General : £3 TV increase but BT Sport Europe is "free"

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Bobby Dazzler

Well i spoke to Sky on live chat and you were right they eventualy offered me the lot for £25. I then asked about multiroom and was told that the £25 deal included multiroom with an extra sky HD box, so i asked how much to upgrad the extra HD box to a Sky+ and was told the deal would then be £40.25. I told am i would leave it then as that was quite an increase.

Am i right in believing that the standard HD box cant get on demand content?
Ifso its useless to me as i rarely watch anything live anymore.

On a side note does anybody know if the content on the TV from Sky app on PS3 / PS4 is in HD? Ifso this may be a better solution, instead of paying for multiroom.

One more question if anybody knows the answer, could i have the multiroom Sky HD box installed and then swap it myself to a Sky+, as i see they can be bought secondhand quite cheaply.

Yes you can replace it yourself at anytime , just ensure the installer runs double cabling so you have two inputs by telling him you plan to replace it.

The standard Sky+HD boxes can be picked up pretty cheaply on eBay or at places like cash converters.

[Joedm45]

"Dear Sir/Madam, We at Virgin Media strive to give our customers the best possible customer service. Unfortunately things do go wrong from time to time therefore following on from the recent disruption to your TiVo service please accept our offer of a credit on your next bill to the value of a days service."

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Quick to increase prices, never offer a refund

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Joedm45

"Dear Sir/Madam, We at Virgin Media strive to give our customers the best possible customer service. Unfortunately things do go wrong from time to time therefore following on from the recent disruption to your TiVo service please accept our offer of a credit on your next bill to the value of a days service."

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Quick to increase prices, never offer a refund

Actually when we had problems for a couple of weeks with our broadband service they gave us a credit of £50 so its not all price rises Sir.

[Bobby Dazzler]

Originally Posted by theone2k10

To watch skygo on a console you'd need sky go extra which is a additional £5p/m, when i used my sisters it looked hd on my ps3.
You'd need sky+ enabled on any box you want to record on you'd have to phone Sky about it i think there may be a additional fee, it is automatically enabled and included on your main SKY+HD box.
The SKYHD multiroom box does not have on demand or catch up features.

Thanks for the info mate.

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Yes you can replace it yourself at anytime , just ensure the installer runs double cabling so you have two inputs by telling him you plan to replace it.

The standard Sky+HD boxes can be picked up pretty cheaply on eBay or at places like cash converters.

Id been looking at the boxes on ebay and thats what made me think of just buying one of them and then swapping it myself.

Good point about the double cable hadnt thought of that. Is the installer likely to install the double cable if he is only installing a standard hd box or would he more likely be a jobsworth about it?

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Bobby Dazzler

Thanks for the info mate.



Id been looking at the boxes on ebay and thats what made me think of just buying one of them and then swapping it myself.

Good point about the double cable hadnt thought of that. Is the installer likely to install the double cable if he is only installing a standard hd box or would he more likely be a jobsworth about it?

I'm 99% sure they'd run it if you ask in fact it could be standard cabling now but I'm not 100% about that.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by pk1

BT is to increase it's line rental ans call packages in September to £17.99. How long before we also see an increase?

Look under some of our prices are changing tab

http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...phone-packages

Plusnet already announced a increase from £15.95 to £16.99 i think all isps will follow suite in the next 3 or 4 months.

[denphone]

Frankly line rental prices are becoming beyond a joke and in my book there needs to be a inquiry as to why they are so high now.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by denphone

Frankly line rental prices are becoming beyond a joke and in my book there needs to be a inquiry as to why they are so high now.

Agreed mate something needs doing about it but you'll get the usual "they need to cover their costs somehow" i have put in my cancellation to plusnet due to price rise and will be moving to BT in 2 weeks ironically BT own Plusnet and their unlimited 38mb fibre with line rental was cheaper than plusnet at the time i signed up £10p/m unlimited fibre 38mbs bb and £16.99p/m line rental bt sport lite included + £150 quidco cashback + £50 Sainsburys voucher adding those together works out about £38 profit for me lol.

[muppetman11]

Glad I've just paid a years line rental upfront with BT.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by denphone

Frankly line rental prices are becoming beyond a joke and in my book there needs to be a inquiry as to why they are so high now.

all the prices are beyond a joke now Den mate

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Yes you can replace it yourself at anytime , just ensure the installer runs double cabling so you have two inputs by telling him you plan to replace it.

The standard Sky+HD boxes can be picked up pretty cheaply on eBay or at places like cash converters.

Wont he have to ring sky to pair the second hand box up with the smart card? And do sky charge for this?

[muppetman11]

Nope just follow this link

http://help.sky.com/articles/set-up-your-sky-box

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by denphone

Frankly line rental prices are becoming beyond a joke and in my book there needs to be a inquiry as to why they are so high now.

Agree entirely mate. They should be coming down in price not going up as technology must be making providing the line cheaper as the years go by? It`s just a money making scam by the likes of BT and Virgin.

[TAZMANUK]

If theirs another increase to line rental then I'd rather have a third mobile contract and end the line rental. Or better still buy a cheap mobile just using the freedompop sim when it launches costing zero for 200 mins texts and data....and leave it just for home calls using free voicemail as well, will end the PPI calls as well.

[telegramsam]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Nope just follow this link

http://help.sky.com/articles/set-up-your-sky-box

Thanks I stand corrected. Pity you can`t do the same with Virgin but of course you can`t buy virgin boxes off ebay (legally anyway).