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Sky+ 160 Discontinued?
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Has Sky+ 160 been discontinued? Can't find it on their [Sky] web site or online store! :rolleyes:
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Thanks,- is Thomson unreliable for Sky+?
It lacked the features which SKY are pinning future products/services on and just like the version1 SKY+ from PACE it stopped production.
It did serve one purpose very well, it gave a Thomson a high profit product to sell to SKY and made supporting SKY long term (who are not known for being generous) a much easier decision.
I.e. marking out half the disk so that you can't get at it and they fill it up with reality show and soap trash you don't want to watch. I have a 160+ and on the whole it's been very good, just the odd glitch. When I come to replace it I shan't be at all pleased to lose storage to this daft idea (though I suppose by that time I would go HD).
Lost of people question the delay in US shows and perhaps PPV will be a way that these shows could be shown in a time frame that is acceptable without downloading and making sure that restrictions are in place to prevent damage to the existing distribution contracts.
Sent it in 1st week of February and received it 3 weeks ago. Not Brymars fault but Anovo saying they were waiting for new hard drives and my box was next on list to be fixed.
4 and a bit months passed and then I took things into my own hands. I am also a freelance researcher and have been working on some items for Watchdog in particular this self same problem I was encountering. After a few choice phone calls and a few e-mails my box and the backlog were miraculously fixed and sent out to consumers.
So it doesn't surprise me that it may be dropped due to technical issues. I reckon they may just pull out all together.
Cheers
With members like you, no wonder Sky did a quick fix in the V1 boxes last month, cheers.
Could it be due to the fact Thomson is now producing the Sky HD digibox, the 160's now taking too much space on the production line...?
(Incedentally, my Thomson 160 seems to be working perfectly, but then again, I won it off Sky in a competition, so they might have "made sure" it worked before they sent it to me...). :rolleyes:
You say this about marking about half the disk, but Sky NEVER advertised the PVR3 as a 160gb machine therefore they aren't really doing any wrong.
The only problem is the 160Gb disc just *ain't* big enough, always always always scrabbling around @ 10% free space.
Maybe I'll pop the lid and shoehorn in a 300,400 or 500Gb disc and see what happens before the warranty expires....
The Sky HD box has a 300Gb drive, but has a 140 Gb partition, for "to be announced" services such as downloadable HD movies etc....
The remaining 160Gb is available for your own recordings, but HD recordings take 4 times more disc space than SD ones.....
It certainly won't be anything you can't get now ie sports, films and recent new shows. Nothing to get that excited about.
How do you know for sure?
After all we can't get LOST in HD right now but TVDrive users can using their VOD to pay for and watch the show, not a stretch to assume a similar service via SKY using push broadcasting with the SKY+ HD could be viable.
Long term the use of VOD (push via satellite and pull via broadband) could bring about the early showing of some content on a PAY basis leaving mainstream PAY and FTA channels access in the usual timeframe.
As for being excited, well I'm interested in what they will do but certainly not acting like a kid on xmas eve:)