Sky Extends Half Price HD Box Deal Comments

Sadly, if you want all the HD movies and the HD sports you're in the hole for up to £57 (!) a month. Considering it's a 12-month contract your TCO is over £750!! Oh, except you still need a TV license so there's another £139.50...

I just don't watch enough TV to justify £50 a month to Sky.

extremely true, i've cancelled my virgin media contract and switched to freeview, and even still i only really watch doctor who and bbc news (and top gear, which i swear the seasons are getting shorter). i don't even bother with BBC iplayer because VM throttle my speed midway leading to it constantly buffering the file.

@ilovethemonkeyhead - Have you tried the iPlayer downloadable program. That way you can download the BBC programmes after 9pm (when the STM stops) and watch whenever you want to. On the other hand, you may be using a Mac, or not want to have the kontiki software on your computer.

i have that, but that just downloads the programmes like torrent managers do, and that eventually gets throttled down. a bad example was the voyage of the damned doctor who episode (it got re-run recently on bbc three). the download took 3 days on my 2mb broadband with virgin media.

anywho, not an issue, i can still access freeview channels with my virgin media box and use iplayer there :-)

I upgraded a couple of weeks back, on this deal, too. First impression? Those high def progs eat up the hard disc space very very.... very quickly. I had a Sky+ 180 before which never got lower than 40% capacity, even with whole series stored. Now an hour of high def takes up around 5% alone. That's um er 20 episodes of Lost. Surprisingly stingy. This means I actually have to watch these things within a certain amount of time. How inconvenient is that?

But for multiroom isn't it £20/month per extra telly that is Sky HD - £10 for the multiroom and £10 if you want that to be HD :-(
£10 is probably bearable but £20 is pure sky i.e. gouging

A few months ago I thought i would take the plunge and go for sky, what a mistake! i just settled for the normal sky+ box @£75, i then had to pay £150 to get a cable hooked up to my communal system. i plugged my sky+ box in, and it only gets some of the channels, at first i thought it was a faulty signal, but a friends box gets them all when plugged into my signal. The engineers came out, and said i need a different make of box, i.e., not a pace, and was told if i change to sky HD, then that is a Thompson box, but now even though i havent received sky properly yet, they are classing me as an existing customer, and want £310!!!!! They have basically jsut given me the finger, and are happy to take my money without providing me with the service promised, so anyone thinking of getting a sky+ box instead of HD DON'T!!!!