My Sky
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My Sky is a Digital Video Recorder released by Sky TV New Zealand in 2005. The Digital Video Recorder was first released on 5 December 2005, which is an upgraded set top box very similar to Foxtel IQ in Australia or Sky+ in the UK. Manufactured by Pace Micro Technology, it offers viewers the ability to pause live television, rewind television, record up to two channels at once straight to the set top box and watch the start of a recorded programme while still recording the end. It also gives viewers access to a revamped EPG and the new planner, used to plan and access recordings at the touch of a button. It currently retails for NZ$599 or NZ$500 if purchased as an additional set up box.
One of the advertised features of My Sky is the ability of the system to record series of programs using the "Series Link" feature. This feature is still under development, and has proven to be somewhat unreliable in that on occasions intended future recording are not made. This has occurred since the inception of the service (December 2005) and remains today (November 2006). Sky TV say they are working to determine the cause of the random failures, and to rectify it. Soft rebooting the decoder appears to temporarily overcome the problem.
It has recently been discovered that there is software in My Sky that after an hour of no signal from Sky then the decoder locks playback of pre-recorded programmers, this function is soon to be removed. This was discovered after the Optus B1 satellite was unable to broadcast Sky to over 600,000 subscribers.
