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Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:40 pm
by KK
Recombu.com wrote:Sky combines HD and 3D in new basic TV package
Sky will launch a £31.50/month basic-tier HD and 3D TV pack as it halves the cost of HD for all subscribers.
The twist for existing Entertainment and Entertainment Extra subscribers is that from April, they’ll need the Entertainment Extra+ pack to get the full Sky On Demand catalogue.
The new pack will add 45 high definition channels to the Entertainment Extra line-up, including HD versions of ITV2, MTV, Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Living, Sky Arts, Discovery and Fox.
Entertainment Extra+ will also give access to the complete range of entertainment box-sets and catch-up TV via broadband through Sky On Demand.
The news isn’t so good for subscribers to the Entertainment and Entertainment Extra packs, who will now get only catch-up for the channels they subscribe to, and no archive box-sets.
The £10.25/month charge for adding HD to other packages will also be reduced £5.25/month, but it will continue to bring Sky F1 HD without a Sky Sports subscription.
Sky’s brand director for TV Products, Luke Bradley-Jones, wrote: “Since we launched HD in 2006, viewing in high-definition has been a huge hit with Sky customers.
“Today, more than 4.5 million of our customers take HD from Sky. This number continues to grow strongly, with around half a million customers taking HD in the last year alone.”
Would you upgrade from the £26.50/month Entertainment Extra pack to the new tier to get HD and keep your full Sky On Demand access?
http://recombu.com/digital/news/sky-com ... 11199.htmlSky Press wrote:Available alongside our existing TV packs Entertainment and Entertainment Extra, the brand new pack - called Entertainment Extra+ - will offer customers access to more than 45 HD channels. The pack offers a number of popular entertainment channels including ITV2, MTV, Sky 1, Sky Atlantic, Sky Living, Sky Arts, Discovery and Fox, all in HD.
As well as the 45 HD channels, the pack will also offer customers access to a wide range of TV box sets on demand, both on the Sky+HD box and through the award-winning Sky Go. Box sets that customers will be able to enjoy at home and on the move include Game of Thrones, An Idiot Abroad and Trollied. On top of this, Sky customers with the new pack and a 3D TV will even be able to sample entertainment shows on Sky 3D, including the documentaries Galapagos with David Attenborough and Inside the Mind of Leonardo, featuring the actor Peter Capaldi.
Available from £31.50 a month, the new pack will be available to Sky customers from April.
Well, at least it's not convoluted...
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:48 pm
by Mommy Christmas
Got the HD package for £2.50 a month as of yesterday.
It should be free. The banana splits.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:06 pm
by addsy0
So if you receive the full package at the moment will anything change?
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:06 pm
by Skippy
Mommy wrote:It should be free. The banana splits.
Internet mentality summed up perfectly there.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:17 pm
by Mommy Christmas
Skippy wrote:Mommy wrote:It should be free. The banana splits.
Internet mentality summed up perfectly there.
How come?
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:24 pm
by TigaSefi
I get sky entertainment extra and HD now for £38 now. What does this mean for me in April ? I get the new price of 31.50 ? I am not bothered by on demand.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:25 pm
by Andrew Mills
Also a little caveat they don't mention, it's a NEW 12 month contract if you don't have the Entertainment+++++ package and want the extra HD channels. I inquired about it the other week when it was still £10 pm to 'upgrade'. So you're basically resetting your contract with them to a new 12 month one.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:29 pm
by kommissarboris
I agree with Mommy.
It should be free.
HD is becoming the standard now, more and more channels are in HD.
It isn't so special anymore.
I wish with my provider they just didn't give me the option of standard and HD, do I really need two BBC ones? No, I need the HD one just.
I mean, if it became the norm, and all channels were HD, would it then not be charged as a priviledge? Doubt it.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:12 pm
by Floex
Don't pay a penny for HD but get it anyway, power of the phone haggler
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:19 pm
by Cal
I don't really understand any of that. I have Sky HD. I have the basic entertainment package. I have Sky Atlantic HD, Sky One HD, BBC One & BBC HD, Fox HD, Ch4 HD, Ch5 HD, Sky Arts 1 & 2 HD...etc, etc. There are others; I can't remember them all, but it includes stuff like Dave HD and all the ITV HDs.
What is going to change, exactly?
I only really watch the HD channels. Nothing else will do.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:29 am
by Slartibartfast
strawberry float me that's expensive. I'll stick with Freeview I think.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:09 am
by Poser
Slartibartfast wrote:strawberry float me that's expensive. I'll stick with Freeview I think.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:18 am
by Fatal Exception
Poser wrote:Slartibartfast wrote:strawberry float me that's expensive. I'll stick with Freeview and piracy I think.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:33 am
by Dblock
All HD channels should be free. VM does it, all of America does it. Sky literally has this country by the balls.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:37 pm
by satriales
Fatal Exception wrote:Poser wrote:Slartibartfast wrote:strawberry float me that's expensive. I'll stick with Freeview and piracy I think.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:18 pm
by Slartibartfast
satriales wrote:Fatal Exception wrote:Poser wrote:Slartibartfast wrote:strawberry float me that's expensive. I'll stick with Freeview and piracy I think.
Actually I agree with this more so.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:42 pm
by Jam-Master Jay
Most of the channels you pay for on Sky and Virgin are utter shite. I have the TiVo box from Virgin and the only channels I ever really use are Discovery/Nat Geo/History for the documentaries and Fox/Five USA for stuff like Sons of Anarchy and Walking Dead. Wish we had Sky Atlantic, but I can just download and watch anything else.
TV is shite tbh, all you need is a decent internet connection and freeview and you're laughing.
Re: Sky announce new TV pricing structure
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:48 pm
by Errkal
I really wish F1 was available outside of Sky in ways other than a stream on my PC.... Oh well.