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

wolfers

So I just called Sky and told them I wanted to downgrade to Freesat plus recording at £10 per month, removing my variety pack and HD.

I was offered my variety pack at half price, with recording, for £9.50 a month for six months. I'd still get the free HD channels. This is an even better deal than the one I proposed, so I took it.

Does anyone know what happens in six months? Will they let me keep the deal, or will they insist I go back up to the full rate or quit altogether?

MediaFreshRob

Call Sky this morning to cancel my very rarely watched Movie Package. Was told it would ONLY save me £7 a month. I told them that was fine, please cancel, then they offered me 20% off my SkyWorld package for 6 months, and keep the Movies! worth £10.20 a month - Just need to call again in May to cancel or re-negotiate that.
Quite happy with that!

salduck

Can someone help me out?
I have bt broadband and phone that is costing me £30 a month( paid quarterly always over £90) I am on a month by month contract with them and want to get either BT vision plus or sky plus. Am i best to phone them and see what they will offer me for the BT vision or to package it up or what?
Any help gratefully rceived
Thanks
Sal

robd831

Salduck
Are you using your call over rider to reduce you calls on your BT package? This site has loads of them and I am sure on BT ( I am on Virgin) that most of your calls would be free.
Also you must be able to get a cheaper broadband package than what you appear to be spending (£15aprox), I think some of the ones mentioned by Martin work out about £7 -£10 per month.
It will take some working out but sit for an hour and surf the net for seperate offers then look at combined offers, take notes and then ring up BT and SKy etc to see if then can offer better. If you are in a cable area also look at Virgin packages.
Haggle, haggle haggle !
If you can sign up on line don't forget to register and use cashback sites (a bonus of money but not always guarenteed?)
Good luck....

Heinz

salduck wrote: »

Can someone help me out?
I have bt broadband and phone that is costing me £30 a month( paid quarterly always over £90) I am on a month by month contract with them and want to get either BT vision plus or sky plus. Am i best to phone them and see what they will offer me for the BT vision or to package it up or what?
Any help gratefully rceived
Thanks
Sal

I have a BT line and BT Total Broadband Option 1 and pay my bill on a Whole Bill Direct Debit basis. The total cost £19.53 (no calls). Of that, the broadband is £7.49/month (after discount obtained by agreeing to another 12 month contract).

I also have Sky+ (not HD) and strongly recommend it.

If you're new to Sky, they'll install a Sky+HD box but you don't have to take the £10/month HD package.

TrevBrw

Your article about Digital Cost cutting does not mention Freesat in any way. We found that when we got a new TV we could have the HD Channels for BBC One, BBC HD and ITV1 HD on freesat without paying any subscription whilst Sky would have cost us an additional £10 per month.
Also for us in a still analogue area we would only get about 20 channels because we are on a repeater transmitter when we go digital later this year and freesat offers us many more, admittedly fewer than Sky but how many channels do you want? For us we had Sky at first as well but ditched them recently because we did'nt watch it at all. You have to buy the kit which is a bit expensive but after that its all free. If you have a Sky dish you can use that since it all comes from the same satellites.
If you have Sky they allow you to keep your dish and box and you can still get many of the channels you got before. Dont go down the route of freesat from Sky - it gives almost no extra channels and costs you a one off payment of about £20.

jem16

TrevBrw wrote: »

Your article about Digital Cost cutting does not mention Freesat in any way. We found that when we got a new TV we could have the HD Channels for BBC One, BBC HD and ITV1 HD on freesat without paying any subscription whilst Sky would have cost us an additional £10 per month.

Not for those channels it wouldn't.

If you have Sky they allow you to keep your dish and box and you can still get many of the channels you got before. Dont go down the route of freesat from Sky - it gives almost no extra channels and costs you a one off payment of about £20.

If you already had a Sky sub and then cancel it you automatically have Freesat from Sky and do not need to pay £20.

TrevBrw

jem16 wrote: »

Not for those channels it wouldn't.

Depends whether you already had Sky HD or not. We had Sky+ only.

If you already had a Sky sub and then cancel it you automatically have Freesat from Sky and do not need to pay £20.

I agree and I thought that was what I had said.

The facility of having iplayer on the TV set from BBC and soon ITV via freesat is very good. I dont think this is available via other platforms.

jem16

TrevBrw wrote: »

Depends whether you already had Sky HD or not. We had Sky+ only.

You didn't mention that in your post.

It is also possible to get a Sky HD box and not pay the HD sub.

Your post also suggested that you needed to get a Freesat from Sky card after you have cancelled your Sky sub.

The facility of having iplayer on the TV set from BBC and soon ITV via freesat is very good. I dont think this is available via other platforms.

Virgin Media do but obviously at a price.

ncfc1902

TrevBrw wrote: »

If you have Sky they allow you to keep your dish and box and you can still get many of the channels you got before. Dont go down the route of freesat from Sky - it gives almost no extra channels and costs you a one off payment of about £20.

Sky don't "allow" you keep the box and dish, they are yours anyway!
The £25 charge for freesat from sky is for the viewing card, allowing you to watch Sky 3, Fiver and Five US, as well as Channels 4 and 5 HD if you have an HD box. As an ex subscriber you will already have a viewing card. You may have to pay for a new card in a few years when they are replaced if you want/need one.