I bought this box with my Sky+HD Package, signing up as a new member, and in the time i've had it it's been nothing but a problem child. The issues first began with the green LED on the front of the box which worked intermittently, basically whenever it felt like it, and after a month of this it finally packed up and now doesn't work. There are no LED's on the front of the box now when just playing a TV channel and I have to rely on the red instead. I'm lucky not to be colourblind, as usually this is yellow for standby, green for on. The box's firmware is regularly glitchy for several reasons. Occasionally the sound doesn't work, and I have to ...  Read the complete review

I acquired my Sky HD box late last year when I moved into my old house and took out a Sky HD subscription to go with my new 42" HD TV - I had opted for the HD subscription as I thought getting the basic box with this TV would be a waste of potencial and I would regret it months/years down the line. Generally I do love my Sky HD box but at the same time the love is full of regret. What are the conflicts? Well for one the picture on my screen when watching a HD channel on the sky box is amazing - a massive difference to a normal screen when the TV is also Full HD. Another good point for me would be the much more attractive Sky Menu screen when you compare ...  Read the complete review

The Sky HD+ box was really the deciding factor as to whether myself and my wife signed up for a 12 month contract with Sky or whether we'd just tough it out with plain old Freeview and a Hard-disc recorder. When we moved from our old cabled area to our new home last December it was with a heavy heart that we had to cancel our long running contract with Virgin Media and return the exceptionally useful V+ Box that we'd been so happy with (and paid £99 for to boot!). Thinking we could maybe tighten the purse strings, we flirted with the idea of settling for what was on offer on Freeview (with a simple recorder to do the whole 'catch up on live TV' gig). An order was ...  Read the complete review

Sky plus is brilliant - easy to use and intuitive. One of the best things is the fact that you can record a whole series and that you can record two programmes while watching one you have already recorded. The controls are really child's play - most children will pick up how it all works quicker than adults anyway, but even for technically challenged adults, it all works really logically. Something that has recently changed is that you can recover deleted recordings. Occasionally I had accidently deleted something that I, or worse, my wife had recorded - now you can "undelete". Sky say that as your hard drive gets full, it ...  Read the complete review

Recently moved into my new house, and got a Sky HD box before quickly taking out a Sky HD subscription. I've never seen appeal of high definition previously, but thought that with my recently purchased HD TV, I should take the dive and try it all out. Now, whilst I do enjoy watching programs via my Sky HD box, I don't quite see the point in HD. Therefore, many of my gripes will probably be due to this. Firstly, the cost of continually having a product such as this is astronomical. Each monthly cost, whilst different each customer, is quite high for what you're getting. And then each package on top of that, such as Sky Movies or channels for the kids, bump ...  Read the complete review