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You can also add more bundles to your Sky subscription, such as the Sky Movies package for an extra £16 a month on top of an existing Entertainment package.Īdd-ons Sky offers a number of apps that allow you to use your phone as a remote control, set your box to record something remotely, or simply check the TV listings. I didn't pay anything for the Sky+ box or installation, so that makes £193.50 a year for my package. Price This is difficult to compare because Sky has so many price plans, but I pay £21.50 a month (discounted to £10.75 for the first six months) for the Sky Entertainment package.
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Premium content Sky offers "on demand" programming, including TV series and films, the latter priced from about 99p for bargain movies up to £3.49 for new releases. The Sky+ set-up makes it easy to find past recordings, though a minor frustration is that if you leave the recording section with the child filter on, for example, the next time you access your recordings you will only see children-related programming – a pain when you want to find old episodes of The Sopranos. Recording Both boxes allow you to pause and rewind live TV and to record programmes. It is fast and responsive with clear menu bars at the top and middle of the screen directing you to the many features. Navigation Sky's EPG is intuitive and easy to use, although that could be because I have used family and friends' boxes. Sky has introduced catch-up TV but isn't currently offering BBC iPlayer, which is apparently "coming soon", or 4oD (coming 2013), and doesn't integrate them into the electronic programme guide (EPG), meaning you have to find each catch-up provider's separate app before seeing what historic content is available.
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My Sky+ HD box also provides some free HD channels – BBC HD and ITV HD etc.
So not the easiest set-up given I had to select a date for an engineer to visit, then make sure someone was home when he came.Ĭontent I have the no-frills Sky Entertainment package which includes Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Arts and a handful of more obscure channels such as Syfy, Comedy Central and Dmax, as well as all the usual Freeview channels and an endless parade of food, shopping, lifestyle and "+1" channels. Installation I tested Sky+ and YouView in a single room scenario rather than attempt a complicated multi-room set-up, mainly to make my life easier.īoth have similar cable requirements: a HDMI cable links the box to the TV and an ethernet connection links it to a broadband router, allowing you to download/stream free and paid-for content.īut the Sky+ set-up had to be installed for me by an engineer because it required a dish on the side of my house. Also, if you would like to be a reviewer please email Sky+ Tell us what you think, ask any questions users may be able to answer, and tell us which services or goods you would like us to review in future weeks – it could be anything from train services to Christmas crackers. To start things off we are testing the YouView set-top box and Sky+. Not much you can do to stop it saving you money by going into stand by when it's not being used, I guess.Between us we can hopefully work out which is the best buy and inform wavering consumers which to go for. In the meantime, you could make do with the Power-On/Off options. They should provide an option to prevent the box going into standby. That's not the EU lawmakers, that's Humax. The HDR1000S doesn't have that option of the two modes of either off/standby or on. The EU lawmakers are forcing me to use the low power option.
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The Humax YouView boxes have two stand-by modes - one to satisfy the EU requirement, and one that's barely distinguishable from full power. I leave my modem/router powered up all the time, as advised by my IP.Īs long as a low-power option is provided by the manufacturer, no one's forcing you to use it. Have a read of the first para in this post:Īgreed the older Sky boxes used more electricity, but is it right that the EU law-makers should decide that I cant pay that extra for the power usage and get an instant bootup of my HDR if I want it.
Your sky box was costing you money even in standby
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