Why is SKY so greedy and mean ?
tvmad-alan
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Why after you have paid for a sky+ box by joining the service and even after years of being a customer when you stop they switch off the recordable part of the box yet with other companies you get a box the fully works like ondigital/ Itv digital / top up tv/ BT / Talk Talk youview boxes / old type of sky boxes ????
They have shown the mean side again and that will try to get you resigned as soon as possible by switching software off on the box and knowing when you miss the control of recording and freezing shows you may come back .... dirty tricks
They have shown the mean side again and that will try to get you resigned as soon as possible by switching software off on the box and knowing when you miss the control of recording and freezing shows you may come back .... dirty tricks
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you can, of course, should you wish, pay for just the recording functions.
of course, you could just go and buy another box that records for free.
it's your choice, you're not being forced to do anything.
The majority of Sky subscribers do not subscribe to sport!
The majority of Sky subscribers do not subscribe to movies!
As a Freesat fan rather than troll this forum why not contribute to the dearth of posting on the Freesat forums. The lack of posting on those forums is only matching by the lack of new customers buying freesat equipment...
It's on every subscribers bill not that you would know!
If Sky dropped the charge Freesat meagre uptake would drop to zero...
I'm pretty sure I read a couple of years ago that Sky had over 6m subscribers to the sports channels when it had about 8 or 9 million subscribers total.
*Not counting internet-provided Sky eg Now - just the satellite version.
In order to get the boxes into the EU from China without paying EU PVR taxes they have sky have managed to get them classified as a communications device. If they just worked as a PVR with no subscription well they'd technically be a PVR and Sky would be liable for a big Tax bill.
It's also why we do't tend to find TV's with a HDD built in, but rather have the option to add our own USB HDD to add that functionality.
It is a tax dodge that many EU companies have used (including Humax) by either importing PVRs wittthout HDDs fitted and ither fitting them in the EU or selling them as PVR ready and expecting the customer to fit their own or add it via USB etc.
There was one or two TV sets with Sky built in, but that was in about the year 2000
Sounds like they may not need to do it anymore: http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2011/04/14/pvrs-to-be-exempt-from-european-custom-duties/
I enjoy most of my programmes on channels unavailable on freesat, and im not into sport so theres a reason to subscribe.
Its free with a TV Subscription or £10/11 without, thats why you wouldn't see a price!
where is that put on the site then ?
So if they are charging £10/11 without a TV package and a TV package is £10/11 with sky+ service free, then were is the value of both so called services then ?
As said it must be a tax con as TV package is over priced or sky+ is or less UK taxes for sky ( another large company not paying real taxes yet we have the lowest company taxes in the world .. Shame on the company and our MPs )
It's not - it's an unlisted 'feature' where you can only downgrade to it, you can't take it out without previously having a subscription (and even then it's rare to find a CS who's heard of it).
Minimum programme subscription is £21.50, no one suggested only £10/11 - that's for recording only.
No 'con' at all, you've confused the figures - the 'loophole' is that as recording requires a subscription it's not classed as a PVR for import purposes, so avoids high EU taxation.
http://oi61.tinypic.com/2zf5r90.jpg
Its free with your sub, but if you don't subscribe, it a paid-for feature!
(Alan also claims to be a VM Tivo subscriber and a BT Youview subscriber according to his profile WITH Freeview HD & Freesat HD....)
Indeed. Add up the cost for two or three people to go to a home Premiership football match every other week and a couple of trips to the cinema or a theatre twice a month, adding the cost of fuel and car parking and a monthly Sky subscription does not look that bad in comparison.
a wider range of HD channels than Freesat provides. yes they do but how many are just SD upscaling so you are paying for what you think you are getting, hope you still think that's its worth it
wondered how long it would take for this person to chime in.
I think the op is right with the first statement but not with the second
so they aren't a business then?