****ed off with Sky; suggested way to go?

[nitrodave]

i have refused to get sky in my house as i see it as wildly over priced and full of repeats and junk.

i did give in to bt vision as they offered it for £5 a month as i have infinity broadband. Came with a free pvr box. Pretty good value and it comes with discovery, history, nat geo, mtv, uk gold, plus a load of other decnet channels. im not interested in the movies and sport channels so it's just right for me

[edo]

nitrodave said:

i have refused to get sky in my house as i see it as wildly over priced and full of repeats and junk.

i did give in to bt vision as they offered it for £5 a month as i have infinity broadband. Came with a free pvr box. Pretty good value and it comes with discovery, history, nat geo, mtv, uk gold, plus a load of other decnet channels. im not interested in the movies and sport channels so it's just right for me

Thanks. Issue us that I dont have antenna reception in my lane, so I will need to use freesat. (No cable/fibre either).

[Bullett]

illmonkey said:

Sod having netflix, iplay and the rest. In the limited time I have to watch telly, sky's best, no searching, all my favourite TV listed in one place for me to watc.

It's interesting isn't I I opted to go with netflix/on-demand due to limited telly time for the same reasons you decided against it. I watch virtually nothing real-time or recorded nowadays.

[illmonkey]

Bullett said:

illmonkey said:

Sod having netflix, iplay and the rest. In the limited time I have to watch telly, sky's best, no searching, all my favourite TV listed in one place for me to watc.

It's interesting isn't I I opted to go with netflix/on-demand due to limited telly time for the same reasons you decided against it. I watch virtually nothing real-time or recorded nowadays.

Suppose. I just like pressing power on my remote play and watch something that doesn't need to stream and is in HD quality.

The lack of fibre in my area is probably a good enough reason in it's self!

[theshrew]

I rang up to cancel mine last weekend just to see if i could get a better deal. 25 min on the phone I ended up getting a lot better deal for a year.

[Jasandjules]

I am stuck with Sky HD to keep getting the F1.....

[Bullett]

illmonkey said:

Suppose. I just like pressing power on my remote play and watch something that doesn't need to stream and is in HD quality.

The lack of fibre in my area is probably a good enough reason in it's self!

I've got 40mb FTTC so HD on Netflix/iplayer/Amazon is instant.

The only annoyance is if I forget something and it's rolled on a few weeks the official catch up services won't have it. I do have to mess with less official channels at that stage.

[Grandad Gaz]

We went free sat and bought a Humax HD box. Run it through our redundant Sky dish.

NO MONTHLY CHARGES. Nice

[edo]

Right, thanks all.

So 20 minutes later, Phone line rental halved for 12 months to a tenner. (Ironically the phone rental wasnt the bit I felt was bad value), and some other changes have reduce my monthly bill by about £20.

Will probably still drop TV though.

[lbc]

Jasandjules said:

I am stuck with Sky HD to keep getting the F1.....

Me also.

I hope BT win the rights to F1 at it's renewal time, as I don't watch any other of the Sky Sports channels.

All the other Sky series I watch can be downloaded.

[lbc]

edo said:

So Sky put the price up AGAIN (from dec 1), adding £1 a month for voicemail

You can opt out of the £1 a month voicemail.

I never use the landline for calls as have a mobile, but need the broadband for home working, otherwise would ditch the landline.