Sky dishing out free multiroom HD box
Used to cost £199; now costs... nothing
Satellite broadcaster Sky has cut the cost of adding a second HD box to your Sky setup at home, serving up the add-on kit completely free when you take out a multiroom subscription.
The playback-only box used to set you back a full £199, but Sky has decided to scrap the fee altogether to add extra shine to its deals in the face of stiff competition from the likes of Virgin Media.
“As the appetite for HD viewing grows we want to make this service available to customers throughout the house so they are always able to watch great content in high definition,” Sky’s Hilary Perchard said in revealing the news.
Of course, it’s just the box itself that comes free. You’ll still have to fork out £10.25 a month for the multiroom service itself, plus the same again to purchase the HD pack on your multiroom device.
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Hburger17 March 2011
Is that the new Sky HD box pictured?
Report as inappropriateethan0319 March 2011
come on sky....are people really going to fork out 10 quid a month just to watch a hd pic when the one there watching is perfectly ok ?......my opinion is that in time hd will be the norm so why charge people, after all times are tuff.
Report as inappropriatescott198721 March 2011
well i have got on the phone to sky to quize them about this offer and yes it for a SKY HD box but it is only a standard box and dose not have the record function, they have said if you have a standard box with them and multi room they will give you the box for free.. hope this helps.
Report as inappropriatescott198721 March 2011
well now every thing has changed lol if you have already got mulit room or have had a sky box from them they will not give you 1 for free you still have to pay £49 for the basic HD so i lke im sticking to the 2 sky + boxs i have got, as always company like sky and dont give a dam if you are already with them they only look after new customers....
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