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Sky HD gets installed at the weekend, took advantage of the £75 offer a few weeks ago.

Can't wait, never had Sky + before either so lots to play about with :D

I know there are more than a few Sky haters but personally i can't wait :woot:

Just got to see if i can persuade the Sky man to put the cable on the other side of the room from were it is currently to fit in with my plans of wall mounting our TV :D
 
I don't remember exactly when i ordered it but it was around the end of October so probably about 5-6 weeks, not too bad really and at least it's before Christmas so i can record the great TV we have on :lol: :bang:
 
If a Sky man installs it i doubt he'll have any issues in just leaving the cable pretty much as long as you want.

Some of the HD content is stunning.
 
Good luck.

Personally I won't touch sky with a barge pole. But then my grievance with them goes back to the days of the squariel and the introduction of the sky magazine.
 
russdaz said:
If a Sky man installs it i doubt he'll have any issues in just leaving the cable pretty much as long as you want.

Some of the HD content is stunning.
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Yeah i'm hoping it will be an actual Sky man rather than a contractor who will be watching his costs more.

As for the HD content i stood in the Sony Centre last weekend watching SKY Sports HD and you are right - it is stunning!
 
Can't wait, I'm getting Sky+ on Saturday for the first time, got a deal and got it completely free for a year yeehaa
 
We've had Sky for seven years now, and Sky+ for four years. Couldn't live without Sky+ now: I haven't watched an advert (unless I want to) since 2004!

Haven't gone HD because I too don't want to pay the extra. I will next year though, no doubt.
 
hepburn said:
Good luck.

Personally I won't touch sky with a barge pole. But then my grievance with them goes back to the days of the squariel and the introduction of the sky magazine.
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The squarial, bloody hell that's some grudge:lol:

When I had my HD fitted a couple of years ago I had multiroom, they ran the cable to the other TV in the dining room round the outside of the house but there was no phone point in the room, I said not to bother with it but they HAVE to connect it or you get billed twice.

OK run the cable round the house, sorry that's extra sky only pay us to route it in the house, so it'll have to go along the skirting up and round 3 doors through the wall to the TV.

er no it won't, leave the cable and i'll run it round the house
 
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badgerbaiter said:
I'm getting mine on Monday... not quite free, but £35 off the bill each month because the missus works for Discovery Channel
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Now i'd have been more impressed if she worked for Babestation :lol:
 
JumboBeef said:
We've had Sky for seven years now, and Sky+ for four years. Couldn't live without Sky+ now: I haven't watched an advert (unless I want to) since 2004!
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Neither have I, and I don't have sky, but a Humax freeview box with Harddisc recorded built in.
 
The fitter should leave the cabling to a length of your choice as long as its in the same room. If they want to charge extra then have a look at the wire and try and find an alternative on the web while he is there (that way you can see of they are ripping you off).

As for the telephone connection being far from the box you can either run a long cable round the room (sometimes house!)or use on of these wireless extenders. Its worth noting that you don't have to have the sky box connected to the phone line all the time. It is used for channel updates, red button activity and software updates. So you could in theory connect your sky box to the phone line once everycouple of months.
 
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Well all fitted and working and he even moved the cabling to the position i wanted without questioning a thing.

Very impressive so far!
 
i didnt realise until yesterday that you can plug a (£100) freesat HD dish into a sky digital dish! So technically you could replace sky+ with a freesat box and a sky box (one through each LNB)
Or, stick a third LNB on your sky dish and have sky+ and freesat HD for cheaper than sky HD!
Or.... 4 LNBs and have sky+ and freesat+ :)
 
Got mine installed today and its awesome
 
whitewash said:
ive got sky+ but i dont think ill be going for HD until thy ditch the £10 a month subscription, but i think ill be waiting a while
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But with sky + now being free, you're just paying for the HD now. You are just replacing one £10 fee with another, or am I missing something?:thinking:

If you get at least one premium channel you don't pay for sky plus. So if you get sky HD plus, you still get sky plus and pay for the HD bit. Can't remember how long sky + has been free as above unless you were lucky enough never to have paid extra for it on top of the premium channel clause. Clear as mud eh:bonk:
 
Sky+ costs £10 per month, unless you have extra channels from them.

Freesat have brought out this, HD Freesat+ for £300. There are no charges per month with that.

However, I was going to change from Sky to Freesat myself, but I think I'm gong to stay with Sky because they offer Broadband at only £5 per month.
 
I went Sky HD long before Freesat, i have a Freesat reciever built in to my TV, however i wont be running out cancel my Sky just yet, there is only 2 HD channells on it, and most of what i watch isnt broadcast on Freesat.
 
JumboBeef said:
We've had Sky for seven years now, and Sky+ for four years. Couldn't live without Sky+ now: I haven't watched an advert (unless I want to) since 2004!
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How do you miss the adverts.....because you record everything?? :shrug:

If you are watching in real time you HAVE to see the adverts dont you? unless you change channels or shut your eyes!! :D
 
JumboBeef said:
However, I was going to change from Sky to Freesat myself, but I think I'm gong to stay with Sky because they offer Broadband at only £5 per month.
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You might want to check on some of the sky broadband forums before committing yourself, especially if you're going to be needing reliability for business use.

I was seriously considering changing from my current excellent broadband service as it's almost the same price as sky and broadband together.

I'm giving sky a miss for now until the budget allows both.
 
I'm with Sky broadband (16mb unlimited)

I get 15mb all day every day and it is truly no limits.

Never had a minute of downtime with them either.
 
Janice said:
How do you miss the adverts.....because you record everything?? :shrug:

If you are watching in real time you HAVE to see the adverts dont you? unless you change channels or shut your eyes!! :D
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Yes, I record everything. Say a program starts at 9pm. I set it to record (one button) and then sit down at anytime after say 9:15 and start watching it.

I love coming to ad breaks and FFing through them at 30x speed :D
 
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