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Best way to get HD TV?
Seems I could get HD TV several ways...
Freesat HD boxDoes 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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Is the Sky+ HD box much use after the contract?
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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.
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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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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but CH4HD is on FreeviewHD (as long as you live in a reception area).
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but CH4HD is on FreeviewHD (as long as you live in a 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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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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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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...the some HD being the fifteen to twenty channels which make up the HD Pack.
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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 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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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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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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Why do sky waste a HD channel with Sky News???
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Why do sky waste a HD channel with Sky News???
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Why do sky waste a HD channel with Sky News???
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Isn't Sky News HD free to AIr then, like Sky News SD?
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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.
. 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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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... There's Sky News HD because there was a big demand for it. |
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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. 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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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. Your argument adds nothing to the discussion. |
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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.
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The channel could be used for something better in HD and not wasted on a news channel.
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I don't think that Sky news HD had a big demand at all.
Personally, I've never even seen it, and don't even know what channel number it's on. |
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