As the topic says apparently there is no outright price in which you can pay for the mysky anymore which is annoying because if you have it for around 3 years you have made your money back, rang up after having it for a year and finally deciding to sump up the cash. I missed out by 22 days apparently.
It was stupid you had to pay it in the first place, because it was only a rented box. For $600 you would expect to keep the PVR, which is why I wouldn't have paid it.
surfisup1000: But, in the overall scheme of things sky is losing importance in my household and unless it were for the rugby sky would be gone ski.
I suspect that is the exact reason you can't pay for it outright any more. Sky are worried about the future, and so locking their customers into term contacts gives them some degree of certainty.
surfisup1000: But, in the overall scheme of things sky is losing importance in my household and unless it were for the rugby sky would be gone ski.
I suspect that is the exact reason you can't pay for it outright any more. Sky are worried about the future, and so locking their customers into term contacts gives them some degree of certainty.
Well this hasnt really got anything to do with locking people in, hower I would be more likly to get rid of sky now than if I had just forked out $600 for a mysky
surfisup1000: But, in the overall scheme of things sky is losing importance in my household and unless it were for the rugby sky would be gone ski.
I suspect that is the exact reason you can't pay for it outright any more. Sky are worried about the future, and so locking their customers into term contacts gives them some degree of certainty.
You would think they would see where locking people in to contracts got the mobile phone providers..... It enticed competition...
Selling the hardware and allowing subscription to individual channels is the way for them to go.... Pay as you go Sky.... Sky Skinny.....?
Haven't they always locked people into a contract. eg a free install and you are then locked in for 12 months. I think it is more to do with people getting their content online, and buying boxes and using VPNs to get tehir content through overseas providers. That is where the threat is for them.
taking a positive spin on things, maybe this means Sky are abotu to launch a new box and so dont want to get stung by the bad PR of 'selling' a $600 box to someone only to retire it a few weeks later
NonprayingMantis: taking a positive spin on things, maybe this means Sky are abotu to launch a new box and so dont want to get stung by the bad PR of 'selling' a $600 box to someone only to retire it a few weeks later
mattwnz: It was stupid you had to pay it in the first place, because it was only a rented box. For $600 you would expect to keep the PVR, which is why I wouldn't have paid it.
Over the 8 or so years I've had the box, it has cost me $6 a month if yo spread the purchase price across the years. So, I think it has been a good deal, especially since there have been 2 failures over the years and sky fixed them at no cost.
If i was payinging a monthly rental, sky would be gone burger, rather own my own recorder, then have to pay rent for it and then pay quite high cost for additional channels on top.
By own, i mean not pay monthly fee just to have box in house, so i'm able to purchase services from them.
Paid $600 and have two mysky hdi decoders. At $20 a month each for roughly 8 years each would be $3840, hmmm think paying $600 one off way better.
Be a bit more because one is the plus.
Then there's the hd ticket if don't have multiroom, ouch.
And the box is network cabable. Just sky seems real slow in implementing it, all it needs is a software update.
If i was payinging a monthly rental, sky would be gone burger, rather own my own recorder, then have to pay rent for it and then pay quite high cost for additional channels on top.
By own, i mean not pay monthly fee just to have box in house, so i'm able to purchase services from them.
Paid $600 and have two mysky hdi decoders. At $20 a month each for roughly 8 years each would be $3840, hmmm think paying $600 one off way better.
Be a bit more because one is the plus.
Then there's the hd ticket if don't have multiroom, ouch.
And the box is network cabable. Just sky seems real slow in implementing it, all it needs is a software update.
it is $15 per month. and MySkyHDi was launched in 2008, which is 5 years ago, not 8.
the MySky+ was launched in June 2011, slightly over 2 years ago.
if you had 2 x MySky HDi boxes purchased at launch, then upgrade one to the MySky+ when it launched, you would have paid just under $2000 total for the rentals, not $3840 vs the $1350 (not $600) you actually paid upfront ($600 for each box, and a one-off $149 to upgrade one to a MySky+)
So yes, you were better off by buying the box but your maths is terrible
Never bothered with Mysky (and haven't had sky in a very long time) Who would spend $600 for a box yet not actually own it and have to return it back if you stop Sky? Crazy.
You would be better off buying a MagicTV/Tivo or HTPC.
If i was payinging a monthly rental, sky would be gone burger, rather own my own recorder, then have to pay rent for it and then pay quite high cost for additional channels on top.
By own, i mean not pay monthly fee just to have box in house, so i'm able to purchase services from them.
Paid $600 and have two mysky hdi decoders. At $20 a month each for roughly 8 years each would be $3840, hmmm think paying $600 one off way better.
Be a bit more because one is the plus.
Then there's the hd ticket if don't have multiroom, ouch.
And the box is network cabable. Just sky seems real slow in implementing it, all it needs is a software update.
it is $15 per month. and MySkyHDi was launched in 2008, which is 5 years ago, not 8.
the MySky+ was launched in June 2011, slightly over 2 years ago.
if you had 2 x MySky HDi boxes purchased at launch, then upgrade one to the MySky+ when it launched, you would have paid just under $2000 total for the rentals, not $3840 vs the $1350 (not $600) you actually paid upfront ($600 for each box, and a one-off $149 to upgrade one to a MySky+)
So yes, you were better off by buying the box but your maths is terrible
I think he meant he paid $600 upfront for the original MySky SD boxes back 8 years ago (as we did to) and upgraded to the HDi when they came out so he's not that far out on his numbers.
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