Hi, moving to a new house next weekend... hopefully (still waiting for the ok & paperwork to be sorted by letting agency). At the moment we have a multi room SKY setup with a sky+ and bog standard box. My question though is it cheaper to pay SKY to move our current setup, or cancel it and order a new set up at the new house ? I know you get the best deals as a new customer so my brother could order it as at the moment SKY is in my name. We rent a house together btw.
I was thinking about getting SKY HD although the £10 a month extra does seem a bit of a rip off tbh. So that would be a new hd box and using the old sky+ box. Is HD worth paying extra for especially as some channels like bbc hd are now starting to use reduced bitrates. Surely the other channels will be heading in the same direction as they add more HD channels. So I am thinking maybe just get another sky+ box instead and save £10 a month.
The other question I have is regarding phone lines as I don't think theres a phone socket any where near where the boxes will be. As you have to have a phone line connected for the 1st year would the installer also run phone lines if required and would this be included in the installation cost or would you have to pay extra ? Would they run this outside the house with the SKY cables or would it be an internal around the skirting board job. Being rented we may need to look into it, although got the go ahead from the owners that we can install SKY.
We also may be able to get virgin at the new house as I think they have fiber optic, although we tried checking online but our house number does not appear. The house is a new build and has only been built for a year but we are looking to get broadband through virgin fiber optic if possible. Does anyone know whats required to get fiber optic setup, do they hook it up to the street outside the house or would you have to pay extra for a line to the house as it's a new build and I doubt there would be one there already. From the street to the house I mean.
If we can get fiber optic woud it be better/cheaper to get everything through virgin, although I know they only have a handfull of HD channels compared to SKY. But I don't think you have to pay an extra £10 a month for the privelage.
Thanks
I was thinking about getting SKY HD although the £10 a month extra does seem a bit of a rip off tbh. So that would be a new hd box and using the old sky+ box. Is HD worth paying extra for especially as some channels like bbc hd are now starting to use reduced bitrates. Surely the other channels will be heading in the same direction as they add more HD channels. So I am thinking maybe just get another sky+ box instead and save £10 a month.
The other question I have is regarding phone lines as I don't think theres a phone socket any where near where the boxes will be. As you have to have a phone line connected for the 1st year would the installer also run phone lines if required and would this be included in the installation cost or would you have to pay extra ? Would they run this outside the house with the SKY cables or would it be an internal around the skirting board job. Being rented we may need to look into it, although got the go ahead from the owners that we can install SKY.
We also may be able to get virgin at the new house as I think they have fiber optic, although we tried checking online but our house number does not appear. The house is a new build and has only been built for a year but we are looking to get broadband through virgin fiber optic if possible. Does anyone know whats required to get fiber optic setup, do they hook it up to the street outside the house or would you have to pay extra for a line to the house as it's a new build and I doubt there would be one there already. From the street to the house I mean.
If we can get fiber optic woud it be better/cheaper to get everything through virgin, although I know they only have a handfull of HD channels compared to SKY. But I don't think you have to pay an extra £10 a month for the privelage.
Thanks