dreambox

anyone? just need to know what i need to buy and where to get it. ta lads

Mine just needs an internet connection.

www.dreamboxtop.com

www.world-of-satellite.co.uk

Needs an internet connection which you plug into the back, best to have a standard sky dish, cheap as chips, then play an go.

Thanks for getting back to me. So do they already come loaded with any kind of software that is needed? Which one have you got? Also is this different from card sharing? Cheers for help

I'm looking to get all the sky channels by the way sports etc

Techno idiot here, so don`t know what card sharing is, nor anything about software. I just know that I connect it to the internet and telly, and it works. All terrestrial channels, all Sky Sports, BT Sports, movies, documentaries, music, etc that you get with Sky packages. Also free PPV events, recent example being Mayweater-Pacquiao. Tons of foreign channels, and I`m reliably informed there`s plenty of that disgusting pornography stuff too.
Apparently my box is a Vu+ Solo, three or four years old, and probably pretty much obsolete! Modern boxes would have more facilities than mine, including `record`
Depending on what you want it for, one drawback could be the delayed reception relative to Sky, usually between 10 and 20 seconds but, other than for betting in running, this doesn`t matter a jot.

^^^ Mayweather

Sorry for another post, but I`ve just seen DAFFODIL referring to a Sky dish; don`t know how that all works, as I don`t have one. All you need is an internet connection, however you get it.
I`ve replied to five or six of these Dreambox-related threads, and it`s beyond me why so many people still insist on giving Sky £600?, £800? per annum for far less product.

hi tim. tar for the help mate.so i wil try and just get the same box as you see how i get on, not fussed in recording or the delay. so its just buy box, connect to net and jobs a good un. sound

isnt that the rub its so called mugs like me paying 8, £900 a year who are allowing you to get away with using these dreamboxes,if everyone cancelled their sky ,bt contracts and bought into the dreamboxes ,sky bt etc would start doing something about the dreamboxes cancelling, blocking signals etc which they,ve done succesfuly in the past, making the dreamboxes redundant after a short while, be careful what you wish for in alling those who pay for sky,bt etc

^^^ Fair point, but life and technology moves on. Thirty years ago, Sky was the only game in town, but their days are numbered now with ever increasing content available on the internet. Just because we`ve all grown up with Sky as the sole provider, doesn`t mean it`s the way it has to be. I`m not sure I owe any company my business, purely out of some sort of unrequited `loyalty`. Might I politely suggest you join the revolution?

1st time poster, the box packages show saturday 3pm games which sky and bt don't show anyway.

in a previous guise they were known as dodgey boxes with their downfall been they could be cut off when the powers that be got updated with the codes,have people with dreamboxes had any trouble with been cut off,my reason for sticking with sky is that i have a static caravan home and by using the multi room, ive fixed up a sky dish bought off ebay for a tenner and get sky at the caravan for a tenner,have had no probs with it for 14 years,i spend alot of time there so get 2 sets of sky for £70 really

I used to pay £700+ for Sky a few years back and when I moved I never got round to getting it.  I have moved again and no way would I pay that sort of money.  People just get used to paying silly amounts when most of the stuff is available for free or at a much lower cost.

My mate users his mobile phone plus a £20 lead connected to an hdmi both ends into his tv
and gets all sky channels from KODI app and addons such as zeus,vdub ,iptv stalker
so this way he dosen't even need wifi or use his roaming data up saves pounds

had one a few years ago, problem was sky was forever cutting out for a few seconds every couple of minutes on my spyder box.. impossible to watch movie or much else really, but could connect to other satellites and watch any premier league football match live. Went back to sky when money was less of an issue..

1st time;
Don`t know anybody who has been cut off, can`t say for sure, but I suspect that`s pretty much an urban myth. Even if they did, so what? A box costs barely more than one month`s subscription, they`d have to cut you off every six weeks to make it uneconomical. As I and numerous friends have been using them for years with not one problem, that`s just not going to happen, Sky probably spread the myth, purely to scare people into remaining compliant.

They do freeze for a second or two, on the odd occasion, but I know in my case that it`s down to my poor internet signal, rather than the box.