what use a sky box minus card and remote

[evoesque]

There's a spare sky box minus remote and card going for free. Can it be used by someone with sky plus in another room? If so, anything else required?

Thanks all

[GT03ROB]

evoesque said:

There's a spare sky box minus remote and card going for free. Can it be used by someone with sky plus in another room? If so, anything else required?

Thanks all

Best is to sell to someone who's Sky box has gone pop. They'll have the remote & card anyhow. I paid £10 for one on ebay when my last one went pop

[sjg]

Assuming it's plugged in to a feed from a Sky dish and you get another remote (3rd party ones cost next to nothing), you can either:

- Use it for freesat, which is (roughly) the same channels as freeview - the extra BBC/ITV/Channel4/Five ones, Film4, etc. No Dave though. There's a one-off cost of £20 for a card from Sky, needed as although many channels are free-to-air, some are encrypted but free-to-view, hence the need for the card.

- Pay Sky an extra £10 a month and have it linked to your main Sky subscription - so you get all the same paid-for channels that your account has. Bear in mind that the box needs to be connected to the phone line as Sky check location to ensure it's still in the same house! Sky will send you a card to use in the extra box.

Edited by sjg on Sunday 12th April 21:47

[Dogwatch]

Proper Sky and Sky+ remotes are available on the High Street from the likes of Wilkinson's. Prob on t'internet too but haven't checked.

[Cheeky Jim]

sjg said:

Bear in mind that the box needs to be connected to the phone line as Sky check location to ensure it's still in the same house! Sky will send you a card to use in the extra box.

Am sure that must be bo11ocks.

We've not had our sky+ box or the other multiroom box connected to a phone line ever. The boxes are at the completely wrong end of the rooms to the phone lines. Never had any trouble at all.

The one time we did have them connected at the last house (about 6 years ago), we had a really old phone and in the middle of the night it would 'ping'. Think it's the sky box phoning back to log your viewing data.

[sjg]

http://packages.sky.com/see/EquipmentMultiroom.asp...

website said:

Sky Multiroom: £9.75 per month. Provides the same Sky TV channels as your main Sky TV subscription on a box in another room. You must subscribe to Sky TV throughout and an extra box is required for each Multiroom subscription. Each box you have must be connected to the same fixed telephone line at all times. To receive your HD subscription channels in another room, you'll need another Sky+HD box and HD Pack subscription.