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[Media Boy UK]

New information from an Sky Source:

Coming on June 1st changes to sky's prices.

-Original pack (£21.50) is being cut to £20 for new customers or existing Original pack customers going onto a new 12 month contract.
-Sky are also stopping retailing the single movies packs 1 or 2 option.
-Sky Movies single pack customers will get full movies for no extra cost for a unspecified period.

[telegramsam]

Interesting to see a price cut for a change. Is this a first for Sky?

[bubblegun]

Originally Posted by telamsam

Interesting to see a price cut for a change. Is this a first for Sky?

Nope!

Single Sports was £14.50 a few years ago. It's been £13 ever since..... so far.

[denphone]

Sky to offer six times more kids' TV in multimillion-pound push.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...e-night-garden

[muppetman11]

Strengthening the On Demand service further to include more kids content makes perfect sense especially now that Netflix and Amazon are increasing their original kids output.

[Firmsky]

Just rejoined Sky TV after months of over utilisation from VM, have to admit the on demand is far superior and makes losing the 3rd tuner easier.

BB isn't too bad so far, 76down and 19up on their Fibre Pro package, nice having a static IP too.

Originally Posted by Firmsky

Just rejoined Sky TV after months of over utilisation from VM, have to admit the on demand is far superior and makes losing the 3rd tuner easier.

BB isn't too bad so far, 76down and 19up on their Fibre Pro package, nice having a static IP too.

The only issue I have with Sky's on demand is that you can't download an entire season of ,say , The Blacklist ,in one go you have to download each episode separately ,a bit of a pain but otherwise I agree the on demand is excellent

[Firmsky]

Originally Posted by martyh

The only issue I have with Sky's on demand is that you can't download an entire season of ,say , The Blacklist ,in one go you have to download each episode separately ,a bit of a pain but otherwise I agree the on demand is excellent

Thats the first thing that I found strange I must admit, maybe they're trying to stop people saturating the network by hitting download all and not watching the entire boxset? I agree though, should have the option

[greeninferno]

Originally Posted by martyh

The only issue I have with Sky's on demand is that you can't download an entire season of ,say , The Blacklist ,in one go you have to download each episode separately ,a bit of a pain but otherwise I agree the on demand is excellent

Do you not just queue them up? So if you did it say overnight in the morning 10 episodes or whatever would be stored locally?

[Media Boy UK]

Digital Spy is reporting that Tru TV +1 has now launch on Sky Channel 271.

Is Tru TV +1 broadcasting right now as they only broadcast on Freeview for three hours per day.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by martyh

The only issue I have with Sky's on demand is that you can't download an entire season of ,say , The Blacklist ,in one go you have to download each episode separately ,a bit of a pain but otherwise I agree the on demand is excellent

Originally Posted by Firmsky

Thats the first thing that I found strange I must admit, maybe they're trying to stop people saturating the network by hitting download all and not watching the entire boxset? I agree though, should have the option

Trust me when I say this has been requested many times , I'm pretty sure you'll see this kind of functionality implemented at some stage , its certainly been researched by Sky.

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by greeninferno

Do you not just queue them up? So if you did it say overnight in the morning 10 episodes or whatever would be stored locally?

When I was with Sky you could queue them up so I guess it`s still the same.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Digital Spy is reporting that Tru TV +1 has now launch on Sky Channel 271.

Is Tru TV +1 broadcasting right now as they only broadcast on Freeview for three hours per day.

It is broadcasting now on 271.

Originally Posted by greeninferno

Do you not just queue them up? So if you did it say overnight in the morning 10 episodes or whatever would be stored locally?

Yep, that's all that can be done ,however 22 episodes is a bit of a faf ,not to mention the 22 onscreen popups telling me a download is available to view

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Trust me when I say this has been requested many times , I'm pretty sure you'll see this kind of functionality implemented at some stage , its certainly been researched by Sky.

The last update a couple of weeks ago included a 'delete all' option for box sets so I guess a 'download all' option can't be far away.

[Firmsky]

Originally Posted by greeninferno

Do you not just queue them up? So if you did it say overnight in the morning 10 episodes or whatever would be stored locally?

You can just annoying if your downloading a box set of four seasons containing 10+ episodes each, just a big oversight in my opinion.