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Free Sky+HD box?

  • 19-06-2016 5:20pm
    #1
    rvpalldway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭


    Hey,
    I got an email today from sky offering me a new FREE Sky+HD box? Is this true ? Has anyone done it?I have a sky plus subscription but not Hd so I dont know how this would work. I feel most or all things sky offer is for their own beneift....any opinions appreciated.


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  • #2
    swoofer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭swoofer


    yes its true but to get hd its 15 euro a month extra so they will tempt you in.


  • #3
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,049 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    rvpalldway wrote: »
    Hey,
    I got an email today from sky offering me a new FREE Sky+HD box? Is this true ? Has anyone done it?I have a sky plus subscription but not Hd so I dont know how this would work. I feel most or all things sky offer is for their own beneift....any opinions appreciated.

    Yes true, IMO.


  • #4
    Jack Killian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭Jack Killian


    rvpalldway wrote: »
    Hey,
    I got an email today from sky offering me a new FREE Sky+HD box? Is this true ? Has anyone done it?I have a sky plus subscription but not Hd so I dont know how this would work. I feel most or all things sky offer is for their own beneift....any opinions appreciated.

    Absolutely!

    I rang them to cancel last year when they put up prices YET AGAIN and they added a 9-month HD offer which brought the price down and said to be sure I rang this month.

    Rang today and I now have to downgrade the base package and keep the HD in order to keep the non-inflated price.

    Told them that it was nuts of them to put a €75 per month sub (includes phone & broadband) at risk for the sake of €7 but no budge, so downgraded and will ditch them entirely - ALL services - when their HD "offer" runs out in Sept.


  • #5
    former total
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭former total


    rvpalldway wrote: »
    Hey,
    I got an email today from sky offering me a new FREE Sky+HD box? Is this true ? Has anyone done it?I have a sky plus subscription but not Hd so I dont know how this would work. I feel most or all things sky offer is for their own beneift....any opinions appreciated.

    Presumably they want to get rid of the old legacy boxes to make their own life easier.

    Check the small print (do you have to enter a new contract?) but upgrading your box is a no-brainer surely. I'd say go for it.

    You can have a HD box without the HD subscription by the way, but you'll still get BBC etc in HD. And you really need to be watching TV in HD at this stage.


  • #6
    Jack Killian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭Jack Killian


    former total wrote: »
    Presumably they want to get rid of the old legacy boxes to make their own life easier.

    Check the small print (do you have to enter a new contract?) but upgrading your box is a no-brainer surely. I'd say go for it.

    You can have a HD box without the HD subscription by the way, but you'll still get BBC etc in HD. And you really need to be watching TV in HD at this stage.

    Sky's "HD" is barely "HD Ready" resolution. Compare an actual HD box or Saorview set to the Sky "HD" version - there's a MASSIVE difference.


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  • #7
    former total
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭former total


    Jack Killian wrote: »
    Sky's "HD" is barely "HD Ready" resolution. Compare an actual HD box or Saorview set to the Sky "HD" version - there's a MASSIVE difference.

    But the only relevant question for the OP is Sky SD versus Sky HD and it is a massive difference.


  • #8
    Jack Killian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,663 ✭✭✭Jack Killian


    former total wrote: »
    But the only relevant question for the OP is Sky SD versus Sky HD and it is a massive difference.

    I see your point but I was referring to your statement that ".....you really need to be watching TV in HD at this stage."

    Actual HD is an eye-opener, and the equivalent of the difference between SD & Sky's version all over again.


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