never tried virgin only the sky plus, wish i had now though lol
Wish you could get it here - TV, Phone & broadband for 24 GBP ($65) a month!!!
Bit different to our $200/month
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Originally Posted by mickey_d
Wish you could get it here - TV, Phone & broadband for 24 GBP ($65) a month!!!
Bit different to our $200/month
we are with vodaphone for all 130 dollars , believe it or not our internet speed is double than what we had in uk...so happy cos the holiday let we were in was worse than dial up... in the uk we were about £42 a month
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As has been said, your UK Sky+ box won't work there. What you may not know is that you won't even be able to watch what you have recorded on your UK box because the Sky Sofware requires a Sky connection to allow you do see anything, and the UK box won't recognise NZ Sky. So if there's anything on your Sky+ box you want, copy it to DVD before you disconnect the Sky service in the UK.

A UK TV won't work in NZ on an aerial - but nobody there watches TV that way anyway because the signal is dire - mainly due to geography. Mostly, you view via the AV connections either on Sky or on the (relatively) new Freeview HD - and both work just fine on your UK TV. By the way, if HD's your's thing, Freeview's resolution is much better than Sky - they only have 10 channels just now, but, as in the UK, that will grow.

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Originally Posted by Scouse Dave
As has been said, your UK Sky+ box won't work there. What you may not know is that you won't even be able to watch what you have recorded on your UK box because the Sky Sofware requires a Sky connection to allow you do see anything, and the UK box won't recognise NZ Sky. So if there's anything on your Sky+ box you want, copy it to DVD before you disconnect the Sky service in the UK.

A UK TV won't work in NZ on an aerial - but nobody there watches TV that way anyway because the signal is dire - mainly due to geography. Mostly, you view via the AV connections either on Sky or on the (relatively) new Freeview HD - and both work just fine on your UK TV. By the way, if HD's your's thing, Freeview's resolution is much better than Sky - they only have 10 channels just now, but, as in the UK, that will grow.

Good luck - hope this helped!
Depends on your TV, we brought 2 LCD TV's with us, a small 19" Samsung and a 42" Toshiba and both work just fine on an aerial. The signal is pretty good where we are too so no problems there. We don't have Sky or Freeview.
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Originally Posted by wattsnz
Depends on your TV, we brought 2 LCD TV's with us, a small 19" Samsung and a 42" Toshiba and both work just fine on an aerial. The signal is pretty good where we are too so no problems there. We don't have Sky or Freeview.
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you probably don't even own your sky + box

might want to check the contract...
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Originally Posted by eddie_nz
you probably don't even own your sky + box

might want to check the contract...
yea im pretty sure you have to leave them behind...
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Originally Posted by carolineshewan
yea im pretty sure you have to leave them behind...
Well, it may have been on oversight, but when we left UK, we brought our Sky+ box with us - they never asked for it back. Of course, it doesn't work here, so what we now have is a paperweight, but at least we've got it for when we move back, eh?
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