Sky multiroom for €5.99???

Charlie

Does anyone know if there is any concrete truth to the rumours that sky are going to reduce multi room subscriptions to €5.99?

Skyuser

That would be about £4 in UK......a bit odd don't ya think? Anyway, greedy Sky won't reduce the cost.

dmeehan

although they did announce recently that thet would be launching new offers to try and reduce the rate of "churn"

fingers crossed

ShaneOC

big paddy?

Have you heard anything further on this?

Charlie

I was on yesterday to sky enquiring about sky+ multiroom, but the multiroom part would be two mirror subs, i.e one plus box and two standard boxes. Sky said that they would do it but i'd have to pay €30 a month just for the multiroom alone. This would put my sky bill at €82.50 a month, a price I couldnt justify as im currently paying ntl €53 month, and if I wanted digital in two other rooms id only have to pay ntl an extra €10 a month. Because of this I asked the guy at the sky if they intended to bring the multiroom price down at all any time soon and he said no, and that he nor any of his co-workers had heard about an impending price drop. This pretty much meant that I had to abandon my sky plans until the price goes down, so I thought i'd just take up the extra digital points with ntl, but heres the snag. If i were to do that ntl would tie me down to a 12 month contract for their multiroom, which personally I think is scabby as you dont get to keep your ntl equipment if you were to leave them so why a 12 month contract? Now I have to decide whether to give into my multiroom urges and go for ntl or, hold out for sky and hope that they drop the multiroom price in the next month or two.

voyager

hi guys, a piece of info that i picked up from a sister of mine who just this morning got sky multi-room installed, the guy said that in 2006 (not sure when exactly) the price for the second box would be dropping to 5.99 euro.
do not know if this info is gospel, but there is obviously something going down.

voyager :cool:

bk

I think this rumour is just being spread by Satellite installers in order to get people to sign up for Sky. It was the same bs we use to hear about BBC/ITV/C4 being on satellite. Sure the BBC/ITV did eventually happen, but as a side effect of FTA, it had nothing to do with Sky and isn't actually on the Sky platform as the installers would claim and it took years longer then they would claim (they'd always say that it would happen in the next two or three months!!).

Sure Sky will drop the price eventually, they are coming under too much pressure from cable, Freeview and now TV over BB, but it might take another 4 years to happen, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Charlie

Whilst I would usually share bk's skeptism on matters of t.v providers making promises, if the installer himself said €5.99, and it wasn't a case of voyager's sister just saying "will multiroom be dropped to €5.99" and the installer just replying yes, then I think the €5.99 rumour is more than just internet speculation and has a ring of truth to it. Maybe thats just wishful trhinking......but the time of year when wishes come true(cheeseeeeey) is just around the corner.:rolleyes:

falteringstar

Hopefully then theyll reduce sky plus?

voyager

hi again guys, my sister was non the wiser of the 5.99 offer it was the instaler who was informing her of it as she had ordered a multi-room set-up, he was just being informative and was passing on the info as he had heard it.

voyager :cool:

byte

falteringstar wrote:

Hopefully then theyll reduce sky plus?

Yeah, I hope so too. It's the €15 pm PVR fee that's holding me back from getting Sky+ and I don't want premium channels atm.

bk

charlie mchugh wrote:

if the installer himself said €5.99,
......
then I think the €5.99 rumour is more than just internet speculation and has a ring of truth to it.

Installers have been telling me for years that BBC/ITV/C4 were just 2 - 3 months away. It was never true.

I hope I'm wrong, but I wouldn't make any decisions based on this rumour and I wouldn't hold my breath.

Charlie

My point was this rumour had been floating around the internet for a while, and the installer volunteered the info himslf as oppossed to just confirming a rumour that was put to him. I acknowledge that at best this is just a rumour but in this instance I feel that its not just installers that are spreading the rumour.

bigpaddy2004

charlie mchugh wrote:

My point was this rumour had been floating around the internet for a while, and the installer volunteered the info himslf as oppossed to just confirming a rumour that was put to him. I acknowledge that at best this is just a rumour but in this instance I feel that its not just installers that are spreading the rumour.

I hold my hand's up! i was the one whome started this so called rumour. The information I recieved was from a top Sky manager here in the Rep of Ireland. This gentleman in the past was able to tell me about, bbc going free to air, about sky+, about multiroom and most importantly about itv going free to air before anybody else knew. He has never once being wrong in the past, and i dont see why he should be this time. Sky are dropping the multiroom price just to gain competition against ntl(uk). Let's just sit tight and wait and not wind oursleves up like we did over itv!

Charlie

bigpaddy2004 wrote:

I hold my hand's up! i was the one whome started this so called rumour. The information I recieved was from a top Sky manager here in the Rep of Ireland. This gentleman in the past was able to tell me about, bbc going free to air, about sky+, about multiroom and most importantly about itv going free to air before anybody else knew. He has never once being wrong in the past, and i dont see why he should be this time. Sky are dropping the multiroom price just to gain competition against ntl(uk). Let's just sit tight and wait and not wind oursleves up like we did over itv!

Any idea big paddy as to when this price drop could happen. Are we looking at something happening in the next three months?

bigpaddy2004

charlie mchugh wrote:

Any idea big paddy as to when this price drop could happen. Are we looking at something happening in the next three months?

I cannot answer that question at the moment.

DMC

Well, NTL are pluging digital in another room for €5... along with BBC News 24, BBC THREE and other BBC's for an extra €5 p/m....

Tony

bk wrote:

I think this rumour is just being spread by Satellite installers in order to get people to sign up for Sky. It was the same bs we use to hear about BBC/ITV/C4 being on satellite. Sure the BBC/ITV did eventually happen, but as a side effect of FTA, it had nothing to do with Sky and isn't actually on the Sky platform as the installers would claim and it took years longer then they would claim (they'd always say that it would happen in the next two or three months!!).

Sure Sky will drop the price eventually, they are coming under too much pressure from cable, Freeview and now TV over BB, but it might take another 4 years to happen, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Dont you mean retaliers? Why not tell us who exactly is spreading these rumours and not tar the whole industry.

byte

The rumours regarding BBC 1 and 2 were correct, as they did appear on EPG, long before BBC went FTA!

As for the UTV/C4 rumours, perhaps at least UTV woudl have been true, if TV3 hadn't put a stop to it, over rights issues.

DMC

Correct, byte, in those cases, there was no smoke without fire.

bk

Tony wrote:

Dont you mean retaliers? Why not tell us who exactly is spreading these rumours and not tar the whole industry.

Sorry Tony, I didn't mean to suggest all installers, I have a great deal of respect for you and other installers who post here on boards.

And you are right it isn't necessarily the installers, more often it is the sales reps of certain companies, who hang around shopping centres trying to sign people up and who literally lie through their teeth to get a sale.

That is why I come to this board to get real information and the true story, thanks.

legend99

ok, so its coming close to the end of November and I assume the end of the 69 euro for upgrading customers to get Sky+ and multiroom.....so should one order it or hang tough for a while in the hope that the multiroom will drop ??

DMC

AIUSI, the current offers run until 24th December. (not saying the C word yet...)

Tony

bk wrote:

Sorry Tony, I didn't mean to suggest all installers, I have a great deal of respect for you and other installers who post here on boards.

And you are right it isn't necessarily the installers, more often it is the sales reps of certain companies, who hang around shopping centres trying to sign people up and who literally lie through their teeth to get a sale.

That is why I come to this board to get real information and the true story, thanks.

No problem, I agree with you that commission driven sales reps have been prone to give out false information in the past, ITV being one example