Sky Plus, or Sky+ is a subscription personal video recorder (PVR) service for Sky Digital.
Launched in October 2001, Sky+ allows the user to record, pause and instantly rewind live TV. The system performs these functions using an internal hard drive inside the Sky+ set top box.
Critics have argued that it is too expensive and were unconvinced of the need for or reliability of the product. Indeed, take-up of the service was slow. However, as the price fell and awareness grew, the Sky+ roll-out accelerated. BSkyB spent upwards of £20 million advertising the new service. In 2004 Sky began to waive the service fee to customers who were subscribers of their premium sport and/or movie channels. Sky+ is also built into Sky HD digiboxes and PVR functionality comes free with a HD subscription.
As with the Tivo system, a number of hackers have attempted to improve the basic Sky+ unit, primarily through the installation of larger hard drives; instruction manuals and toolkits to do this are freely traded on Ebay. However, installing a larger hard drive in the unit is not harder than in a normal PC. Some users report problems with very large (360GB+) hard disks in operation of the Amstrad software; the most commonly reported issue is slowing of menu browsing.
Sky reported on 2nd January 2007 that over 2 million households now have a Sky+ box.
A slang term for the In The Groove song Pandemonium, composed by ZiGZaG. The song is very hard, having an 13-block stepchart on expert and a 11-block stepchart on hard.
Person 1: I FINALLY passed Pandy expert with a C. Person 2: Oh yeah? I got a star on VerTex expert! Beat that! Person 1: Man, I have to improve.
2. pandy
Referring to sexual relations with another man, woman or animal.
Man i'm gagging for a bit of pandy of the bronagh right now.
3. Pandy Pandy short for Pand0ra, the keeper of the b0x.
"watch out here comes Pandy, dont make her angry she may open that b0x shes got"
ha ha, those definitions are awesome. All the more reason to stay as "Pandy." Besides, the urban dicitionary is kind of screwed up in their definitions. Remember their definitions of Ok Go? How is the Pandy doing these days?
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Launched in October 2001, Sky+ allows the user to record, pause and instantly rewind live TV. The system performs these functions using an internal hard drive inside the Sky+ set top box.
Critics have argued that it is too expensive and were unconvinced of the need for or reliability of the product. Indeed, take-up of the service was slow. However, as the price fell and awareness grew, the Sky+ roll-out accelerated. BSkyB spent upwards of £20 million advertising the new service. In 2004 Sky began to waive the service fee to customers who were subscribers of their premium sport and/or movie channels. Sky+ is also built into Sky HD digiboxes and PVR functionality comes free with a HD subscription.
As with the Tivo system, a number of hackers have attempted to improve the basic Sky+ unit, primarily through the installation of larger hard drives; instruction manuals and toolkits to do this are freely traded on Ebay. However, installing a larger hard drive in the unit is not harder than in a normal PC. Some users report problems with very large (360GB+) hard disks in operation of the Amstrad software; the most commonly reported issue is slowing of menu browsing.
Sky reported on 2nd January 2007 that over 2 million households now have a Sky+ box.
awesome yeah i have that at home.. its so awesome.
but i don't have it school
i can freaking pause live tv, and rewind it
and record two channels at once to the hard drive
aparently never?
A slang term for the In The Groove song Pandemonium, composed by ZiGZaG. The song is very hard, having an 13-block stepchart on expert and a 11-block stepchart on hard.
Person 1: I FINALLY passed Pandy expert with a C.
Person 2: Oh yeah? I got a star on VerTex expert! Beat that!
Person 1: Man, I have to improve.
2. pandy
Referring to sexual relations with another man, woman or animal.
Man i'm gagging for a bit of pandy of the bronagh right now.
3. Pandy
Pandy short for Pand0ra, the keeper of the b0x.
"watch out here comes Pandy, dont make her angry she may open that b0x shes got"
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what a great excuse to finaly switch to "Andu"...
He's on a bit of a burnout at the moment, not feeling too great apparently.
Hope he feels better soon!
Hope he feels better soon!
this is all true, life has gotten all kinds of suck lately
still trying to work though all these issues, so im not around online much at all atm
The boards have so not been the same with out you.
The boards have so not been the same with out you.
no kidding!
i totally miss you. come back!
where have you been?
Bleach = awesome times tenthousand. plus one.
I'm on episode 60-something right now... I was watching them straight through for a while, then I got kinda sidetracked.
still awesome, regardless.
Bleach = awesome times tenthousand. plus one.
I'm on episode 60-something right now... I was watching them straight through for a while, then I got kinda sidetracked.
still awesome, regardless.
this is nothing but truth, im on ep 40ish
and its just abit epic....sigh its amazing
its given me somthing to do with all my time off!
THE KING IS HIMSELF AGAIN
recap:
my computer ate its self the day i went on holiday
3 weeks latter (today) ive got it back
thank the holy fuck i got it back
i need to go to boots more
the holdiay was "the awesome" more on this latters though
[EDIT]
or just click here
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=HFoC
they are in order of the newest eps first, so go right to page two for the old ones
roman numerals are kick arse
EDT: You're just as insane as the rest of us, it turns out, seeing some of your videos.