Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

http://packages.sky.com/buy/

Sky HD box (now called "Sky+ HD"): £150 for new & existing customers


New customers: £30 installation

Existing customers: £60 installation

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

yep but if you go to the high st yesterday and talk to the actual SKY sales person is only £99 but you must subscribe to the full package, you are also entering a 18 month contract this time not 12 months ? I didn't hang a round long enough for the installation fee. as he was only after New SKY customers Boooo.

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

can you just say drop the box off and ill istall it lol £60 for 5 minutes work what swizz

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

Yeah, the installation charge is a bit of a joke if you're upgrading from Sky+ to Sky+HD. £60 to literally just swap the boxes over & do the initial set-up & callback.

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

to be fair they have to make the money somewhere and we carge £75 for a very similar v+ job



i must say i do like the enhanced rep from the vb3.7 ......hope it dosnt get fixed

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

I got my Sky+ HD today for £135 including instalation

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

Wish they would make a single Tuner box.

my sataliite cables burried in the wall, and it's not my house.

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

Im pretty certain you don't need both connected, but obviously some of the functions will not work. I can disconnect one tuner on my Sky+ for you at some point to test if you like. Is your Sky dish connected to a socket on the wall?

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

Yes it is, i think the trick it to set a blank recording.

Probably not interested yet anyway although i got a HD tv there's not enough extra channels to justify an extra £10 a mo.

Although if someone is upgrading and is selling a sky+ box i might be interested in that depending on how much they want for it.

I think if I bought a sky+ box from somewhere other than SKY i can just ring them up give them the Serial Number and get my viewing card paired to the "new" stb.

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

Yep you are entitled to buy your own box but you need to let them know as the viewing card is paired with a box

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

Yep as much as id like to have both Feeds connected if i let sky do it we will end up with cables tacked to the walls no doubt, and the homeowner doesnt want that.

Sometime i might pickup a box and an STSP switch so that providing both channels are on the Same Frequancy and Polarisation i could still record on the 2nd tuner.

I did look into stacker/destackers but i hear they dont play nice with wallplates.

I do also have a few problems with a couple channels breaking up, I think one was a music channel and the other was either E4 + 1 or more4.

Neither of which i actually watch so cant be bothered to try and get it sorted.

Re: Sky HD slashed to £150 - new & existing customers
 

With Sky+ & Sky+HD boxes, tuner 2 is normally used for recording, while tuner 1 is used for viewing/recording.

If you only have one input connected, e.g. to tuner 1, then it complicates things whenever you want to do an unattended recording. You have to set a "dummy" recording, which overlaps what you really want, so that tuner 2 gets tied up with the dummy recording. This then causes the actual recording you want recorded to use tuner 1 instead.

Plus obviously only one input means you can't watch one thing & record another, or record two things. You can of course still record whatever you are watching though.


There are other ways around having only one feed, e.g. using a smart priority switch (I use one on my Sky HD box, as we have a communal dish with only one feed per flat). But you need to hook it to the TV SCART on the STB, which while OK for a Sky HD box (as you're prob. using HDMI!) isn't really doable on a Sky+ box as you need it for the TV.



Yep, as Graham said there is nothing wrong with getting the box from somewhere else, & just phoning Sky to pair the box & card.

I bought my Sky HD box off eBay last year & installed it myself. Just phoned Sky to pair it with the card, & activate the Sky+ functions.