Sky Multiroom

hallelujajordan · 04-05-2005 7:49am #1

Hi . .

Does anyone have any experience of getting Sky multiroom in a third room . . and is the cost the same as for the second and hence too expensive . . At the moment, we have three tellies, one with SKY and the other 2 with Chorus . . I am trying to talk the other half into getting rid of Chorus and opting for multiroom but 400 yoyo's for two boxes seems a bit nuts . .

I have a spare box at home anyway . . if i were to get multiroom and SKY + and hence a quad LNB, I would have an extra outlet on the LNB for my third box right ? ? ? Does anyone know what SKY would charge me for a card for this box ? ? ? And what an installer would charge me to put it in ? ?

Thanks

hj

JohnC. · 04-05-2005 7:48pm

You can get more than 1 extra box on Multiroom. Both additional boxes will cost you €15 per month each for mirrors of the main box subscription. You just want a Sky+ box and one additional box, right? You already have what will be the second additional box. That should cost you €199 (the cost of the Sky+ box) and the second box and installation are free when you get + with multiroom together.

hallelujajordan · 04-05-2005 9:17pm

Kahless wrote:

You can get more than 1 extra box on Multiroom. Both additional boxes will cost you €15 per month each for mirrors of the main box subscription. You just want a Sky+ box and one additional box, right? You already have what will be the second additional box. That should cost you €199 (the cost of the Sky+ box) and the second box and installation are free when you get + with multiroom together.

Will they install the third box for free also ? ?

JohnC. · 04-05-2005 10:19pm

I doubt it. Not officially anyway. I suppose there is always the slim hope of getting a nice guy who may do it unoffically or for a small extra fee.

Any chance you could do the third box yourself? It should be easy after the others are set up. Most of the work will be done. But I understand if you can't. This kind of thing isn't everyones cup of tea.

And thinking about it now, I'm not so sure what the situation would be with getting a multiroom mirror card for an existing box which you are not getting from them during the set up. Anyone know if they will send out a card for this? Would getting the card cost?

hallelujajordan · 04-05-2005 10:42pm

Could possibly do the install myself . . presumably its just a matter of running a cable from the quad LNB to the third box. . . does configuring the actual box take much know-how ? ?

Bit of a pain this whole SKY thing . . bought a 4 bed house only two years ago . . cable TV sockets in 5 rooms which are bugger all use to me since my only cable option is Chorus (bad bad experiences) . . .
Is there anyway I can have SKY in three rooms and utilise the existing cabling ? ?

Our man in Havana · 05-05-2005 12:18am

Don't forget you will need 3 phone extns for the 3 boxes.

Round Cable · 05-05-2005 9:27am

Why is Sky mutiroom so expensive?, I was looking into it, and E15 a month seems a bit steep. NTL offer a mirror subscription for only E5.

Our man in Havana · 05-05-2005 10:28am

Round Cable wrote:

Why is Sky mutiroom so expensive?, I was looking into it, and E15 a month seems a bit steep. NTL offer a mirror subscription for only E5.

Larger choice I suppose, greater administration involved with policing it?

Round Cable · 05-05-2005 10:42am

Bond-007 wrote:

Larger choice I suppose, greater administration involved with policing it?

Well there is avery small amount of extra channels on Sky and not NTL (not including shopping channels), NTL even have a few extra ones, and the fact that they'd have to pay Sky again for the use of their channels. Sky should be able to this for even less, however looking at the figures, Sky multiroom subs has increased substantially, so why shouldn't they rip off their customers?

JohnC. · 05-05-2005 9:57pm

Round Cable wrote:

Why is Sky mutiroom so expensive?, I was looking into it, and E15 a month seems a bit steep. NTL offer a mirror subscription for only E5.

Maybe out there in cable land, but with Multilink MMDS, this is not the case. There isn't exactly a mirror subscription, but they do let me have half price basic subscription (€10) and full price Digital Choice (€7) on the second box. That's €17 per month for a second box.

chorus techy · 05-05-2005 10:53pm

Bond-007 wrote:

Larger choice I suppose, greater administration involved with policing it?

Nah, they charge it because they can! I mean, if you want all those channels in different rooms, or you want sky, but don't want a cable package also - what choice do you have? Sky are just milking people at €15 a month because people are willing to pay it.

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