engineer box for sky?

[trendym]

i had sky installed today, whilst installing the engineeer used a yellow set top box which seemed to get every channel, the engineer offered me one of these boxes for £100 would it work and is it worth £100?
any help greatly appreciated

[rolfw]

Do you actually mean a set top box, or do you mean his hand held meter, its about 9 inches tall by about 5 inches wide? I certainly have never seen them use anything much other than the yellow digital meter.

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[trendym]

no it was a stb same size and watched sky1 on it

[rolfw]

Well you've got me there, never seen one in use, there are meters, the more expensive ones £2000 plus that have their own screen and can view FTA digital satellite channels. But I can't see any real advantage to them having a working digibox, as they are useless for dish alignment.

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[WideOn]

i have one of these boxes u get everything but the pay for view there pritty cool

WIdeon

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there just basic sky boxes no different than the one you use but for the top being painted yellow