Steve Hignett
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 11:44 AM |
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Sky Plus and Sky+ HD help please... (Card)
Hi All,
My Sky+ box ceased working a week and a half ago, so have been without tv!!! 
I've been looking on ebay for a week to try and find a replacement, for parts or cheap working box that's local to me.
Well, I've just bought a Sky+ HD for cheap money and it was only a couple miles away 
I'm not wanting to pay for HD at the moment. (I bought this as it was close, cheap and I may go HD in future)
So, can I just plug it in and away I go with my old Sky+ card?
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And my second question!
Whilst I was at the sellers house, I asked him if he had a broken Sky+ box (he was really into AV) so that I could repair mine. He didn't but
had a cheap working box, so I bought that aswell.
What do I need to get it working in another room (as above, don't want to pay any multiroom charges if that can be avoided)?
TIA
Steve
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prawnabie
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 11:53 AM |
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Not sure about your problem, but I did read a couple of years ago about people buying sky boxes off ebay. There was something you could do to the box
to watch free pay per view movies etc. The box was then sold and the next person to plug it into their phoneline got a huge bill for all the films!
Not sure how true it was but its somet to watch out for!
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Mr G
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 11:53 AM |
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You need to ring sky and get them to pair your card to your hd box. does the hd box have the new epg yet?
G
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 11:57 AM |
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The guy seemed sound, so will watch out for that, but think I'll be fine!
Plus, I don't have it plugged into the phone line either!
Mr G, what's epg? and Do you know the number to call Sky on to pair it up, or is it just a normal Sky number?
Cheers!
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Mr G
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 12:08 PM |
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You don't need a sub to get bbc1 hd, channel 4 hd etc. If/when you have the new epg on the box then you will be able to add itv1 hd as w ll
through tthe other channels menu (wont be able to record/pause/rewind etc though)
As regard to buying movies and not pay for them it was a 9v battery on the phone line socket fooling the box into thinking it was connected, you
bought movies and it storred your purchases on your sky CARD. It couldnt dial in to let them know what you had purchased though so you didnt get
charged. The limit was about £50 before it stopped letting you purcha e movies unit it made a sucessful call back to sky.
Cheers
G
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Mr G
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 12:15 PM |
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You''ll have to excuse any spelling mistakes as i'm on my phone replying to this!
Last time i paired my card over from my standard sky box to my new sky+ box i just rang the standard sky cs number. don't think they put me
through to any pairing specific department. Was their Indian cs though. the epg is the menu system. if the menus on the hd box look like your old
sky+ box then you havn't got it yet. it will download & update in its own time. What make hd box did you pick up?
G
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 12:17 PM |
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It's a thompson box, think it's 300Gb?
It has the new epg then!
By "sub" do you mean subscription?
I pay for No movies or sports, but pay fo rthe other 6 "packs" and am happy to keep it like that.
Plus, I rung to cancel, and they knocked it down to 50% for 6months (£28 to £14 for Sky+ phone & Broadband)...
[Edited on 14/2/10 by Steve Hignett]
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Mr G
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 12:25 PM |
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The first Thomson boxes (with component out - Red/Green/Blue rca's on the rear) had a power supply problem (cheap copy diodes from china) and
would have problems like no signal recieved, clock speeding up, wont power on, lock ups etc etc.
New thomsons without component were sorted out. thats why early models are cheapest of all hd boxes to buy.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Mr G
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 12:29 PM |
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Sorry wrong reply by sub i mean hd sub. you dont need to pay the extra £10 a month to get bbc c4 & itv in hd. they are available to watch for
free.
Phone batterys going!
[Edited on 14/2/10 by Mr G]
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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mads
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 12:35 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
Plus, I rung to cancel, and they knocked it down to 50% for 6months (£28 to £14 for Sky+ phone & Broadband)...
[Edited on 14/2/10 by Steve Hignett]
apologies for hijacking this thread slightly but...
was this before the box decided to conk it? I'm having trouble with my sky+ service in that it doesnt recognise the card sometimes, even though
they have now sent me a new card TWICE. leads to recordings not happening with errors such as "No Service" or "No signal".
just wondered if they would consider sending out a new box if i ring up to cancel...?
[Edited on 14/2/10 by mads]
We gain knowledge faster than we do wisdom!
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip!"
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 12:39 PM |
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Hope your batt doesn't die soon!
So, I can watch certain HD channels without a HD sub then? Cool...
Just checked and it does have the components on the back - are there any tips to elongate the life of this, I didn't really have the money for
this, so can't really be replacing it soon!
The sky box broke the day after I knocked them down on price - gutted, I would have demanded a new box had I known!!!
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Mr G
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 12:41 PM |
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What make is your old sky+ box?
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 12:43 PM |
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The new one is here:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190372766949&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dp4712.m38.
l1313%26_nkw%3D190372766949%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_rdc=1
or item No. 190372766949
Don't know whether you'll be able to check it out on your phone, but there you go!
The old sky+ was a thomson box also and apparantly the PSU has gone!!!
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Mr G
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 01:02 PM |
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Thomson used the same psu's for sky+ and sky hd boxes, they are interchangable. I was going to say that if it wasn't the psu broken in
your sky+ box you could of swapped it over into the hd box. However it lseems it came from the same bad batch that the hd boxes got!
If you got the box cheap enoug then spending the money on a psu from ebay/satcure(digifix?) is a good plan. You can get a kit to ffix your own psu or
part ex yours in and get one already sorted.
Prevention is Better than the cure here as the psu can take out the mainboard and other items when its failing 
G
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 01:11 PM |
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Yep a buggered PSU
I did get the box cheap, and I also believe in prevention better than repair, but I really don't have the money to spend at the moment!
If you know a way of getting the repair pack v cheap then I'd have a go myself!
Or do you think I could swap my faulty Sky+ box for the repair board itself?
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Mr G
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 01:24 PM |
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battery just about to give up the ghost so will get back to you when i get home 
G
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 14/2/10 at 01:33 PM |
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cool beans...
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Mr G
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| posted on 15/2/10 at 07:03 PM |
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Ideally you could sell your sky+ as spares or repair to get funds for the upgraded psu board for the hd box.
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 15/2/10 at 07:17 PM |
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I've just put it back together and was thinking about that myself - it is unmarked etc, what's it worth roughly?
Cheers,
Steve
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Mr G
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| posted on 15/2/10 at 08:18 PM |
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I think postage would be the killer so it would have to be collection only. You could always take the psu out of the hd box and put it in the sky+ so
you can sell it as working
A working 160gb pvr3 (anytime) has got to be worth £35 Edit: Looks like on ebay a spares or repair would be £35 with a working item going for £50+
[Edited on 15/2/10 by Mr G]
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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