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Thinking about SKY HD
« on: 11 November 2011, 23:23:43 »

Hi Guys,

I think there is quite a lot of Sky experience on here.  We want to upgrade our TV to a larger one (targeting 60" or therabout and HD).  To drive this I'm thinking of getting a Sky HD package to provide HD media.

The dish will have to be one end of the house and TV at other (the cabling will have to pass 5 beds and a double garage) will the loss be too much?

Sky are doing some promotions right now so the deals look good, cheaper than buying a dish and free sat box.

IS tere anything I'm missing?

Thanks for advice,

Steve
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Re: Thinking about SKY HD
« Reply #1 on: 11 November 2011, 23:43:30 »

You can get the 4 free to air HD channels on freesat and, depending on location, terrestrial as well. Sky's not the only way to get HD - unless you specifically want sky subscription channels in HD?

And, of course, you can get the free to air HD channels with a Sky HD box on a Sky non-HD subscription too.

Get a TV with a DVB-T2 and perhaps even a DVB-S2 (freesat HD) tuner and you can do it all without any set top boxes.
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Re: Thinking about SKY HD
« Reply #2 on: 12 November 2011, 05:32:10 »

From what I have heard the larger sized sets are not reliable despite the name of the manufacturer. 50's are prone to faults and it follows that 60's might well be worse. I have stuck with a 42 and its the second one now, the first lasted for 8 years, this one has been going for 3, Panasonic plasma.
As for Sky, I have just thrown them out (that was a hell of a fight to have them accept it) for consistently 'iss poor Customer Service and now we only have Freeview and FreeSat, coupled to a 500Gb 4 channel TiVo which gives us the same as Sky+ but for free. There are many HD transmissions on Freeview and FreeSat and they are increasing all of the time. Incidently FreeSat also uses the same satellite as Sky and so you do not have to move the dish. I did my Sky boxes, 4 of them, in just under an hour.
It is also possible for a Sky set top box to be retuned to pick up the FreeSat programs and you do not need a card to do so, just a list of the frequencies and the knowhow to retune the Sky box. As both are free why spend what you do not need to and raise the profits of Sky for a poor customer service and the inevitable repeat after repeat after repeat after repeat on all of its channels which they tie you into a contract with? At the end of that contract they then also demand a 31 day notice period to end the contract which have to formally apply for. If you, like I did, paid so the account was well into credit and that the credit far supassed the amount owed at the termination you then have to apply again and wait a minimum of 31 days again before they will even consider a refund. No joke  :'(, I have their written proof of that and I have now registered a claim against them.
Sky also charges you as part of its 'entertainment' package for the programs you  get for FREE on Freeview and FreeSat.
Think before you spend....
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Re: Thinking about SKY HD
« Reply #3 on: 12 November 2011, 08:24:03 »

Sure you have seen it, but £100 of M&S vouchers if you sign up here:

http://www.sky.com/shop/high-definition/home/?DCMP=DMC-OCT10_hd_SK_hd
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Re: Thinking about SKY HD
« Reply #4 on: 12 November 2011, 09:40:16 »

It is also possible for a Sky set top box to be retuned to pick up the FreeSat programs and you do not need a card to do so, just a list of the frequencies and the knowhow to retune the Sky box.

That's interesting, I'd like to know how to do this as I was going to buy a Freesat box so that I could cut Sky off. They've managed to persuade me to stay for another year on half price, but I do want to cut them off eventually
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Re: Thinking about SKY HD
« Reply #5 on: 12 November 2011, 10:00:31 »

I don't have a dish at the moment no a decoder.

My thoughts were that the cost of dish (say £40) plus installation (say £100 *) plus decoder (say £200 or more depending on brand and features) is comparable to the cost of Sky HD annual subscription.

Also via Quid co there are even better deals  £155 cash back + £100 M&S see here http://www.quidco.com/sky-digital-tv-and-broadband/

*  I had an quote for £50 to fit a dish, but £150 (including fitting the dish) to run the long cable through the house to the other end.

Oh yes, the installer who said about fitting for Freesat said that the cable should not go to a wall plate but hang out the wall to connect directly to the box - that didn't seem right to me.

Thanks for the help, Steve
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Re: Thinking about SKY HD
« Reply #6 on: 15 November 2011, 22:32:12 »

I've imediately done nothijng - trying to get a TV for breakfast room with Freeview HD and will see how that goes.
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