Sky Digital vs My Sky

**Donor** · 30th September 2008, 19:35

We currently have Sky Digital.

We're thinking about getting My Sky.

Without beating round the bush - which is better, and for the curiosity of the wife, why?

...and screw Freeview, I'd rather be ripped by a commercial venture than help the government make themselves feel warm and fuzzy about their uber digital service...

**Mully** · 30th September 2008, 19:47

I want my Sky.

The ability to record multiple programs. Series link, etc.

**Kendog** · 30th September 2008, 19:51

High Definition, can't go wrong.

**Kiwi Graham:Me** · 30th September 2008, 19:57

You can get Hi Definition My Sky now............best of all worlds

**Toaster** · 30th September 2008, 20:04

We bought a hard drive instead and run sky digital anyway. It really depends on what sort of flexibilty you need and just how much couch potato time you wish to do!

Flag it and spend the money on bikes!

**Qkchk:Me** · 30th September 2008, 20:26

My Sky.

Means Qkkid has no excuse to come on the ATNR and he doesnt miss out his fav program lineup of Shortland Street and Coro.

Seriously, bloody handy machines.

Pros - Just look up whats happening on the guide and push the big R to record. Set and forget. Handy little series link feature so if you set it for this week you will continue to record every upcoming show without having to set it each time. If you like to watch LIVE sport, you can pause it during the game to get up for a whizz and then resume it as you feel....

Cons - Once you have had your machine for nearly a year, the hard drives do play up and you may lose stored programs. Tends to happen if your running at >30% free space, so keeping up with the housework and completing a cleanout of your programs every know and then can work wonders. We are now onto Drive #3. (Got My Sky when it was first launched)

We are looking at MY Sky HDi but will wait until there are more shows available in HD to make it worthwhile.

**Hitcher** · 30th September 2008, 20:27

TelstraClear have a swish new cable decoder set-top box coming before Christmas. If the hype is to be believed it's better kit than My Sky. That cable also does the best Internet connection around too.

**Kendog** · 30th September 2008, 20:36

Originally Posted by Hitcher

TelstraClear have a swish new cable decoder set-top box coming before Christmas. If the hype is to be believed it's better kit than My Sky. That cable also does the best Internet connection around too.

Really, is there any info online about that?
I love my cable internet

**Hitcher** · 30th September 2008, 20:43

Originally Posted by Kendog

Really, is there any info online about that?

Have a rat around on TelstraClear's web site and see what you can find.

**Kendog** · 30th September 2008, 20:43

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Have a rat around on TelstraClear's web site and see what you can find.

Just done that, here is the info.

Can't wait.

**jrandom** · 30th September 2008, 20:49

Waking up in the morning on a work day and absorbing the gist of a 6-hour Tour de France stage which transpired while one was asleep in 30 minutes over breakfast?

Priceless.

DVRs FTW.

**Hoon** · 30th September 2008, 21:36

We've had MySkyHD for a month now. The HD is great if you got an HDTV, mostly just sport, movies and tv3. We also got FreeviewHD as well but haven't used it since the Olympics.

The PVR/DVR functions of the MySkyHD decoder (i.e hard drive video recorder) are great. Had a tivo for the last few years but this has been replaced by MySky now.

**pzkpfw** · 30th September 2008, 22:32

We used to have a Digital Sky and a MySky. They had a cheap offer to upgrade the Digital Sky to a new HD MySky, so we went for it.

Only issue has been that MySky boxes seem a bit more sensitive than the ordinary Digital Sky, and we are having issues getting good "reception" where the old MySky replaced the old Digital Sky.

I REALLY REALLY don't want to have to pull the cables.

The HD MySky also seems to get very hot. We had the DVD player sitting on it, and the picture all went to snow after a couple hours. Has happened again (with nothing on top) after a days use by the family.

MySky (HD or not) is great. Haven't watched an ad break in ages.

I can record stuff the wife hates, and watch later.
She can record "ethnic" stuff that is shown at 2 a.m.

(I think the HD MySky has an extra tuner, so you can record two channels and watch a third (live); on the older MySky you can record two and watch one already recorded program.)

[We are also on our 3rd MySky... kaboom...]

**Forest** · 30th September 2008, 22:47

I guess I'm the only one that can't stand Sky.

More ads than free to air, and I get to pay to watch them. No thanks.

**Hoon** · 1st October 2008, 10:14

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

(I think the HD MySky has an extra tuner, so you can record two channels and watch a third (live); on the older MySky you can record two and watch one already recorded program.)

The MySkyHDi decoders actually have 4 tuners built in but these are not all running yet. The 3rd tuner was activated a couple weeks ago (by firmware upgrade) so thats why you can watch/record 3 channels at once now. Once they sort out the bugs and technical issues we might see the 4th tuner come online sometime soon.

Originally Posted by Forest

I guess I'm the only one that can't stand Sky.

More ads than free to air, and I get to pay to watch them. No thanks.

Thats why MySky is getting popular as people can record all their programs and sit down and watch what THEY want to watch, not what's on TV at the time. Watching prerecorded programs means you can skip through the ads. I often find myself pausing live TV and going away to do something else for a while so when I come back I can just fast fwd through any ads (until I eventually catch up with the broadcast).