Question re sky tv

[timwilky]

People on here know everything

So the wife is asking me to look at getting satellite TV as the stuff of free view is pretty dire.

Question when i was looking at the stuff they say I need a BT telephone. Why? I use voip, why should I have to rent a phone line?

sky uses the phone line to update the box and get the tv guide. it wont work without it! it doesnt plug into a router or anything but directly into the wall through a broadband filter. I suspect it has some form of built in router/modem to dial out.

[Littlepeahead]

And it's needed if you want to order up movies or sports extras.

And they need it to keep tabs on what your watching and when !

Originally Posted by badsaboy

sky uses the phone line to update the box and get the tv guide. it wont work without it! it doesnt plug into a router or anything but directly into the wall through a broadband filter. I suspect it has some form of built in router/modem to dial out.

All is it does is communicate with the sky server for billing etc, it's complete Bolox about not working without it, had mine about 10 years, been plugged in about 10 times tops, just for pay for view movies.

Don't order anything you don't need it.

[Gazza77]

Originally Posted by specialone

All is it does is communicate with the sky server for billing etc, it's complete Bolox about not working without it, had mine about 10 years, been plugged in about 10 times tops, just for pay for view movies.

Don't order anything you don't need it.

+1. Ours has never been plugged in since approx 30 seconds after the installer left the house approx 2 years ago. Never had it plugged in at my previous address either, however I have known people have all sorts of problems getting Sky to install when they've explained they don't have a landline...

you only need to plug into a phone line when you get your "free" box direct from Sky - check out the evil bay and buy yourself a box suited to your needs and then just enter a contract with Sky for the viewing card only.

apologies then!

it's seriously worth considering getting Sky+ - record a series or watch a channel whilst recording another.

Sorry mate, although I quoted you, I didn't mean for that to come across like that, it's just that I have heard loads of people say that about not working without a phone line, I was replying generally