there is a post on xbox.com about the pricing for this,not sure if its true though so take it with a pich of salt.

so here is rumoured pricing for sky on xbl

No sky subscription at your house £14:95 pm.

basic sky sub (me) £9:95pm.

basic sky with multiroom FREE

Full sky sub or highest BB sub FREE

i'll try and digout the channels,then of course you can pay 1 offs to watch footie/movies

So I'll be back in the UK for Chrimbo, anyone know if I'll be able to buy Premiership games by themselves or do you have to pay the monthly subscription as well ?

I find it worrying that they haven't announced any details on pricing to non sky customers. I hope that i'm wrong and that it will be fairly priced.

When is this being released then? Or is it out now?

I own sky already, will I need to pay anything?

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1559967/microsoft-pulls-xbox-360-sky-player

Back out again tomorrow..

rip off i have sky and they want 9.99 extra A MONTH FOR MULTIROOM!

nuts to that!

I did manage to download the SKY player friday .
It all looks fantastic .

I looked into the pricing .

Its £15 a month for the basic entertainment package
Then it looks like £9 a month for each premium channel

There are offers though

Subscribe to sky sports 1 and sky sports 2 and get sky sports 3 and sky sports xtra free for £18
Subscribe to sky movies 1 and sky movies 2 and get movies on demand free which looked really good for £18 a month

Also at the moment xbox/sky are doing a deal of 3 months for the price of 2 . REDEEM CODE . XBOX3FOR2


So i thought I would subscribe to everything avalible but not actually buy the package to see how much it would cost.
For the basic entertainment package , sky sports package and sky movies package came to £41 .
So it looks like there is a savings of £10 if you subscribe to everything .
Applying the 3 months for 2 code get you everything at £27.50 for 3 months

I also spoke to sky and its a pay monthly service you pay upfront for . No contract as such . Just pay for the months you want to use .
Not sure how the 3 for 2 months work . I guess you would have to sign up for 3 months , but im not sure .

Hope this answers some questions for you guys .

Oh i went to the sky sign up site today and there is no way to sign up t the moment .

I cant get sky (through dish) or cable so this is the alternative

For £34 i will be able to watch live sport (sport 1, 2 ,3 and extra) i had to go to the pub to watch in the past, as an example this would cost at least £10 in drinks / food while im there

Also if i went to one single match in a month it would cost more than £34, i also watch rugby but being 250 miles plus away from my team i could hardly ever go if i did it would cost £30 in petrol plus the ticket..

I am willing to pay £34 a month for it, im pretty sure there are also many others who will most likely save money paying £34 a month for the sports channels

Signed up yesterday for the 3 for 2 month offer .
It comes to £27.33 for 3 months , then its £41 after that .
So far im well impressed with it . I have a 3meg download speed on my broadband which seems to cope very well with the sevice . When starting a program it buffers for about 10 seconds and there after it didnt do it again until i changed to another program .
I watched a film via the on demand sevice last night (saw 5) and it was pretty much flawless . You can stop the film and resume play on it anytime , even after exiting the sky player or even turning your console off from the point you stopped it .
So far everything is going well for me using the sky player .
I think the menu system is very good .
Also being able to watch something with your friends looks intresting . You being represented by your avatar being able to emote various emotions of happiness and not form your couch in yor virtual room.
All in all i would recomend it to anyone at the cost of £27.33 but at £41 seems very costly to me . I suspect my internet speed of 3meg is nearing the minium also . So i guess you should also bear all these thingss in mind

Just listened to the podcast (good episode, although Uncharted is a A+++ game), so had to give it a try. Just downloaded and played around for 30mins,

I think the UI is nice and direct, however it does seems to hang or go slow on a regular basis. But hopefully this is just an issue as its early days.
The pricing is a joke, I am already a subscriber (sky1, music and kids package). But I can’t use Live TV at all without paying the 10quid a month for multi-room. And even with this I can’t install on more than one machine.
The on-demand seemed ok, I was a bit disappointed with the quality ( Not sure if this was because of my connection I have 3.5 mb) Seemed to be a lot worse than normal dvd quality. Maybe worst than BBC Iplayer. Also seemed to lack in content, it doesn’t appear to have all the content that I can get to from my laptop.

Verdict, disappointed and not sure if I will use it. But hoping it gets better and Free.

With all the new avenues available these days to get TV programmes, I am looking to reduce my monthly outlay not increase. I must also point out that for some time now I have been getting sick of SKy as I just dont think its worth the money, so i have a slight bias from the start.

yeah i do see your point zxspectum (oh i loved my spectrum )
For someone that never has had sky i think its cracking . Its all new to me .
If you got a big telly it does show up the average quality
But i am glade i did get it alll in all