Digital TV Cost Cutting Article - Discuss What You've Been Offered

wilf55

i rang for the half price sky 3 times and couldnt get past the we havent got a record of you so sorry

never mind

davidl_2

Hi can anyone recommend non-cable services? I'd like phone and broadband basically, as we cannot have cable TV/dish in our building.

I find that most websites like BT's are confusing in terms of their huge ranges and packages. I wish they would all simplifiy a little!

(PS I'm sure I posted this a few days ago but I can't find the post, so apologies for duplication!)

DanVittori

davidl wrote: »

Hi can anyone recommend non-cable services? I'd like phone and broadband basically, as we cannot have cable TV/dish in our building.

I find that most websites like BT's are confusing in terms of their huge ranges and packages. I wish they would all simplifiy a little!

(PS I'm sure I posted this a few days ago but I can't find the post, so apologies for duplication!)

Have you considered TalkTalk from CPWH. You will need to get BT Option 3 first and then get TalkTalk 3. You pay single amount of around £20 to CPWH (they will pay BT) and you get up to 8mb BB + free daytime and evening calls + free calls to 30 countries. Beware the minimum contract is 18 months. Check their website for more details.

Dan

FannyHill

When you cancel your sub to Sky the viewing card still works for the FTV (free to view channels.Ch4,5,Sky3, Five US,Five Life. There are also all the FTA (free to air) channels Tv and radio, which don't need any card to watch. That's why they're called FTA channels.
These can also be watched on a non Sky sat receiver like the ones that Lidl etc sometimes sell.

If you buy a Sky receiver secondhand but there isn't a viewing card you can pay £20 for a Freesatfromsky card for the FTV channels.

starfish10

We are having problems with receiving some of the Sky channels (we pay the full package and for a number of years), this problem is intermittent, for example a good deal of the time we dont get ITV2 it breaks up. Yesterday we lost a lot of channels, BBC2, comedy channels and many more. My Husband phoned Sky, the operative tested everything and said that it was to do with polarizaton as all these channels are either vertical or horizontal (can't remember which now)and it could be a problem with the digibox, dish, cable and that he could send an engineer and it would cost about £50 call out. We told him we had another digibox in house belonged to deceased mother, we could try to rule out digibox,and rung off. We tried this box and everthing is exactly same, so I put old one back in and still in the same position. After being out for a couple of hours, I came in and tried Sky and everthing is back on Ok, so how can it be our equipment. A relative lives next door I phoned her while having the problem, she had no problems with those channels on Sky. What can we do?

FannyHill

It's very common for the dish to move especially in high winds.It just needs to move a tiny little bit.Go into the menu press on the remote Services button,go down to System Setup,go down to Signal Test,pressing the Select button in the middle of the remote to go to each stage.You want the signal strength and especially the signal quality to be over halfway up the bar the more the better. If your dish has moved with the wind, just a fraction, it will probably be low.Then press Backup on the remote a few times to come back out to the picture.
But the sat cable, the f plug that's the silver thing that fits onto the cable,LNB thats the thing on the end of the arm on the dish,or the Sky receiver can all cause problems.

miketrim

I just re-subscribed to SKY and got 1/3 off for a whole year!

pigsmightfly

Hi,
I am trying to lower my monthly outgoings at the moment and currently subscribe to SKY.

At present we pay £25.00 per month. I am very happy with it and don't want to get rid of it but does anyone know of a good letter I could write to them to try and get them to lower the payments? any ideas of excuses I could use? Do they have a certain competitor I could mention and say they've offered me a better deal?

I would prefer not to speak to them on the telephone - I've always preferred things in writing.

Any help gratefully received

rayge81

I don't want to pay for sky box and dish cover anymore. If something goes wrong can I cancel subcription and then say re sign up again in 2 months or so and get a box and dish again?
Any advice, thanks.

allan2006

no i cancelled mine recently becuase once your box is knackered they will want 85 quid for a refurbished one.

You cant re-sign up as their free box offer is one per household....
Depends how much the cover costs and how old ur box is?

My sky box was 9yrs old before it gave up the ghost.