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teddysmum

Threepints wrote: »

I have a fantastic 3D TV and use it all the time :j

3D is ok for a novelty, but soon wears off and the tv is nothing like the big screen experience, even from Alton Towers many years ago, where it's so realistic that you duck when a swinging helicopter swings towards you.


The effect on tv is reduced by the fact that you can see the room round the edges of the screen, though ours is quite good with cartoons, where butterflies, fairies and the like spill into the room.

Bobaslayer

Just got what I think is the best deal I’m going to get at the minute -

Sky Q 2tb box plus free mini box
Free installation
Entertainment
HD
Kids
Box sets
£38.60 for 12 months, then £50 for 6 months.

Couldn’t get Cinema chucked in although I tried hard....

Struggling to get my Fibre Unlimited plus line rental for the £19 I’m currently paying though...

Mchambers

Bobaslayer wrote: »

Just got what I think is the best deal I’m going to get at the minute -

Sky Q 2tb box plus free mini box
Free installation
Entertainment
HD
Kids
Box sets
£38.60 for 12 months, then £50 for 6 months.

Couldn’t get Cinema chucked in although I tried hard....

Struggling to get my Fibre Unlimited plus line rental for the £19 I’m currently paying though...

Try Plusnet. Everything (line rental, unlimited bband, anytime calls) will cost £31.99 per month for fibre.

Sky are being very silly at the moment.

[Deleted User]

Threepints wrote: »

I have a fantastic 3D TV and use it all the time :j

...but now that every TV manufacturer (without exception) has declined to offer it on their new ranges, you won't be using it in the future I'm afraid.

caveman8006

Bobaslayer wrote: »

Just got what I think is the best deal I’m going to get at the minute -

Sky Q 2tb box plus free mini box
Free installation
Entertainment
HD
Kids
Box sets
£38.60 for 12 months, then £50 for 6 months.

Couldn’t get Cinema chucked in although I tried hard....

Struggling to get my Fibre Unlimited plus line rental for the £19 I’m currently paying though...

Why is this a good deal when the list price of your package (without any discounts) is only £35/month??

[Deleted User]

caveman8006 wrote: »

Why is this a good deal when the list price of your package (without any discounts) is only £35/month??

Where do you see it as only £35? Are you perhaps looking at a deal for new customers only?
It's normally £9.99 for HD, £5 for Boxsets
They also normally want existing customers to pay £199 for installation and a 2TB Q decoder is more expensive than the 1TB version.
User "Bobaslayer" is getting everything listed for £38.60 a month and, from his post, he looks to have already been on a retention deal to begin with.

pen1

Bobaslayer stated:

Entertainment
HD
Kids
Box sets

Entertainment= £20 per month, contracted.
Standard price = £25 per month.

HD, Kids & Box sets are all "TV Packs", priced at £5 per month each.

Sky Entertainment* + 3 "TV Packs" =£35 per month.

*Sky Entertainment costs £5 extra (£25pm) as standard if you do not agree to a minimum term discount or when your minimum term ends.

These prices are now open to new and existing customers,
and are detailed at the bottom of the terms & conditions:
http://www.sky.com/shop/__PDF/Sky_Q_contract.PDF

Add Sky Q Multiscreen at £12 per month?; but then I'm still not seeing
how it adds up to "£50 for 6 months"?

pen1

Mchambers wrote: »

Try Plusnet. Everything (line rental, unlimited bband, anytime calls) will cost £31.99 per month for fibre.

Sky are being very silly at the moment.

Sky reported results for the 6 months to 31/12/17 last week,
and (churn) cancellations dropped from 11.5% at 30/6/17
to 11.2%, whilst revenue continued to increase.

Many factors that Sky don't separate affect these results, including
the cancellation/switching rates of standalone broadband,
and of Now TV. However, Sky partially attributed improved
performance to "a more disciplined and targeted approach to discounting".

In the past, people were achieving increased discounts, without
having to do without Sky for any real length of time. The results
might suggest that some customers (enough to outperform those
that haven't) have conceded to lower discounts, rather than lose
Sky TV?

Sky will next report in detail, after their year end
(30/6/18), at which point a clearer picture may emerge, of how the
new packages and discounting approach is working.

Sky Corporate results:
https://assets.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltdc2476c7b6b194dd/blt1aefa31b083df244/5a6978bdc3db60790b43572a/download

Oakdene

Sky not shifting on 50% off TV package for me at the moment, still got 16 days until switch off.

[Deleted User]

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

Where do you see it as only £35? Are you perhaps looking at a deal for new customers only?
It's normally £9.99 for HD, £5 for Boxsets
They also normally want existing customers to pay £199 for installation and a 2TB Q decoder is more expensive than the 1TB version.
User "Bobaslayer" is getting everything listed for £38.60 a month and, from his post, he looks to have already been on a retention deal to begin with.

For new customers it would cost £47 a month (with a mighty £5 discount) plus a one off £85 installation fee for 18 months (none of this 12 months at discount and 6 months at full price crud).

For existing customers it would cost the same (minus perhaps the installation fee) if 'upgrading' plus a £199 one off fee for any Sky Q box (generally). I can only think that @Bobaslayer's deal has the £199 basically rolled into the deal they've presumably accepted.

It's really not a good deal IMHO regardless.

BTW, the HD add-on is £5 as all are excepting Cinema & Sports.