Another Sky Price Increase

[P-Jay]

Cancelled Sky 2 weeks ago, no offer, no anything we've been out of contract for years now. Tellingly we can't get Cable at our current place and BT aren't fussed. Mrs Jay told them about our new address which can get anything and offers are coming in thick and fast! Free TV, 30% off for a year etc.

But decision made as far as I'm concerned, for my sins I've signed up with Virgin for Phone and Fibre, 100Mbps at £30 a month - it goes up after 12 months, but it's only a 12 month contract so that's a moot point.

Apple TV on order, NowTV cards purchased, away we go. All the stuff I had from Sky for £80+ for £36 a month, or less - I do lose F1, which was a shame, but I actually prefer C4's version and will happily live with highlights every other race, I have't got the time these days for 3hrs of pre-race, race, post race anyway. 2019 and it's exclusive to Sky, so we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, knowing Sky they'll lump it in with the Football, Golf and Cricket and ask £50 a month for it or something, nah, not from me. I didn't watch it for 5 years or more when they couldn't pass and didn't miss it.

[Don]

Let us know how you get on. I'd LOVE to ditch Sky...

I want Game Of Thrones, though. Without ads. Maybe I should just buy the Blu Rays.

[walm]

Don said:

Let us know how you get on. I'd LOVE to ditch Sky...

I want Game Of Thrones, though. Without ads. Maybe I should just buy the Blu Rays.

NowTV?

[Don]

walm said:

Don said:

Let us know how you get on. I'd LOVE to ditch Sky...

I want Game Of Thrones, though. Without ads. Maybe I should just buy the Blu Rays.

NowTV?

Yeah. I'm thinking of that. Can you record Now TV with any particular box or is it only streaming? At the moment I record the entire season of GoT and then watch it in a burst. Could I reproduce that with Now TV?

[walm]

Don said:

walm said:

Don said:

Let us know how you get on. I'd LOVE to ditch Sky...

I want Game Of Thrones, though. Without ads. Maybe I should just buy the Blu Rays.

NowTV?

Yeah. I'm thinking of that. Can you record Now TV with any particular box or is it only streaming? At the moment I record the entire season of GoT and then watch it in a burst. Could I reproduce that with Now TV?

You can't record (they have a newer more expensive box that let's you pause and rewind but not record IIRC).
However, by the end of the season they would most likely have the whole lot on catch-up - although that would be for a limited-time window.

[oldnbold]

Well I've done it, binned sky. After nearly doing it last year but getting talked out of it with an offer, I've switched everything to BT. Ultra HD box, fibre and phone for £42.

I have to say BT have been a nightmare, over 10 calls to finally get everything sorted. But last weekend I watched my first premier Rugby match in 4k UHD, amazing. Not missing anything so far, the BT box is fine once you get used to it. The only disappointment is that the coax network I wired into the kitchen and bedrooms years ago won't carry the BT signal, so just free view channels now.

No offers from sky yet, I've been with them since 1992, but I don't think they can temp me back.

[bad company]

oldnbold said:

Well I've done it, binned sky. After nearly doing it last year but getting talked out of it with an offer, I've switched everything to BT. Ultra HD box, fibre and phone for £42.

I have to say BT have been a nightmare, over 10 calls to finally get everything sorted. But last weekend I watched my first premier Rugby match in 4k UHD, amazing. Not missing anything so far, the BT box is fine once you get used to it. The only disappointment is that the coax network I wired into the kitchen and bedrooms years ago won't carry the BT signal, so just free view channels now.

No offers from sky yet, I've been with them since 1992, but I don't think they can temp me back.

I would love to be able to do that. The trouble is that I doubt I would get good reception on a digital ariel where I live. We also don't have cable in the area.

[P-Jay]

walm said:

Don said:

walm said:

Don said:

Let us know how you get on. I'd LOVE to ditch Sky...

I want Game Of Thrones, though. Without ads. Maybe I should just buy the Blu Rays.

NowTV?

Yeah. I'm thinking of that. Can you record Now TV with any particular box or is it only streaming? At the moment I record the entire season of GoT and then watch it in a burst. Could I reproduce that with Now TV?

You can't record (they have a newer more expensive box that let's you pause and rewind but not record IIRC).
However, by the end of the season they would most likely have the whole lot on catch-up - although that would be for a limited-time window.

You don't need to record, you just press play and it's plays you can gorge entires series if you want, but they do have a habit of removing them for a bit, then putting them back - they had series 1-5 of GoT until a few weeks before started and then for some reason cut them all, I think they're back now.

Ads are tricky though with streaming, SkyGo for example usually wants to show 4 ads before any show starts and you can't skip or fast forward them. I suspect NowTV will be the same.

[walm]

P-Jay said:

Ads are tricky though with streaming, SkyGo for example usually wants to show 4 ads before any show starts and you can't skip or fast forward them. I suspect NowTV will be the same.

Huh! That's weird.
I only ever use SkyGo Extra (where you download) for the train and the only ads are rarely a stupid Sky-based interlude that shows a couple clips of their home grown shows for about 30secs.
They must not get paid by the advertisers for downloaded rather than streamed!!

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Don said:

Let us know how you get on. I'd LOVE to ditch Sky...

I want Game Of Thrones, though. Without ads. Maybe I should just buy the Blu Rays.

No need for Sky when you have Kodi with the Exodus add-in installed!
You can install Kodi on almost anything, even a Fire TV stick and watch anything you want.

[BrabusMog]

walm said:

P-Jay said:

Ads are tricky though with streaming, SkyGo for example usually wants to show 4 ads before any show starts and you can't skip or fast forward them. I suspect NowTV will be the same.

Huh! That's weird.
I only ever use SkyGo Extra (where you download) for the train and the only ads are rarely a stupid Sky-based interlude that shows a couple clips of their home grown shows for about 30secs.
They must not get paid by the advertisers for downloaded rather than streamed!!

There’s no ads on NowTV unless you’re watching live tv – it’s just like Netflix.

[beko1987]

SWoll said:

philv said:

beko1987 said:

I've just knocked £10 off without even speaking to anyone...

My Sky
Review my sky package
Scroll down to the end
'Thinking of cancelling Sky Fibre, talk etc?'
(I can't see the screens now because I've just done it but from memory...)
Just press next each time.
Who are you leaving us for - BT
Why? - Better deal
(something else, there were 3 screens)
Voila, last page was an offer for our broadband at £10 a month rather than the £20 it is now for 12 new months (not much of an issue for us as we are only 2 months into our current contract

Taken the cost down from £67 a month (variety, Sky+hd (no hd channels, sport or movies etc, we are boring/I download stuff ), unlimited fibre, line rental, sky talk anytime)) to £57.

I'm now about to find a chat person and ask about the free mobile calls I've seen advertised, as that would be useful to SWMBO (works weekend nights so is always on the bloody phone during the day, hence why we have free landline calls) and try and get some more value from it

Happy with that, as I built a BT order up (the top TV package as it had the kids channels my daughter watches), infinity option 1 and the same phone package as Sky and that was £53 a month with an astonishing £75 serup fee, and I would have to put the aerial back up in the loft (removed it the day we moved in as it was fitted above the hatch and I nearly took my ear off with it...)

Incase this helps anyone, was a nice surprise. Wish Aviva would do that with the car insurance...

Edited by beko1987 on Wednesday 31st August 12:30

Thanks.
Just saved £90 over next 12 months.

If you're out of contract why not just cancel for a month or so? I've saved about £700 over the next 12 months doing that, as have a few others. Did it all via chat on the website so no waiting on the phone etc. either.

Lucas Ayde said:

Latest 'come back' email offer (I quit months ago): 60% off any bundle plus £75 credit plus new Sky+ HD box.

Yep. That was good enough for me.

Edited by SWoll on Thursday 15th September 19:20

I did think of going down the 'cancel it all' route, but we do use it. SWMBO makes full use of the unlimited phone for £8 a month, line rental is line rental, the TV part isn't that much for us as we don't have HD, sports, movies etc, and the fibre is now £10 a month. It's pared down so much now there's not much else I can do for now, we don't have Virgin in our area, I don't like BT full stop and SWMBO and the kids won't get on with a KODI box.



1 Nov - 30 Nov

A month in advance
Variety - including discounts £22.10
Sky Fibre Unlimited - including discounts £10.00
Sky Talk Line Rental £17.40
Sky Talk Anytime Extra £8.00
Free items
Total £57.50

Any less and we may as well go onto freeview, and my eldest is at the age where when she wakes up early on the weekends she can go downstairs, turn the TV on and put whatever kids show on and do some coloring or something, and leave us in bed, not going to ruin that!

If I lived on my own I wouldn't have it. I rarely watch it, if she goes to bed early I turn it off and chromecast stuff from youtube onto the TV, internet would be sorted by a mifi device and I'd use my mobile for all phone calls...

[P-Jay]

BrabusMog said:

walm said:

P-Jay said:

Ads are tricky though with streaming, SkyGo for example usually wants to show 4 ads before any show starts and you can't skip or fast forward them. I suspect NowTV will be the same.

Huh! That's weird.
I only ever use SkyGo Extra (where you download) for the train and the only ads are rarely a stupid Sky-based interlude that shows a couple clips of their home grown shows for about 30secs.
They must not get paid by the advertisers for downloaded rather than streamed!!

There’s no ads on NowTV unless you’re watching live tv – it’s just like Netflix.

Thanks for that, gave it a whirl last night at our new place.

Was a bit disapointed, even with a 100Mbps fibre connection the quality was terrible, read up - seems it's 720p instead of 1080i that SkyHD push out, shouldn't make that much of a difference...

Finally got to the bottom of it, seems NowTV is limited to SD on PCs for reasons unknown, probably to push sales of the boxes. My AppleTV should sort it. Shame it's not avilable in 1080p, but I doubt I'll really notice the difference.

[aka_kerrly]

beko1987 said:

I've just knocked £10 off without even speaking to anyone...

My Sky
Review my sky package
Scroll down to the end
'Thinking of cancelling Sky Fibre, talk etc?'
(I can't see the screens now because I've just done it but from memory...)
Just press next each time.
Who are you leaving us for - BT
Why? - Better deal
(something else, there were 3 screens)
Voila, last page was an offer for our broadband at £10 a month rather than the £20 it is now for 12 new months (not much of an issue for us as we are only 2 months into our current contract

Perhaps a lot of people have been doing this as I tried to cancel via Sky online and keep getting a message that this service is not available online.

I will have to call them as I'm considering jumping ship and using NowTV + broadband for £29 per month (instead of £67 i currently pay for Sky essentials,broadband,landline) as from what I can tell I'm only really going to miss Discovery Turbo.

[KTF]

Its only TV. Will your world really end if it isnt there for a few days until retentions call you?

[oldnbold]

oldnbold said:

Well I've done it, binned sky. After nearly doing it last year but getting talked out of it with an offer, I've switched everything to BT. Ultra HD box, fibre and phone for £42.

I have to say BT have been a nightmare, over 10 calls to finally get everything sorted. But last weekend I watched my first premier Rugby match in 4k UHD, amazing. Not missing anything so far, the BT box is fine once you get used to it. The only disappointment is that the coax network I wired into the kitchen and bedrooms years ago won't carry the BT signal, so just free view channels now.

No offers from sky yet, I've been with them since 1992, but I don't think they can temp me back.

Had an offer for 50% of any package to return. Whilst I'm fairly happy with BT the inability to easily recieve it in other rooms is a pain.

So I did a Web chat with sky and after a bit of negotiation I've got the variety bundle and sky sports for £24 a month for 12 months, a 60% reduction.

I was previously paying sky £85 per month for HD TV,slow Internet and phone (no sky sports)

I'm now paying a combined total of £66 for BT and sky giving me 4k UHD TV, fibre Internet and phone and including sky sports. I'm happy with that but more importantly SWMBO is happy and hopefully will stop nagging.

[Daz68]

I recently signed up to BT and have got the 4K Sport package with the HD TV channels for 39.00 a month. This was phone, unlimited broadband and tv. I also got a £125.00 reward card. It really is worth keeping up with BT offers. If I want to watch F1 and other Footy stuff that isnt on BT then 50.00 a year gets you HD sports through KODI and all the sport and movies you could ever wish for.

[KTF]

For those that are interested, the come back to sky offer in mysky is now 75% off and a £100 credit on the bill.

Example from my account:

[Flip Martian]

That's quite a discount!

I've just been offered sports and movies together for half price (£18 a month) for 6 months, with no contract. Still not tempted.

[KTF]

Flip Martian said:

That's quite a discount!

I've just been offered sports and movies together for half price (£18 a month) for 6 months, with no contract. Still not tempted.

Yes, assuming a 12 month contract and you dont buy box sets, etc., 2 of the 3 bundles in my screenshot make you a bit of money, the other costs you a few pounds.