The Official Sky HD Thread and FAQ

[T4V]

it could be free and I'd still not watch

[SPB]

You can get proper boxing for £19.95.

This freak show should be on the Disney channel

[Stevie G]

So all the sports channels on Now TV for £33.99 a month, no option to pick and choose. Has anyone tried now tv recently to give an idea of the picture quality? They're still chucking out 720 as far as I can see, not sure how well that will display on a 60" Tv.

We move in a month and my lady sky sub ended so I want to wait until we move before I decide who to go with for the footie, but thinking a one month sports pass should see me through until then. I missed that recent one day free pass offer because my wife was giving birth.... Very inconvenient of her! ��

[Stevie G]

Hi guys

We've moved and I'm looking at options for TV. We have broadband with BT (in a contract) and I had TV with Sky at our old address but cancelled it back in May. I'd like to get the Sky Q basic with Sky Sports, which they're advertising for new customers as being £42 a month, but as I'm an existing, albeit expired, customer it won't let me do it online, and I'm thinking that if I ring them and give my new address they'll not give me the same offer. Does anyone know if this price is the same for existing and lapsed custsomers? Or should I look at putting it in my wife's name as a new customer? A bit more hassle to do that as I still have BT Sport linked to the old sky HD box (BT said it wasn't worth cancelling it on Sky as it'll affect the price I pay for it on the mobile app).

Thanks

[jockosjungle]

Give them a ring and see what they say? They're normally just as likely to try and get you back and match the deal

[Stevie G]

Not been able to get through all weekend as phones so busy, but on a chat now. So they do Sky Q plus Sports for £42 a month for 18 months, but the only way to get those sports in HD is to get the boxsets pack with then bumps it up to £67. Seems utterly dumb.... I don't want boxsets, I only want sports in HD. Way to not get a customer....

[malcy]

It’s because people who care about sport in HD are usually willing to pay for it.

If you want Sky Sports cheap go for a NowTV monthly pass. You get 720p on the NowTV branded Roku boxes. Unless you have a massive screen it’s pretty close quality. Plus half price voucher codes are easy to pick up on eBay for a pound or so.

You don’t get the red button streams but they now include Sky Sports Mix in the sports pack.

Even cheaper share the NowTV account with a friend. It’s 4 devices with 2 concurrent streams. However you should note that a tablet or phone app plus Chromecasting counts as 2 devices.

[Q]

Originally Posted by malcy

It’s because people who care about sport in HD are usually willing to pay for it.

If you want Sky Sports cheap go for a NowTV monthly pass. You get 720p on the NowTV branded Roku boxes. Unless you have a massive screen it’s pretty close quality. Plus half price voucher codes are easy to pick up on eBay for a pound or so.

You don’t get the red button streams but they now include Sky Sports Mix in the sports pack.

Even cheaper share the NowTV account with a friend. It’s 4 devices with 2 concurrent streams. However you should note that a tablet or phone app plus Chromecasting counts as 2 devices.

Get a Tablet with HDMI out to stop that problem. I know Sky Go doesnt work with HDMI but havent tried NowTV.

[Stevie G]

I've been using now tv for it since we moved, first two months £29 a month, but it goes back up to the full price next week. I've been sharing it with my step dad so it's definitely cheaper, but I find the picture quality average on my 60" tv (via ps4). Better than out on a sky dish in SD but far from what I'd like. Had anyone seen footie on ps4 and a now tv box to be able to give a quality comparison?

I don't think they should be charging any extra for any hd channels these days, surely most people have at least basic level hd tv s these days

[jockosjungle]

I was cancelling my £20 basic bundle, I said just cancel it then clicked on this link

https://secure.sky.com/promotions/of...1/secure-offer

Which offered me 50% off, but you need to have cancelled to make it work

[basegreen]

Either a SkyQ update or Sonos update has broken sound intermittently for me. So frustrating and near on impossible to debug.

[gjkendall]

Any idea when Sky Q will bring back the rather useful 'bookmark' function?

[Stevie G]

Originally Posted by rbullivant

I was cancelling my £20 basic bundle, I said just cancel it then clicked on this link

https://secure.sky.com/promotions/of...1/secure-offer

Which offered me 50% off, but you need to have cancelled to make it work

Thanks, I've been using Now TV for the last few months until i could get a decent price for Sky and needed installation as we moved but they've been treating me as an existing customer because I have BT Sport linked to it (which BT could not unlink without charging me for cancelling BT Sport, which I wanted to keep anyway! ). It took two hours on an online chat (patient guy at the other end)plus calls to two departments for another hour, but I managed to get the whole package without movies (ie sports, boxsets, variety, Sky Go and HD) for £35.75 a month with a £25 credit on the account and free installation (with my existing box), plus it's not time fixed so in theory I could cancel at any time with a month's notice.

[jockosjungle]

I use NowTV as well, mostly as it works out at £3 a month and I share it with my Dad and In laws. Hence I'm not massively bothered if I have it or not, it's probably worth £10 a month to me to save me the hassle of a freeview equivalent of Sky+

[Stevie G]

I was sharing it with my step-dad, but the sports are much more expensive at £34 a month. He'll have to make do with Sky Go on his ipad instead of NowTV on his big telly now!

[T4V]

Originally Posted by Stevie G

I was sharing it with my step-dad, but the sports are much more expensive at £34 a month. He'll have to make do with Sky Go on his ipad instead of NowTV on his big telly now!

Has he got an Xbox360? Didn’t it have SkyGo?

[Stevie G]

No he has an LG TV that has a Now TV app. I didn't think Sky Go worked on any devices other than iOS and Android mobile devices?

[Alan b]

Sky Go should work on Xboxes and Playstations although I think it is called "TV from Sky" on these.

[Stevie G]

Ah, ok. He's a pensioner so consoles aren't really his bag....!

[Mr Flibble]

Originally Posted by Stevie G

Ah, ok. He's a pensioner so consoles aren't really his bag....!

It’s really easy mate - you can get a Xbox 360 for £30 and access sky go through that - my dad does this, seems easy to use!


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