Sky hd & multiroom

HoolyNI

My mother in law got a deal from a sky salesman in a shopping centre to get sky hd and multiroom for £10.25 extra per month in total for 12 months, yet when i enquire online i'm told it would be £20.50 extra......is there a deal on at the minute or what am i doing wrong??

Also with multiroom i presume you have two seperate planners and i couldnt watch upstairs something thats on the downstairs planner?

[Deleted User]

HoolyNI wrote: »

My mother in law got a deal from a sky salesman in a shopping centre to get sky hd and multiroom for £10.25 extra per month in total for 12 months, yet when i enquire online i'm told it would be £20.50 extra......is there a deal on at the minute or what am i doing wrong??

Also with multiroom i presume you have two seperate planners and i couldnt watch upstairs something thats on the downstairs planner?

It costs £10.25 for multiroom and £10.25 for HD. There have been several half price deals recently so that is what your Mother-In-Law must have signed up for.
If by "planner" you mean the recordings that you make, then you presume correctly that anything recorded on one box is not available on the other. The easy way around this is just to schedule identical recordings for both boxes.

HoolyNI

If I cancel the multi-room after 12 months but keep my subscription on the main box, could I still watch free to air channels on the box in the bedroom?

[Deleted User]

HoolyNI wrote: »

If I cancel the multi-room after 12 months but keep my subscription on the main box, could I still watch free to air channels on the box in the bedroom?

Yes, but the recording features of the second box would be disabled.

macman

You can watch the FTA channels without any sub whatsoever for the price of a Sky box on eBay (peanuts, or free on freegle), assuming that you have the necessary feed installed from the LNB.

HoolyNI

Was looking at that also, keep my subs downstairs and use a fta sky box upstairs just need to run cabling thru wall and hook up to the dish.......will all sky hd boxes from 2012 onwards work with bbc i-player, 4oD etc just by hooking up a router?

Moneymaker

HoolyNI wrote: »

My mother in law got a deal from a sky salesman in a shopping centre to get sky hd and multiroom for £10.25 extra per month in total for 12 months, yet when i enquire online i'm told it would be £20.50 extra......is there a deal on at the minute or what am i doing wrong??

You are probably believing a salesman. Did your M.I.L. get it in writing?

HoolyNI

Rang her tonight to get her to double check after i discovered the hd multi-room box doesnt have record facilities and she said letter arrived today.....she replacing an old standard sky box with sky+hd downstairs and sky hd upstairs....10.25 extra a month

Heinz

HoolyNI wrote: »

Rang her tonight to get her to double check after i discovered the hd multi-room box doesnt have record facilities and she said letter arrived today.....she replacing an old standard sky box with sky+hd downstairs and sky hd upstairs....10.25 extra a month

Assuming she signed up for the HD pack and multiroom, that should be £10.25 for each = £20.50/month extra.

HoolyNI

Heinz wrote: »

Assuming she signed up for the HD pack and multiroom, that should be £10.25 for each = £20.50/month extra.

Thats what I thought too, and why it was so appealing but she's adamant its only an extra 10.25 in total, maybe i'm being a luddite but dont really see the appeal of HD and would choke me paying extra for it....

HoolyNI

Can I just double check on here....if you take a multiroom sub with hd are both boxes capable of recording??.....am on with live chat on sky website and its painfully obvious the guy doesn't understand what i'm trying to ask him...