Are Sky Giving HD Free Now

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I just got in a new Sky + Box & noticed the HD Channels were opening.
We did not have that with the old HD Box. ????
Are we lucky or have they given us a trial ??
 

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Trial to tempt :D
 

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HD going up in price in June, so no sign of it going free yet. Make sure they haven't added HD by "mistake" if you didn't want it, you can check your future bills in MySky at Sky.com.
 

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I suspect a trial period.
 

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I was only speaking to sky a last week trying to get my bill reduced, they was charging me for them then, so as above:(.
 

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How is it that you can have HD in the clear for free on other satellites, and yet, Sky charge for it. Hmm. I smell major rip off here people!
 
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A couple of the HD channels are soft scrambled. (Just needs a card) to open them.
 

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That's new to me. The sky leaflets say so. I guess that's another one of their lies.
 

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Chris, you weren't thinking perhaps of Film4 HD, as that is Encrypted?

C4 HD is also on Freesat @ 126, by the way.
 

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That's new to me. The sky leaflets say so. I guess that's another one of their lies.
It's like Sky News SD is always included in their pay packages on their website but it's FTA. It used to mention it was FTA in the small print but I can't even find that now.
 

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Ah, yes: The small print. Making that prominent will be another £10 per month, please.

Actually, forget the "please". Just give us your money!
 
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