Sky - any good?

[Condi]

Taita said:

Documentary package and Sky+ is a brilliant combination.

This thread came along at the right time as Mum is thinking of moving back to Virgin Media.

Would rather have VM any day of the week. Especially if you get a package with 20/50/100MPS broadband and unlimited downloads.

[monthefish]

Podie said:

Mojooo said:

Lot of complaints about service.

I think their actual product is good when its working

The prices are absurd though.

This, this and this.

I agree that the product is great, far better than any of the 'competition', however they know this and price it accordingly.

[Taita]

Condi said:

Would rather have VM any day of the week. Especially if you get a package with 20/50/100MPS broadband and unlimited downloads.

True but my Mum will never see any benefit to that!

[PaulB81]

Documentary package gives you Discovery Turbo which has some ok programs on it, Overhaulin is quite good, and wheeler dealers is amusing if nothing else.

[Pwig]

Oh and Sky GO is fantastic!

Going for a crap at work now the cricket is on has taken a whole new time frame

[tucks]

once youve had black, you never go back.

now change the word "black" to "sky".


great product, appaling prices. it does make "normal" tv seem like the stone age though. plus i hate them for taking F1 away from the normal folk of the UK. i showed my disgust by renewing my subscription.

[AV12]

Average to OK performance. Bad weather forget it.

Motors TV - good racing.

Always something to watch, although I tend to think full package is the best way to start, then remove as needed. Plenty of good dramas to lose your evening to, especially if you are into US TV.

[bigbubba]

We are 1 month into a VM 18 month contract. We have had Sky for 8 years and only changed to VM for the broadband package.

I am considering 'buying out' of the contract just to go back to Sky.

By comparison IMO Sky are superb. Their customer service in my experience was great.

Sheridan

[chim]

Love sky, pricing is a bit to high though. Have HD, dual room, every package except sport, telephone and broadband all through sky. Cost about 95 quid in total. Switched Telephone and Braodband from BT last year. Best thing I have ever done, service from BT was ridiculous, constantly breaking and they could never fix it. Eventually my broadband was down to dial up speed and the BT engineer just gave up. He actually suggested I switch to sky as he said the BT kit in the exchange was crap and sky kit was the best of the best. When I switched (all very well handled) my speed went from 512k to 9 Meg. Had no problems since and when I have had to call about a Sky dish problem it was fixed the same day.

Oh yea, on demand is great as well if you have Sky broadband, hundreds and hundreds of movies, all the latest TV series etc.

[ruddermode]

If someone is not interested in movie and sports channels, does Sky TV have any advantages over freesat?

I was looking at a list of channels available for freesat and most of what we watch appears on there - it's making me wonder why we pay every month for them...

[66comanche]

I really like Sky, had it pretty much since they started, mainly for the sports but also the sitcoms, Sky Atlantic etc. Was great to be able to record the whole series of Game of Thrones and watch at leisure. However I did decide 6 months ago to cancel as I was annoyed at the cost, approx £50 for Sports & HD - they offered half price for 6 months so I took that, whether I'll cancel now I don't know, their little trick worked

The service is generally fine, whenever I've had reason to call them it's always been a UK call centre which helps immeasurably. One annoyance I have had is the HD+ box I have (Pace) is crap, often freezes and needs a reboot, mind you if it ever did conk out I would definitely cancel and maybe take out a new subscription at some point to get new box/better introductory deal etc.

Weather can interfere with it but extremely rare for us, on the most thundery of days maybe. Have also had 4 installs in total - old house (analogue), current house (analogue), current house (digital), current house (HD) and all have been absolutely trouble free.

[Maximum bobs]

I don't like sky & cancelled my subscription a few years ago, the three main reasons were. The absurd amounts of adverts, I hate adverts. The constant repeats on otherwise good documentary channels like the history channel etc.

But the real piss boiler & deciding factor in me cancelling was... The constant on-screen messages when you're watching something, when a third of the screen is taken up by a message telling me when a programme is on with the day date & time, or worse telling me what's on next. That annoyed me so much because you only have to press select on the remote & you know what's on next, I hated my viewing pleasure being ruined by the constant need to tell me, while I'm watching something, about forthcoming programmes.

I don't miss it at all & I reckon my blood pressure might well be a bit lower these days.

[Truckosaurus]

Maximum bobs said:

I hate adverts.

The simple solution is to sky+ everything you watch (even if it a delay of 20mins on a one hour show) and then fast forward the ads. The only things I watch 'live' are sporting events.