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Sorry, you are right about the extra £12 for "multi-room" on top of the £35, so £47 list price and, at most, £65 for installation of a 2TB Q box (free if a longstanding existing customer). So still a pretty ropey deal if you ask me

Colin_Maybe wrote: »

Installation of a Sky Q box (either of them) may be free for existing customers but they'll try and charge you £199 up front for the 'rental'.

Yes, I did allude to that earlier.

How Sky can justify charging £199 for a rental decoder is beyond me. A Sky+HD 2TB decoder was yours to own for around that cost.

A Sky Q has to be returned on cancellation which will effectively put an end to old Sky boxes being used for viewing of free channels..

At the moment, I think Sky Q is pretty poor deal overall. The mini-boxes suffer from drop outs and the main box is still glitchy. I won't be jumping from Sky+HD anytime soon..

As I alluded to earlier, I received a letter today from SKY offering to upgrade me to SkyQ for "just £12 extra a month" (so presumably allowing me to keep my recently negotiated 50% TV discount for 18 months) with free 2TB box and just a £65 set-up fee (waived if Gold VIP) and £50 for first Sky mini box (£99 thereafter). Details on Sky.com/SkyQUpgrade. However, as I do not need 4k I am quite happy to stick with my 2TB Sky+HD box for now.

this sky q mini box - does it work like my present old sky box in bedroom, I can record and store things....plus does it only work on smart tv's....don't have that yet in b'room.
have sky+ at moment in living room

teddysmum wrote: »

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.

My comment regarding 3D television was somewhat tongue in cheek. Whilst my Samsung television is 3D that is not why I bought it and I think I've watched one 3D film...