what do Sky pay for Sky HD boxes?

st999

Does anyone know what Sky pay the manufacturers for Sky + HD boxes?

Stan

Ionkontrol

The Chinese equivalent of £3

preable

probs around £3-£4

Kurtis_Blue

You couldnt even import them for £3-4 my educated guess would be over £100 for HD+

spike7451

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

You couldnt even import them for £3-4 my educated guess would be over £100 for HD+

IIRC,When HD first came out it was over £500 a box bearing in mind the was a shortage of some chipset which drove the box price up (that's when Sky released them in time for the last world cup & promptly ran out of them!)
Now I believe it's around £135 a box,so the storeman when I was at Sky told me.

bengalknights

As sky own amstrad who make majority of theres boxes its probably less than £10

Hammyman

bengalknights wrote: »

As sky own amstrad who make majority of theres boxes its probably less than £10

Really? Where can I find 320GB Hard drives for under a tenner?

spike7451

bengalknights wrote: »

As sky own amstrad who make majority of theres boxes its probably less than £10

Considering Sky's boxes are also made by Thompson,Pace & Grundig,I cant see where you got you're statement from.Sky but what's available to fill the order at that time.

bengalknights

Hammyman wrote: »

Really? Where can I find 320GB Hard drives for under a tenner?

if you but 100k+ units im sure it would cost less than a tenner considering 1TB drives can be had for £60 retail

Nilrem

bengalknights wrote: »

if you but 100k+ units im sure it would cost less than a tenner considering 1TB drives can be had for £60 retail

Unlikely, as computer parts (at least for general ones) tend to have a fairly small markup at retial.
Also the price of small hard drives is almost always out of proportion to the cost of the larger ones (it's not too uncommon to find that the cheapest small drive might cost £35, and a drive with twice the capacity only £5-10 more).

I suspect Sky are still paying something in the region of £100 or more per unit, as the boxes include some parts that don't decrease in price much such as the HDD, the chipset will be fairly expensive as it's got to have at least mpeg2 and iirc mpeg4 decoding, then the other assorted electronics (some of which have a per unit royalty payment).

Don't forget the cheapest single tuner, non recording, HD box you can get is about £70, a box that has recording and a single tuner is about £150-200, and iirc the Sky HD boxes have two tuners + smart card reader which will push the manufacturing costs up.