Sky Sports query
 

Hi there,

The English cricket season is here with the Cricket World Cup and later on The Ashes (true I know it's not everyone's cup of tea) and looking at getting Sky Sports with the HD add on to watch it.

Looking at my account it says around £30 to add it but says that for almost anything like going from 200Mb to 350Mb so wondering what's the true approx. cost to get it with the HD add on before I call up so I know what I'm letting myself in for.

Also does the Sky Sports Red Button work on VM these days?

Thanks :)

Re: Sky Sports query
 

I'd always just recommend dealing with retentions (if out of contract)!

For your second question yes the red button does work.

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I'm still in a contract until July so doubt retentions is an option

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StevenNT mentioned "HD add on". I was under the impression that, with VM, if you got the SD version you got the HD one, with Sky's premium channels. Is this not so?

Re: Sky Sports query
 

No, it's the case with Sky Movies (I think) but not Sky Sports.

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Sky Sports seems unique in this case if you want Sky Sports in HD you need to pay for the bolt-on on top of the initial Sports package.

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Apart from the fact you cannot record red button broadcasts

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I had forgotten that fact. :)

Separately, Sky removed their HD add on when they raised the standard price of Sky Sports for everyone by £2 meaning that sports/movies is now 'as standard' on that platform.

With Virgin and Sky due to be negotiating (if they haven't concluded already - would the contract be big enough to require an announcement to the stock exchange?) a carriage deal imminently it might be something that changes.

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Interesting. I probably just heard about it for Sky Cinema and assumed it applied to Sports.

Thanks jfman.

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Got any friends/relatives with Sky? They can have up to 4 users of Sky Go on each account. Hook a laptop up to your TV and you're away for a nice free summer of cricket (turn the sound off obviously, and listen to the far superior BBC TMS radio commentary). :)

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I did it on the online chat and got sky sports for £18 a month rolling contract.
Have Full House contract.

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I do listen to BBC TMS in the past and I agree their commentary is great. But no I don't have anyone I can "borrow" their sub with.

Was that with HD also? if so that's better than what I saw via my web account when it was easily £30 which more than I was prepared to pay.

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No just SD I have a 4k tv so upscale does me.

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Thanks, I'll have a chat to the online chat team, see what deal they can offer me :)

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I've did the web chat thing, got Sky Sports HD for £22 a month for 6 months. That will be enough for the Summer season :)

Just waiting it for it to be remotely enabled now :)