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tbh I dont mind paying £199 for a HD box, because the V+ box is £150m and with Sky you get a free wireless 108 router which would set back a bit anyway. its the £10pm HD subscription I would like waivering, lol.

or the 8Mbs BB fee waivering for taking out SKY HD and a SKY landline, etc

I know Im pushing my luck.


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Lol, no chance on the HD subscription, it is essentially what has replaced the Sky+ subscription, it is being used to claw back investment in the service.

In the future, it WILL be waived for customers who subscribe to Sky Movies or Sky Sports, but that probably wont be until mid-2008.

Like Sky+, it will eventually be offered free with all packages, but Sky+ took more then 5 years before it became free, so it could essentially be 2012 before the sub is free to everyone, it just depends what happens within the industry and how quickly Sky want to make SkyHD the standard service.

Sorry fella, but atm, SkyHD is the top end service, and as Sky have nobody competing with it, plus the fact they are getting tons of new customers anyway, they are not going to subsidise it or make any offers more then the ones they already have running.

All in all, what you would be getting is already an excellent price imho, I know its a lot of money, but you wont get better value anywhere else, and you wont get HD from anyone else. So its either Sky or pretty much forget HD lol. Its the price you need to expect to pay for an HD service... if Virgin HD was fully fledged and offered more then just the BBC channel, it too would incur a monthly subscription fee.

Eventually VM will pull their fingers out of their arses and stop protecting the pennies and offer more HD channels, but until such a time Sky are the only option. Sky are as always, showing that even though they have the weaker and more limited technology, they have the better system through investing money into research and development into the right area's.

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VIRGIN HD are relying mainly of HDoD, theres only so many times you can watch raging planet in HD tho.

if I subscribe to 6mixes and HD but no premiums, do you think that when they do the promo weekends were you get free movies or sports for the weekend, will the HD version of the channel be available.

can you still subscribe to a premium for a month or do you have to take out a lengthy contract.


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With regards to the promo weekends, I dont think they will offer the channels in HD, they are mainly to give people a flavour of what types of movies or sports they are missing if they are not subscribing, as well as offering a little extra value/entertainment to customers.

The minimum subscription period on any premium package is 30 days, after which it can be cancelled.

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I think I've asked this before but do you only only get the HD channel if you are subscribed to the corrosponding SD channel


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I think this is correct for the Premium channels, however I think for the normal channels, the HD is classed as a sepeate package, so you would get Discovery Channel HD without being subscribed to Discovery Channel.

However, I am not 100% on that, and could well be wrong, so I would need to verify this for you.

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well chop chop. get verifying, lol, thanks for all your help Matty.


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Verified and you are correct, the subs only allows you to view HD counterpart channels that you subscribe to, bar BBC HD and Channel 4 HD.

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Channel 4 HD proberbly going to be my most watched out of all the HD channels


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lol... provided they have the rights to any decent HD content to show on it of course... we all know how skint Channel 4 are - well until it comes to wasting money that is, so the HD service will probably be excellent actually.

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so it wont just be normal channel 4 broadcast in HD then, was looking forward to Holloaks HD


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Well most of the channels currently available simulcast any HD content on their HD counterparts. So if its filmed in HD it will be broadcast in HD as C4 have exclusive rights to Hollyoaks.

Why on earth would you want to watch Hollyoaks or indeed any soap in HD omg omg

HDTV combined with Dolby Digital is good for movies and certain types of documentaries, everything else is pretty stupid imho, including football.

Im not a fan of HD at all for a premium over standard tv, but why anyone would want to watch a soap in HD lmao....

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Just to confirm, after a quick scout around the net, Hollyoaks is very likely to be in HD as Lime shoot all their productions in HD now, but it may not launch straight away as Channel 4 have only so far officially announced US imports for their HD lineup.

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I just want to get the most out of my TV


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Lol... watch an HD movie for that.

I dont see that a soap broadcasting in HD will give you the best out of your television hehe.

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