basically I have sky with sky bb and I wanted to upgrade to skyHD but I don't really want the pointless "10" channels or whatever you get as I think it’s a bit of a rip off considering the price and fact that they aren’t streaming all the channels in HD which imo would make it worth it...
so what I was thinking was.... can I buy a sky+ or HD box (preferable for looks and style and the fact that it comes with a bigger hdd and surely a newer more up to date interface) and just plug it in and away I go with recording and scheduling my TV recordings (which is what I want it for as I hate having to conform to when something’s on etc I just want to setup a week or a day at a time of recordings and come back and it’s all done and watch it at my leisure)
now I know that that skyHD needs apparently another cable or so the guy said when he setup my standard sky dish/box but seeing as I won't be wanting/using/subscribing to the HD channels surely I won't need it as I take it one have one cable for HD channels and 1 for SD channels right?
so is this legal to go out and buy a sky+/HD box and use it myself surely as long as I'm not setting it up to illegally receive the extra HD channels or ones I haven't subscribed to then I'm not breaking the contract/law?
also... as I won't be buying the box direct from sky what hdd's work in upgrading them and is it easy to format/upgrade the box yourself or would I be better off buying a guaranteed kit off eBay? - people seem to think that you can have it upgraded in minutes so surely there's not much in it from upgraded a pc hdd so that would be a pointless rip off over buying the right hdd and doing it myself?
What is the max size hdd that I can put in a sky+ or a skyHD box? I'll probably end up going for a sky+ box as their cheaper but if I can't put say 750 GB in then I'll probably go skyHD... I'd like a terabyte so I can store stuff that I want to watch again....
seeing as I've never had a + or HD box I take it you can keep your content for ever and endlessly re-watch it or does it delete itself after 24/48 hours of watching it for rental reasons or whatever?
Sorry this sounds so confusing and longwinded I'm ill and was trying to get it on paper so I can check back on it later.
If I've totally confused you I'll try and some it up again in short...
I want a sky+ OR HD box off eBay to upgrade to a big hdd to record all my sky TV onto... is it legal and do I need any special formatting tools? Will I be able to hook it up to my laptop to do this or will I need to plug it into a pc's ide/sata on the mobo to format it? (This isn't a problem if so)
OH and WILL sky know and ban/cancel my subscription if they find out? as I know you can't use a different router because they send tests and stuff up your line etc to check and I've only just had sky installed for barely a month so it's still plugged into the phoneline (why and does it matter and could/should I unplug it and why?)
Cheers guys again sorry for confusion...
oh and if this is in the wrong place please move it admin (sorry)


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). send me a PM and it'll remind me to have a look for you. IIRC the upper limit is now 1TB but it's still uncharted terratory. i'll find the list of known compatible HDDs and non compat HDDs aswell tomorrow 
