Sky + subscription, you cannot just pay £10 a month

I am considering cancelling Sky, because my year free thanks to Virgin
Radio is almost up.

But I am not sure I can live without Sky+ functionality, so I was
resigned to paying the £10 a month.

So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)

You may as well pay for the movies or sports package!

This is a disgrace, surely it is illegal to call the recording
funcionality of the box a 'service' and charge for its use!

Ed wrote:
I am considering cancelling Sky, because my year free thanks to Virgin
Radio is almost up.

But I am not sure I can live without Sky+ functionality, so I was
resigned to paying the £10 a month.

So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)

You may as well pay for the movies or sports package!

This is a disgrace, surely it is illegal to call the recording
funcionality of the box a 'service' and charge for its use!

It is outrageous but it must be legal as they've been getting away with it
for years. They really are having their cake and eating it - unless you're
on some sort of special deal they make you pay upfront for the equipment,
sixty pounds for installation (which just involves plugging it in), then
charge you a tenner a month to use it. The EPG exists whatever package
you're on so they can't pretend it's for that.

Furthermore, make sure you watch or archive all the stuff on your Sky plus
before you unsubscribe, because all the material on the drive will become
instantly unavailable for replay!

Ed wrote:
I am considering cancelling Sky, because my year free thanks to Virgin
Radio is almost up.

But I am not sure I can live without Sky+ functionality, so I was
resigned to paying the £10 a month.

So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)

He's lying. You can have Sky+ with just FTA/FTV. I did for the 4 years
I owned a Sky+ box, and so do others. Ring again and be persistent,
failing that write to them, asking for indication in the T+Cs where it
states you have to have a Sky TV sub to have a Sky+ sub (because there
isn't, (or certainly wasn't)).

Hi,

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wrote:
So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)

You can. You just need to find the right person at Sky to talk to. Some of
the droids there don't know that the option exists.

Andy

Ed wrote:

So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)

Bin it and spend 400 quid on a second hand TiVo with lifetime subscription
off Ebay. Plug the thing in, tell it your favourite programmes and actors
and sit back and be fed everything you could want for the rest of time.

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:51:36 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Ed wrote:

So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)

Bin it and spend 400 quid on a second hand TiVo with lifetime subscription
off Ebay. Plug the thing in, tell it your favourite programmes and actors
and sit back and be fed everything you could want for the rest of time.

Or get a twin tuner Topfield for £230, install a couple of extensions
and get the same feature in digital instead of analogue. My Tivo was
relegated to the back room years ago now.

Lee.
--
lee at w2designs dot co dot uk

If I have one flaw, it's that I'm a perfectoinist.

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:51:36 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Ed wrote:

So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)

Bin it and spend 400 quid on a second hand TiVo with lifetime subscription
off Ebay. Plug the thing in, tell it your favourite programmes and actors
and sit back and be fed everything you could want for the rest of time.

or until it breaks down.The Tivo Lifetime Subscription is apparently for the
lifetime of the box not your lifetime.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:51:36 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote:

Ed wrote:

So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)

Bin it and spend 400 quid on a second hand TiVo with lifetime subscription
off Ebay. Plug the thing in, tell it your favourite programmes and actors
and sit back and be fed everything you could want for the rest of time.

Or get a twin tuner Topfield for £230, install a couple of extensions
and get the same feature in digital instead of analogue. My Tivo was
relegated to the back room years ago now.


Ignores that not everyone can get freeview.

As for TiVo - the new yank ones look great but the old UK ones are single
tuners - so better menus or not I would take sky+.

"Ed" wrote in message
ups.com...
I am considering cancelling Sky, because my year free thanks to Virgin
Radio is almost up.

But I am not sure I can live without Sky+ functionality, so I was
resigned to paying the £10 a month.

So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)

You may as well pay for the movies or sports package!

This is a disgrace, surely it is illegal to call the recording
funcionality of the box a 'service' and charge for its use!





I am sorry to hear this.

Assuming you can receive Freeview, a Topfield TF5800PVR exceeds all your
expectations for less than £276.

"Ed" wrote in message
ups.com...
I am considering cancelling Sky, because my year free thanks to Virgin
Radio is almost up.

So I called today, and the bloke said you cannot pay the £10 a month
unless you have a Sky subscription, so the minimum you can pay is now
£25 a month (2 mixes basic sub plus the £10)


he's wrong . call back again, if the person isnt aware of it,ask for their
supervisor.

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