Sky plus installation?

Question

I had normal sky and got given a sky plus box, so at the moment I only have the one cable coming from my dish so I can't watch live and record another channel at the same time. I looked into getting the splitter cable rather than paying sky to come at install it, but I went up on my roof to have a look at my dish, which I have had for a number of years, and their only appears to be on output with a cable coming out at the moment. Would I need a new dish? Do old(er) dishes not work with sky plus?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Yes you need a sky+ dish. we had a new one fitted when we got sky+.

Answer 2

You will need a new lnb not a new dish or special dish or a dish with magic fairys on. And also if you only asked for standard sky you will need to phone sky to ask them to activate the recording facilitiy.....

Answer 3

For Sky plus you don't necessarily need a new dish but you do need new lnb ( this is unit that your coax cable connect to at the dish) Normally come in 2 4 or 8 outputs good for sky plus is a 4way lnb this will give you two outputs for the sky plus box and two spare for multiroom if need be. A splitter cable wont work you need two inputs so you Can record one channel while watching another, each box needs it own input not split.

Answer 4

Sorry but it does sound as though you need a new dish as well my friend, it will be well worth it though!

I have sky+ with sky and wouldn't be without it!

Answer 5

Unfortunately, they don't - for Sky+ you need a special Sky+ dish.  It's definitely worth it, in my opinion - I love my Sky+!