Sky HD £29, Free Install (Existing Customer)

Deedee73

Last week we had our HD installed, it cost ....£15!
and thrown into my bargain, I got AOL down to £6.99 pm from £24.99 pm

I had called, told them I had seen all of the virgin leaflets dropping through our door, and would be going with them (no intention of doing this, "OH" wanted skysports for the summer.

• Step 1. Go through to cancellations.
• Step 2. Say you've had lots Virgin leaflets.
• Step 3. Don't get cuffuffled, have the Virgin webby open, or a comparrison site.
• Step 4. Tell them you will think about their most excellent offer:D
• Step 5. Phone back, and take them up on the deal.

We were supposed to be having an "A Grade" sky box, but the engineer installed a brand new one, I asked him, and he said "I've got no A Grades on the van, they've logged this one for you!"

johng_uk

Plushchris wrote: »

When doing this do you have to pay for the HD box up front or do they put the cost onto the next bill?

Depends. I got my box for free and therefore won't pay for it. What I will pay for is a more expensive Sky package containing movies and sports. Obviously, this will be added to my next bill. After I get that bill, I can downgrade to sports, dropping the movies which will save me £9 - £10 per month.

santamonica6

Any one know when if sky will drop the hd monthly charge like they did with sky plus

sarah1972

CrazySaver wrote: »

Did you have to negotiate that? or did they cave in quite quickly?

They offered it to me straight away without me even saying I was going to leave.

johng_uk

santamonica6 wrote: »

Any one know when if sky will drop the hd monthly charge like they did with sky plus

Not from what I've read around the internet - Althought this is all heresay.

I've read that Sky make around a £100 loss at the moment with brand new customers and the £9.75 fee is how they recoup this. The Sky HD box costs a bi to manufacture and they are going cheap at the moment. Obviously Sky makes money from people having Sports/Movies packages etc, but the HD TV costs more to put out.

Also threre is no competition for HD a the moment. Until that moment occurs, we'll be forking out I'm afraid (imo).........

cabbage

EssexGirl wrote: »

Cabbage, that sounds like what had been happening to a friends HD box. Sky always blamed the cables running to the tv. Turns out loads of Thomson boxes have faults on them and each time an engineer changed the box they gave them another Thomson one, but always refurbished. She put her foot down this time and now has an Amstrad one and touch wood, not problems so far.

Thanks for that Essex Girl

It went wrong again today, couldn't even get any channels. I phoned sky technical help again and managed to speak to someone in the UK. She has booked another engineer to call to swap the box over again. I'll make sure it isn't a Thomson box again. We know there is nothing wrong with the cables, the LMB, the dish etc. The other sky plus box in the house is working fine so its not the weather either. The lady at sky said it sounds like the box has a terminal fault and it will get worse day by day.

We keep putting stuff on the planner and then the signal fails and it doesn't record. One minute a signal is there and then its not. We've swapped the boxes round at the mo and the multi room box is our main box.

Its annoying that I am paying for sky and HD and not getting either!

Thanks for your post Essex Girl, I'll insist on not getting a Thomson box.

johng_uk

Just got mine installed - A Samsung box, which doen't have the new TV guide yet.

Unfortunately, I have to go back to work so can't report back on the picture quality yet!

Eric_Pisch

SurfBowlSC wrote: »

I won't pay an extra £10 per month for tv programming that is being falsely advertised as HD.
Very little of what they show is actually HD, most, specifically 90% of the movies are just an upscale to slightly improve the quality.

My wife even challenged a sales-person over this and they admitted it's true!!!

I still have an original Sky+ box which doesn't have the "Anytime" option on it. We asked about one which does and were quoted £79!!
Can't use their website to do anytime either as it doesn't recognise our log-in details or our viewing card.....

We only have sky because we have no cable option around us!

utter rubbish

99% of the content on sky's numerous HD movie channels is HD and looks bloody amazing, its not BD quality but its a massive improvement over SD transmission, the standard HD channels do have a mix of SD and HD (BBC HD is all HD and the highest quality/bandwidth of any channel, the tennis looked amazing) depending on if the orginial show was shot in HD.

if you cant see a big difference between SD movies and HD movies either your eyes need testing or you have a small HD set and are viewing it from a long distance.

SKY HD is very exspenive but if you have invested in a HD TV its worth it. HD costs sky alot to transmit with the digital sound each HD channel uses enough bandwidth to show 6-8 normal channels, this costs money especially when you have as many HD channels as sky does.

The current freeview system will not allow HD in the quality or numbers of channels that sky has and broadband is 10+ years away from having the infrastructure to broadcast HD at the bandwidth rates sky do. Virgins HD is very low quality.

mohammedmj

Still have to pay £9.75 + Vat (= about £11 plus) for just a few HD channels! I will rather wait until there is more competition and the price will go down; then I will go for HD. Meanwhile I will stick to normal SKY.

Or I might just disconnect and re-apply to sky to become a new customer and benefit from new customer discount. I tried phoning them but the advisor refuse to give me the new customer because I am already a "valued customer". Shame... :T:mad:

ukbill69

mohammedmj wrote: »

Still have to pay £9.75 + Vat (= about £11 plus) for just a few HD channels! I will rather wait until there is more competition and the price will go down; then I will go for HD. Meanwhile I will stick to normal SKY.

Or I might just disconnect and re-apply to sky to become a new customer and benefit from new customer discount. I tried phoning them but the advisor refuse to give me the new customer because I am already a "valued customer". Shame... :T:mad:

Not £9.75 + vat, this is £9.75 including vat.