NTL digital at half the cost 5 euro per month

replytohere2004

From the Sunday Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2769-1621840,00.html

NTL digital at half the cost

It is a well-kept secret, but there’s a cheaper package available to NTL’s 102,000 digital subscribers.

You won’t find it on the company’s website and you’re unlikely to receive a flyer through the post, but the group is offering its Select digital product for just €5 a month, which is half the cost of its frontline Go digital package.

Select offers 50 digital channels as a top up to the basic package of 17 stations, which includes Irish and UK terrestrial channels. NTL might even throw in a free subscription for an extra connection to the basic package for a separate room.

Why the secrecy? Clearly, it’s not in NTL’s interest to push the Select option over the more expensive Go product, which offers more than 100 digital channels.

According to the company, Select is reserved as a “taster” for those unsure about upgrading to digital and as a step-down product for those wanting to cancel those extra channels altogether.

unklerosco

Got digital installed in two bedrooms last week... Have it installed downstairs since last year. Its only €5 extra(per room) a month to have it upstairs... Tis pretty good seeing as sky is €15 a month. Mind u, NTL r terrible. Took 3 weeks n 3 days off work to get it installed.... but thats another story..

LizardKing

I'm gonna try convince my dad to get this option , he is very Anti- Sky and hates paying so much for t.v ....

Anyone Know if you go Digital(NTL or Sky ) do all the other rooms lose there old 17 channels ?? We have a tv point in most rooms (done privately by a electrician) Will NTL see these and take them out / charge for them ??? Will these t.v points work with Digital ?? ( Sorry for hi-jacking your thread )

John R

No, ntl digital installed has no effect on the analogue service, the installers don't care how many different rooms you feed it to, they only charge extra for a second feed of the main distribution box.

Depending on the box you get and the order everything is wired up you should be able to view the output of the digital box in different rooms at the same time, although you will probably have to wire it up yourself after the installer has gone.

Tusky

NTL digital is terrible though. Its like daytime TV all the time.

The_Conductor

Not entirely true.
I had an NTL technician in, installing cable broadband.
He noticed that I had a signal splitter and was feeding the signal elsewhere (did not go to the trouble of investigating where....)
He cut out the signal splitter- made a comment along the lines of "Doesn't look like one of ours" and put in a fresh much shorter stretch of co-ax, so it wouldn't be as easy to splice something onto it again. He deposited the splitters and the amp in the ashtray on the coffee table on his way out, rather pointedly. I had his stretch of cable removed and everything reinstalled within the hour......

Depends on the technician and the mood hes in, I guess......

nava

Hi

To get the extra point install do they charge for installation?

What digital package do you get for the extra €5, same as the main package you already have or th new package mention above?

Do they run the cables from them main point to the extra rooms, or do you have to do that yourself?

Thanks

unklerosco

€50, its the same package as the main package. They install a new point where the box is to be installed.

chicken_food

Do you still have to be connected to the 'basic 17 channel' package to get this deal? Cos at the moment they are chargin us the guts of 20euro for this.
Do you get all the original 17 channels AND more.

po0k

Would this affect NTL Broadband?
As far as I know, you've to be on the Go Digital package (ontop of the cost of the basic service) to avail of the BB 'upgrade' to your connection.

The_Conductor

chicken_food wrote:

Do you still have to be connected to the 'basic 17 channel' package to get this deal? Cos at the moment they are chargin us the guts of 20euro for this.
Do you get all the original 17 channels AND more.

Yes.
You have to be connected to the basic package.
You get the original 17 channels along with the newbies
Tbh- the lineup on the 5 Euro package is pretty crappy- apart from BBC3, BBC4 and E4i..... There are a shipload of channels from Discovery and a couple of National Geographic channels- apart from that you get a bewildering array of shopping channels.

Not sure if this helps?

The_Conductor

SyxPak wrote:

Would this affect NTL Broadband?
As far as I know, you've to be on the Go Digital package (ontop of the cost of the basic service) to avail of the BB 'upgrade' to your connection.

??
Don't think so.....
I've been upgraded to the 2Mb connection without any explanation whatsoever.
Not that I'm complaining......

MorningStar

John R wrote:

No, ntl digital installed has no effect on the analogue service, the installers don't care how many different rooms you feed it to, they only charge extra for a second feed of the main distribution box.

Depending on the box you get and the order everything is wired up you should be able to view the output of the digital box in different rooms at the same time, although you will probably have to wire it up yourself after the installer has gone.

NTL realised people were putting additional connections on to the boxes so they changed models. If you get a new installation they give you a box that does not have the additional feed on it or remote port. It is still possible using a modulator and radio frequencey IR sender. Cost in total about €100 but I think maplin has the modulators on special at the mo

Sarsfield

Where can I find a list of the 50 channels on the Select option?

Can't find anything about it on ntl.ie (even the GoDigital list is out of date)

seamus

smccarrick wrote:

Depends on the technician and the mood hes in, I guess......

In fairness, he wants to get in, do his job and get out again, he's not going to spend his time trying to get it to work with whatever you've modified the setup. If he did, he left, and then you rang up saying it wasn't working, he's in **** because he left your kit there without reporting it.