As per pervious posts, I had a 6 year old box. I moved house and needed a new dish installation. I was told I have to keep my old box or upgrade to multiroom with a new sky+ box.Leo said:Wouldn't it just be cheaper to get a Sky+ box? Identical picture quality on an SD TV, also has the 5.1 digital audio out and all the same plus features.
YesLeo said:Wouldn't it just be cheaper to get a Sky+ box? Identical picture quality on an SD TV, also has the 5.1 digital audio out and all the same plus features.
redo said:I really noticed the difference watching the "Extraordinary league of gentlemen" last week on RTE, also "Magic roundabout" (was not using drugs but feeding baby) on Sky Movies HD.
What pervy posts? Did I miss something?redo said:As per pervious posts, I had a 6 year old box. I moved house and needed a new dish installation. I was told I have to keep my old box or upgrade to multiroom with a new sky+ box.
Sky HD was due to be comming out at that stage in 4 1/2 weeks. Being a gadget freak, I knew I would kick myself if I didn't get the HD. Plus it gives me more ammo come xmas to argue with wife "we NEED a HD to get any benefit". So in effect, I leapfrogged the Sky+. I not saying Sky HD is better than Sky+, just that it is far far better than what I came from.
redo said:HD subcription is free if you take a premium package (sports, movies). I have heard that the Ryder Cup will be broadcast in HD. yummy.
EDIT (I think)
Technologist said:There's an incorrect quote that says BBC HD is only available on $ky.
That's not true. New generation MPEG-4 DVBS2 receivers such as the Humax HDCI 2000 will pick it up FTA.
Technologist said:As to NTL doing HD in Ireland, I'd say pigs will fly first. They're barely able to provide acceptable quality on SD. NTL needs competition (from DTT) to pull its socks up.
MonsieurBond said:Well, UPC (who now own both NTL and Chorus) have announced that $200M is to be spent replacing all coaxial trunk with fibre and upgrading all cable into homes with cable capable of carrying signals up to 850 MHz, in order to carry multi-channel cable and 30 Mbit/s internet concurrently (Source: wikipedia)
They should be able to put HD channels over this.
Yes I had some problems at the start. It took around 4-5 days for the HD channels and sports to come online. Mainly due to Sky client registration software not being able to upgrade non Sky+ customers I think. It is all sorted nowSunster said:Now that Sky HD is available across Ireland, I'm interested to know if anyone with Sky HD has had any problems with the service since signing on?
I note there apppears to be some teething issues with the UK service and was wondering if anyone in Ireland had experienced any or if it's been plain sailing
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