SKY HD New deal on website

deanos

rosettemaker wrote: »

We have multi room already but we wanted another HD box for us, cant get it on the special offer I am afraid as we already show that we have a HD box here!

Thanks Nick for your suggestion - we thought of doing this but that then means we have to have 2 accounts as you are only allowed 1 HD box per household to qualify for the offer - its madness really!!

Tracy

Just put parents address as A . eg 30A

squoog

I think I would like to switch from cable to sky, but really need advice.
I just have the basic Virgin package with a BT phone line and broadband and calls thru Aol which I am stuck with for another couple of months.
Would it be worth me switching now? I would like to use a multiroom system but have been told by sky that I am not in a switchover area so won't get multiroom lite. I am in Brighton.
I don't have a fancy tv because my toddler smashed our lovely LCD by throwing a duplo seal across the room!?! and so we now have an antique from a charity shop with a nice solid glass screen.
So, HD is not something I need at the moment.
Would I be better getting a terrestial aerial fitted and just having some freeview boxes? The aerial would cost me about £400 to have fitted... We are in a poor area for reception.
Please can anyone help, all the different options are making my head hurt!

moonpie

Well finally had it installed today and am better off than I thought. About a month ago I cancelled my multiroom so ended up with my Sky+ box and my chosen mix and a standard sky box with just the free channels.

I had the standard box replaced by the new HD box so get all the free channels and most of the HD channels that aren't movies or sports. So now I have 2 boxes that record and all the channels that I want.

Not overly impressed with HD though.

Lara

We are well out of contract with Sky. I am assuming we can keep our Sky+ box and have that set up as our multiroom choice in place of the old Sky box we use at present when we have a new Sky+ HD box (hopefully not in a brown box!) - is this right?

We have the full Sky subscription and wondered whether there was any point in haggling to get a cheaper deal as out of contract? Don't want to go down the road of saying we are leaving Sky incase they take my word for it as OH would be mad at me!!

Thanks .

vix2000

vix2000 wrote: »

Have recieved email from sky (introduce a friend) inviting me to join sky for both to recieve £50 m&s vouchers. I was hoping to do as others on here have, and go through quidco aswell. The problem is there is a link to the site from the email which says

"[FONT=&quot]Once you have selected your gift it will be added to our online basket if you join Sky TV online.
Or, call 08442 410 951 to join Sky TV now."

Can anyone tell me if theres a way around this, please?
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Hi can anyone help me with this, please?

wilf55

vix2000 wrote: »

Hi can anyone help me with this, please?

would be appreciated by my daughter also

thanks

SurfBowlSC

Maybe I'm being a little bit cynical here, but I think Sky are still ripping customers off.
We have Sports & Movies, but plan on cancelling movies in the near future as we don't really watch anything on there. The only thing stopping us is that the Disney channels are only available when you take up Movies, and the kids like their disney!

Sky have added all these "HD" movie channels, but I have one question.
How many of those movies being shown are genuinely HD?!?
What you're actually seeing is an old film, not filmed in HD, which has had the broadcast quality improved.
Or is it?!? What you're getting is an upscaled picture.... not true HD.
I've actually noticed that the standard definition channels which have HD counterparts seem to have been somewhat "downgraded" in quality.
My Sky One picture has become dark and blotchy as have most of my movie channels. Yet BBC, ITV or other channels which show movies are much clearer....

Looks to me like Sky have subtly downgraded the quality of feed on their standard definition programming in an effort to bring in more money via HD.
It may not be legal, but I get better quality by downloading the likes of Lost etc than I do watching it on Sky.

£49 for an HD box is good, but why should I as an existing customer also have a £30 installation fee, when a new customer gets it for free?!?!
£10 a month on top is also not worthwhile.
That's £10 per month to watch an upscaled movie picture that I can watch in standard definition quite happily.

Until I can get it with no additional monthly fee and no installation fee then I'm not interested!

martytarty

Ok heres the score, i am a sky customer, our contract ran out about 8 months ago.

Back in june 2007 we decided to upgrade our old sky box to a sky+ box and we also took multiroom by putting my old sky box into our bedroom, because we took multiroom we got free installation.

My Contract with sky ended in June 2008 but still continue to pay them for their services, we have the full sky world package, movies,sports etc...

As things stand i have 1 sky+ box in living room and 1 standard sky box in bedroom.

I would like to upgrade to sky+ hd and replace or simply move the sky+ box to the bedroom and ditch old box, i think its unfair that we have to pay £30 installation this time round as we already have multiroom.

I was speaking with a sky salesman in my local shopping mall, i asked him is there a loop hole where you just cancel your multiroom subscription then take out the sky HD box offer then take multiroom again, he said if i paid £49 today he will do this for me and thats the only way round it, the only reason i didn't do it there and then is i didn't have £49 spare, i will have £49 this saturday and if he is there again i will take it up, he also said the order will go through much quicker than if you phoned up or done it online.

Now saying the above cant happen my question is.....

If i just phoned sky and decided to pay £49 for hd box then £30 for installation, do i have to pay the £49 for the box upfront? do i also have to pay the £30 install fee upfront? or do i have to wait for the install be be done first before i pay the £30.

I want the sky+ HD box in living room to go with my nice 40" HD TV, then thinking about having my sky+ box in bedroom then ditching my old sky box,

Can someone please help me with options, the sky website only answers some of my questions

berriballs

SurfBowlSC wrote: »

Maybe I'm being a little bit cynical here, but I think Sky are still ripping customers off.
We have Sports & Movies, but plan on cancelling movies in the near future as we don't really watch anything on there. The only thing stopping us is that the Disney channels are only available when you take up Movies, and the kids like their disney!

Sky have added all these "HD" movie channels, but I have one question.
How many of those movies being shown are genuinely HD?!?
What you're actually seeing is an old film, not filmed in HD, which has had the broadcast quality improved.
Or is it?!? What you're getting is an upscaled picture.... not true HD.
I've actually noticed that the standard definition channels which have HD counterparts seem to have been somewhat "downgraded" in quality.
My Sky One picture has become dark and blotchy as have most of my movie channels. Yet BBC, ITV or other channels which show movies are much clearer....

Looks to me like Sky have subtly downgraded the quality of feed on their standard definition programming in an effort to bring in more money via HD.
It may not be legal, but I get better quality by downloading the likes of Lost etc than I do watching it on Sky.

£49 for an HD box is good, but why should I as an existing customer also have a £30 installation fee, when a new customer gets it for free?!?!
£10 a month on top is also not worthwhile.
That's £10 per month to watch an upscaled movie picture that I can watch in standard definition quite happily.

Until I can get it with no additional monthly fee and no installation fee then I'm not interested!

if you cancel movies you still get disney but not disney cine i do

devils_vixen

SurfBowlSC wrote: »

Maybe I'm being a little bit cynical here, but I think Sky are still ripping customers off.
We have Sports & Movies, but plan on cancelling movies in the near future as we don't really watch anything on there. The only thing stopping us is that the Disney channels are only available when you take up Movies, and the kids like their disney!

Sky have added all these "HD" movie channels, but I have one question.
How many of those movies being shown are genuinely HD?!?
What you're actually seeing is an old film, not filmed in HD, which has had the broadcast quality improved.
Or is it?!? What you're getting is an upscaled picture.... not true HD.
I've actually noticed that the standard definition channels which have HD counterparts seem to have been somewhat "downgraded" in quality.
My Sky One picture has become dark and blotchy as have most of my movie channels. Yet BBC, ITV or other channels which show movies are much clearer....

Looks to me like Sky have subtly downgraded the quality of feed on their standard definition programming in an effort to bring in more money via HD.
It may not be legal, but I get better quality by downloading the likes of Lost etc than I do watching it on Sky.

£49 for an HD box is good, but why should I as an existing customer also have a £30 installation fee, when a new customer gets it for free?!?!
£10 a month on top is also not worthwhile.
That's £10 per month to watch an upscaled movie picture that I can watch in standard definition quite happily.

Until I can get it with no additional monthly fee and no installation fee then I'm not interested!

if you want the disney cinemagic it is an extra fiver a month