Thanks guys

You can have up to 4 minis but you can only use 2 at any one time.

how much did you pay for the equipment, £99?

Shame they wont honor my current offer on the new boxes, if I upgrade not only does it cost me £150 for the boxes, but then my monthly subs go up by £45 per month!

Ill wait thanks!

Remember that you wont actually own the equipment, Sky are leasing it to you.
The charge is an installation/activation charge.

anyone obtained a better deal from sky in the last 2-3 mths. Parents paying >70 for TV/Movies/BB and still using the first sky box. Wondered if SKY would upgrade to SKY+HD+UnlimitedBB etc. for £60ish..., just like a new users

Unfortunately i think the only way is to either open your wallet or threaten to leave.
It would be quite refreshing if they called you up occasionally to offer you a deal that matched what a new customer gets. Thats business i suppose.

Yeah as long as they are not in contract or have an open offer going with them they should get a decent offer for staying.

Or get your parents to cancel sky completely and sign up as a new customer in your other parents name.

I just ordered it on Friday,our monthly bill has gone up by £1.50 which isn't exactly a lot but thats around £85 which is a extremely high cost to watch Tv.

Ordered the Silver Sky Q bundle and 2 Mini Boxes and when broken down into 3 payments taken over the phone using your keypad to enter credit card details.

It took the best part of 1 hour to sort it all out and it was getting quite tedious and boring,the guy was really nice but reading me my rights about the contract and user term agreements over and over agin was a real pain.

I moved our Fibre Broadband account from BT to Sky Fibre Unlimited as this was the only way at present to get the equipment .

Installation date is March 11th and in all the total cost for us after taking 3 payments was just under £300.

Broken down that was £99 for a silver Box with One mini free,then another £99 for a extra Mini box,£50 for the installation and then some other amount for moving our phone line and there charge for that.

I would think prices will go down in time but this is the biggest barrier for most people, the cost. Not only do you need to take a one off cost hit the price of the subscription will go up (and existing deals don't follow).