So last Saturday I moved into my new “Diet House”, temporary accommodation while myself & Sarah desperately try and find a house worth purchasing. Read more…
Hoorah Im back on the internet, with 2 days of downtime which was quite a nightmare. Recieved the Sky broadband router this morning. During the two days down time I had long conversations with the people at sky.
First I spoke to the “Tech” support center in India, they were as you’d expect rubbish, not technical people at all and just reading off a script. Read more…
After reading my own highly informative post on the costs of the new Sky Broadband offering.� I have thinking about my own broadband situation, I’m currently with plus.net who so far have been excellent for these reasons: Read more…
Tags: Penguins hate turnips so dont give them any, Sky broadband
Got this in the mail today free wireless router and Free 2mb broadband (assuming you already have sky, but then why wouldn’t you ?)
Tags: Sky +, Sky Plus, Sky HD, Sky SATA
The register have just posted the first review of Sky HD it can be found here
Tags: SKY HD, SKY +, HD TV, HD 1080i
EXCLUSIVE: Sky changes mind and announces 1080i for all its HD broadcasts
So whos bought a 720p only tele then? 
"Having originally stated that it would likely use a combination of 720p and 1080i high definition formats on its new HD platform, Sky has just exclusively revealed to us that it’s now intending to broadcast all of its Sky HD channels in the 1080i format from launch.
It will be interesting to see how this surprising decision works out when it comes to showing sports footage, which is widely thought to look better in 720p because of its high motion content. The 1080i decision also lends a little – though it really is only a little – more credibility to the scare story run in the Daily Mail a few weeks back suggesting that the 720/768-line TVs that currently make up the vast majority of the TV market aren’t completely ideal for getting the best from the available (1080i) HD signals.
Another interesting fact we discovered during our discussions with Sky is that the Sky HD receiver will apparently let you adjust the signal output from the box so that, say, even though a broadcast is in 1080i, the box can output it in 720p."
That last paragragh should read "the receiver can fudge the picture to fit your already Obsolete TV, and make the picture poor quality".
Original post Here
more sky HD news here
Tags: Sky +, Sky Plus, Sky HD, High Definition
“HDTVUK – blogging in high def
It seems quite possible too that the announcement has been sparked by the BBC which yesterday confirmed that it would offer a trial HD transmission of the World Cup, Wimbledon and much else via both satellite and cable.
Sky has also announced the prices for the service. If you are an existing subscriber youll pay 299 for the HD box and 10 a month on top of your existing subscription. Viewers get installation and a Sky+ subscription if they havent already got one free. Theres no mention of viewers getting any upgrade benefits to swap current SD boxes for HD ones. Theres also no mention of the size of the hard drive of the box which will almost certainly be either 160 or 300 Gigabytes.
New customers pay the same but they also get half price subscription to the main Sky channels for 3 months.
Viewers also have to put down a 30 deposit.”
From the register original article
Tags: Sky +, Sky Plus, Sky HD, Sky SATA
Just found on digital spy in thier forums a Power point presentation for the installation engineers. Which show the back of the new box, which is complete with SATA connector and an RJ45 which are said to be “reserved for future use”. Broad Band tinternet on my Sky box, easy expanability of the SKY + hard drives. Gimme Gimme!
Power point presentation here
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