Mog

Had a letter today saying that as I was such a loyal customer I could have HD supplied and fitted for £149 plus £10pm, anyone else had the letter ...is it worth it yet.

mog

davegtt

LOL Thought that was the going rate anyway....

PeteBrant

The £10 per month is standard, but the box is effectively half price.

Andy M3

I have had it for a while now - I enjoy watching HD programmes especially some documenters, nature programmes and things like Lost. I think it is worth it.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

I saw a Sky salesman in Beckton selling it at that price to Joe Public last weekend too.

Deep Singh

This is the rate Sky charges if you buy a TV from Comets. I'm going to get it soon. I'll ring up Sky and demand the same price!

B0DSKI

iTrader: (17)

Had some point of sale @ work today and like Deep Singh says £149 is usually if your purchase a TV from either Sky of a authorised agent. To get it without is a good deal if u ask me

andy97

iTrader: (1)

Sky's profits are down by ~16% due to high churn rate. Desperate for more revenue after cutting off their nose with virgin media.

B9GLY

plus the cr*p movie channels now!!!!!!

Mog

Trouble is I have a Sky plus 160 which gives me 80 hours to record with and I do use it all and the HD has only 40 hours I believe....

Mog

dharbige

Not true. The Sky HD box has a 300GB hard disk of which 140GB is reserved for Sky Anytime. The remaining 160GB would give you approx double the capacity of your Sky+160 for standard definition programming.
High Definition programming takes much more hard disk space (probably 4 times as much, hence the 40 hours capacity figure), but it is unlikely that everything you record will be in HD.

It's also relatively simple to upgrade the box with a new, larger hard disk if you feel so inclined (I've put a 500GB disk in mine).

Chip Sengravy

As long as the installer has all his disneyland certs in place, and charges you a premium for his 1.5hrs work, I'd say go for it.

scoobynewbie72

iTrader: (1)

do u have a offer code for the HD for £149 please

oobster

Tempting, but still don't think it's worth an extra tenner a month. Those already on a high monthly rate (mine is £37) it should be free.

Diesel

If you have a big telly you need HDMI connection to get the best pic. That's the biggest bonus of the box - it REALLY improves SD pics. It's NOT worth an extra £10 a month, but I pay it as I appreciate the better pic quality and the odd HD movie/BBC Six Nations Rugby HD.

Dont get an STi and feed it paraffin is a good analogy

renny

iTrader: (2)

We already pay £43 pm - f@cked if we're paying another £10 the robbing b@stards !

Diesel

Dont blame you mate, I cringe with each DD but cant help myself [and it goes against tax]

john_s

iTrader: (1)

Miserable gits offered it to me for £199

Would be nice to have, but I need to get a HDTV first.

John.

Diesel

Make sure you get a 1080P labelled set John - they becoming affordable now and only that is true HD resolution. Alll the others sets chuck HD info away [inc mine]. D

Diesel

Just read in yesterday's industry rag

"Sky had almost 250,000 HD subscribers by March, 10"

That's £2.5 million in extra subscriptions alone, let alone the extra they charge the people who have carriage arrangements with them


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J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

All that extra cash for a few slightly clearer shark documentaries, milking the early adopters for all they are worth