Sky Digital

Advantages: Plenty of Choice
Disadvantages: £40 a month subscription

...plunge into the world of Sky digital, my freeview box was simply not up to the job as I live in an area with poor reception and so had to suffer constant stutters and picture freezes which were starting to drive me mad. Also, being a big football fan there is only one television company that shows decent matches week in week out as well as numerous film channels and a plethora of twenty-four hour news feeds, the fact was that if I was to move my ...
...to beat all previous offers Sky wise. As an AOL broadband customer I was being offered the chance to have a digital satellite dish and a digital receiver supplied and installed completely free plus three months of free viewing of the Sky family pack, which usually costs £40 a month. Well, I must have pondered the merits and pitfalls of this offer for all of ten seconds before taking the plunge and signing up. ●Signing Up● As I have ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to use, menus load up quickly, interactive functions, ergonomic remote
Disadvantages: many household arguments over the sky remote

...been left Cartoon Network, QVC, Sky News and UK Gold, we decided it was time to get digital. Now, I had never been impressed by NTL’s digital service, first thing was that it takes them about 2 minutes to load up menus, and secondly they are much more expensive for less choice. After having used Sky at friend’s and relatives houses over the past couple of years it had been out, we decided in April 2002 that it was time for us to convert to Sky digital. ...
...the remote!) and turned the Sky box on. The Sky box has 4 buttons on the left and 6 on the right. On the left there is a big round Standby button, then TV Guide, Interactive and Box Office. On the right, there is a select button with up, down, left and right arrows surrounding it, with an “i" button next to it, and a “back up” button next to that. In the centre there is a black screen with a red light and green light. Green lights up to show that ... Read review

Advantages: Lots more TV programs to choose from
Disadvantages: Lots of ads and subscription payments

...Sky. ~~Why I Chose Sky Digital~~ I used to watch a lot of tv, but since the arrival on my computer I, and we don’t watch a lot, mostly we watch videos, dvds, films and such, but actual TV, no not much. Of course there’s only so many videos and dvds we have to watch, and so we constantly find that we struggle to find something, and on a Saturday night (we’re not one’s for going out much), not being able to watch something special, is a bit of a ...
...of Doctor Who taped off sky from when I lived with my parents, but that was the old sky, the picture wasn’t always great, they didn’t always show them in the right order and there were episodes I missed. There was a TV adaptation of Dune, I would have loved to have seen, a lot of stuff on MTV and the special stuff. My wife loves Charlies Angels the tv series, which is now showing on UKGold, which she hasn’t been able to see much of, and as she says ... Read review

Advantages: efficient
Disadvantages: no 'human contact' until day of install

...Whilst looking at the latest Sky deals available over the internet (www.sky.com) I saw a little advertised offer - Sky will install Sky Digital, Minidish and Digibox for the princely sum of £1! Yep, you read it right and I didn't spell it wrong - £1!!!!!! The Catch? Pay the £1online immediately, and subscribe to Sky World Package (£34 a month - consists of all movie channels all sports channels, basically every channel Sky currently runs, except ...
...anyway, and subscribing to the Sky World Package too!! In fact better than not bad - it was an excellent discovery - a surprise saving of £49 on installation! So I order the Digital equipment/packages etc and hope that my online order doesn't go the way other online orders have tended to go - down a big hole never to be seen or heard of again! I am directed to a screen to print out, showing order number/date and time of install. This is where my ... Read review

Advantages: Great choice of channels
Disadvantages: N/A

Sky is a provider of Digital TV in the UK, and offers a wide range of channels, from entertainment, to movies,to music, to sport- you name it, there will be something on sky. MIXES AND PRICING The pricing on Sky is very easy. You can of course, decide to subscribe to the Sky Freesat service, which offers you channels on sky, which are free to view, through the use of a freesat viewing card. Purchasing FREESAT FROM SKY, is basically sky - ...
...When you subscribe to Sky TV, the first mix you choose, is priced at £16, and each other additional mix you choose, is priced at £1 per mix. So for example, if I chose, the Variety Mix and the Kids Mix, the price would be £17 - £16 +£1 for the second mix I chose. Therefore, for the standard sky channels, the total cost is £21 However, the entertainment does not stop there,as there are premium mixes, and standalone channels, which you can subscribe ... Read review

Advantages: Hundreds of channels
Disadvantages: so much arguing over which channel to watch.

...I have been a proud member of the Sky Digital Service for a few months now, it is by far the best upgrade of chanbels you can get from any provider. I used to have Ondigital, Ihad a bout 30 or so channels withg them for £28 a month, when my contract was up with them I was glad to get rid of it, as I had heard about the Sky digital service. With Sky Digital I know get way way over 100 channels for four pounds more, that includes about 15 movie channels, 66 or 7 sports channels about 8 music channels and several others, I am extremely pleased with their service and the package I have, to date I have had no problems with reception or anything like that.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: value for money
Disadvantages: no digital sound

...I have had Sky Digital now for almost two years I think Sky is doing a good job.My reason for choosing Sky instead of Ondigital or NTL was because of the price. I think that Sky is good value for what you get. The only thing I think is wrong with Sky is WHY didn't they add a Digital sound output??? That way it would have been really Digital. Maybe who knows someone at Sky might read this message and decides to come up with updated Sky Digiboxes, now that would be nice... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Channel choice
Disadvantages: None

...Sky Digital has been around for around 18 months now and since it was launched under a huge wave of publicity it has lived up to all the things that it said it woul. The channel choices on Sky digital are vastly superior to any available on the competitions channels and therefore it is well worth the £40 installation charge. Not only do u get all the standard channels but for £30 a month you get 14 movie channels, lots of music channels as well as being able to listen to radio stations, 4 Sky Sports channels with SkySports news and main more channels that arent available on competition packages. The games included in Sky Digital are of good quality and the picture quality using the mini dish is very high. I have has cable, On digital and Sky digital and to be honest now that I have Sky I will not be choosing another digital provider... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful