Hard News: New Sky
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Russell, if I understand this correctly, the cost to upgrade to HD for people with the current digital box, which is most people, will be $599 plus $10 a month on the subscription?
I think I saw in Russell's original item that the new MySky has three tuners in it. Was that correct. If so it is a great improvement on the current MySky as if you are recording two channels you cannot use the EPG it obviously needs exclusive use of one card for itself
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that's actually quite sad - it should be downloading the long-term EPG by snooping as you tune around or by using a free tuner when it's available - storage is not an issue, it's got a hard drive to put it on after all and the EPG is less than 10s of MBs
Whether they can stream 3 HD channels to disk and play a recorded one at the same time will be interesting (it's hard to do)
The number of tuners on a PVR seems to have a couple of sweet spots - one is the number of TVs supported plus one, the other is 2 tuners per TV - 3 is more than you mostly end up needing - but I guess the EPG restriction does kind of mean you need one more
I've lived with a 4 tuner PVR for a while and actually managed to run out on a Sunday night by scheduling 4 things at once and then trying to tune live
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I've lived with a 4 tuner PVR for a while and actually managed to run out on a Sunday night by scheduling 4 things at once and then trying to tune live
I'm impressed that you managed to find 5 things worth watching on TV at the same time.
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It seems that you can indeed get the HD mySky for $49 if you are not a current mySky subscriber, but you then have to pay $15 a month for the box and the $10 a month for the service, ongoing. Added to my already $81 a month for basic, sport and movies, that makes $106 a month or $1,272 a year! I will pass on it too.
Don't forget to add on the cost of the HD TV. $3K? Plus the 5.1 sound system or else the sport will sound a little distant. And all this as the price of cheese rockets away.
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to be fair the 5 things vaguely worth watching were on Echostar/Dish a satellite service in the US with a lot more channels than Sky - it was sunday night and at least 2 were first run on HBO - I think from memory it was something like: Sopranos (mine), Sex in the City (my wife's), the Simpsons (the kids) and probably Law and Order - at which point I decided to watch the news live
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Heh. $1k/yr for TV. Thanks guys, nice to know how much money I'm not pissing away.
He says, while paying $540 a year for the use of an ancient copper wire, and $40 a year to run a net connection over it. Guess which one's monopoly owned.
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