Intriguingly, the Sky HD 2TB also sports two USB ports, raising hopes that Sky has finally embraced the content sharing revolution and allowed you to play back multimedia files through its receivers.

Sky HD receivers. Sky DRX890, Sky DRX895, Sky DRX595. Sky

So it’s handy that Sky will let you do the installation by yourself for free if you feel up to it, and even provides an instructions page to help you out.Recordings set up via the Sky+ Remote Record app have to be imputed at least half an hour before the start time, and once it’s going you can’t delete the request from the handset. Selected products which have our own Primesat brand name and have been prepared to our specifications. In 2008 Sky introduced a revamped Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) , for all Sky HD boxes and newer Sky+ boxes.

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To get it, you just need a Freesat box or a TV with Freesat built-in, plus a Freesat satellite dish. From the outside there’s nothing about the Sky HD 2TB receiver that shouts Christmas Life Saver at you. Alternatively, Sky Go is a streaming service that allows Sky subscribers to watch programmes away from the home. This may sound like a small point, but home cinema fans will consider it’s appearance as welcome – and as long overdue – as the integrated Wi-Fi. You will then be able (with the necessary six speakers) to get surround sound through five audio channels (left, centre, right, left surround and right surround), plus a sixth channel giving low frequency (bass) effects.

Streaming services broadcast over the internet, so you don't need a satellite dish to watch Now (though you do need a broadband connection of at least 2. If you have a Sky Protect plan, Sky will send an engineer to replace or fix any faulty equipment within 2 days. The Sky+ receiver supports ‘padding’ or recording offset, which is a setting that allows you to add a number of minutes of recording time to the scheduled start and end times of programmes. But don't worry, we'll show you how to get yourself a brand new replacement, a repair or a second-hand model.

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The Sky app, meanwhile, does a very handy job of getting round the content finding issues experienced with the Sky HD 2TB’s on-screen menus. Turning to the whole raison d’etre of the Sky HD 2TB box, its enormous recording capacity, it transpires that actually only 1. Sky states that as long you tell them about a problem by 4pm, if they can't fix your core Sky equipment the next day, they'll refund you a week's Sky TV subscription (excludes special heights and premises difficult to access safely, North Highlands, and Islands).There are exclusions, such as commercial use and cosmetic or malicious damage, so check these out before you purchase. This may even include a trial of free passes to watch the content, which in effect pays for the cost of the stick itself. This is true on-demand catchup TV, combining a huge mix of recently aired TV shows – some in full boxset versions – and movies at no extra cost if the programming falls within your subscription package. The plus side of this is that Sky will come out and replace faulty equipment if you are under contract. The only catch is that using graphics so heavily while only using around the bottom third of the available screen space for the catch-up TV menus means that other content beyond what Sky chooses to highlight can be a bit hard to track down, with many shows being relegated to a place in a long alphabetical text-only list.