Sky+ Quandry

In message , Mike
writes
Ed wrote:
I seem to have won a competition that gets me free sky plus for a year.
99% of me is over the moon about this. 1% hates the fact that I am now
in Murdoch's evil web and when my year is up I will have to shell out
for a full price sky sub if I want to be able to use the recording
functionality of the box.
Has anyone else had sky plus and then managed to give it up, or am I
doomed?


There are support groups out there if you really want to give it up.

Mike
I can offer 1 to 1 counselling.
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Mike Gasson
(from the Isle of Purbeck)

Mark Hewitt wrote:


"Mike" wrote in message
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He'd be better staying well clear of NThelL

How do you know if his area is served by NTL? It may well be a Telewest
area and they do have a PVR, well it's due out in about 2 months so it'll
be well established by the end of the OP's free offer.

Actually it's "Coming Soon" so in TW speak, that'll be next year .
They are running TVDrive trials at the moment, so it should be a bit sooner
than what I suggested, but considering they've not introduced digital text
or improved the daft 1 day EPG yet for the standard STBs, I don't think
it'll be soon.

Bruce S.

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On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:42:44 GMT, Mike
wrote:

I've seen some people moan about sky customer services, but after NTL
they are worthy of cannonisation at least.

Yes, I know a lot of people that would like to fire a Sky CS rep out
of a cannon...

Charlie
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No-one else seems to have picked up on this, so I will. You don't need
a full price Sky sub to use the recording functionality of the box -
you need a Sky+ sub, which is separate, and currently £10 a month.
Subscribe to 2 or more Sky premium channels (movies 1/2, sports 1/2)
and they waive the Sk+ sub. At the end of the year, you could
downgrade to just a Sky+ sub (when you eventually get someone who can
actually read the screen and realise that a "Sky+ without Sky"
subscription does, in fact, exist) for £10 a month, or whatever is is
by then, and get just the FTA and FTV channels.

Of course, in a year's time, there may be other options available.

Simon Kempster