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Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by derek500
(Post 4870056)
1. To watch golf. Spanish golf coverage is woeful. A couple of weeks ago Teledeportes (a Spanish freeview channel) covered the Spanish Ladies Open from Castellón.
Tee shot, quick ad break, ball landing!! Long put, quick ad break, ball in hole!! 2. Too many more reasons to mention... |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by derek500
(Post 4870041)
They've just dropped the £10 subscription for non-premium subscribers. The box has full functionality now for all subscribers (min £15/month package).
I've got an original 2001 Sky+ box, still going strong, although I did put an 80gb hard drive in last year when the original 40gb one went kaput!! |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by Fortaleza
(Post 4868827)
I may be missing something, but why on earth would you want Sky here ????????
Rosemary |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by The Oddities
(Post 4876099)
Totally agree with you. Do not need Sky, do not need English progs.
Rosemary Sorry Rosemary ... cant do without my footie and wimbledon, Nip Tuck & Deadwood |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by Mitzyboy
(Post 4877111)
Sorry Rosemary ... cant do without my footie and wimbledon, Nip Tuck & Deadwood
The trouble with Spanish TV is they show stuff like Nip/Tuck, Lost and Desperate Housewives, but they ruin them with dubbing. Why can't they subtitle them like the Brits and US do with foreign language films/programmes? |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by derek500
(Post 4877158)
The trouble with Spanish TV is they show stuff like Nip/Tuck, Lost and Desperate Housewives, but they ruin them with dubbing.
Why can't they subtitle them like the Brits and US do with foreign language films/programmes? Rosemary |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by The Oddities
(Post 4878628)
You can change the language on Desperate Housewives - not sure about anything else-
Rosemary Don't they show Desperate Housewives a strange way here? First they show an episode from the current third season and without an ad break or credits they then show an old episode from season two!! |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by Fred James
(Post 4311090)
I was under the impression that a Sky + box will not work as a recorder unless you either pay Sky £10/mth or have a premium subscription.
Without it, it behaves just like an ordinary Digibox. Can someone confirm that? On the subject of surge protectors, dont waste your money on these as in Spain the surges are really wild swings, and outside the capability of most units, There is a very good UPS unit sold by Media Mart, made by MGE, primarily designed for Computer protection, but the 750VA model for about 165€ will give a good level of protection, and more importantly stop the little blips in supply cutting out your systems, With the 800VA you should be able to run your Sky Box, TV and Video/DVD for about 30mins in a power cut. and never see the little blips atall,,, also saves on having to reset your SKy box on occasion. |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by Solarwhizz
(Post 4881482)
I can confirm that the SKY+ box will only work if you have a SKY contract package , it used to only activate if on Premium channels (SKy Movies or Sky Sports), but the offering changed from Sky I think last month, So it wont allow access to the record and premium functions, The FTV card should if you have the right size dish, dependent on where your give you the normal FTV channels which require the FTV card , IE CH4/5 Sky 3 etc.
On the subject of surge protectors, dont waste your money on these as in Spain the surges are really wild swings, and outside the capability of most units, There is a very good UPS unit sold by Media Mart, made by MGE, primarily designed for Computer protection, but the 750VA model for about 165€ will give a good level of protection, and more importantly stop the little blips in supply cutting out your systems, With the 800VA you should be able to run your Sky Box, TV and Video/DVD for about 30mins in a power cut. and never see the little blips atall,,, also saves on having to reset your SKy box on occasion. |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by Mitzyboy
(Post 4881737)
Ah well, the three surge protectors I bought are useless then!!! In Dabs they are selling Belkin Battery backups (800VA) for £38.99 + VAT. But I have to wait till I'm in the UK as don't think they deliver to Spain :(
S**t,. that is a really good price, have you got a URL to order online, or you can bring me back a few!!, and to top it all Belkin have a good name for quality!! |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by Solarwhizz
(Post 4886244)
S**t,. that is a really good price, have you got a URL to order online, or you can bring me back a few!!, and to top it all Belkin have a good name for quality!!
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...&cl=4294963687 And this is the link for the 600 http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx...1032&InMerch=1 It says they only ship to UK addresses though. |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by patsywhitehair
(Post 4305807)
hi, i am in uk at the mo. can anybody tell me if i can buy a sky plus unit in uk and use it in spain. I only have a free view card.
thanks, pat However unless you have at least the family pack of mixes you cannot use the record and pause facility,unless you pay mr Murdoch £10 a month just to record. |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by Solarwhizz
(Post 4881482)
With the 800VA you should be able to run your Sky Box, TV and Video/DVD for about 30mins in a power cut. and never see the little blips atall,,, also saves on having to reset your SKy box on occasion.
Yes, I use one and it's really scary when all the lights go out and the TV still works! |
Re: sky plus
Hi
I followed the DAB links and it says that both the Belkin 800VA and 600VA supply 12 volts to the connected equipment. How does this help mains operated equipment suvh as TV Sky Box etc?? Jim |
Re: sky plus
Originally Posted by Bigger Jim
(Post 5603029)
Hi
I followed the DAB links and it says that both the Belkin 800VA and 600VA supply 12 volts to the connected equipment. How does this help mains operated equipment suvh as TV Sky Box etc?? Jim |
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