Sky, Virgin & BT TV Haggle down prices and get serious discounts Article Discussion

bubblegun

applicationcen wrote: »

I have both a 1TB and a 2TB SkyPlusHD Box in my order - the 1TB is fully discounted, the 2TB partly discounted leaving a one off payment of £49 . I have the multi room at half price and I suspect that I can get 50 - 60 quid for the 1TB after 12 months, especially if it is rarely used. Even if I don't flog it it may be useful for when I have too many shows you want to record at the same time. We will see:)
I can see that they supply a Multi Screen box - that will be redundant.
I don't quite understand the decoder advice you said at end?

Sky don't sell 1TB boxes anymore so if you have a "fully discounted" box then this will be a standard 500GB box.
If they have sold you a 1TB box then it will be about 2 years old!
The 1TB and 2TB boxes are exactly the same box just with a different hard drive inside and you will not get a discount on one if you have had a discount on the other.

You need to call Sky as you are NOT getting what you think you are!

[Deleted User]

applicationcen wrote: »

The MultiScreen 'box' is a 'decoder'

The 1TB SkyPlus HD 'box' is not simply a decoder

They are both decoders, but again, good luck trying to sell either second hand unless your price is around £20. A Sky PVR decoder (Sky+HD 2 Tb etc ) is only useful for someone with a Sky subscription because the recording functions won't work unless Sky is paid a monthly fee.

bubblegun wrote: »

You need to call Sky as you are NOT getting what you think you are!

I expect the OP thinks his Multi-room decoder/box is 1tb, but I think he's just mistaken.

d123

applicationcen wrote: »

So that both myself and other people follow exactly what you are getting at :-

The MultiScreen 'box' is a 'decoder'

The 1TB SkyPlus HD 'box' is not simply a decoder

But to differentiate between the decoder and the 1TB SkyPlus HD - the 1TB SkyPlus HD is not purely a decoder because it has the record functions

Is this correct?

I'm not sure where you got that idea, my main box and multiroom box are exactly the same Sky+HD boxes, as are the ones everyone else I know who have multiroom have.

The boxes do exactly the same thing. Sky haven't had a standard box for many years, they haven't even had a standard Sky+ box for at least 6 years (or possibly even longer).

Even if you don't want HD, you still get an HD box, the HD channels just aren't provisioned.

Kurtis_Blue

d123 wrote: »

I'm not sure where you got that idea, my main box and multiroom box are exactly the same Sky+HD boxes, as are the ones everyone else I know who have multiroom have.

The standard sky box for mutiroom subscriptions is called a "multiscreen" box and do not come with a harddrive or record facility.

[Deleted User]

d123 wrote: »

I'm not sure where you got that idea, my main box and multiroom box are exactly the same Sky+HD boxes, as are the ones everyone else I know who have multiroom have.

Not correct I'm afraid.

Unless customers actively select a recording decoder (and pay an additional fee), Sky only provide a basic non-recording decoder. This is what new multi-room customers receive for free;


http://www.sky.com/products/kit/sky-hd-box/


Compare other choices here;
http://www.sky.com/products/kit/compare/

Futuristic

We're with Virgin Media and were paying ~£46/mo for M+ TV (+Asian Mela package) / 30Mb Broadband / Evening+Weekend Calls around 2years ago and with the VM price increases it eventually was around £51/mo in the last year. It includes the free BB upgrade to 50MB. No Tivo.

Our 2nd yr contract ended and they wanted us to pay £56/mo and £5/mo if we wanted Tivo. We decided to cancel and 3-4 days later we got a call from "Retentions Manager" who gave us all what we were getting + Tivo for £47/mo and took the pre-pay line rental for a yr as well for £144

d123

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Not correct I'm afraid.

Unless customers actively select a recording decoder (and pay an additional fee), Sky only provide a basic non-recording decoder. This is what new multi-room customers receive for free;


http://www.sky.com/products/kit/sky-hd-box/


Compare other choices here;
http://www.sky.com/products/kit/compare/

That's a bit mean of them, when did that start happening?

I know someone who got multiroom earlier this year (I've had mine around 18 months now) and both boxes are DRX890's, (as are mine).

[Deleted User]

d123 wrote: »

That's a bit mean of them, when did that start happening?

As far as i know, there has always been an extra cost for Sky+ Multi-sceeen boxes. I'm certain you will have paid extra for Sky+ too(though you may not remember)

Kurtis_Blue

d123 wrote: »

That's a bit mean of them, when did that start happening?

I know someone who got multiroom earlier this year (I've had mine around 18 months now) and both boxes are DRX890's, (as are mine).

Non recording HD boxes as the standard multiscreen box started end of 2011.

blisteringblue

You are far better buying a 2nd hand Sky HD box from fleabay, you can get them for under £30 normally.

Take care though, our last one from ebay was flagged as having a sky contract attached when we came to activate, but looking further checks from sky showed it had ended. It still took a manager override to activate it but been fine since. So always check with the person you are buying from.