Alternatives to Sky and Virgin TV Packages
Discussion
After the latest 12month contract ended my bill will now increase from £72 to £98....fed up of this merry go round. Sky will be £75 if I move across but a lower broadband speed.
Current Virgin package is 200mb, Family Bundle.
Theyre not budging on this price increase, even speaking to Retention
I thought about the fact we have Netflix and Amazon Prime which are probably more than enough for us. So I wanted to go the route of Broadband only. Which they've quoted £54 for 200mb and £49 for 100mb. Which considering if I was a new customer wanting my current package it would cost just £60 a whole £6pm more....its a proper p*ss take, probably been covered on many threads.
But my fundamental question is....has anyone moved to just Amazon Prime, Netflix, Now TV and broadband solely....life without Sky and Virgin basically.
Ive seen a Broadband speed of low 60mb on a Nov TV Package for £35pm
Im tempted to go this route as speaking to the company IT bods they've basically said to me the 100mb and 200mb Virgin make you think is amazing is way more than we need.
So whose moved to a lower speed and whats your experience been?
I got there in the end after all the waffle :-)
Current Virgin package is 200mb, Family Bundle.
Theyre not budging on this price increase, even speaking to Retention
I thought about the fact we have Netflix and Amazon Prime which are probably more than enough for us. So I wanted to go the route of Broadband only. Which they've quoted £54 for 200mb and £49 for 100mb. Which considering if I was a new customer wanting my current package it would cost just £60 a whole £6pm more....its a proper p*ss take, probably been covered on many threads.
But my fundamental question is....has anyone moved to just Amazon Prime, Netflix, Now TV and broadband solely....life without Sky and Virgin basically.
Ive seen a Broadband speed of low 60mb on a Nov TV Package for £35pm
Im tempted to go this route as speaking to the company IT bods they've basically said to me the 100mb and 200mb Virgin make you think is amazing is way more than we need.
So whose moved to a lower speed and whats your experience been?
I got there in the end after all the waffle :-)
I have netflix, amazon prime, and a broadband connection, opted out of the TV license... we never really run short of things to watch, and I don't miss "regular" TV in the slightest.
Broadband runs at about £35 a month until i have to renegotiate with Virgin yet again, missus pays for Netflix and Amazon.
Broadband runs at about £35 a month until i have to renegotiate with Virgin yet again, missus pays for Netflix and Amazon.
After realising that almost everything I was watching was available free-to-air, I moved from Sky to Freesat (using my old Sky dish) and my son tops up with Now TV or whatever pay as you go package for whatever sports broadcasts he wants to watch.
So the only recurrent costs to me are the leccy and the BT broadband package. As a one-off, the Humax HDR box cost a tad short of £200 from a vendor on eBay.
The Freesat box is nowhere near as good in operation as the Sky one but, equally, it costs nothing so I can forgive some clunkiness and, in any case, I find I'm watching less TV because it is not so easy to set recordings
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So the only recurrent costs to me are the leccy and the BT broadband package. As a one-off, the Humax HDR box cost a tad short of £200 from a vendor on eBay.
The Freesat box is nowhere near as good in operation as the Sky one but, equally, it costs nothing so I can forgive some clunkiness and, in any case, I find I'm watching less TV because it is not so easy to set recordings
. designforlife said:
I have netflix, amazon prime, and a broadband connection, opted out of the TV license... we never really run short of things to watch, and I don't miss "regular" TV in the slightest.
Broadband runs at about £35 a month until i have to renegotiate with Virgin yet again, missus pays for Netflix and Amazon.
This would mirror near on exactly what we would have. I feel the same that this maybe the best situation for us.Broadband runs at about £35 a month until i have to renegotiate with Virgin yet again, missus pays for Netflix and Amazon.
What broadband speed do you have if you don't mind me asking?
psi310398 said:
After realising that almost everything I was watching was available free-to-air, I moved from Sky to Freesat (using my old Sky dish) and my son tops up with Now TV or whatever pay as you go package for whatever sports broadcasts he wants to watch.
So the only recurrent costs to me are the leccy and the BT broadband package. As a one-off, the Humax HDR box cost a tad short of £200 from a vendor on eBay.
The Freesat box is nowhere near as good in operation as the Sky one but, equally, it costs nothing so I can forgive some clunkiness and, in any case, I find I'm watching less TV because it is not so easy to set recordings.
That's a fair setup, forgot to add we have an Amazon Firestick so maybe able to record on thatSo the only recurrent costs to me are the leccy and the BT broadband package. As a one-off, the Humax HDR box cost a tad short of £200 from a vendor on eBay.
The Freesat box is nowhere near as good in operation as the Sky one but, equally, it costs nothing so I can forgive some clunkiness and, in any case, I find I'm watching less TV because it is not so easy to set recordings
. How have you found the BT Broadband?
Kingdom35 said:
designforlife said:
I have netflix, amazon prime, and a broadband connection, opted out of the TV license... we never really run short of things to watch, and I don't miss "regular" TV in the slightest.
Broadband runs at about £35 a month until i have to renegotiate with Virgin yet again, missus pays for Netflix and Amazon.
This would mirror near on exactly what we would have. I feel the same that this maybe the best situation for us.Broadband runs at about £35 a month until i have to renegotiate with Virgin yet again, missus pays for Netflix and Amazon.
What broadband speed do you have if you don't mind me asking?
designforlife said:
100mb I believe, although apparently the two discounts i recieve run out in Jan and July so i'll need to get on the phone again and threaten to leave.
Doesn't seem to have worked for me this tactic. Very very strange that it hasn't this year. But tbh im fed up with them now. I will move across to Now Broadband or another supplierKingdom35 said:
That's a fair setup, forgot to add we have an Amazon Firestick so maybe able to record on that
How have you found the BT Broadband?
Fibre was very late to getting to my bit of fairly Central London but it has been faultless and I like the HomeHub set up - I have three floors with a lot of RSJs but no real problem getting a signal anywhere on my property. It might be perception rather than reality on my part but it feels less "throttled" at peak times than when we were on Sky Broadband, when three of us are online and one or two might be streaming. How have you found the BT Broadband?
Here we have 50-ish mb Sky broadband, Amazon Prime, Netflix and TV has on-demand apps for main terrestrial channels.
I bought a Humax Freesat box but it got slower and clunkier to the point it’s virtually unusable. We now don’t even switch it on, covered by all the paid for and free on demand services.
Works perfectly for us. As I type this we’re watching Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet in glorious UHD on iPlayer (only available streamed and not live)
I bought a Humax Freesat box but it got slower and clunkier to the point it’s virtually unusable. We now don’t even switch it on, covered by all the paid for and free on demand services.
Works perfectly for us. As I type this we’re watching Attenborough’s Seven Worlds, One Planet in glorious UHD on iPlayer (only available streamed and not live)
I’m the same OP, my Virgin bill has just gone to £78 pm I think and I’m getting the urge to bin it off.
I do really make use of the TiVo though, recording a lot of stuff but I guess if I switch to BB only and use the streaming services that doesn’t matter.
Don’t need a landline, just want a decent BB deal and then sign up to Now TV or Netflix.
I do really make use of the TiVo though, recording a lot of stuff but I guess if I switch to BB only and use the streaming services that doesn’t matter.
Don’t need a landline, just want a decent BB deal and then sign up to Now TV or Netflix.
Freesat £0 and Netflix £8 for me, Broadband is £32 a month for the fastest broadband from Plusnet with the option to get the BT Sport app for £10 a month which you can cast to your tv and cancel at anytime
Freesat has Quest and DMAX which will be appealing if you watched the Discovery channels on Sky
https://www.dplay.co.uk/live/quest
Freesat has Quest and DMAX which will be appealing if you watched the Discovery channels on Sky
https://www.dplay.co.uk/live/quest
RichFN2 said:
Freesat £0 and Netflix £8 for me, Broadband is £32 a month for the fastest broadband from Plusnet with the option to get the BT Sport app for £10 a month which you can cast to your tv and cancel at anytime
Freesat has Quest and DMAX which will be appealing if you watched the Discovery channels on Sky
https://www.dplay.co.uk/live/quest
It is hit & miss with Virgin, you're paying £40 a month for Netflix and broadband where as I am paying £40 a month to Virgin for BB (50meg) a landline with free weekend calls (never use) and 150 tv channelsFreesat has Quest and DMAX which will be appealing if you watched the Discovery channels on Sky
https://www.dplay.co.uk/live/quest
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