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

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So Sky put the price up AGAIN (from dec 1), adding £1 a month for voicemail and £1 to monthly line rental.

I currently have multi-room, HD, Broadband and phone, plus variety. No Sky sports or movies.

We spend a lot of time watching Netflix, so the TV bit is starting to look like a waste of money.

BT option doesnt work as we live in a valley where aireals dont work.

Virgin Media isnt available, so I guess Freesat is the only way to go?

Any suggestions on boxes ideally keeping as much HD as possible?

Anything I have missed? Broadband gives us around 20mb at the moment.

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I can't do but TV as no antenna signal. I think free sat and Netflix will be fine.

Can I just do phone line and broadband with sky?

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That should have said, cant do "BT", stupid autocorrect!

Can I just do phone/broadband with sky? I think I'll drop TV and go freesat...

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My understanding is the free channels will still work, but you will lose the ability to pause/record unless you buy a new freesat box.

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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).

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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.