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Product Features

Analogue Satellite Receiver: No
Built-In Modem: No
Category: Receiver
DVB-C: No
DVB-S: Yes
DVB-T: No
Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB): No
Electronic Program Guide (EPG): Yes
Embedded Descrambling: Yes
Free-to-Air: No
HD ready: Yes
HDMI Interface: Yes
HDTV: Yes
Hard Disk Capacity in GB: 160
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television): No
Number of Card Reader Slots: 1
Number of Common Interface (CI) Slots: 1
Number of Receivers: unknown
Number of Scart Interfaces: 2
Number of Tuners: 2
Reception Standard: Digital
Show View: No
Signal Source: Satellite Receiver
Terrestrial: Not Applicable
Twin Tuner: Yes
USB Interface: Yes
W-LAN Connection: No

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buggy and unreliable, 12 Jan 2009

By	Dr. W. E. Allen "wallen200" (Belfast, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I got a brand new Sky +HD box installed and before the day was out it had failed! First sign of trouble was that when I tried to watch a programme I had recorded the box switched itself off. I had to disconnect it from the power for two minutes before the box would function again. However the picture kept freezing when I was watching the recording, again requiring unplugging etc. Then later that day when I went to change channel, the box would not respond - again a power off. Finally I had programmed it to record a programme when I was out. On returning home it had not recorded and would not record when I tried a manual record. I tried unplugging it again, this time it would not come out of standby mode. I phoned Sky went through their troubleshooting (repeating the unplugging, then unplugging both power and Sat cable feeds and finally trying to force reboot it). Nothing worked. I had to wait 9 weeks from ordering to get the box, now I have another week to wait to get it replaced. The box I was supplied with was made by Amstrad (although I had been told that it would be Samsung, Thompson or Pace) - bad news as the only other Sky digibox that has ever failed on me was an Amstrad. The Pace boxes (both standard and Sky +) that I have had, have never given me any trouble.

During the few hours my Sky +HD box worked, I have to say I was underwhelmed by the improvement in the picture on my LG 37inch HD (1080P) LCD TV. Not sure if this is because HD is over rated or my TV does a better than average job of upscaling SD broadcasts.

I will give this one more go, but if my replacement box gives trouble I will be asking for my money back and reverting to my 100% reliable Pace Sky + box.

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Think twice before getting SKY HD, 25 Jan 2009

By	M. Moore - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A word of warning to all those thinking about Sky HD. The HD boxes and customer service are rubbish! I've had Sky HD for over a year and am on my 4th box. The latest one I had to buy as Sky ignored the faults I reported within the warranty period and to cap it all I had to wait over 2 weeks without any Sky! Still waiting to have the conversation with them about compensation. I must have been mad to buy another box and commit to another 12 months. The latest box has never worked properly and I've spent hours on the phone to Sky, one call was 56 minutes, only to be past from one department to another, no one can help. I've submitted a couple of complaints via the Sky website, got acknowledgements and a promise of a "personal reply as soon as possible" but still nothing after 8 days!
This is supposed to be Sky's premium service - don't think so.
Morale of this story, think carefully before buying HD, if you do buy I really hope you have better luck and Service than I'm getting.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars sky HD box - thomson, 5 May 2009

By	L. Mccaulder (uk) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I wish someone would explain why, when Sky decided to provide an HD service, they chose to go with a manufacturer who provided the cheap, noisy unreliable boxes instead of PACE who make the quiet reliable ones.

My story is not untypical and as it could run into chapters I will give you the highlights. I had 7 sky HD boxes in 14 months. I spent what felt like weeks speaking to poorly trained automatons at sky cutomer service who are only capable of helping you if they can crowbar you into one of their few categories of problems. If not, stuff you - they certainly won't have a sensible conversation with you. Whatever happens you will have to go, every single time, through the pointless series of checks they force you to complete whether or not you've already done them or if you know, from bitter experience, that they are irrelevant.

My sky box(es) used to fail to record about 5% of what I put in the planner with one or other technical fault - 9 and 12 were most common. It would mark about 15% of what I planned to record as RECORDED - but the programme would not play back (and no a sky planner rebuild does not work sky customer services - not even after the 10th time - and the fact that it didn't doesn't mean the customer did it wrong!) About once a week the box would freeze mid programme, turn itself off and then take anything up to half an hour to come back on. HD was great but the picture quality on any content not in HD was far poorer than the PACE box - ie the vast majority of what is on. Sky replaced the box, the dish and all the leads over those 14 months (to be fair to them the engineers were fantastic) but to no avail. And noisy?? OMG you had to turn the telly up two notches just to be able to hear it over the sky box! In the end they concluded that 'HD just doesn't work for you'. I cancelled the HD service and am back with my ultra reliable little PACE box. Thomson? rubbish! Don't touch Sky HD til they change the manufacturer of the box - thats my advice.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Praise for the service
What service. I had my HD Box the following day. The company I insured my broken down box with could not supply a new one as it was they say impossible to get. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Victor Meldrew

1.0 out of 5 stars Don`t believe the hype
I``ve had sky HD for a total of 5 days now and I can`t see what is so great about it. Being new to all things sky I was looking forward to my new gizmo being installed. Read more

Published 3 months ago by blackcat

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't listen to the whingers...
I've had Sky HD for 2 years, I have the same box I've always had with zero issues. All Sky's movie channels are in HD as well as sport and quite a few others like National... Read more

Published 7 months ago by P. R. Burkwood

4.0 out of 5 stars sky hd
this is a hard one sky have started ading some more hd channels now so its getting better when i first got it i was disapointed at the choice u had to watch , however i have... Read more

Published 8 months ago by Mr. Damian Read

2.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware
Whilst the Sky+HD box works well enough it is simply not worth the additional subscription charge as there are very few 'actual' HD programs to watch. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Richard Walker

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