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

parcelmonkey_company_representative

I have Sky+, unlimited broadband and Sky talk and wanted to upgrade to HD and multiroom for my son.
This costs £20 a month extra and I have to sign up for 12 months min.

I tried to get a deal or a free movie package but the best I got offered was movies for 3 months at £8 a month.
I declined the movie offer having said I would pay £5 a month but will be having the other items installed next week.

Billington

After reading throught this thread I rang Sky on the freephone number and got through to cancellations. I have an HD box with Sky+ and my 12 month contract was up in 3 days. Nice Indian guy, really helpful. After a short conversation he reduced my 29.00/mth for Sky and HD package to basic Sky + with Ent and News package for 10.50/mth for 6 months with option to renew after that time. Saving £8.50/mth. I lose the HD subscription but I only watch the free ones anyway (BBC/ITV etc) so will still get them. Good deal.

Mum2Two_2

The 0800 0512597 no longer works (they ask you to phone an 0844 number) so after checking on say no to 0870 the number to ring is 0800 0512596 which will say something about a restriction on your phone line so press 1 and ask to be put through to cancellations.

I spoke to a nice scottish man said I was thinking of leaving due to financial aspect but no probs with sky and was there anything he could do before I started looking elsewhere or having the hassle of changing suppliers. He offered me 6 months at half price or 12 months at 25% off. Have taken the 6 months at half price saving us £22.50 a month. We have all mixes plus Sky Sports package. Fab result for a very short phone call - thanks you guys for posting all your deals which inspired me to phone up and see if I could get anything.

equitydealer

A few days ago phoned to cancel, said I was going to Virgin Media because they offered better value for their version of Sky multiroom (in an attempt to avoid the £199 HD+ box charge and £60 installation).

Result - I got it all for £29 :j

nandrews

All this is making me feel very green.

Nigel

mrswack

My sky+ box and remote are less than sensitive anymore and fed up of overshooting when fast forwarding as I have to hit play 100 times...finally got annoyed enough to call, they offered sky+HD box for £15 self installation and £10 per month for HD. Said I would rather cancel as the remote is duff and £10 a month is a lot when sky 1 is all I'd watch, he then offered a new sky+ HD box without a subscription or installation...brill, sign up for another 12 months but I never would have cancelled anyway and now get the free HD channels...happy, happy!

garrarda

Phoned up yesrday to cancel, the best they could do was to offer free sky+ HD box and install, but have decided to cancel anyway. Only really watch the football and only have sky sports 1, now they are putting more and more football on sky sports 2, to make you buy the complete sky sports package, but enough is enough after 11 years of paying for sky, if they cant offer a paltry 6 months 1/2 price like so many have got on here, I will do without and pocket the £35 per month, and I wont phone up last minute to stay either.

parkside_stroller

I am a BT broadband user and sky subscriber who is thinking of phoning both of them to find a way of cutting my costs down - any advice appreciated on how to get a new BT Vision box for free to replace my broken one and broadband for less.

In the meantime a response to the post quoted below. With a BT Vision Box most of the content comes through your TV ariel - the BT Vision receives a freeview signal and also has a hard disk for recording (twin tuner in fact so you can record one programme and watch another). It gets its Electronic Progamme Guide and on-demand services through your broadband connection (Sky Sports 1 and 2 area available through your TV signal I believe - although my BT Vision box is broken and I can't check this for myself at present) - I don't know if you need a card from BT to put in the BT Vision box to access the Sport content but maybe someone can clarify this.

For sports content I think it's tempting to go down the BT Vision route for Sky Sports - it's much cheaper (special retention and introductory offers aside) and you can also get BT Sports package which includes ESPN (English premiership, Scottish, German and other football games on this - as well as other sports of course). Downside is no Sky Sports 3 or 4 and I am not sure if you get the full access to the red button interactive menu such as multi-screen games on sky - maybe someone else could clarify this.

If you can get broadband from sky (I can't) you may consider this to be potentially a better deal for you than BT broadband with vision box. Personally I dislike having to shell out for Sky content that I am not interested in - why do I need an entertainment pack when I am only interested in sports? When I got sky installed it was essential to have this as you couldn't get sports without it - I believe this is still the same for new subscribers however, the sky site now seems to offer sports only for about £29 a month but from what I can see you would need to have equipment already - I don't think it's a new subscriber deal but I am happy to be corrected if I am reading this wrong.
I've posted links below for anyone who wants to read more on BT and Sky offers/services

Here is the link to BT Vision info

Here is the link to SKY

ddebski_us wrote: »

I'll admit, haven't read through the whole thread, but hoping someone can help me?

I have BT Total Broadband and free evening and weekend calls - pay roughly £28 a month including line rental. Contract is up 8th December.

I'd really like a box like Sky + so I can record programmes, and we'd like Sky Sports. I've read that BT vision comes through broadband and so if you're connection isn't good, I'm guessing the quality is poor. I also don't really want to start spend loads more money - but I want to see if there are any good deals to be had from BT or if I'm better off moving to Sky or Virgin?

Any ideas? Cheers

xDx

russetred

I was offered a free sky HD+ box, free installation and 6 months free HD subscription which I took as my sky+ box has died. Bt vision had offered a free box+ and £19.99 for all 4 packs but I was losing out on a lot of channels we watch the rest were basically freeview. In 12 months I may consider going for freeview+ now we have a new box.

jammin_2

russetred wrote: »

In 12 months I may consider going for freeview+ now we have a new box.

Eh? Don't see what you mean.