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Originally Posted by Starburst  Anyone just paying the £10 for SKY+ functions will obviously benefit long term by buying into a Freesat DVR but really as the only option is to remove the fee then SKY gains nothing, SKY+ is free for channel subscribers and if you want the pay channels then the Freesat DVR is irrelevant.
The question for those thinking of moving over is the long term saving worth the short term expenditure especially as this time next year there may be multiple models at half the price  |
Well if this time next year the models are half the price i.e. £150 then anyone who would be saving that £10 a month will not be risking that much buying now as they would have paid sky almost the difference in price over that timescale.
Sky do have another option of cutting the sky+ fee to £5 which would make the freesat box a far less attractive option although I do not believe they would do this as it would assume that more than half of the people currently paying the £10 charge will move to freesat which I doubt.
There is also the customer who currently subscribes to the minimum sky package as it seems better value than giving sky £10 per month just to be able to record the free channels. There is a danger that some of these people would downgrade to just paying for the recording facility if it was only £5.
So I do not think sky will do anything to react to freesat as its hard to see what the financial incentive to do so would be.