Hello I am new but post on other sites/forums.
I thought I would share with you all my V+ installation that happened yesterday. I have been reading the board as a guest for a while so knew some of the tips and hints that you have all left (thank you!).
First of all I would like to share with you why I got V+HD/PVR. I got a knock on the door from Sky saying that they could give me this and that and the other. Total cost of services was about £65 for "up to" 24mb bb, phone (from TalkTalk) and all Sky mixes via DD plus the HD with the PVR. installation £30 special offer.
I called VM and told them so they adjusted my price plan to £62.70 for XL everything and V+ and the same installation cost.
So the afternoon of the 3rd arrived. Engineer installed the box (the same one as is featured on here - not the new one that has been suggested - the SA 8300?) and put a new connector in where the cable comes in from outside into the little white box on the wall. NO HDMI lead. I had a HDMI hooked up from my own freeview + PVR/DVD combo so plugged that in instead.
My TV is a Samsung LE37 1080p (and i got the matching Freeview + PVR/DVD last December). Remote volume code was 0079. Spot on. A bit of tweaking with the TV settings to get a better image on the upscaled SD as the black and dark grey menu was all black. The HD is mint (shame about the content but judging by the posts about up and coming channels hopfully ch190 - 199 will be all in HD soon).
The box does "tick" but it is hardly noticable - it does constantly record the last 90 mins of what you have watched but i really like that idea. It is less nosier than my freeview+ box.
On my old box I used the output from the box to power 2 other TV's with the cable signal and I couldn't do that with this box. I since read that sending the SCART signal from the new box via an old VCR recorder to remodulate the signal via RF worked and it did for me. ANYTHING (I have since discovered) in HD is actually downscalled to SD so I can watch the HD channel anywhere in the house (just in SD!)
Its a bit of a long story above and thanks for reading. Was it the best decision i have made? Yes. Whole heartedly. It can only get better. It is a shame the On Screen Graphics from the box are not better and the HDD is only 160GB (my freeview+ is 300GB)....
