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Originally Posted by Rjs37
I wasn't aware of that but that's bleeding rediculous. A 1TB hard drive wouldnt cost them anywhere near £250 extra than a 500gb one. Considering they're already absorbing the cost for the 500GB hard drive the 1TB could have only been like £30 difference, £50 at most really.
I could understand the difference in Sky's boxes (and Tivo's when their lower tier hard drive arrives) if there was a different number of tuners, etc i.e. an actual lesser spec. But the price difference isn't justified by the hard drive differences. With HD bigger hard drives are becoming more of a neccesity. If they think that should cost an extra £250 I'd rather they give me the opportunity to plug my own external hard drive in.
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But the true cost of the standard Sky+ HD box is £199. My first bill said that but I received a credit equal to that amount.
The 1TB dosen't attract any subsidy. Sky know that the take up for the 1TB box will be (and indeed is) miniscule and accordingly charge full price and quite rightly so. For the tiny amount of people who want or need 1TB of HDD space they have to pay for it.