Switch from sky?

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Originally Posted by mr_baz

1. Reliability of the boxes - do they really need rebooting every couple of days, thats shocking!

It depends on the box, to be honest. A new subscriber should get a new box, and they tend to be quite reliable, especially with the newer software.

Originally Posted by mr_baz

2. Remote control and viewing from another room without another STB. Is there a good kit that can be used? Dont suppose the Sky kit works!!!!?

Depends on the kit you've got from Sky - if it's the engineer/self-installed tvLINK, where it plugs into the 2nd RF Out from the Digibox, no it won't. You can still use the same cabling though - just plug it straight into the RF out from the ntl DSTB. You can get a remote extender from Argos for around £15, I think.

EDIT: This one looks good: http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...lickfrom=image

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by mr_baz

I got a flyer through as an existing telephone subscriber if I pay £9 a month I get free evening and weekend landline calls (with the 60 min redial catch!) and the basic £10 DTV package. Plus the extra £10 for the family pack I will be getting the same service for the same price but will be saving on the calls... Saving £10 to £15 a month on the phone bill...

Hope that makes sense!

I had the Talk Unlimited plan which gave free calls evening and weekend to geographic numbers but found that switching to the 5p per hour plan worked out cheaper for me. many of my calls were to mobiles and non geographic numbers which are charged under both plans and you have to make a hell of a lot of evening and weekend calls for the £9 TU plan to work out cheaper than the £1 5p per hour. Over 160 such calls a month to be exact.

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Originally Posted by ianathuth

I had the Talk Unlimited plan which gave free calls evening and weekend to geographic numbers but found that switching to the 5p per hour plan worked out cheaper for me. many of my calls were to mobiles and non geographic numbers which are charged under both plans and you have to make a hell of a lot of evening and weekend calls for the £9 TU plan to work out cheaper than the £1 5p per hour. Over 160 such calls a month to be exact.

Ah, but then you don't get the free telly

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by jimbo

It depends on the box, to be honest. A new subscriber should get a new box, and they tend to be quite reliable, especially with the newer software.

Also the street cabinet if that is overheating in hot weather.

Originally Posted by jimbo

Depends on the kit you've got from Sky - if it's the engineer/self-installed tvLINK, where it plugs into the 2nd RF Out from the Digibox, no it won't. You can still use the same cabling though - just plug it straight into the RF out from the ntl DSTB. You can get a remote extender from Argos for around £15, I think.

You could always use a digisender, Aldi have a special offer on them from next Thursday (£24.99 ).
Channel switching in the room away from the STB depends on the type of STB as some use non standard codes.

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Originally Posted by ianathuth

Also the street cabinet if that is overheating in hot weather.

AFAIK, that's more likely to cause blanking pics and freezing (if it occurs) than loss of guide data. I'm willing to be proven wrong however!

You could always use a digisender, Aldi have a special offer on them from next Thursday (£24.99 ).
Channel switching in the room away from the STB depends on the type of STB as some use non standard codes.

Very true - I hadn't thought of that! mr_baz, where in the country are you? What's the first half of your postcode?

[mr_baz]

I am in CO4 neck of the woods!

[Neil]

Originally Posted by mr_baz

I am in CO4 neck of the woods!

You haven't said whether you need 2 phone lines or not?

[mr_baz]

no only one line... I can add this deal to my existing package....

[Neil]

Originally Posted by mr_baz

no only one line... I can add this deal to my existing package....

But that "deal" includes another phone line, is that what you want?

[themelon]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

promo offer

personally i would stick with sky having sampled both side by side for a while

Having done the same, I would definately switch to ntl

[themelon]

Originally Posted by mr_baz

no only one line... I can add this deal to my existing package....

I imagine you can cancel you existing phoneline and get a new one.

[themelon]

Originally Posted by ianathuth

Also the street cabinet if that is overheating in hot weather.

Much like Sky depends on which Digibox you are using.

And whether your dish or house is in a position where the elements will cause a loss of signal, be it wind, rain, snow, ice, fog or heavy cloud all of which i did suffer.

Guess we cant generalise though

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Originally Posted by mr_baz

I am in CO4 neck of the woods!

That means you're on what's known as the Langley network, so any STB you get will use standard IR for the remote control, and any remote extender will work.

Originally Posted by Neil

But that "deal" includes another phone line, is that what you want?

I think you've mis-read, Neil. The deal mr_baz seems to be talking about would mean adding Talk Unlimited to his existing ntl phone line, from what I can gather.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by jimbo

I think you've mis-read, Neil. The deal mr_baz seems to be talking about would mean adding Talk Unlimited to his existing ntl phone line, from what I can gather.

But he wants to switch from Sky, so that means getting an ntl DTV package, & that surely means another ntl phone line (or at least getting rid of the current one)?

Or am I going ever so slightly bonkers.....?

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