Since those adverts on Youtube look shiny and 5.1 sound would be quite sexy, I've just finally upgraded to Sky HD for a net cost of -£1 over the whole year. Result!
How?
Did anyone else get Sky for F1?
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How?
Well I have just caved in and placed my order for Entertainment Extra + HD pack. Being able to get things like the BTCC in HD lessened the blow a little.
I have no will power
Urgh might have to bail on my original resistance after seeing what sky have planned
Take a look at the Motorsport on TV thread to see what else is on across the channels on Sky, it helps lessen the sting.
I think so, yes. After 12 months you can take it out like before, although I don't think I've heard of anyone having particular problems with it not ever being connected.
Technically you do as it's in the T&Cs for the first 12 months that it must be connected but I read that they only really check up on you if you use multiroom where the boxes dial home to verify you aren't ripping Sky off by having the boxes in two homes.
I self-installed my 1TB HD box and just hooked up a home made 30 metre telephone extension (phone lead cut in half and soldered to a 30 Metre Cat5e cable) to authorise the box but this could have been done by ringing them. I have since disconnected the cable but will keep it handy just in case. If I do need to connect it I will run a proper cable but I doubt if this will happen.
Previously had a Sky+ box installed for two years and it NEVER had a telephone line connected, even when the guy came to install it here. Prior to that in my old house it was only initially connected and then not connected for 18 months.
No letters or e-mails from them but you do get a nag message every time you cold boot the Sky box letting you know that some of the interactive features don't work.
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I just phoned them and they said £25 to have one connected without all the nagging for not having the phone line connected and that had to be done on the phone and not an online order. Maybe he was just trying for the sale?
I'm tempted to wing it and just disconnect when he's gone.
I'm tempted to wing it and just disconnect when he's gone.
I've also never had the telephone plugged in, the only complaint I ever see is if you inadvertantly select anything PPV in which case it just says you need to connect the phoneline!
Only people with multi-room seem to be permanently checked (as stated above).
And on the VFM front, I realised some time ago that paying a mortgage on a house that had 7 rooms when I could only ever need/use 1 of those at a time was ridiculous, so I sold it and moved into a cardboard box for free, I'm so much happier now.. (well now I've had SKY HD Fitted)
Only people with multi-room seem to be permanently checked (as stated above).
And on the VFM front, I realised some time ago that paying a mortgage on a house that had 7 rooms when I could only ever need/use 1 of those at a time was ridiculous, so I sold it and moved into a cardboard box for free, I'm so much happier now.. (well now I've had SKY HD Fitted)
Not true,
We had 2 boxes, on the multiroom subscription thing, both were connected to the phoneline, one of our phonelines wasnt working, we didnt know and Sky charged us £500 extra over the year! ok obviously its our fault for not checking the bill, but it was from an old account used just for stuff like that, but still, we had even had a Sky engineer in the house in the period in question and they refused to give us our money back. I cannot describe the rage they caused me lol
We are now with Virgin for everything
Tell me about it, what they say is that you need to have your phone line connected so that you can prove that your 2nd box is in your house, and not drilled though to your next door neighbour or something as the 2nd subscription is only about £15 i think. If you have just 1 box, i guess that wouldnt be a problem.
We had both connected, but 1 line was down, so they said we only had 1 connected, this was around a year, so instead of come round, call us up or even turn it off, they just charged us for 2 full subscriptions, for nearly a whole year.
Refused to accept the explanation and refused to give us the money back, actually i think we got 80 something back from the final month but still, not good enough
We had both connected, but 1 line was down, so they said we only had 1 connected, this was around a year, so instead of come round, call us up or even turn it off, they just charged us for 2 full subscriptions, for nearly a whole year.
Refused to accept the explanation and refused to give us the money back, actually i think we got 80 something back from the final month but still, not good enough
So you had 2 subscriptions with no way to prove otherwise and took no notice of your bill for 12 months?
Hardly Sky's fault. The only proof they have that you haven't had your second subscription in use elsewhere is your word.
Hardly Sky's fault. The only proof they have that you haven't had your second subscription in use elsewhere is your word.
What you really mean is 'Sky sent a letter telling us it wasn't connected after two months of missed callbacks. As I don't read anything Sky send me I ignored it. So they sent another letter saying it still wasn't connected a month later. I ignored that one too. Finally they sent a third letter 4 months after the first missed monthly callback to say they would be charging me a full price subscription for each box I had. I also ignored that one until I checked my bill months later because I never check my monthly direct debits to check I'm not paying more than I should. Sky said they had fulfilled their contractually obliged part of the contract and refused to credit the subscription back. They didn't believe me because when customers do try this on and give Dave, their bessy mate their multiroom card or put the multiroom card in their caravan so they can have Sky they ALWAYS tell Sky the truth.'
No. because every time we got a letter, we called them up and they done the call back to the box, then when you stop getting the letters you would probably assume that EVERYTHING WAS OK?! no? if i had been doing a hooky deal, and i got busted i would accept it, and move on. This is a genuine tho and thats the difference
Yep. I got my multiroom set up back in september, no phone line was even put into the room for it and i haven't heard anything from sky about it
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Hmmmm, phoned up virgin to cancel my services and they've offered me the a shiny tivo box and the full sky sports package, for about the same price as I would pay sky ~£50
Do I sacrifice every race in HD and more free channels and take virgin, or change to sky and sacrifice my (soon to be) 60meg internet and not get the other sky sports channels?
Do I sacrifice every race in HD and more free channels and take virgin, or change to sky and sacrifice my (soon to be) 60meg internet and not get the other sky sports channels?