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The editors liked
The original HD vendor has many admirers – 'tough' guy Ross Kemp records Eastenders on his
Rugby-star distracter Kelly Brook swears by it
Parky keeps his false teeth on his - but is it any good? Hell yeah! You get hundreds of standard-defi...
Range of HD content and extensive channel choice.
The Sky+ HD box offers loads of impressive features
And although it may sound dull
The remote control is one of them. We've got used to the layout of the Sky+ box's remote
As it's been around for so many years
And it's a great piece of design. All of the buttons are just where you want them
And because they feature subtly different shapes
It's easy to operate in the dark or without looking.
A massive 240 hours of HD recording space
Classy design
Operationally quiet
Extended space for Sky Anytime content
Ready for 3D and Sky Anytime+ VOD
Great high-def pictures. Lots of worthwhile content. Textbook ergonomics
Great Sky recording functionality
Fine selection of sports and movies
Can look and sound stunning
Price
Huge recording capacity
Fast
Responsive EPG
Design
HD video performance
240 hours of HD storage space
New sleek design
Picture
Sound
Easy of use
Excellent HD picture and sound quality
Speedy box
Tonnes of channels
Heaps of HD content
Pay-per-view service is excellent
The editors didn't like
It's not cheap. The price has dropped from £300 to £150
But that's still pricey. Especially when you add the monthly subscriptions. Sky's on-demand service
Sky Anytime
Could also be better. At the minute Sky picks the...
Lacks comprehensive ondemand content.
The Sky+ HD box isn't the perfect solution
However. Virgin Media's TiVo box comes up trumps when it comes to TV on demand
With a much greater choice of channels and content on offer. The TiVo also offers a better electronic programming guide – at least when it comes to content – although it can't match the Sky+ HD for slickness and speed.
No Dolby Digital 5.1 over HDMI
You can't mute the EPG Mini TV window
USB and eSATA ports still not active
Can be a little noisy. Not as big a memory as it seems
We’d like more of that 300GB capacity available for recordings
No audio disable on the EPG
It's just a bigger drive
Not much to watch at the moment
Delay when switching channels
We're upset by the £10 fee for viewing HD
Too many channels that don't really deserve to be on the air at all
While 2TB is almost too much storage for the average TV viewer, extra capacity is a big need for many Sky+ users – especially with great new features such as Sky On Demand. The box itself is glossy and compact (although we're not fans of the too-dark remo...
The Sky+ HD box offers loads of impressive features, and although it may sound dull, the remote control is one of them. We've got used to the layout of the Sky+ box's remote, as it's been around for so many years, and it's a great piece of design. All of the buttons are just where you want them, and because they feature subtly different shapes, it's easy to operate in the dark or without looking.
The Sky+ HD box isn't the perfect solution, however. Virgin Media's TiVo box comes up trumps when it comes to TV on demand, with a much greater choice of channels and content on offer. The TiVo also offers a better electronic programming guide – at least when it comes to content – although it can't match the Sky+ HD for slickness and speed.
The Sky+ HD box is still arguably the best PVR solution on the market, although it's starting to need an overhaul in some areas. If TV on demand is something you're more interested in, then it's worth checking out Virgin Media's TiVo solution. Otherwis...
A massive 240 hours of HD recording space; Classy design, operationally quiet; Extended space for Sky Anytime content; Ready for 3D and Sky Anytime+ VOD
No Dolby Digital 5.1 over HDMI; You can't mute the EPG Mini TV window; USB and eSATA ports still not active
The Sky+HD 1TB satellite box is a peach of a PVR. A huge hard drive means you no longer have to ration your hi-def recordings and the interface is slick and easy to use. With 3D compatibility and Sky's Anytime+ video-on-demand service just around the c...
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Published: 2010-06-07, Author: Ian , review by: CNET.co.uk
Excellent HD picture and sound quality; speedy box; tonnes of channels; heaps of HD content; pay-per-view service is excellent
We're upset by the £10 fee for viewing HD; too many channels that don't really deserve to be on the air at all; expensive
If you love TV, then it's quite likely that getting a Sky+HD box will be the best decision of your life. Sports fans will find more than they could ever watch while holding down a job, and movie lovers are pretty well catered for too. The hardware is ...
This smaller, sleeker box certainly packs a punch with the potential to becoming your home video server, as long as you've remembered to record what you want to watch in the first placeKey specsComposite, Digital audio, Ethernet, HDMI, Optical, Scart...
For sport and an ever-expanding range of top-drawer HD content, this remains the undisputed champion. Even Michael Parkinson likes it...Sky+ HD is the original High-Definition box, feeding your hungry peepers with an ever-burdgeoning amount of HD chann...
Although Sky's HD movie offering certainly doesn't come cheap, your money does at least get you a genuinely massive selection of HD movie content, delivered with often good and sometimes excellent picture and sound quality. The platform's variable bit-rat...
The original HD vendor has many admirers – 'tough' guy Ross Kemp records Eastenders on his, rugby-star distracter Kelly Brook swears by it, Parky keeps his false teeth on his - but is it any good? Hell yeah! You get hundreds of standard-defi...
It's not cheap. The price has dropped from £300 to £150, but that's still pricey. Especially when you add the monthly subscriptions. Sky's on-demand service, Sky Anytime, could also be better. At the minute Sky picks the...
The 'stars' choice and our choice as well, Sky+ HD has a great range of HD channels on offer. Quite simply, when it comes to HD PVRs there are none better than this.Sky+ HD is tagged with sky, high definition and PVR. Select a tag (sky, for exampl...
