On 02/08/07, Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And, now that Sky have dropped their £10/pm fee for the Sky+ features for > all customers, the V3 box has gone down in price too and it won't be much > longer until it's £30/40/free! I'd love to have a TiVo setup for Sky, but > that idea died about a month after Sky started advertising TiVo for its > Sky > Digital platform when they moved to their own system. > > I can't live without Discovery Channel (and Nat. Geo... And Zone > Reality... > And decent-quality digital terrestrial channels, too!) - and I just wish I > could timeshift for when I'm out, because all my mates have had Sky+ for > years (as does my housemate) (Soon, my precious!) > > Part of me couldn't forgive myself for handing over more money to Murdoch > for a long time, but Sky is a closed system and you know that when you > sign > up, so there really is no other *good* _standalone_ solution other than > getting Sky+ for PVR functionality (or getting a DreamBox and spending > ages > fiddling to make it work on Sky, plus all the other associated costs). > Freeview on the other hand is an entirely different kettle of fish, but, > and > it's suffering the same fate DAB suffered, the quality now is so dire I'd > rather get Freesat - or even get Sky with two mixes, as it'd only be > marginally more expensive for the first year than a Freesat setup!
Oh, I also hand my money over to Mr Murdoch for Sky, but I didn't bother with Sky+ as they charged extra for it (I'm not aware of any price drop, but now you've mentioned one, I'll have to look into it); instead I got together some old PC parts lying about, and built my own: http://www.mythtv.org/
