Sky HD Question

[chudleighpaul]

My Uncle lives in a flat where Sky is piped in from a communal dish. Unfortunately the installation is just a single downlead from the dish.

He would like HD but Sky have told him he needs a dual feed to the box.

Can the HD box be set up without the Sky+ features? He loves sport especially cricket and rugby and would love to have HD

 

[daveh75]

chudleighpaul:
My Uncle lives in a flat where Sky is piped in from a communal dish. Unfortunately the installation is just a single downlead from the dish.

He would like HD but Sky have told him he needs a dual feed to the box.

Can the HD box be set up without the Sky+ features? He loves sport especially cricket and rugby and would love to have HD

Whoever your uncle was talking to at Sky was talking cobblers!

Sky+ HD boxes have a "single feed mode" for this very reason, and you still get the "plus" features (albeit with limited functionality).
http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyhelpcentre

 

[chudleighpaul]

Thanks for that Daveh, My uncle is 87 so he may have misunderstood. I can now tell him that he can have HD. That will make him happy as he has been quite ill recently.

 

[digigriffin]

Normally the dual feed is so that you can record two programmes at the same time, or record one and watch another live channel.

With single feed you will not be able to do either of these.
You have one feed so can if you are recording something that is the only channel available to view at that time.
You will still be able to record a programme and watch another from the planner that has previously been recorded at the same time.

 

[mitch65]

Sky without Sky+?