PVR Wire

1. I suspect that some Sky subcribers are moving to Freeview.

Posted at 3:43AM on Nov 6th 2005 by iFelix

2. Arggh, I am one of them; my UK Thomson Tivo died; and short of ebay there is no tenable alternative.

After living with tivo for 3 years moving Sky + is a frightening experience. It crashes regularly too regularly and the interface is too slow. I have to key in a pin number to watch a film that i recorded in case a child breaks into my appartment - huh ? Worst of all there are no program ratings/ reccomendations; tivo found me firefly and hundreds of other interesting programs that I would never have seen it otherwise. I just hope that in the rush of dvd / hd recorders that one of them has the courage to bring tivo back to the UK.

Mind you i do get dolby digital which is nice ... still I feel cheated that the UK has missed the point of PVR and ended up with a second rate substitute.

Posted at 12:49PM on Nov 9th 2005 by u07ch

3. I think ignorance is bliss regarding the Tivo experience. Sounds fantastic but hard work in the UK anyway. I have Sky+ 160 and absolutely love it. I count myself lucky to have access to a one box solution. It's a much much worse situation where I come from (Australia). They only just got an equivalent to Sky+ (Foxtel iQ), but their problem is that their free to air and pay digital TV are at odds with each other, so the iQ is really only good for the paid up digi channels. If you want free-to-air digi you also need to have a separate set top box (aka Freeview box). They don't have a proper 7-day TV guide either, so it's a real mess. I guess the upside is that they already have HD.

Posted at 5:09AM on Nov 16th 2005 by Quilgy

4. Sky is absolutely horrible. Their Sky Movies show endless reruns of terrible movies like BMX Bandits, or Most Verticle Primate, Barbie of Swan Lake. It's about 80 dollars a month of junk. The best stuff comes on late at night, midnight is not a prime time for watching tv!

Posted at 10:21AM on Dec 7th 2005 by Tim