[Popadopalous]

Originally Posted by sodafountain

Nope, I think that is incorrect, Sky CS will not know anything yet, they are just telling you the cost it will be for new customers, the link clearly states a price rise of £x, so that is what it will be, just £1.50, wait for your letters and you will see, Sky will not upset people with a £6-7 price hike.

Thay may add an extra quid for people on lower prices, but not £6, absolutely no way.

Do not listen to customer CS.

I really do hope that will be the case. I for one wouldn't be happy paying such a substantial increase.

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by sodafountain

Nope, I think that is incorrect, Sky CS will not know anything yet, they are just telling you the cost it will be for new customers, the link clearly states a price rise of £x, so that is what it will be, just £1.50, wait for your letters and you will see, Sky will not upset people with a £6-7 price hike.

Thay may add an extra quid for people on lower prices, but not £6, absolutely no way.

Do not listen to customer CS.

Following on from our discussion yesterday I though i'd give CS a call today and I was also told the new, full price for the package I am on will be payable from Sep 1.

I genuinely hope they do indeed know less than you otherwise i'm getting a £5 hike, but I must agree it does seem unlikely.

[muppetman11]

Wouldnt it be an idea to post on the Sky help forum for clarification ?

[d'@ve]

All this mention of £20 a month puzzles me. So is anyone else currently paying £19.50 a month for the Sky Entertainment pack, like I am? It's not part of a special retentions deal by the way.

Either way though, I am not having a 7%, 10% or 35% price increase, depending on how it is measured, it looks like I will be downgrading to Sky Plus only from 1st September, and may ditch Sky altogether when YouView comes out (after 20-ish years - but enough is enough).

[nessteddybear]

saw this on my sky page
Sky TV packages shown in the basket currently £20 - £53 a month; increasing to £21.50 - £55.50 from 1 September 2012.

[Richardcoulter]

Originally Posted by Bangers

I've just logged in to My Sky on the Sky website and have had a flick around. I can't find anything relation to a price increase, so I'd be interested to know which page the OP found the information on.

Having said that, I fully expect an increase in September 2012. As big_hard_lad says, it's inevitable.

Wishful thinking, but it would be nice to return to the £7 'value pack' that existed in 1998 (Bloomberg, Sky One, Discovery Home & Leisure and 10 music choice channels).

Or back to the £2.99/month it cost to subscribe to Sky Sports switched from FTA to encrypted in 1991

Sorry to be pedantic, but it wasn't FTA, it was FTV (soft scrambled.)

Originally Posted by joshua_welby

I will not be changing to (just) Freesat either because I will miss my Favourite channels like DMAX, Watch and Pick TV+ for a start,
these channels are not available on Freesat at the moment and they are encrypted anyway regardless if they are subscription channels or not

With the passage of time, Pick TV has become FTA.

Originally Posted by d'@ve

All this mention of £20 a month puzzles me. So is anyone else currently paying £19.50 a month for the Sky Entertainment pack, like I am? It's not part of a special retentions deal by the way.

Either way though, I am not having a 7%, 10% or 35% price increase, depending on how it is measured, it looks like I will be downgrading to Sky Plus only from 1st September, and may ditch Sky altogether when YouView comes out (after 20-ish years - but enough is enough).

Then you'd save money in the long run by getting a Freesat PVR

[Phil_Shipp]

I have Sky world o my bill will be going up £.2.50 a month
which works out to be a just over 0.08p a day
no big deal for the kind of TV you get anyway,for the whole package

[joshua_welby]

Virgin has been charging Size XL TV customers £26.50 a month a while now so Sky thought to do the same with their Entertainment Extra pack

[muppetman11]

There isn't much difference in price between VM and Sky if we're purely looking at TV alone , I believe a Sky customer can now pay a one off fee to have TV with no phone.

TIVO XL with no phone is £35.50

From September 12
Sky Entertainment is £21.50 + £10.25 HD = £31.75
Sky Entertainment + £26.50 + £10.25 HD = £36.75

[d'@ve]

Originally Posted by Richardcoulter

Then you'd save money in the long run by getting a Freesat PVR

Been there, done that, but it's the Panasonic BD recorder/Freesat, which is great in many ways but is far too clunky, poorly laid out and slow on Freesat, except for occasional use. I won't buy another PVR unless it offers equal speed and convenience to the Sky+ HD PVR, and something extra too. That, I hope, will be Youview - so I await its launch with interest and if it lives up to expectations, that's what I will get and then, I will dump Sky completely (their phone and broadband has already gone).

Even though I can afford them, they are just too expensive now, for what I watch and I don't like paying for poor value (for me) services. They make the TV Licence look like the bargain of the Century (for me) and it's mostly because of their "channel package" subscription model, which has got even worse since this time last year, at the lower end - and is now about to suffer a massive percentage price rise way above inflation. Last year's price freeze kept me for an extra year but now, enough is enough.

Oh, that turned into a bit of a rant, sorry about that!

[Jaycee Dove]

I checked out our package via Sky and it is shown as being on no special rate, as I expected.

They say our payment for next month, as past months, is for something not called Sky World, as I thought the full bill was called (and as we have had Sky World since it started many years ago certainly used to be called):

Instead they say it is made up this way:

Sky Entertainment Extra, Sports and Movies, 2 HD boxes.

Total: £72.50

With ESPN = £81.50

Given that HD and multiroom = £20.50

That only leaves £52, not £53, for Sky World.

So is Sky Entertainment Extra plus movies and sport different from Sky World to explain the £1 difference?

If so, what might be missing? Because we seem to get all the channels that we have always done.

[sodafountain]

Just checked, mine says the same, and is £52.

I think that is the price we had it frozen at, but new customers joining after last August had to pay £1 more, if memory serves me right, so £53 for Sky World.

[Jaycee Dove]

Originally Posted by sodafountain

Just checked, mine says the same, and is £52.

I think that is the price we had it frozen at, but new customers joining after last August had to pay £1 more, if memory serves me right, so £53 for Sky World.

Thanks...So does that mean ours will only go up to £54.50 - by the £2.50 or by the £3.50 needed to reach the price of newcomers?

If so then long term Sky World customers seem to be paying the brunt of these increases and certainly the biggest rise - £4.50 if you have ESPN as well.

[sodafountain]

Originally Posted by Jaycee Dove

Thanks...So does that mean ours will only go up to £54.50 - by the £2.50 or by the £3.50 needed to reach the price of newcomers?

If so then long term Sky World customers seem to be paying the brunt of these increases and certainly the biggest rise - £4.50 if you have ESPN as well.

The link clearly states how much your bill will rise, depending on which packs you have.

Nowhere does it say the price will go up to the same as new customers, if they were going to do that, I would have thought they would have said something like "from 1st September Sky World will be £55.50".

So it should just go up by the amount specified, otherwise they will annoy a lot of people who were only paying for 2 packs and upgraded to Entertainment Plus, their bills would go up by £6-£7, well over 25%.

[BKM]

Originally Posted by sodafountain

So it should just go up by the amount specified, otherwise they will annoy a lot of people who were only paying for 2 packs and upgraded to Entertainment Plus, their bills would go up by £6-£7, well over 25%.

However, if true, it is annoying in a different way!!!!!

I was on the 4-mix when Sky froze the payments last September - so things are not as bad as they could be! However if I had realised that this would affect FUTURE years as well I would have made more of an effort to downgrade to the correct 2-Mix during August of last year (as it WAS possible to get put onto Entertainment Plus with the correct combination of just 2-Mixes!!!)

[swills]

Originally Posted by sodafountain

The link clearly states how much your bill will rise, depending on which packs you have.

Nowhere does it say the price will go up to the same as new customers, if they were going to do that, I would have thought they would have said something like "from 1st September Sky World will be £55.50".

So it should just go up by the amount specified, otherwise they will annoy a lot of people who were only paying for 2 packs and upgraded to Entertainment Plus, their bills would go up by £6-£7, well over 25%.

and in breach of contract !

[joshua_welby]

Originally Posted by BKM

However, if true, it is annoying in a different way!!!!!

I was on the 4-mix when Sky froze the payments last September - so things are not as bad as they could be! However if I had realised that this would affect FUTURE years as well I would have made more of an effort to downgrade to the correct 2-Mix during August of last year (as it WAS possible to get put onto Entertainment Plus with the correct combination of just 2-Mixes!!!)

That is what I did in August last year, downgraded to just the two packs/mixes

[velocitysurfer]

Letters should be arriving this week....

[daniel99]

i've just downgraded to sports and Entertainment as none of us watch the Movie channels

[1andrew1]

delete

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by joshua_welby

I have already mentioned this on another Thread

My Bill will be going up by £8 a month

Sky Entertainment channels I currently pay £20.50 for two mixes will be £26.50 a month after September
Sky Sports will be going up by £1 a month
ESPN will be going up by £1 a month

Joshua, why do you have ESPN via Sky when you have the VM XL package which includes it? That's £144 a year you can save by cancelling it from Sky.

[joshua_welby]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Joshua, why do you have ESPN via Sky when you have the VM XL package which includes it? That's £144 a year you can save by cancelling it from Sky.

I have ESPN on both Sky AND Virgin because the Virgin TiVo box is in another room to my Sky box and I want to watch the ESPN channel in both rooms,
I only have Virgin Size XL TV for the Music on Demand service, not really for the channels or anything else,
Music on Demand is only available for Free if you have Size XL TV where it is included

[Jaycee Dove]

My letter arrived today,

It has a small booklet with the theme 'Better' and each spread describing how things are getting better despite the increase.

Viz 'Better is Epic' describing some shows that have ended! (eg Hit and Miss)

A lot more focuses on new usability - eg 'Better wherever you are', 'Better is never missing out', 'Better never stops' - eg about i pad access, anytime+ etc.

As for the price rises the letter is personalised and explains that 'while your price might have stayed the same, we've been doing everything we can to make sure your sky package keeps getting bigger and better'

On the back is a list of each package and price rises/no rises much like on the web site.

There is no reference at all to Sky World, so I assume this has been dispensed with as a term.

It confirms in my case that as of 1 September my TV bill will be £3.50 pm more - that is £1.50 (Entertainment Extra) and £1.00 (Sky Sports 1 & 2 pack) and £1.00 (ESPN).

It gives no actual total price but that has to mean that our £81.50 pm bill will become £85 pm.

Just as sodafountain above says then that must now be made up of £10 (ESPN) and £20.50 (HD and multiroom) that means what used to be Sky World but now called Sky Entertainment Extra plus Sky Sports 1 & 2 pack) is now £54.50 (at least for us and presumably other existing customers) and not £55.50 as for newbies because otherwise they would say that the bill would be £4,50 more pm and they do not.

[sodafountain]

Good news, 1 confirmed as i suggested, lets hope a few more post the same good news to confirm this, then maybe Joshua will stop telling everyone their bill is going up by £8 lol

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by sodafountain

Good news, 1 confirmed as i suggested, lets hope a few more post the same good news to confirm this, then maybe Joshua will stop telling everyone their bill is going up by £8 lol

It's a funny old world when above-inflation price rises are called good news but I get where you're coming from.