Sky HD pricing (allegedly)

JohnC.

http://ukhdtv.net/news/hdtv/exclusive:_sky_hd_pricing.html
Box £299
HD sub £9.99

Though he does say it is a "strong rumour" rather than fact.

The £9.99 seems a bit odd to me. Don't they normally go for round numbers, like the £10 for multiroom and for Sky+?

Mossy Monk

9.99 include Sky Sports and Movies?

for that reason alone i'd say its only a rumour and nothing more

L1011

9.99 ON TOP OF Sports & Movies, almost certainly.

stereo_steve

Thats insane! I already pay €60 a month. Surely they won't charge the pepole who already have the top package?

Charlie

I'm still baffeled asto what this price is going to relate to. Lets say that I was on 2 mix and selected news and kids but paid for HiDef. What benefit would I recieve? it apperas to me that to recieve the full benefit of the current Hidef lineup you would need to subscribe to sky world already. I doubt that you will get sky sports HD and movies HD without already subscribing to the sports or movies package. However, maybe Sky are presuming that people who have HD tv's and are willing to pay for sky HD, will have or are willing to have sky world.

Mossy Monk

it wont matter what they do. there will always be subscribers

bk

Well, what the article doesn't mention and would be interesting to find out, is if the monthly subscription will include the price of Sky+?

The new SkyHD box is actually a special Sky+ PVR. There were recent rumours that Sky were going to amke the Sky+ boxs free, with the basic subscription, while the SkyHD would become the new premium service.

watty

Since about 1/2 the HD will be sport and movies, you need them.

ffocused

Those prices seem about right.

If my memory serves correctly, then sky+ cost exactly the same when it first arrived in the UK.
If they are right and the box is 450 here and 15 a month, i will get it on top of my sports world package, bringing my monthly bill to just under 70.

After spending over 2 grand on a HD ready tv i am not going to quibble over 15 euro a month!!.

Blaster99

So looks like the HD output is a couple of American channels and Sky's own premium channels. What's the story with the UK terrestrials?

Hagar

ffocused wrote:

After spending over 2 grand on a HD ready tv i am not going to quibble over 15 euro a month!!.

A SKY sales executives dream customer. That's exactly what they love to hear.

JimmySmith

I think i'll wait.
I saw how fast the price of Sky+ came down, so wont be getting this at the start.
£300 for the box is just too much.

JohnC.

Blaster99 wrote:

So looks like the HD output is a couple of American channels and Sky's own premium channels. What's the story with the UK terrestrials?

Sky premium channels
Sky One
Discovery channels
National Geographic

BBC will be going HD in the near future, AFAIK.

watty

Blaster99 wrote:

So looks like the HD output is a couple of American channels and Sky's own premium channels. What's the story with the UK terrestrials?

A couple of Discovery channels (not all)
A few of Sky's premium channels
National Geographic.

BBC is only starting tests this spring/summer. They arn't sure yet what they are doing. Probabily no UK HDTV till next year.

Telewest have HDTV running already, but only the two same repeated programs They will have much the same lineup as Sky.


On 19E a couple of FTA German channels and a few Premire Direckt Pay channels this spring.

Really next year is start of HDTV. HD players of disks are delayed over DRM system wrangling. Maybe this summer. Again there is a VHS/Betamax factor. Wait till next year an either get a player that does both (incompatible) HD disk formats or which ever one "wins".

clarkbelt

Spoke to Ed Sawday ( BSkyB ) this week , he said box price likely to be around €450 with €15 extra sub .

Tony

clarkbelt wrote:

Spoke to Ed Sawday ( BSkyB ) this week , he said box price likely to be around €450 with €15 extra sub .

Wonder why he could not have said that at seminar last week?

clarkbelt

You'll have to ask him that .

I dont think too much was gained from so called "seminars" last week !