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Sky HD gets cheaper, still too expensive?

by Parm Mann on 19 June 2008, 13:42

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Sky has today announced that its Sky HD service is to be re-branded and re-launched at a lower price.

The service, currently known as Sky HD, will become Sky+ HD as of July 1st. Presumably, Sky is making the change to ensure customers that its HD box provides Sky+ functionality.

Both new and existing customers can also look forward to lower costs as Sky will lower the price of its HD box from £249 to £149, a more than welcome price drop.

The new pricing will take effect on July 1st, but customers will still be required to pay an additional £10 per month for their HD subscription.

Is Sky's HD price drop enough to convince customers? Or is the recently-launched Freesat a better alternative? Share your thoughts in the HEXUS forums.

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Posted by Saracen - Thu 19 Jun 2008 14:15
Is Sky's HD price drop enough to convince customers?
Not this one it isn't, though I'd guess it'll probably provide incentive to those that were wavering, but holding back because of cost.

Personally, there is not sufficient content (either in quantity or quality) for me to be willing to even contemplate it. But each to his own, I guess.

As for Freesat …. interesting, but it looks like a rather different proposition. Content is king.
Posted by SiM - Thu 19 Jun 2008 14:18
Think of how many HD DVD movies you can buy for the same cost as the box!

Certainly hasn't made me even consider it…
Posted by jimborae - Thu 19 Jun 2008 15:15
Ha that's still £100 too much for the bug ridden box of cr@p they send you. Or 4th box in my case. The HD-box has been built so cheaply that it's an unreliable hunk of junk that the user then has to sort out themselves by doing the following.

1. Replace the hard disk with a much more reliable and much larger, quieter and cooler one.

2. Replace either the individual capacitors on the HD-box's PSU or replace the whole psu itself.

Once you have done these two things you'll wind up with a rather good HD box but it will still be prone to Sly's random software errors and glitches. Then to add insult to injury you still have to pay the £10 extra a month for a very limited number of true HD programmes.

Somebody please remind me why I do this……Oh yeah cos there's no competition in the market and Virgin Media are 20x worse.
Posted by directhex - Thu 19 Jun 2008 15:19
there are a grand 2 HD channels on freesat, 3 if your box supports the full FTA channel set. for free. not the best content, mind, but still…
Posted by jimborae - Thu 19 Jun 2008 15:45
directhex
there are a grand 2 HD channels on freesat, 3 if your box supports the full FTA channel set. for free. not the best content, mind, but still…

And those 2 HD channels are free on Sky HD as well……Hmmm makes me think I should just cancel my sky sub, pay £10/month for Sky+ recording facilities and keep the box just for Sky Freesat and free HD channels. That would save me £47/month

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