Upgrading to Sky HD. Who owns the old box?

[bazking69]

My father in law is getting Sky HD installed on Saturday. Am I right in saying that he owns the old Sky+ box having bought it with the contract that he has seen out now, so he is perfectly within his rights to keep hold of it when they take it out. Right?
It may sound tight but if he owns it then I've told him to make sure that the engineer doesn't try and take it away with him. If anything, I can sell it on ebay for him to cover the £40 fees that the jokers are charging him for coming and plugging the new box in...
If someone could just clarify that Sky have no rights to retain the old box that would be great.

[Matt172]

when we upgraded from sky to sky+ the guy just put the old digibox in the box the new one came out of and left it....now under our spare bed, so I'd say yes, the box is yours

[bazking69]

I had an inkling that was the case, but I wonder how many Sky 'engineers' make a nice little sideline from retaining old boxes from unsuspecting punters?

[Jem0911]

Its yours
Worthless but yours.

[bazking69]

If you have a browse on ebay you will see that a Sky+ box with remote is far from worthless.

[Not that one]

Im in the same boat.
Just had SKY HD installed, so now have a spare box.
How easy is it to run a splitter and rig up the spare box in the kitchen?
Cheers
NTO

[RobCrezz]

Not that one said:

Im in the same boat.
Just had SKY HD installed, so now have a spare box.
How easy is it to run a splitter and rig up the spare box in the kitchen?
Cheers
NTO

You have to run another cable from the LNB.

[Don]

RobCrezz said:

Not that one said:

Im in the same boat.
Just had SKY HD installed, so now have a spare box.
How easy is it to run a splitter and rig up the spare box in the kitchen?
Cheers
NTO

You have to run another cable from the LNB.

...and if you only have a dual LNB you'll need to change it to a quad. So the answer is "not easy". Doable, though. Just not easy.

[fatboy b]

bazking69 said:

If you have a browse on ebay you will see that a Sky+ box with remote is far from worthless.

I thought we're talking about the non-HD box. They'd be worthless.

[Don]

fatboy b said:

bazking69 said:

If you have a browse on ebay you will see that a Sky+ box with remote is far from worthless.

I thought we're talking about the non-HD box. They'd be worthless.

£35 on eBay.

[illmonkey]

fatboy b said:

bazking69 said:

If you have a browse on ebay you will see that a Sky+ box with remote is far from worthless.

I thought we're talking about the non-HD box. They'd be worthless.

£40 is the going rate for a normal one, more for a HD box. Count the pennys and all that.

[Gring]

Don said:

RobCrezz said:

Not that one said:

Im in the same boat.
Just had SKY HD installed, so now have a spare box.
How easy is it to run a splitter and rig up the spare box in the kitchen?
Cheers
NTO

You have to run another cable from the LNB.

...and if you only have a dual LNB you'll need to change it to a quad. So the answer is "not easy". Doable, though. Just not easy.

It's not worth doing, you need another viewing card and another rip off subscription (none of it's functionality i.e. recording, pause, rewind etc will work without a subscription). £10 a month just to be able to record! Unless you just use it to watch the freeview channels, in that case it would be less hassel to just buy a cheap free-view box.

[Oakey]

Gring said:

Don said:

RobCrezz said:

Not that one said:

Im in the same boat.
Just had SKY HD installed, so now have a spare box.
How easy is it to run a splitter and rig up the spare box in the kitchen?
Cheers
NTO

You have to run another cable from the LNB.

...and if you only have a dual LNB you'll need to change it to a quad. So the answer is "not easy". Doable, though. Just not easy.

It's not worth doing, you need another viewing card and another rip off subscription (none of it's functionality i.e. recording, pause, rewind etc will work without a subscription). £10 a month just to be able to record! Unless you just use it to watch the freeview channels, in that case it would be less hassel to just buy a cheap free-view box.

Sky+ customers haven't had to pay for Live Pause functionality for some time (providing you have at least one of their packages, mine was £19 a month and I had it). HD on the otherhand, that you do have to pay £10 a month for.

[cappsy]

its no your box and never was! they may leave it with you but i think ull find as in the case of NTL/telewest the box is loaned for the purpose of recieving there service adn is never owned by you,but fuk it sell it anyway

[MrV]

cappsy said:

its no your box and never was! they may leave it with you but i think ull find as in the case of NTL/telewest the box is loaned for the purpose of recieving there service adn is never owned by you,but fuk it sell it anyway

It is your box ,otherwise they would never get to screw you for a repair when it breaks

[Mr_Yogi]

NTL/ Telewest/ virgin loan you the box (or always used to, I think you might have to buy the V+HD boxes), there are free and when they break the replace them.

Sky on the other hand sell you the box, so when it breaks after a year and half they charge you to fix/ replace it and also do a nice line in extened warrantees

While 'record and pause' is free to Sky subscribers, if you go with a 'free to view' or whatever the non sub free TV card is called, you loose the 'record and pause' functions, unless you pay £10/month for them (not sure you can even do this anymore).

Funily enough if you add a multiroom sub (£10/ month/ extra box) to mirror your existing package onto your second box, you will be able to 'record and pause'

[cappsy]

gay imo