topic Re: SKY HD in Account & Billing

SKY HD

KJ56 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:07:42 GMT

Why do I have to continue to pay for Sky HD when SD has now been switched off ?

Re: SKY HD

PandJ2020 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:10:12 GMT

@KJ56 wrote:
Why do I have to continue to pay for Sky HD when SD has now been switched off ?

Depends on what channels you are referring to.

Sky still broadcast SD. (Free to Air channels are broadcast in HD and don't require the add on)

Re: SKY HD

caesarome — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:19:16 GMT

@KJ56

SD hasn't been switched off as there are plenty of channels that only broadcast in SD no matter if you watch these or not but there are still there !

Re: SKY HD

TimmyBGood — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:54:08 GMT

@KJ56 wrote:

when SD has now been switched off

You may be misinterpreting the end of SD reception on obsolete (pre-HD) Sky+ boxes because they cannot decode the more recent broadcast encoding (technically it's a move from DVB-S to DVB-S2)

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/sky-channel-upgrade

SD satellite broadcast is very much alive: millions of Sky+ HD and Sky Q households don't pay the HD subscription supplement and so require SD transmission to continue.