Sky multi room

[xgordyx]

With my latest edition of a 50" tv and putting my 42" up in my bedroom id thought about getting multi room. To get a sky hd muliroom box it's going to cost £250, £10 pm for muliroom subscription and £10 pm for hd service. The thing is i have a hd box already in my living room and i'm paying £10 pm for hd services already. IIRC i'm paying about £60pm + subscription that the wife doesn't know about :corey: (must cancil it as i've never watch it much lol) then to pay another £20 ontop of that plus the outlay of £250 for the box i think that is well steep.
I don't mind spending money but hate being ripped off, if you start a new subscription with Sky you can get a HD box for £50 installed (i payed £250 when i got it 3years ago), plust the fact of paying another £10 pm for hd services that i'm already paying for.
I hate this with big companys that have the monopoly they give you a good deal to get you to join with but never look after their existing customers.
The thing is i'd love to cancil my subscription with them but in reality my wife and i would miss having it, her more so.

[GazzaG60]

get a chipped box or run it through a pc and split the signal once hacked.

so im told anyway

[S2central.net]

Freesat HD is your friend.... unless there is loads of stuff you really can't live without that is exclusive to Sky. Plenty of good TVs now with integrated decoders - my TV is older than my S2 so I am deffo due for an upgrade this chrimbo. Freesat HD is formally known as DVB-S2 to the TV techies - which is rather curious

Sky / Newscorp and assorted partners are all money grabbing so and sohs - nowhere else in the world pays as much as the UK for 'premium' TV - tis a total rip off in my opinion. Sure they get some exclusives and 'first' series - but thats a direct side effect of them having so much money to play with. Just about everything ends up on the big five sooner or later.

PS - hacking sky boxes is notoriously difficult as their security folk are well on top of things - including infiltrating hacker groups and such. I spent 3yrs working digital TV protection and its pretty specialised stuff. Any hacks that become sufficiently mainstream get stamped out very quickly so don't get conned into buying any hacked boxes and other dodgy stuff (down the pub or off eBay) as they may work for years or less than a week.

You can get all sorts of s/w and h/w on the open market to distribute TV channels on various physical formats around your house, but that only works for the clear channels - anything scrambled needs a viewing card to access it legally.

[GazzaG60]

one i found that did work but not an illegal one so a bit hit and miss

mate had sky. unplugged phoneline and cancelled the deal. no way to update card at that point. card still worked FOC for 15 months. like paul says not sure how long good things last. ntl analogue boxes were the one to have at one time. not sure they work now.

can you not get a single user subscription and a second box from the oxfam shop and fit the wiring to the dish and clone the card no phone line?

used to see the canal+ cards the demise of ondigital

[S2central.net]

There are many ways around the 'unplugged phone line' scenario these days... but cards get rolled over every few years anyway so you never know how long that would work for - plus you'd probably have to commit to first few months or more of service to get new card online... and they may not let you have a 2nd subscription to same addy / phone number as you won't be 1st to try this lil rouse...

Also - cloned cards used to be a great hack (old Canal systems for example) but doesnt work against Sky - they have tricks to spot them... and when they send a message to cancel the cloned cards (over satellite - not phone line) then the good card gets killed too.

[topsparky]

on your skybox there are 2 outputs
run a cable from your skybox to your bedroom
and get a magic eye then you only need one box

[xgordyx]

on your skybox there are 2 outputs
run a cable from your skybox to your bedroom
and get a magic eye then you only need one box

I think that's what i'm going to do along with a hdmi cable
Not giving the robbing :corey:any more of my hard erned cash than i need to. Been thinking about axeing some of the cahnnels today too.

[S2central.net]

My advice - go cold turkey on all of them... thats what we did a few years back... you get too used to paying 40 and more a month for shyte you don't really watch. After a few months you wonder why you bothered spending all that money for so long in the 1st place.

[xgordyx]

My advice - go cold turkey on all of them... thats what we did a few years back... you get too used to paying 40 and more a month for shyte you don't really watch. After a few months you wonder why you bothered spending all that money for so long in the 1st place.

I don't think it bother me too much as i don't really watch much tv, well i do but i'm not intresrted in it coz it's ususlly the wife that gets comand of the remote. The only thing that stops me pulling the plug on it is the wife, not that i've asked. I work away 4 weeks at a time and i wouldn't want to deprive her of her fav programs.
I'm thinking of chopping the sports package, i never get to watch football on it, which suits me as i can go to the pub and watch it. Don't usually watch films as i've all the good films that come on i've either watched it at the cinema or have it on dvd.
My bigest gripe with componys like sky is they never look after the long term customers. Say my box packed in tomorrow, i would have to buy a new one for £250 where if i was a new customer i could get a box, dish and a guy to come fit it for £50.