In this month's edition of Sky Mag:

Free Sky+HD box if you take up the HD package (duh!) and Sky movies for 12 months. Both of which come out at £18 a month extra.

There is still a setup charge but its now £30 and that is for existing users. That still annoys me as all they have to do is unplug the old box and plug in the new one, I've done everything else - even fitted 3 F-sat sockets on the wall behind the A/V gubbins .

Despite my hatred of Sky Movies I am tempted to take up the offer.

I was going to buy my own box and install it myself and then get Sky to activate it costing me an extra tenner a month.

This deal will work out at an extra £126 for the year rather than £250-ish which is what I was going to pay for the box alone. I've excluded the £10 monthly HD charge as that's a given either way. Its a bit of a 'no brainer' as flip chart users tend to say.

I struggled with this as there is a VERY nice pic of Megan Fox on the front cover and my eyes kept wandering :P

I got a great deal from SKY by haggling with the Salesman at the local shopping centre. I was a new customer, but got a free HD box, free landline for a year (I took the £5 broadband) and free fitting. Might be worth trying a haggle with one of them?

Did away with Sky HD a while ago and do not miss it TBH.

Replaced it with an HD Humax and have not looked back

Try the 'I'm going to leave' tactic with them, and see what they offer you when you get put through to Disconnections? Or leave totally and sign back up in your wife's name :rubchin:

As ever, what price loyalty with these lovely companies eh?

Steve

Or leave totally and sign back up in your wife's name :rubchin:

As ever, what price loyalty with these lovely companies eh?

Steve

I thought they checked by address? I got asked when I got Sky a few months ago "Has Sky been installed in the last 12 months at that address"

Of course they want to pull in the new punters as much as possible and its the poor old existing customer who subsidises the new customer offers.

Saying that the cost of getting HD has come down to a level I can just about tolerate.

Another problem is we have no VM cable down our road and the Freeview/analogue terrestrial is patchy at best so they have us over a barrel. I tried the disconnection route a while back and had to eat a big slab of humble pie as they just wouldn't budge :P

We also have the top Sky BB package so it would be major hassle trying to pull a stunt with them.

We've got Freesat HD but the channel line up isn't great at the moment.

I thought they checked by address? I got asked when I got Sky a few months ago "Has Sky been installed in the last 12 months at that address"

I know they do. Which is fine if you've had it installed longer than 12 months...

Would love HD, but not paying an extra £10/month for it!

Would love HD, but not paying an extra £10/month for it!

It’s definitely better, but the definition is not so great on BBC and Channel 4 HD. They bandwidth was reduced recently by the Beeb. Mind you, a back to back check of Channel 4 on SD and HD show the HD channel does look better even on SD sourced material. That bigger bandwidth seems to pay some dividend. I’m waiting for the EPG update that will let me see ITV HD via the SKY system.

Of course I can always go to Freesat next year and replace my SKY system. If only I could get ‘House’ and the lovely Hugh Laurie some other way:(.