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

jammin_2

darthpaul wrote: »

Slightly off topic but I am having sky+ installed today and just need to know if the install requires a 2nd feed coax off the dish to the sky box? I presume yes! If so I need to move some furniture quickly!

Yes - second feed required. Get moving! Oh, and don't let the installer take away your existing Sky digibox - that's your property.

Lupilurcher

Hi

I am considering getting sky through Quidco but I'm a bit worried about signing up and then not getting the cashback offered. If it weren't for the £135 offer I wouldn't bother. We won't be getting freeview here 'til 2011 so sky for under £7.50 a month seems ok! Any advise greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

mike_paterson

darthpaul wrote: »

Thanks to OBG I to have been offered Sky+ for £49 with free installation. Just waiting for an engineer to call now to organise the day. Cant say thank you enough but I didnt have to do any threatening and they recognised as a customer of 7 years that they wanted to keep me!

*waits for phone to ring*

Did you miss my post on Page 62.

Without any hard work at all, I received Sky+ for free as I had been a customer for more than 3 years (in fact more than 8).

Might be worth phoning to tell them that a friend has had a better deal.

mike_paterson

darthpaul wrote: »

Slightly off topic but I am having sky+ installed today and just need to know if the install requires a 2nd feed coax off the dish to the sky box? I presume yes! If so I need to move some furniture quickly!

When they did mine last week, they replaced the single coax with a twin coax combined lead through the same hole (which they widened slightly).

They will also move your old box to another room if you opt for the £10 multiroom deal (which you can cancel within 30 days).

jammin_2

Lupilurcher wrote: »

Hi

I am considering getting sky through Quidco but I'm a bit worried about signing up and then not getting the cashback offered. If it weren't for the £135 offer I wouldn't bother. We won't be getting freeview here 'til 2011 so sky for under £7.50 a month seems ok! Any advise greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

It would have been better to open a new thread for this question. But yes, as long as you you are a brand new Sky customer and go through Quidco (and complete the transaction totally online), you should get your cashback.

phoebeophelia

I have Sky multiroom and HD for both TVs. Trying to cut costs I wondered if I cancel multiroom and one HD subscription, saving £20 per month.

Question is would I still get any signal to the switched off TV....the Sky cable would still be in wouldn't it? Maybe freeview? Any HD channels?

jammin_2

phoebeophelia wrote: »

I have Sky multiroom and HD for both TVs. Trying to cut costs I wondered if I cancel multiroom and one HD subscription, saving £20 per month.

Question is would I still get any signal to the switched off TV....the Sky cable would still be in wouldn't it? Maybe freeview? Any HD channels?

You will get FTV channels on the no-longer-subscribed HD box. For a list of these channels (and in fact all Sky channels), see here. As for HD channels, you'd get the BBC HD "test" channel now, and Channel 4 HD soon (December?).

phoebeophelia

Thanks jammin.

Another question.

I live in the Guernsey and there is no competition to Sky here as there is no cable and freeview is not available. I have heard that BBC Freesat is coming out soon...maybe next year.

Will freesat be a viable alternative to Sky or will it perhaps have too few channels? Although I wouldn't miss most of the Sky channels I currently get, I do want more than the basic ones.

jammin_2

phoebeophelia wrote: »

Thanks jammin.

Another question.

I live in the Guernsey and there is no competition to Sky here as there is no cable and freeview is not available. I have heard that BBC Freesat is coming out soon...maybe next year.

Will freesat be a viable alternative to Sky or will it perhaps have too few channels? Although I wouldn't miss most of the Sky channels I currently get, I do want more than the basic ones.

BBC's Freesat service has been controversial since it was announced. We simply won't know until it's launched, what viable competition the service will be, against Sky. Certainly the FTA channels will be identical, so perhaps the competition will be based mainly on price of equipment / installation, maybe also on extra content / EPG facility. Either way, competition is never a bad thing.

BexTech

phoebeophelia wrote: »

Thanks jammin.

Another question.

I live in the Guernsey and there is no competition to Sky here as there is no cable and freeview is not available. I have heard that BBC Freesat is coming out soon...maybe next year.

Will freesat be a viable alternative to Sky or will it perhaps have too few channels? Although I wouldn't miss most of the Sky channels I currently get, I do want more than the basic ones.

You won't need the new BBC/ITV Freesat, you have a Sky HD box, if you cancel the subscription, you'll get FreeSatFromSky including the free BBC HD, 4HD in Dec and ITV HD in Spring 2008.

If you bought a BBC/ITV Freesat box you won't be any better off, you'll only get the same channels as you do now (except you won't get 4HD until later in 2008 when they switch from FTV to FTA).

The BBC Freesat is not about new channels, not about new satellites, it's just about specifications for a new box, with a different EPG and different system for Interactive. The dish will be pointed at the same SES Astra and Eutelsat satellites as now, it will pick up the same FTA channels as now.

With the only difference any box that's designed to have a HDD for recording won't need a monthly fee or be part of a subscription.