€67.50 for Sky installation??!SkyHD but TV not HD?

toby2111

Hi,
Moving into a house which had Sky but the guy is taking Sky+ box with him to his new house.Rang Sky who quoted me €67.50 installation fee.But will the same cables not be left there??I've no phone line.Is this the normal fee.Would've thought it would be cheaper without the hassle of connecting up a phone line?
One other question-Sky rep said they were only supplying SkyHD boxes to new customers,told him my TV not HD ready.He said it should be fine.Will HD box work on my non HD ready TV?Apart from extra storage,is there any other benefit to HD box?

Minstrel27

You will be able to watch BBC HD and ITV1 HD, obviously not in HD though.

doney84

toby2111 wrote: »

Hi,
Moving into a house which had Sky but the guy is taking Sky+ box with him to his new house.Rang Sky who quoted me €67.50 installation fee.But will the same cables not be left there??I've no phone line.Is this the normal fee.Would've thought it would be cheaper without the hassle of connecting up a phone line?
One other question-Sky rep said they were only supplying SkyHD boxes to new customers,told him my TV not HD ready.He said it should be fine.Will HD box work on my non HD ready TV?Apart from extra storage,is there any other benefit to HD box?

You would think install would be cheaper as it gives $ky less to do if you already have a dish and they wouldn't have to run a wire to a telephone line yet in my experience you get charged EXTRA for not having a telephone line !!! Doesn't make sense to me. As you have to pay for full install i would demand a new dish and wiring ...

HD channels will only work on a HD tv but you will get extra storage space & you should also get the new EPG which lets you watch a channel while browsing the tvguide & menus ...

toby2111

Cheers folks,
Ordered it earlier,huffed and puffed about the installation fee so she dropped it to €30...so it pays to complain a little!!Sending out viewing card,engineer installing box next Thursday.Got first 2 months half price and my bro gets €50 cheque through that introduce a friend deal!Happy days,all I need now is to win a HD ready TV and I'm all set!Not that I'd pay extra €15 for it, though I hear some channels are free to air?

BArra

if you got a HD TV, you could watch ITV HD and BBCHD through the other channels options

and it wouldnt cost you anything

Minstrel27

BArra wrote: »

if you got a HD TV, you could watch ITV HD and BBCHD through the other channels options

and it wouldnt cost you anything

They will also be viewable via scart. ITV1 HD would be an improvement picture wise.

doney84

Hopefully $ky will drop the €15 HD sub when they introduce 3D tv. They did this a few years back when they dropped the sky+ sub for the HD sub .... so fingers crossed

BArra

cant see that happening at all im afraid :pac:

von Smallhausen

toby2111 wrote: »

Hi,
Moving into a house which had Sky but the guy is taking Sky+ box with him to his new house.Rang Sky who quoted me €67.50 installation fee.But will the same cables not be left there??I've no phone line.Is this the normal fee.Would've thought it would be cheaper without the hassle of connecting up a phone line?
One other question-Sky rep said they were only supplying SkyHD boxes to new customers,told him my TV not HD ready.He said it should be fine.Will HD box work on my non HD ready TV?Apart from extra storage,is there any other benefit to HD box?

Sky are only supplying the HD boxes now, you can get it with or without the HD pack. The price you were quoted was €30 for installation and €37.50 for an NLL (No Land Line..manual enablement fee) HD boxes can be connected via scart to a non HD ready tv. Only benefit is indeed the extra storage space, but you can also future proof yourself for when you want to upgrade to the HD pack.

120_Minutes

Rang today and said i was cancelling as i was moving house and didnt know if there'd be a dish/no dish/different provider at my (as yet unknown) new address. nice chap offered me half price installation at my new address if there was no dish installed. however i was ready for that as i know sky want to keep me, so i said:

"thats nice, but you know what would be better? that free hd box for new customers offer you're doing, i dont have a HD tv (lie) but i'll be getting one soon, any chance i could avail of that?"

he replied that he'll give me a new HD box for 29 euro on top of my half price install. (i'm not getting the HD pack btw)

I cant avail of it yet, but he left a note on my account that after i move i can avail of it.

it's pretty much a repeat of what happened last year, i went to cancel (had no intention to) and said i'd stay if they gave me a free sky + box, which they did!


bottom line, sky dont want to lose customers, so it pays to chance your arm!