Thomson DSI8210 Sky Plus 80GB Digibox
Posted by Notcot on Apr 28, 2010 in Home Cinema & Video |
Product Description
Sky Plus 80GB Digibox. Watch, record, play, pause, rewind & fast forward all live TV with a Sky plus box. Can be used with or without a telephone connection Please Note: Requires Sky Minidish. If you only have a single LNB on your Sky Minidish feeding a standard Sky box and you are upgrading to Sky+ you will need to order the Quad LNB above and run a second cable to the Sky+ box to use the Sky+ functions. Sky subscription required for full functions.
- 80GB HDD
- Up to 40 Hours Recording Time
- Record/play/pause/rewind live TV
- Used with or without a Landline
- Hard Drive recording: Y
There 80gb Sky Plus boxes are the third generation PVR3 boxes which include.
Pace TDS470N
Amstrad DRX280
Thomson DSI 8210CS.
What you would need to do to upgrade to Sky+
If you are prepared to get up a ladder and run an extra cable to the Sky Plus receiver, It is pretty straight forward.
To upgrade a standard Sky installation to a Sky Plus installation.
All you need to do is to change the LNB on the dish, for a quad LNB (very cheap to buy on Amazon) this is because a Sky Plus receiver has two tuners, both of which work completely independent of each other and therefore need a separate feed from the dish.
Run a cable from one of the spare ports on the LNB to the Sky Plus receiver, you will then have the two feeds required for the Sky Plus receiver.
Contact Sky and inform them you now have a Sky Plus receiver, they will then activate your card for you.
If you do not subscribe to Sky you will NOT be able to record.
A Sky plus receiver can be used as a normal Sky receiver with just one input. However you will NOT be able to record If you do not subscibe! Simply connect the LNB feed into LNB input 1.
The LNB supplied is a quad LNB, this actually has four independent outputs, so you will have two spare, if you want you can move your existing Sky receiver to another room and connect it to one of the spare outputs from the quad LNB. You can then get a second viewing card from Sky.
Rating: 5 / 5
The sky+ box was ststed as new but the item i received was old and used, i must say that Amazon was excellent at dealing with my complaint and i was given a full refund.Thankyou
DD Vara
Rating: 1 / 5