UPDATE: Ooops! The GC has expired already last November 30. Nobody won. It’s too bad.

We know that only by listening to Good Times With Mo (GTWM) will your day be complete. And that only gives you 4 complete days each week since it doesn’t play on weekends including Fridays. I have something with me that could make your day at least half-complete during those days without GTWM.

Last Saturday, me and my wife attended the Skycable Digibox launch, which features their DigiBox (obviously) and 2 other new services of Skycable which are the SkyVoice – Landline provider the cheapest call rates to US and Canada at 1 peso per minute. My wife tried it out and she got to call her grandma in the West Coast for free! Thanks SkyCable! And the other service was SkyInternet – the fastest internet service in the nation with up to 12MBPS! That is super-duper wow! Download to the max! And Mo Twister will be certainly happy about that.

I was already drooling over the 2 services but DigiBox was definitely the star of the show. If you’re currently a Skycable subscriber and you don’t have yet a DigiBox, you don’t know what you’re missing here.

Malou Esperaga, Marketing Manager for SkyCable did a short demo of the features of the Digibox. With your analog Skycable you might notice that it’s a bit annoying surfing channels from Channel 6 up to above 100 channels, and for sure, you do not memorize all the channels you have available. But with DigiBox, you can organize channels according to your most favorite ones. You can also even get detailed information about the show you currently view, plus the info about the next shows as well.

Viewing show schedules on each channel is also a breeze with DigiBox. And it don’t just show the schedule for the day but for the whole week. How’s that?

Locking channels that are not children appropriate is also one of the nicest features you could ever want. And you can surely get that only from DigiBox.

For the not-so techies out there, the Digibox works only with a digital line. So if your current SkyCable subscription is analog, it will first have to be converted to digital, before you could use the DigiBox. But it shouldn’t be a problem to you because it’s all SkyCable’s concern. All the info being fetched into the DigiBox come from the SkyCable’s EPG Server, EPG stands for Electronic Program Guide.

According to Roy Montinola, Marketing VP, SkyCable plans to provide Video On Demand (VOD) service to its subscribers, though there’s no date mentioned yet of its availability. Negotiations between them and channel providers and copyrights are already in the works. Contents are still being gathered for the service to make possible. Also, subscribers will see more and more of HD (High Definition) programs in the coming year. Sky already piloted the service with the telecast of red golf cup last September in HD format. So if you’re a golf enthusiast, you might know this already. On the other hand, Event Host TJ Mantoc also mentioned that ABS-CBN is prepared for HD format content as well. He said that UAAP will be fed in HD format in the coming future, and going to watch the game live might just only be in second option for basketball fans. Skycable is pretty much ready for anything, it’s just we have to wait until all the features we want finalize.

Now, a Digibox is a must have for every home, but it also involves additional amount for installation and the box itself. And since I have a gift certificate that I won’t be able to use since the area I live in is not covered by the service, I’m willing to give it to anyone who perfectly deserves it. The GC gives you a free Digibox, plus free installation, plus free Gold Plan subscription for 3 months.

Just leave a message about why you deserve to have the DigiBox, my expert pool of evaluators (basically me and my wife) will judge which one is the most deserving and lucky enough to win the DigiBox. If you have a blog, you can also write an entry about this and add the URL on the comments section of this post, if it doesn’t appear automatically. Deadline for the entries is until November 25th. The winner will be declared on the 26th.

Digibox is definitely gonna be the next best thing to Good Times With Mo, and the best thing to have in your living room.

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