Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35541741)

The engineer arrived, and No free dish as we had one on the wall, no cable, as it was already there, and the boxes were secondhand.

When my wife complained to Sky, she was advised that we were tied to an 18 months but would offer us discounts to stay. We were also told that the engineer HAD installed new dish and cable, So the delightful thing was we contacted VM, and they were very helpful (which is unusual) we are now back to normal - with VM

I would suggest to anyone, if you plan to go to Sky - DON'T. ( I am sure there are people out there who will say - is this Arthur talking, yes it is, and l don't like being ripped off.

Sky even told us that the dish was there's, well it isn't as we bought it 5 years ago.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35541741)

I have to beg forgiveness from everyone on this forum, I always said that VM were a second rate rate company and treated customers as if they didn't exist.

Well, l recently gave up VM and went over to Sky, it was installed on Saturday, well talk about rip off merchants.

We were being charged for the full package including Sports and were going to be charged £60.00 for the lot.

My god how wrong we were, We should have had new dish and cable plus new boxes. The engineer told us that we would have to wait three days for anytime Tv to come on and also the broadband.

The engineer arrived, and No free dish as we had one on the wall, no cable, as it was already there, and the boxes were secondhand.

We called Sunday to see how much longer to wait for everything - this was the bombshell.

We were told it would cost us £21.00 to have BB connected, and we would have to buy two routers costing £15.00 each, and we would have to subscribe to BT Open reach for the BB also at £15.00 per month.

When my wife complained to Sky, she was advised that we were tied to an 18 months but would offer us discounts to stay. We were also told that the engineer HAD installed new dish and cable, So the delightful thing was we contacted VM, and they were very helpful (which is unusual) we are now back to normal - with VM

I would suggest to anyone, if you plan to go to Sky - DON'T. ( I am sure there are people out there who will say - is this Arthur talking, yes it is, and l don't like being ripped off.

Sky even told us that the dish was there's, well it isn't as we bought it 5 years ago.

Originally Posted by nicko (Post 35541815)

Well I got Sky Tv in last week on a 50% off code, new box installed and new dish and cable, now have all my sky sports in HD ( important to me), the box is quick but not as good all round as TiVo ( which I still have in another room), the series links are hopeless ( it schedules programme clashes BTW, that's good init?)
There's only about 250gb for personal recording the rest is for on demand.

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35541741)

I have to beg forgiveness from everyone on this forum, I always said that VM were a second rate rate company and treated customers as if they didn't exist.

Well, l recently gave up VM and went over to Sky, it was installed on Saturday, well talk about rip off merchants.

We were being charged for the full package including Sports and were going to be charged £60.00 for the lot.

My god how wrong we were, We should have had new dish and cable plus new boxes. The engineer told us that we would have to wait three days for anytime Tv to come on and also the broadband.

The engineer arrived, and No free dish as we had one on the wall, no cable, as it was already there, and the boxes were secondhand.

We called Sunday to see how much longer to wait for everything - this was the bombshell.

We were told it would cost us £21.00 to have BB connected, and we would have to buy two routers costing £15.00 each, and we would have to subscribe to BT Open reach for the BB also at £15.00 per month.

When my wife complained to Sky, she was advised that we were tied to an 18 months but would offer us discounts to stay. We were also told that the engineer HAD installed new dish and cable, So the delightful thing was we contacted VM, and they were very helpful (which is unusual) we are now back to normal - with VM

I would suggest to anyone, if you plan to go to Sky - DON'T. ( I am sure there are people out there who will say - is this Arthur talking, yes it is, and l don't like being ripped off.

Sky even told us that the dish was there's, well it isn't as we bought it 5 years ago.

Originally Posted by The Yank (Post 35541864)

well it looks like bye bye to ESPN America :shocked: If BT sports isn't included as part of the XL package there is NO WAY I can afford to pay extra. VM already gets in excess off £100pm from me on the VIP package and as much as I'll miss my college football I have reached my limit :(

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35541874)

Then l think the signs for BT Sports at even this early stage are rather ominous as people are already paying enough for their premium Sky Sports packages.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35541827)

I agree with you about the schedule management the Sky box needs it , as a workaround I schedule all my recordings via the Sky+ app as this automatically alerts you too clashes and provides an alternative airing. Clash management has been suggested many times in the beta forum as has an improved search function (TIVOs is excellent) however rest assured there are a couple of new things due in the not too distant future ;) and 4oD should be added real soon completing the catchup section.