sky additional user query

phoebe03cat

Just joined sky with a package that suits us. For student daughter we have arranged an additional box upstairs with a rental of eleven pounds something per month, just for the year. Now discovered the additional sky user facility and was wondering if we could make use of this rather than incur the additional rental, although I suspect she will still need the box? Any suggestions welcomed. Thanks for help.

superbigal36

Hopefully someone could move to the tv forum


I assume you have now discovered she can watch Sky for free on a laptop/tablet etc via sky go.
Bare in mind if you did manage to downgrade/drop the multi-room (Some expert will confirm if you can while in your 1st year contract) then the Sky go becomes chargeable at £5 per month anyway.

Also I always advise those getting multi-room installs to ensure the installer supplies 2 cables from the dish so you can hook up a "decent" recording box from ebay or a car boot sale later. The little box they supply only needs one feed. Again the experts may know if the twin cable is a standard on new multi installs. Certainly wasn't in the past.

jem16

phoebe03cat wrote: »

Just joined sky with a package that suits us. For student daughter we have arranged an additional box upstairs with a rental of eleven pounds something per month, just for the year.

So have you taken out a multiscreen subscription? If you have it carries a minimum 12 month sub.

Now discovered the additional sky user facility and was wondering if we could make use of this rather than incur the additional rental, although I suspect she will still need the box? Any suggestions welcomed. Thanks for help.

Perhaps you could explain what you mean by "additional sky user facility"? Do you mean Sky Go?

The multiscreen sub basically allows your daughter to watch what she wants to watch and all the channels are available to her.

Did you get one of the basic non-recording boxes or did you get one with recording facilities?

lulu_92

superbigal36 wrote: »

Hopefully someone could move to the tv forum


I assume you have now discovered she can watch Sky for free on a laptop/tablet etc via sky go.
Bare in mind if you did manage to downgrade/drop the multi-room (Some expert will confirm if you can while in your 1st year contract) then the Sky go becomes chargeable at £5 per month anyway.

Sky Go only becomes chargeable if it is Sky Go Extra, which comes as standard with multiscreen.

Sky Go in general is free and can be played through Xbox, Playstation, tablets, mobiles and laptops.

This gives you live television and movies/boxsets on demand - depending on your Sky subscription.

I love it for watching the new episode of Modern Family when I'm in the bath.

phoebe03cat

Thanks for help..we are still waiting for an install, in cooldown period and contract hasn't started yet so no doubt still flexible. Sorry for wrong forum...doh!