Hi
At the present moment I have sky tv my son in law has up graded to HD and he 
has given me his sky plus box so I would like to upgrade to sky plus.
If I phone sky and tell them I have my own box what will the procedure be 
regarding getting sky plus installed will they do it from there or do they 
have to come out to my house, and will they just charge me for instillation.

Thanks for any info from Tim...

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> Hi
> At the present moment I have sky tv my son in law has up graded to HD and 
> he has given me his sky plus box so I would like to upgrade to sky plus.
> If I phone sky and tell them I have my own box what will the procedure be 
> regarding getting sky plus installed will they do it from there or do they 
> have to come out to my house, and will they just charge me for 
> instillation.
>
> Thanks for any info from Tim...
>



sky can pair your card to the sky+ box over the phone.
your problem is, the box needs a double feed  - so if you currently only 
have 1 you would need to arrange for a second to be fitted.



-- 
Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
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tim wrote:
> Hi
> At the present moment I have sky tv my son in law has up graded to HD and he 
> has given me his sky plus box so I would like to upgrade to sky plus.
> If I phone sky and tell them I have my own box what will the procedure be 
> regarding getting sky plus installed will they do it from there or do they 
> have to come out to my house, and will they just charge me for instillation.
> 
> Thanks for any info from Tim... 
> 
> 

The Sky+ box has two inputs from the dish so it can receive two programs 
at the same time. The LNB on the dish has two outputs these are fed via 
a twin cable back to the box.

If you just have the normal sky box right now then the dish you have is 
most likely to have just a single output. So you will need a new dish 
and downlead before you can use the sky+ box properly.

I guess it will do something with just one input but probably not much 
more than your current box.

Chris

Chris  wrote:
 

>tim wrote:
>> Hi
>> At the present moment I have sky tv my son in law has up graded to HD and he 
>> has given me his sky plus box so I would like to upgrade to sky plus.
>> If I phone sky and tell them I have my own box what will the procedure be 
>> regarding getting sky plus installed will they do it from there or do they 
>> have to come out to my house, and will they just charge me for instillation.
>> 
>> Thanks for any info from Tim... 
>> 
>> 
>
>The Sky+ box has two inputs from the dish so it can receive two programs 
>at the same time. The LNB on the dish has two outputs these are fed via 
>a twin cable back to the box.
>
>If you just have the normal sky box right now then the dish you have is 
>most likely to have just a single output. So you will need a new dish 
>and downlead before you can use the sky+ box properly.

You would need a new LNB with 2 or more outputs, but you wouldn't need
a new dish. You can buy them in Maplins, or you could get a local
installer to do it for you. Sky would charge you a lot more for it and
probably end up using the same local installer anyway.

>
>I guess it will do something with just one input but probably not much 
>more than your current box.
>
>Chris

With one input you can only record the channel you are watching at the
time.