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Old 21-05-2010, 13:05
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Seems I could get HD TV several ways...
Freesat HD box

Freeview HD box

Sky+ HD box
Does getting the Sky box on the cheapest 12 month contract with refer a friend deals - total £100 M&S vouchers - make sense?

Is the Sky+ HD box much use after the contract?
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Old 21-05-2010, 13:48
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Is the Sky+ HD box much use after the contract?
For watching free channels, yes. For watching the most free high definition channels, yes. For watching subscription channels or using Sky+ functionality, no.
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Old 21-05-2010, 15:26
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For watching free channels, yes. For watching the most free high definition channels, yes. For watching subscription channels or using Sky+ functionality, no.
Is that more free HD than Freesat?

Sky+ HD will cost me £236 for 12 months including box and install if I factor in the M&S vouchers compared with a Freesat box and install unknown cost as yet.
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Old 21-05-2010, 15:28
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Is that more free HD than Freesat?

Sky+ HD will cost me £236 for 12 months including box and install if I factor in the M&S vouchers compared with a Freesat box and install unknown cost as yet.
Sky has C4HD (and ultimately Five HD). Freesat has neither.
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Old 21-05-2010, 18:08
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but CH4HD is on FreeviewHD (as long as you live in a reception area).
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Old 21-05-2010, 18:56
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but CH4HD is on FreeviewHD (as long as you live in a reception area).
I live in Freeview HD reception area.

BBC HD, ITV HD and Ch4HD would probably be sufficient.

Can't remember the last time I watched Five!

Would Sky give me enough more to make the install and 12 month contract worth it?
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Old 21-05-2010, 21:47
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the last time i looked (recently), the cheapest HD package from Sky was £28 month, complete with 1 free Sky+HD box. This allows you one channel pack, plus the free stuff, and some HD, and recording feature.
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Old 22-05-2010, 07:14
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the last time i looked (recently), the cheapest HD package from Sky was £28 month, complete with 1 free Sky+HD box. This allows you one channel pack, plus the free stuff, and some HD, and recording feature.
...the some HD being the fifteen to twenty channels which make up the HD Pack.
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Old 22-05-2010, 12:05
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...the some HD being the fifteen to twenty channels which make up the HD Pack.
How many of those HD channels are genuinely in the pack and how many would be free to air or free to view out of contract?
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Old 22-05-2010, 15:12
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How many of those HD channels are genuinely in the pack and how many would be free to air or free to view out of contract?
The free HD channels are BBC HD, ITV1 HD, C4 HD, Luxe HD, and from next month, Five HD.

The HD Pack channels are :-

Bio HD
CIHD
Discovery HD
E4 HD
Eurosport HD
FX HD
History Hd
MTVNHD
National Geographic HD
National Geographic Wild HD
Rush HD
Sky Arts 1 HD
Sky Arts 2 HD
Sky News HD
Sky Real Lives HD
Sky 1 HD
Syfy HD

plus Sky Sports, Sky Movies, Disney Cinemagic, MGM and ESPN, if you subscribe to the equivalent SD channels.
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Old 22-05-2010, 20:15
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Thanks.

Looks like worth taking for a year then!

Threatening to leave at the end of 12 months might get a good deal on an extension.
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Old 23-05-2010, 09:54
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Oh to have a choice!

My dad is in a flat. There is no cable in the area, the building does not have a communal dish and insufficient residents are interested in getting one. He could put a dish outside his own apartmentas some have donw, but it would be pointing north! Freeview HD is the only option right now and it is coming to our area.............................in 2012!
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Old 23-05-2010, 14:34
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Why do sky waste a HD channel with Sky News???
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Old 24-05-2010, 00:15
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Why do sky waste a HD channel with Sky News???
Isn't Sky News HD free to AIr then, like Sky News SD?
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Old 24-05-2010, 09:21
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Why do sky waste a HD channel with Sky News???
Strange question. You may not watch Sky News - but a lot of people do. And it has received many plaudits since its pre-election debate and election coverage in high definition.

Isn't Sky News HD free to AIr then, like Sky News SD?
No, it's part of the HD Pack. Just like E4HD is part of the HD PAck, when E4 is FTA.
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Old 25-05-2010, 10:17
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Strange question. You may not watch Sky News - but a lot of people do. And it has received many plaudits since its pre-election debate and election coverage in high definition.
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Strange question???? Yes I watch sky news....You missed the point. The news is the news. I see no reason for it to be HD,
It's the news I'm interested in not the pretty pictures of David Camerons pores. I fail to see how HD improved the election coverage???
The channel could be used for something better in HD and not wasted on a news channel.
If others have a different opinion then fine. It just seems wasted to me...
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Old 25-05-2010, 10:53
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Strange question???? Yes I watch sky news....You missed the point. The news is the news. I see no reason for it to be HD,
It's the news I'm interested in not the pretty pictures of David Camerons pores. I fail to see how HD improved the election coverage???
The channel could be used for something better in HD and not wasted on a news channel.
If others have a different opinion then fine. It just seems wasted to me...
Why waste colour on it then?, why not just have B&W?, or perhaps just news on the radio?.

There's Sky News HD because there was a big demand for it.
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Old 25-05-2010, 11:27
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Why waste colour on it then?, why not just have B&W?, or perhaps just news on the radio?.

There's Sky News HD because there was a big demand for it.
Was there a big demand for Sky News HD? Like most people I watched the far superior BBC coverage because good programming wins over a better picture every day. (Okay I know the actual night itself was in HD on BBC but the point still applies).

That's not to say I'm against Sky News HD just that I personally would have different priorities for HD such as Sky3.
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Old 25-05-2010, 22:17
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Why waste colour on it then?, why not just have B&W?, or perhaps just news on the radio?.

There's Sky News HD because there was a big demand for it.
I don't think that Sky news HD had a big demand at all....Sky news may have. I doubt anyone watched it because it was HD!
Your argument adds nothing to the discussion.
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Old 25-05-2010, 22:18
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Was there a big demand for Sky News HD? Like most people I watched the far superior BBC coverage because good programming wins over a better picture every day. (Okay I know the actual night itself was in HD on BBC but the point still applies).

That's not to say I'm against Sky News HD just that I personally would have different priorities for HD such as Sky3.
That's the point exactly....
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Old 25-05-2010, 22:21
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The channel could be used for something better in HD and not wasted on a news channel.
It's not just the PQ though. It's the layout on screen, use of graphics etc. Vast improvement on Sky News in SD.
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Old 25-05-2010, 22:35
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I don't think that Sky news HD had a big demand at all.
Perhaps you should try reading all the discussion about it previously on here? - even long before it was announced, plenty of people were wanting it.

Personally, I've never even seen it, and don't even know what channel number it's on.
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