Sky deals anyone?

[RM]

Just cancelled after 21 years, we are moving to a new property that can't have a dish so wanted to move across to Sky Stream. But they wanted to charge me an upfront £40 and £9 more a month for a lesser service, galling when the website offered it with no upfront, and £10 less than I currently pay. Bye bye Sky.

[megaphone]

pidsy said:

Speckle said:

All the Sky equipment has been sent back (a much easier process than I anticipated), contract expired on 2nd October.

Officially Sky free, more than £60 richer each month and still seem to be watching exactly the same shows. I don't think I'm going to miss it at all.

My sky package is endin in December and I’m very much of the same thought. Sat down last night and worked out that 90% of what I watch is app based so I can do that on my TVs or with a firestick.
Their broadband is getting binned too.

18 years and god knows how much money but I think it’s about time.

Sky can’t compete with the streaming services for content anymore.
I’ll miss the F1 but paying for all of sky sports and only watching F1 has always niggled.

Plenty of ways to get the F1without a Sky sub

[Mikey G]

I just got off the phone to them this morning for nearly an hour and eventually told them to stuff it. I'll go get a cheaper broadband package for now while waiting for FTTP from Ogi to land in my street very soon. Not worked out how to get sports and F1 in UHD yet by I have until next F1 season to sort that out.
My contract ended in September and they nearly doubled my monthly price from £69 to over £127, gave me a discount to £110 but no budging from them. Guy was really snotty on the phone so I told him to shut up and listen, he was still insistent that a 60% rise was within reason and nobody was as good as Sky. I told him that there was more options these days and I classed the lack of speed increases to my service was a net reduction in quality of service so I wasnt willing to pay more for less quality.

Bye Sky

[number2]

Sky emailed me to say I'm coming to the end of my contract, here's an offer to continue on a rolling monthly basis with all the same services (everything TV)...
... £4 pcm more.

That's never happened before. It's usually another £40+ and I have to phone them up to get it back down.

[bitchstewie]

Does anyone know if Sky are gaining or losing customers overall?

[Riff Raff]

megaphone said:

pidsy said:

Speckle said:

All the Sky equipment has been sent back (a much easier process than I anticipated), contract expired on 2nd October.

Officially Sky free, more than £60 richer each month and still seem to be watching exactly the same shows. I don't think I'm going to miss it at all.

My sky package is endin in December and I’m very much of the same thought. Sat down last night and worked out that 90% of what I watch is app based so I can do that on my TVs or with a firestick.
Their broadband is getting binned too.

18 years and god knows how much money but I think it’s about time.

Sky can’t compete with the streaming services for content anymore.
I’ll miss the F1 but paying for all of sky sports and only watching F1 has always niggled.

Plenty of ways to get the F1without a Sky sub

FWIW I ditched Sky Glass about 6 months ago. I use Now TV to get Sky Sports, I signed up to a deal to pay £21 a month for 6 months. Plus £3 a month for HD and to use on multiple devices.

When I first cancelled I was buying a Now Sky Sports day pass (which is roughly £12) to watch football (C4 does F1 for me) but watch more than a couple of games a month and it’s more cost effective to have a monthly subscription.

It’s still £60 a month cheaper than Glass/Stream though.

[dickymint]

Riff Raff said:

megaphone said:

pidsy said:

Speckle said:

All the Sky equipment has been sent back (a much easier process than I anticipated), contract expired on 2nd October.

Officially Sky free, more than £60 richer each month and still seem to be watching exactly the same shows. I don't think I'm going to miss it at all.

My sky package is endin in December and I’m very much of the same thought. Sat down last night and worked out that 90% of what I watch is app based so I can do that on my TVs or with a firestick.
Their broadband is getting binned too.

18 years and god knows how much money but I think it’s about time.

Sky can’t compete with the streaming services for content anymore.
I’ll miss the F1 but paying for all of sky sports and only watching F1 has always niggled.

Plenty of ways to get the F1without a Sky sub

FWIW I ditched Sky Glass about 6 months ago. I use Now TV to get Sky Sports, I signed up to a deal to pay £21 a month for 6 months. Plus £3 a month for HD and to use on multiple devices.

When I first cancelled I was buying a Now Sky Sports day pass (which is roughly £12) to watch football (C4 does F1 for me) but watch more than a couple of games a month and it’s more cost effective to have a monthly subscription.

It’s still £60 a month cheaper than Glass/Stream though.

I think he meant a 'different way'

[ollie05]

bhstewie said:

Does anyone know if Sky are gaining or losing customers overall?

In the grand scheme of things, probably not, hence why they continue to shaft every customer something rotten, but based on responses on here, lots of us have had a titful and left.

[pidsy]

I’m binning in December when my contract runs out.
I have all the major apps on my tv but any recommendations for a good freeview box or similar?

[Shaoxter]

Looks like Sky are running some early black Friday deals, £7 off the base Sky + Netflix package.

[dickymint]

Shaoxter said:

Looks like Sky are running some early black Friday deals, £7 off the base Sky + Netflix package.

Well woopyfkingdoo they can kiss my arse and I still wouldn't go back

[WrekinCrew]

pidsy said:

I’m binning in December when my contract runs out.
I have all the major apps on my tv but any recommendations for a good freeview box or similar?

The obvious replacement is the Arris 4k Freesat recorder which uses the same wideband LNB as Sky Q, but avoid if you have a 4k TV or surround sound audio. See DPReview....

[dickymint]

WrekinCrew said:

pidsy said:

I’m binning in December when my contract runs out.
I have all the major apps on my tv but any recommendations for a good freeview box or similar?

The obvious replacement is the Arris 4k Freesat recorder which uses the same wideband LNB as Sky Q, but avoid if you have a 4k TV or surround sound audio. See DPReview....

If your broadband is with BT their TV Pro Box is about the best out there - no aerial or dish. Also pause and record. List of streaming channels below. This will be changing (for the better I believe) when BT switches over to EE

https://www.bt.com/help/tv/guide/ip-freeview-guide

Edited to add: All on the same EPG and

Edited by dickymint on Saturday 4th November 11:05

[RammyMP]

Rang Sky last week, I currently pay £84 a month for all TV packages with no broadband, I could sign up for another 18 months for £84 a month. Seems they’re not discounting anything at the moment. I’m going to cancel movies soon as it’s ste.

[Silverage]

I’ve had Sky Cinema through Now a couple of times as they are always sending me £1 per month offers. The last few times I’ve not taken them up as the choice is so poor it’s not even worth a quid.

[scoobydoolondon]

Couldn't agree more, Cinema is just crap, haven't seen anything in years.

My Sky deals comes to an end tonight and looking forward to ditching it completely. How can they charge for HD in 2023? HD for Sky Sports and another HD charge for Sky channels? And UHD is another charge altogether!

Anyway, what's the best 4k Freesat recorder? And how do I get multi-room, is that possible?

[WrekinCrew]

scoobydoolondon said:

...Anyway, what's the best 4k Freesat recorder? And how do I get multi-room, is that possible?

There's no choice - the only licenced product is the Arris as above. But see DPReview for some serious issues they haven't (or can't) fix; namely:
1) All video output is flagged HDR even when the source isn't, so colours aren't rendered right
2) All Dolby Digital output is flagged 5.1 even if the source is stereo / 2.0 (ie most TV) which confuses surround sound amps/speakers.
Also the user interface is slow and clunky. No multiroom option either.

Also see many damning Trustpilot reviews.

Edited by WrekinCrew on Monday 6th November 21:18

[James6112]

Sky used to be good
But now, the match or movie you want to see is on another app
I canned it a few years ago, not missed it at all tbh
Freeview
Prime anyway for delivery
Disney+ from Sister in law
Netflix shared with daughter
Discovery always free offers
Apple+ always free offers
Grand total - £0!

[scoobydoolondon]

Couldn't agree more, Cinema is just crap, haven't seen anything in years.

My Sky deals comes to an end tonight and looking forward to ditching it completely. How can they charge for HD in 2023? HD for Sky Sports and another HD charge for Sky channels? And UHD is another charge altogether!

Anyway, what's the best 4k Freesat recorder? And how do I get multi-room, is that possible?

[Davie_GLA]

bhstewie said:

Does anyone know if Sky are gaining or losing customers overall?

Gaining year on year even with churn and general attrition . Q3 results are healthy and product development steady.