Urgent - you can now preorder Sky HD
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Sky HD site now allows you to preorder Sky HD. £30 deposit.
£299 box + £10 per month and no installation fee for existing subscribers.
www.sky.com/hd
£299 box + £10 per month and no installation fee for existing subscribers.
www.sky.com/hd
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Sky HD: Sky HD Box costs £299 for Sky digital subscribers taking a Sky HD subscription (£399 otherwise). Only compatible with digital satellite. Sky digital subscription required for Sky HD subscription. Sky HD subscription required for Sky HD programming. The Sky HD channels you receive will depend on which Sky digital package you subscribe to. Sky digital subscriptions from £15 to £42.50 per month. You will receive Sky Sports HD if your Sky digital subscription includes Sky Sports 1 and 2. You will receive Sky Movies 9 HD if your Sky digital subscription includes Sky Movies 1. You will receive Sky Movies 10 HD if your Sky digital subscription includes Sky Movies 2. Sky HD subscription is £10 per month. Sky Box Office HD movies/events cost extra. Minimum Sky HD subscription 12 months unless your Sky digital subscription ends earlier.
Standard installation Offer: While initial stocks last or until 31 May if earlier, free provided you take a Sky HD subscription. When initial stocks run out or from 31 May if earlier, free for customers taking a Multiroom and Sky HD subscription or £60 if you take a Sky HD subscription without Multiroom. £120 if you do not take a Sky HD subscription. Professional installation and fixed telephone line connection for 12 months required. Non-standard installation costs extra. Installation may be subject to delay. You must get any consents required e.g. landlord's.
Sky+: Sky+ subscription required to use the Personal Video Recorder features of the Sky HD Box. Sky+ subscription is free if you subscribe to two or more Sky Premium channels (Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2, Sky Movies 1 and Sky Movies 2), otherwise £10 a month. Minimum Sky+ subscription 12 months.
Introductory Sky digital offer: Subscribe to any Sky digital package either on-line or by calling 08705 800874 before 1 May 2006 and you'll pay £7.50 to £21.25 a month for the first 3 months (providing you stay on the same package) and then from £15 to £42.50 a month. Offer not available to previous or existing customers or with any other subscription offer and excludes stand-alone premium channels and Sky Box Office movies and other pay-per-view services. Minimum Sky digital subscription 12 months.
Multiroom: Provides the same Sky digital channels as you receive under your first Sky digital subscription on a box in another room. Multiroom will not give you your Sky HD channels in another room unless you also take a second Sky HD box and a second Sky HD subscription. You must be a Sky digital subscriber at all times during your Multiroom subscription. Minimum Multiroom subscription period 12 months unless your Sky digital subscription ends earlier. Boxes that receive your first and Multiroom subscriptions must all be connected to the same fixed telephone line at all times. Sky can connect up to four standard Sky boxes or two Sky HD/Sky+ boxes to the same minidish.
Cancellation policy: If you pre-order Sky HD via sky.com/hd you can cancel your pre-order for a full refund at any time prior to booking your installation by emailing: SkyHD@bskyb.com; calling: 08708 506693 or writing to: Sky HD Pre-Order, Sky Subscribers Services Limited, PO Box 43, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 7DD, UK and quoting your Worldpay reference number. This does not affect your statutory rights.
General: Sky News and Sky Three are available without a subscription. Prices/channels/programmes subject to change. You must be 18 or over. Further terms apply. Information only applicable to residential customers in UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and is correct at time of print (March 2006). Please address any complaints you may have to: Sky HD, Sky Subscribers Services Limited, PO Box 43, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 7DD, UK. Calls cost up to 8 pence per minute for BT customers. Calls from other providers may vary.[url="javascript:window.close();"]
World Cup in Hi-Def
So, no discount for existing customers.
The prices on both the Existing Customers and the New Customers pages are the same !!
It seems to me that sooner or later there is going to be an underclass of Sky viewer. Those that can afford to watch Sky HD and those that can't.
It should be available to all for free.
The more I read about Sky,the less I like.
Now, how can I justify spending £46 a month with Sky? Hmm....
Now to tell the missus ...................... <ducks frying pan>
Cant wait for the world cup and wimbledon now!!
Here we go. Sky are a business. They have a responsibility to shareholders NOT THEIR CUSTOMERS. This is the basis of a capitalist economy.
I want the new box to future proof, as mine is packing in, but cannot afford or jusify extra £10 a month on top of that. [ I need to buy a HDef TV also :rolleyes: )
I assume you can buy the box for £400 anyway instead of £300 if you dont take out the extra Sky HD sub.
Ordered 08:32
Wonder how many will have ordered by the end of the day?
Rik
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Edited to say:
Phew! Got through to their 08702 number surprisingly quickly and got a note of my card number.
Guess i'd better order up the HDMI card for the TV now.
Exciting stuff, I wonder how long it'll take to get things installed.
Its a fantastic TV......... Just watch out for Screen Retention.
For example: fell asleep watching UKG2 - woke 5am, nice Sky banner etched into the screen !!!!! :eek:
30 minutes of fast moving images got rid of it though
The other trick i used (when kiddie had been watching 'Toon Disney' which has a massive DOG (Mickey ears in bright red) - was to switch to an untuned analog station (Snow) for half an hour.
DONT BE PUT OFF BY THIS - ITS THE BEST TV ON THE MARKET IN ITS SIZE. The 506 XDE is the best 50 too.
Rik
I hope there is enough "regular" HD material to make it worth the price once these events are over! I have a feeling there is going to be a lot of repeat material on show.
And to be honest, why can't Sky just create an HD package where you get all the HD channels regardless of what else you subscribe to? Surely they want their HD viewers to enjoy as much HD as possible. Oh, silly me, it's a licence to print money!
Fingers crossed the World Cup will be on it.
Let me know how you get on, cos there doesn't seem to be many about.
Going to the Ideal Home Show tomorrow to spend an hour or so on the Pioneer stand !!
Hopefully they'll have show deals !!
I think if you want a second HD box you need to spend £10 for mutiroom AND £10 for HD. I was hoping that they would mirror the 1st boxes subscription (as they did when you had to pay £10 for sky plus). I assume you can relocate your sky plus boxes and ask for the eight way LNB (which they imply in their T&C's won't be available)
Nevetheless I'm still considering getting two HD boxes but not sure if I'll get two lots of £10 for HD subscription (my V1 sky plus boxes are getting a bit creaky)
I am one of them
With a soccer mad wife, there were no problems with the presvading.