mysky
I’m not a huge TV watcher but now we have MySky which suddenly removes a lot of things that I don’t like about television. Not to mention, Sky means that there is a lot more variety for what we can watch.
MySky is New Zealand’s answer to Tivo - you can record television, mark shows you watch regularly to “series link” so you don’t have to remember to set them to record all the time, fast forward & live pause television. You buy the machine (basically a hard drive) for $500 & then the ongoing costs are just your regular Sky subscription costs.
However, there are a couple of downers about MySky which stop it in my opinion from being an Ultimate Gadget:
- you can’t just set something to record from an ad you’re watching (assuming you even watch ads with this thing) - you have to make your way through the menus to the channel you want & then find the day/time & record.
- you can’t set things to record remotely if you’ve forgotten - a web interface would go a long way
- the error reporting is really crap - the system crashes but still seems like it’s working. The thing is though that when it does that, you lose most of your shows planned to record, but you may not realise unless you’ve checked the list.
So really, MySky is another gadget that should really have beta on it - I am sure they’re planning to upgrade the software so it’s not so buggy (well, you’d hope) but who knows if I’ll ever get my web interface or anything else. A girl can dream though!
