Sky HD for £75

On 19 Jul, 01:30, "Felicity S." [email protected] wrote:
Ed wrote:
Felicity S. wrote:
Ed wrote:
Felicity S. wrote:
Ed wrote:
latest recommend a friend offer from Sky is you can get free Sky+
box or HD box for just £75
And what are the hidden costs which you & Sky are not mentioning?
Nothing hidden.
You need to take out the minimum subscription to Sky for a year, which
I believe is £17 a month. Installation is £30.

According to Nigel Barker (thanks Nigel) the subscription is £26 a month.

Thankyou, Ed. So would I be correct in calculating that the minimum cost
is not "just £75", but more? What happens if I cancel after the year?
Picky picky picky.
I said you can get an HD box for just £75. This is true.

I'm not being picky. You keep telling me that I can get a HD box for
just £75 but if I want to watch TV with it, the cost is £417 for the
first year alone. Now Nigel Barker tells me (thanks Nigel) that after
one year I can cancel all subscriptions but then I will no longer be
able to use the recording function - which is the whole point.

This means that if I want to continue using the machine for say five
years it'd cost me a horrifying £1,665 for a supposedly cheap box!

No hidden costs? Pah!

Fliss


I didnt say that and you know it. I said Sky HD. SKY implies
subscription costs. If you want an HD Freesat PVR then wait until
Humax bring one out!

"Felicity S." [email protected] wrote in
news:[email protected]:

Ed wrote:

Felicity S. wrote:
Ed wrote:
Felicity S. wrote:
Ed wrote:

latest recommend a friend offer from Sky is you can get free Sky+
box or HD box for just £75

And what are the hidden costs which you & Sky are not mentioning?

Nothing hidden.

You need to take out the minimum subscription to Sky for a year,
which I believe is £17 a month. Installation is £30.

According to Nigel Barker (thanks Nigel) the subscription is £26 a
month.


Thankyou, Ed. So would I be correct in calculating that the minimum
cost is not "just £75", but more? What happens if I cancel after the
year?

Picky picky picky.

I said you can get an HD box for just £75. This is true.

I'm not being picky. You keep telling me that I can get a HD box for
just £75 but if I want to watch TV with it, the cost is £417 for the
first year alone. Now Nigel Barker tells me (thanks Nigel) that after
one year I can cancel all subscriptions but then I will no longer be
able to use the recording function - which is the whole point.

This means that if I want to continue using the machine for say five
years it'd cost me a horrifying £1,665 for a supposedly cheap box!

No hidden costs? Pah!


Fliss




the question you need to ask is do you want the sky package or not?
if not then get a freeview HD box when they come out
if yes, you dont get sky for free, so feel free to buy a HD box from them
for a few hundred pounds, on top of the sky fee's or go with ed's offer
(if you are a new customer)......i dont see what is so complex about
that? if you have no idea about sky's packages or prices, then why be in
the newsgroup?

Ed wrote:

Felicity S. wrote:

I'm not being picky. You keep telling me that I can get a HD box for
just £75 but if I want to watch TV with it, the cost is £417 for the

first year alone. Now Nigel Barker tells me (thanks Nigel) that after
one year I can cancel all subscriptions but then I will no longer be
able to use the recording function - which is the whole point.

This means that if I want to continue using the machine for say five
years it'd cost me a horrifying £1,665 for a supposedly cheap box!

No hidden costs? Pah!

I didnt say that and you know it.

You said (it's further up the thread) "Nothing hidden."


I said Sky HD. SKY implies subscription costs.

It was because Sky equals subscription costs that I asked you for the
costs which you didn't mention. And you qualified the price with "just"
which implies that there are no further costs. And while I don't mind
an installation fee and expected a minimum subscription, quite honestly
I'm appalled that they charge £10/month to use the HD box later on.


If you want an HD Freesat PVR then wait until Humax bring one out!

The buzz is that the manufacturers of the Sky box are bringing out
a modified & enhanced model for Freesat - which will automatically
have double the recording capacity and of course no hidden costs.


Fliss

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On Jul 21, 12:45*am, "Felicity S." [email protected] wrote:
Ed wrote:
Felicity S. wrote:
I'm not being picky. You keep telling me that I can get a HD box for
just £75 but if I want to watch TV with it, the cost is £417 for the
first year alone. Now Nigel Barker tells me (thanks Nigel) that after
one year I can cancel all subscriptions but then I will no longer be
able to use the recording function - which is the whole point.
This means that if I want to continue using the machine for say five
years it'd cost me a horrifying £1,665 for a supposedly cheap box!
No hidden costs? Pah!
I didnt say that and you know it.

You said (it's further up the thread) "Nothing hidden."

I said Sky HD. SKY implies subscription costs.

It was because Sky equals subscription costs that I asked you for the
costs which you didn't mention. And you qualified the price with "just"
which implies that there are no further costs. And while I don't mind
an installation fee and expected a minimum subscription, quite honestly
I'm appalled that they charge £10/month to use the HD box later on.

If you want an HD Freesat PVR then wait until Humax bring one out!

The buzz is that the manufacturers of the Sky box are bringing out
a modified & enhanced model for Freesat - which will automatically
have double the recording capacity and of course no hidden costs.

Fliss

I do hope so. A sky box has double the recording capacity it allows
you, but half the disk is locked for use only by $ky.

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:45:08 BST, "Felicity S." [email protected]
wrote:

And while I don't mind
an installation fee and expected a minimum subscription, quite honestly
I'm appalled that they charge £10/month to use the HD box later on.

They don't charge you £10/month to use the HD box. There is a
£10/month subscription for the subscription HD channels. You don't
have to pay this if you don't want them, you will still be able to
receive the non-subscription HD channels (BBC HD, Channel 4 HD, and
Luxe TV HD) in HD, free of charge.

The cheap Sky+ HD box offer is dependent on you taking the
subscription HD channels for a year, though. But nothing says you need
to keep them after the 12 months is up.

The buzz is that the manufacturers of the Sky box are bringing out
a modified & enhanced model for Freesat - which will automatically
have double the recording capacity and of course no hidden costs.

Entirely fictitious, sadly. Freesat themselves are hoping to have a
PVR receiver available before Christmas, made by Humax, which will of
course come with the benefit of being able to record without
subscription, but will of course come with the disbenefit that you
will only be able to recieve a far smaller number of channels than an
equivalent Sky box without a subscription.

At some point Sky is similarly expected to make the recording feature
of Sky+ and Sky+HD available without any subscription at all - so that
it works even if you only have the free channels - but that hasn't
been "officially" confirmed yet.

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On 21 Jul, 17:16, (Zero Tolerance) wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:45:08 BST, "Felicity S." [email protected]
wrote:

And while I don't mind
an installation fee and expected a minimum subscription, quite honestly
I'm appalled that they charge £10/month to use the HD box later on.

They don't charge you £10/month to use the HD box. There is a
£10/month subscription for the subscription HD channels. You don't
have to pay this if you don't want them, you will still be able to
receive the non-subscription HD channels (BBC HD, Channel 4 HD, and
Luxe TV HD) in HD, free of charge.

The cheap Sky+ HD box offer is dependent on you taking the
subscription HD channels for a year, though. But nothing says you need
to keep them after the 12 months is up.

The buzz is that the manufacturers of the Sky box are bringing out
a modified & enhanced model for Freesat - which will automatically
have double the recording capacity and of course no hidden costs.

Entirely fictitious, sadly. Freesat themselves are hoping to have a
PVR receiver available before Christmas, made by Humax, which will of
course come with the benefit of being able to record without
subscription, but will of course come with the disbenefit that you
will only be able to recieve a far smaller number of channels than an
equivalent Sky box without a subscription.

At some point Sky is similarly expected to make the recording feature
of Sky+ and Sky+HD available without any subscription at all - so that
it works even if you only have the free channels - but that hasn't
been "officially" confirmed yet.

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I'm sure it will happen the day before the Humax PVR comes out, so
people that have a Sky+ box stay using it, which allows Sky to try and
hook them back in with 'cheap' subscription offers all the time

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:16:37 GMT, (Zero Tolerance)
wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:45:08 BST, "Felicity S." [email protected]
wrote:

And while I don't mind
an installation fee and expected a minimum subscription, quite honestly
I'm appalled that they charge £10/month to use the HD box later on.

They don't charge you £10/month to use the HD box. There is a
£10/month subscription for the subscription HD channels. You don't
have to pay this if you don't want them, you will still be able to
receive the non-subscription HD channels (BBC HD, Channel 4 HD, and
Luxe TV HD) in HD, free of charge.

However they will charge you 10 pounds/month to use the recording facilities of
the Sky HD box.

The cheap Sky+ HD box offer is dependent on you taking the
subscription HD channels for a year, though. But nothing says you need
to keep them after the 12 months is up.

The buzz is that the manufacturers of the Sky box are bringing out
a modified & enhanced model for Freesat - which will automatically
have double the recording capacity and of course no hidden costs.

Entirely fictitious, sadly. Freesat themselves are hoping to have a
PVR receiver available before Christmas, made by Humax, which will of
course come with the benefit of being able to record without
subscription, but will of course come with the disbenefit that you
will only be able to recieve a far smaller number of channels than an
equivalent Sky box without a subscription.

Judging by the price of twin tuner satellite PVRs already available elsewhere
in Europe the price may be a shock. UK Freesat PVRs should be a little cheaper
without CI but not that much.

At some point Sky is similarly expected to make the recording feature
of Sky+ and Sky+HD available without any subscription at all - so that
it works even if you only have the free channels - but that hasn't
been "officially" confirmed yet.

I haven't a clue where this rumour started but it just sounds like wishful
thinking to me. Why on earth should they make Sky+ free to non-subscribers?
Currently the Sky+ recording feature is a big incentive to stay with at least
the minimum package as for "only 6 pounds a month extra" you get some
subscription TV plus Sky+ including recording FTA/FTV HD channels. Make Sky+
free to everyone & I can see a lot of subscribers feeling that 16 pounds per
month just for a few subscription channels is not good value for money &
canceling.
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Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

Ed wrote:

Felicity S. wrote:

Ed wrote:
Felicity S. wrote:

I'm not being picky. You keep telling me that I can get a HD box for
just £75 but if I want to watch TV with it, the cost is £417 for the

first year alone. Now Nigel Barker tells me (thanks Nigel) that after
one year I can cancel all subscriptions but then I will no longer be
able to use the recording function - which is the whole point.
This means that if I want to continue using the machine for say five
years it'd cost me a horrifying £1,665 for a supposedly cheap box!
No hidden costs? Pah!
I didnt say that and you know it.

You said (it's further up the thread) "Nothing hidden."

I said Sky HD. SKY implies subscription costs.

It was because Sky equals subscription costs that I asked you for the
costs which you didn't mention. And you qualified the price with "just"
which implies that there are no further costs. And while I don't mind
an installation fee and expected a minimum subscription, quite honestly
I'm appalled that they charge £10/month to use the HD box later on.

If you want an HD Freesat PVR then wait until Humax bring one out!

The buzz is that the manufacturers of the Sky box are bringing out
a modified & enhanced model for Freesat - which will automatically
have double the recording capacity and of course no hidden costs.

I do hope so. A sky box has double the recording capacity it allows
you, but half the disk is locked for use only by $ky.

Until one of your teenagers accesses it and runs up higher bills?


Fliss

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Zero Tolerance wrote:

Felicity S. wrote:

I'm appalled that they charge £10/month to use the HD box later on.

They don't charge you £10/month to use the HD box. There is a
£10/month subscription for the subscription HD channels. You don't
have to pay this if you don't want them, you will still be able to
receive the non-subscription HD channels (BBC HD, Channel 4 HD, and
Luxe TV HD) in HD, free of charge.

When I talk about using a HD recorder, I mean using it to record HD.


The cheap Sky+ HD box offer is dependent on you taking the subscription
HD channels for a year, though. But nothing says you need to keep them
after the 12 months is up.

Nigel Barker (earlier in this thread) says that you must.


The buzz is that the manufacturers of the Sky box are bringing out
a modified & enhanced model for Freesat - which will automatically
have double the recording capacity and of course no hidden costs.

Entirely fictitious, sadly.

A good friend has contacts who tells me that plans are underway.


Fliss

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On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:08:44 BST, "Felicity S." [email protected] wrote:

The cheap Sky+ HD box offer is dependent on you taking the subscription
HD channels for a year, though. But nothing says you need to keep them
after the 12 months is up.

Nigel Barker (earlier in this thread) says that you must.

I didn't say that. However if you want to keep the recording function of your
Sky HD PVR then a minimum subscription of 10 pounds per month is necessary.
The minimum Sky HD subscription is 26 pounds per month which includes Sky+
recording.
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Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur