I'm thinking about getting Sky + (the PVR box), but the Sky website
isn't very informative and, if experience is anything to go by,
phoning them up won't shed much light either, so hopefully somebody
out there will know more. My questions a

1. What is the telephone connection used for? Is this to download the
TV schedules (essential), or just to allow access to the "interactive"
services, which I'm not interested in anyway? If the latter, is there
any reason why the box won't work if not connected to the telephone?
Reading the terms and conditions on the Sky website, it's actually a
condition that the box is kept connected to a phone line for the first
12 months. Why?

2. The room I want to put the box in doesn't have a phone socket (well
it does, but it's not connected up). Given all the phone extensions I
already have elsewhere in the house, I'm not keen to wire in another.
Is there a wireless solution?

Thx
Steve