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Getting Sky+ is the best thing you could ever do, i wont be without it now. I have had both Cable and Sky in the past and have worked for both companies and i can say that Sky is the best package all round without a doubt.

Most things have been covered with the Sky+ system so wont go over that again. You can make the reminders change the channel automatically, if you go to the planner and select the reminder to Autoview then it will switch over when the programme starts.

When your Sky+ box is out of warranty (or before if you dont care) then you can open it up and replace the hard drive with a bigger one if you want and you can then record more onto it, the only problem with this is, it buggers ya warranty up and the little bar at the top of the planner that tells you how much space is left doesnt work properly, other than that there are no problems with it.

As has previously been said you can have a combination of the following sky box's running from one quad LNB

2x Sky+, 4x normal Sky, 1 Sky+ and upto 3 normal sky box's.

If you want to spread the Sky signal round the house then you need to take a RF feed from one of the RF output sockets on the back of the Sky box, doesnt matter which one, but if you want to use a Magic Eye then it will need to be Output 2 and turn on the +9v feed as described above, but note if you do this then the Magic Eye will not work if the cable has been run through another device before it reaches the Magic Eye, ie a splitter or ampliefier.

Unlike cable box's the feeds into the Sky box's can not be split off and run to another box to get that working, as each Sky box needs an independant feed from the LNB, splitting the feed cable to another box will cause problems and may damage some of the equipment installed, its all to do with the way in which the channels are transmitted.

If you want to have more than the number of box's you can have on one quad LNB you either need to have another dish installed on a seperate subscription or run a quattro LNB and multi switch gear, which then in theory gives you an unlimited number of feeds to run Sky box's from.

I believe you can now get a Sky+ box from £49.99 but not 100% on that, and if you know someone who has already got Sky and get them to recomend you then they can have a normal Sky box upgraded to Sky+ for free of some vouchers and you get 1/2 price package for 3 months.

If you are thinking about it do it, i wouldnt be without my Sky+ now its brilliant and it will only be getting better next year when HD comes out and i can enjoy it on my nice 42" Plasma that will be arriving soon.