SKY HD Subscription

I was talking to Sky staff a few weeks ago when I had to marry my old Sky
card with my new Thomson DSI8215 HD Sky+ box.

The staff member asked why I was not taking out a HD subscription when I had
just bought a new HD box.

I explained that my old Thomson DSI6210 160 had died (well, the usual stuck
on standby problem !) and rather than replace with the same I was simply
future proofing myself as I had recently bought an HD Ready LCD TV. I bought
the box myself and installed it rather than get charged extra by Sky to come
to my house and install it.

I said to him that the £43.50 a month I was already paying was enough and
that the extra £10 for the minimal HD channels available was not justifiable
and that I would suffice with the BBC HD channel for now !!!!!

Whilst talking to him about the extra £10 sub for HD he mentioned the words
"for now". I asked him if it was true that a rumour I had heard was that if
you were a full subscriber to all SD channels (World, Sports, Movies) and
paying the £43.50 per month, then the HD would go the same way Sky+ did in
the beginning - i.e. pay for the service but after a few months if you
subscribed to a certain amount of channels that the extra service would be
free. He stated that it was being talked about but there was no date for
implementation but looked as if it would go ahead.

Here's hoping if you have the full SD package at £43.50 per month you will
get the HD channels free aswell as the Sky+ service free !!!!!!

Has anyone else heard this or have any further details ???

Steve

"Steve" wrote in message ...

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Has anyone else heard this or have any further details ???

Steve




Not heard anything but it's a logical progression of the service once we
see much cheaper wholesale prices for the STB, there will come a time
when marketing the combined HD into SKYworld (or similar) will be
more attractive than having a totally separate fee.

That said a CS rep could be saying that now in the hopes of signing you
up with the carrot of "free" HD at some later point
However SKY did surprise a lot of people by combining the SKY+
into the HD subscription which has saved some people a tenner a month.


Mike C

Mike_C wrote:
"Steve" wrote in message
...

SNIP

Has anyone else heard this or have any further details ???

Steve




Not heard anything but it's a logical progression of the service once we
see much cheaper wholesale prices for the STB, there will come a time
when marketing the combined HD into SKYworld (or similar) will be
more attractive than having a totally separate fee.

That said a CS rep could be saying that now in the hopes of signing you
up with the carrot of "free" HD at some later point
However SKY did surprise a lot of people by combining the SKY+
into the HD subscription which has saved some people a tenner a month.


Mike C

So, you are saying, that if you take out the sky hd subscription, that now
counts as a subscription elgible for sky+?

Gaz

"Steve" wrote in message
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I was talking to Sky staff a few weeks ago when I had to marry my old Sky
card with my new Thomson DSI8215 HD Sky+ box.

The staff member asked why I was not taking out a HD subscription when I
had just bought a new HD box.

I explained that my old Thomson DSI6210 160 had died (well, the usual
stuck on standby problem !) and rather than replace with the same I was
simply future proofing myself as I had recently bought an HD Ready LCD TV.
I bought the box myself and installed it rather than get charged extra by
Sky to come to my house and install it.

I said to him that the £43.50 a month I was already paying was enough and
that the extra £10 for the minimal HD channels available was not
justifiable and that I would suffice with the BBC HD channel for now !!!!!

Whilst talking to him about the extra £10 sub for HD he mentioned the
words "for now". I asked him if it was true that a rumour I had heard was
that if you were a full subscriber to all SD channels (World, Sports,
Movies) and paying the £43.50 per month, then the HD would go the same way
Sky+ did in the beginning - i.e. pay for the service but after a few
months if you subscribed to a certain amount of channels that the extra
service would be free. He stated that it was being talked about but there
was no date for implementation but looked as if it would go ahead.

Here's hoping if you have the full SD package at £43.50 per month you will
get the HD channels free aswell as the Sky+ service free !!!!!!

Has anyone else heard this or have any further details ???

Steve




It's a smart way of getting people to subscibe to the $ky World package

"Gaz" wrote in message ...
Mike_C wrote:

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So, you are saying, that if you take out the sky hd subscription, that now counts as a subscription elgible for sky+?

Gaz



Yes, many people on the avforums and digitalspy have done so and
it's also included on the SKY hd website for subscription options.
So a couple of mixes with the HD sub now includes the SKY+ service
where as before you had to pay another tenner/premium package.


Mike C

"Mike_C" wrote :

Yes, many people on the avforums and digitalspy have done so and
it's also included on the SKY hd website for subscription options.
So a couple of mixes with the HD sub now includes the SKY+ service
where as before you had to pay another tenner/premium package.

So if you have an HD box with HD subscription and a Sky+ box with a
FTV card, would your HD sub allow you to record HD off the HD box
*and* FTV stuff off the Sky+ box? Or would the Sky+ box need to be
multiroomed?

Al

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:59:18 GMT, "Al Reynolds" wrote:

"Mike_C" wrote :

Yes, many people on the avforums and digitalspy have done so and
it's also included on the SKY hd website for subscription options.
So a couple of mixes with the HD sub now includes the SKY+ service
where as before you had to pay another tenner/premium package.

So if you have an HD box with HD subscription and a Sky+ box with a
FTV card, would your HD sub allow you to record HD off the HD box
*and* FTV stuff off the Sky+ box? Or would the Sky+ box need to be
multiroomed?

Two separate boxes so 10 pounds/month multiroom fee. You do realise that the Sky
HD has Sky+ functionality don't you?

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

"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:59:18 GMT, "Al Reynolds"
wrote:

"Mike_C" wrote :

Yes, many people on the avforums and digitalspy have done so and
it's also included on the SKY hd website for subscription options.
So a couple of mixes with the HD sub now includes the SKY+ service
where as before you had to pay another tenner/premium package.

So if you have an HD box with HD subscription and a Sky+ box with a
FTV card, would your HD sub allow you to record HD off the HD box
*and* FTV stuff off the Sky+ box? Or would the Sky+ box need to be
multiroomed?

Two separate boxes so 10 pounds/month multiroom fee. You do realise that
the Sky
HD has Sky+ functionality don't you?

Yes, but I thought you could have Sky+ functionality with FTV channels by
paying £10/month. This may be wrong.

What I wondered was whether the HD sub on the other box allowed for
recording on both the HD box and the (non multiroom FTV) Sky+ box?

Al

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:16:08 GMT, "Al Reynolds" wrote:

"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:59:18 GMT, "Al Reynolds"
wrote:

"Mike_C" wrote :

Yes, many people on the avforums and digitalspy have done so and
it's also included on the SKY hd website for subscription options.
So a couple of mixes with the HD sub now includes the SKY+ service
where as before you had to pay another tenner/premium package.

So if you have an HD box with HD subscription and a Sky+ box with a
FTV card, would your HD sub allow you to record HD off the HD box
*and* FTV stuff off the Sky+ box? Or would the Sky+ box need to be
multiroomed?

Two separate boxes so 10 pounds/month multiroom fee. You do realise that
the Sky
HD has Sky+ functionality don't you?

Yes, but I thought you could have Sky+ functionality with FTV channels by
paying £10/month. This may be wrong.

What I wondered was whether the HD sub on the other box allowed for
recording on both the HD box and the (non multiroom FTV) Sky+ box?

AFAIK the mirror subscription is just that a mirror of the subscription that you
have on the primary box. So if you have HD or a Sky+ as your primary you can
have an HD or Sky= as your secondary at 10 pounds/month.

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

"Al Reynolds" wrote in message ...
"Nigel Barker" wrote in message ...
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:59:18 GMT, "Al Reynolds" wrote:

"Mike_C" wrote :

Yes, many people on the avforums and digitalspy have done so and
it's also included on the SKY hd website for subscription options.
So a couple of mixes with the HD sub now includes the SKY+ service
where as before you had to pay another tenner/premium package.

So if you have an HD box with HD subscription and a Sky+ box with a
FTV card, would your HD sub allow you to record HD off the HD box
*and* FTV stuff off the Sky+ box? Or would the Sky+ box need to be
multiroomed?

Two separate boxes so 10 pounds/month multiroom fee. You do realise that the Sky
HD has Sky+ functionality don't you?

Yes, but I thought you could have Sky+ functionality with FTV channels by
paying £10/month. This may be wrong.

What I wondered was whether the HD sub on the other box allowed for
recording on both the HD box and the (non multiroom FTV) Sky+ box?

Al




Yes some people do just pay the £10 SKY+ fee for FTV use although
even now many CS reps know nothing about it.

The only way to duplicate a service over from one box to another is
via multiroom so no you would have to pay the tenner on the second SKY+.

Some people have managed to pay the £10 HD sub on the HD box
and not only get the base HD channels put also the SKY+ service along
with normal FTA/FTV channels.
It sounds bizarre for SKY to allow that but I believe them.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=461590


Mike C