Another Sky Price Increase
Discussion
Thought I’d update.
I said goodbye to Sky last week after some 25 years and replaced with Humax Freesat HDR-1100S boxes. I seem to have everything I had or bothered to watch on Sky except the football but as only watched 2-3 games a year that’s a big saving. I added NowTV so I can buy a day pass for Sky Sport to watch a match if I want at £10.
Happy days.
I said goodbye to Sky last week after some 25 years and replaced with Humax Freesat HDR-1100S boxes. I seem to have everything I had or bothered to watch on Sky except the football but as only watched 2-3 games a year that’s a big saving. I added NowTV so I can buy a day pass for Sky Sport to watch a match if I want at £10.
Happy days.
MissChief said:
Mr Trophy said:
I see these are going up AGAIN....
Once a year only and by 10% or less as in the terms and conditions. Is it that big of a deal?I too am leaving Sky after around 12 years, I simply don't watch that much TV these days being the main reason and would sooner spend the money on something more useful....even it is is a mere £36 a month.
I'm told that once the service finishes in a few days the box will still function as a Freesat receiver but wiithout a recording facility, which doesn't overly bother me...I'll see how I get on with that initially and perhaps get a Humax box in future if the need is felt.
To be fair I only signed up to Sky when a communial dish was installed in the block of flats I live in, the rusty old TV aerials up on the roof basically no longer worked and there was little chance of them ever being replaced unless at great cost to us all by the management company.
The Sky service has been near faultless over the years and they did offer me a retention package which I politely declined, less than a week to go now until I am cast out into the wilderness
I'm told that once the service finishes in a few days the box will still function as a Freesat receiver but wiithout a recording facility, which doesn't overly bother me...I'll see how I get on with that initially and perhaps get a Humax box in future if the need is felt.
To be fair I only signed up to Sky when a communial dish was installed in the block of flats I live in, the rusty old TV aerials up on the roof basically no longer worked and there was little chance of them ever being replaced unless at great cost to us all by the management company.
The Sky service has been near faultless over the years and they did offer me a retention package which I politely declined, less than a week to go now until I am cast out into the wilderness
Bert Cheese said:
I too am leaving Sky after around 12 years, I simply don't watch that much TV these days being the main reason and would sooner spend the money on something more useful....even it is is a mere £36 a month.
I'm told that once the service finishes in a few days the box will still function as a Freesat receiver but wiithout a recording facility, which doesn't overly bother me...I'll see how I get on with that initially and perhaps get a Humax box in future if the need is felt.
To be fair I only signed up to Sky when a communial dish was installed in the block of flats I live in, the rusty old TV aerials up on the roof basically no longer worked and there was little chance of them ever being replaced unless at great cost to us all by the management company.
The Sky service has been near faultless over the years and they did offer me a retention package which I politely declined, less than a week to go now until I am cast out into the wilderness
If you get a Humax box (they’re excellent imo) be sure to go Freesat rather than Freeview, that way can continue to use the communal dish.I'm told that once the service finishes in a few days the box will still function as a Freesat receiver but wiithout a recording facility, which doesn't overly bother me...I'll see how I get on with that initially and perhaps get a Humax box in future if the need is felt.
To be fair I only signed up to Sky when a communial dish was installed in the block of flats I live in, the rusty old TV aerials up on the roof basically no longer worked and there was little chance of them ever being replaced unless at great cost to us all by the management company.
The Sky service has been near faultless over the years and they did offer me a retention package which I politely declined, less than a week to go now until I am cast out into the wilderness
When I left them I changed to a faster broadband for less money. I also got a fire stick and a now tv stick and got all the apps on them. Now I have all the channels I had on sky but have faster broadband, netflix and prime on top for £30 less a month. I'm not tied into a contract either and I've not looked back since.
Only problems are the batteries on the now tv remote only last about 1 month and the £20 secondhand freeview + box I got off ebay only lasted 2 months but I found I barely used that anyway with most things already on demand. Even got a letter from sky after I left saying that the bill was going up.
Only problems are the batteries on the now tv remote only last about 1 month and the £20 secondhand freeview + box I got off ebay only lasted 2 months but I found I barely used that anyway with most things already on demand. Even got a letter from sky after I left saying that the bill was going up.
I’m probably in a minority by the look of things but I quite like Sky....I make sure I get a deal every year to keep it sensible. I pay just under 60 a month for all the channels excluding blueies. That price includes my line rental and internet so if I binned the TV off id only save about 30 quid. Worth it for the sport alone imo.
Unchecked it can start to get pretty expensive however, especially with Q and multi boxes. I’ve heard of people paying 100+ just for TV. I wouldn’t see value there.
Unchecked it can start to get pretty expensive however, especially with Q and multi boxes. I’ve heard of people paying 100+ just for TV. I wouldn’t see value there.
Jag_NE said:
I’m probably in a minority by the look of things but I quite like Sky....I make sure I get a deal every year to keep it sensible. I pay just under 60 a month for all the channels excluding blueies. That price includes my line rental and internet so if I binned the TV off id only save about 30 quid. Worth it for the sport alone imo.
Unchecked it can start to get pretty expensive however, especially with Q and multi boxes. I’ve heard of people paying 100+ just for TV. I wouldn’t see value there.
Fair enough. I had sport and multi room so saving c£70 monthly.Unchecked it can start to get pretty expensive however, especially with Q and multi boxes. I’ve heard of people paying 100+ just for TV. I wouldn’t see value there.
Jag_NE said:
I’m probably in a minority by the look of things but I quite like Sky....I make sure I get a deal every year to keep it sensible. I pay just under 60 a month for all the channels excluding blueies. That price includes my line rental and internet so if I binned the TV off id only save about 30 quid. Worth it for the sport alone imo.
Unchecked it can start to get pretty expensive however, especially with Q and multi boxes. I’ve heard of people paying 100+ just for TV. I wouldn’t see value there.
I pay £75 all in, which is a lot of money, but that gets me everything apart from the sport channels, top tier internet, phone, Q in UHD and Netflix 4k.Unchecked it can start to get pretty expensive however, especially with Q and multi boxes. I’ve heard of people paying 100+ just for TV. I wouldn’t see value there.
I'm not sure I could get a better deal than that with other providers if I dropped Sky, to be honest.
It does take the piss that everyone gets a different price for the same service. When I got my 4k TV I looked online and it was £200 for the uprated sky q box, plus £10 extra. I called up and said can they do any better... £30 for the box and £5 a month... I didn't even have to argue or threaten to leave, just asked.
Jag_NE said:
I’m probably in a minority by the look of things but I quite like Sky....I make sure I get a deal every year to keep it sensible. I pay just under 60 a month for all the channels excluding blueies. That price includes my line rental and internet so if I binned the TV off id only save about 30 quid. Worth it for the sport alone imo.
Unchecked it can start to get pretty expensive however, especially with Q and multi boxes. I’ve heard of people paying 100+ just for TV. I wouldn’t see value there.
I'm the same - pay £59 for all the channels/boxsets etc (2tb Q box downstairs, Q minibox in my office/spare room). On top of the TV itself, the ability to easily download anything on the box to our iPad is great (brilliant to grab a film for th ekids to watch on a long car journey).Unchecked it can start to get pretty expensive however, especially with Q and multi boxes. I’ve heard of people paying 100+ just for TV. I wouldn’t see value there.
£32 for the top tier internet and line rental isn't much more than the best deals out there (and using the mini box as a repeater means I've done away with a pair of powerline adapters).
Then £12 for 2 mobiles, only doable because we got about 50gb data as a welcome bonus, meaning we can drop to the lowest contract.
Nothing else comes close for the price and ease of use imho, especially if you factor in cashback for all of the above through quidco.
I gave up Sky tv ages ago but still have their phone & broadband packages. I’m paying £35 monthly for Fibre Max, Line Rental and Anytime Extra which includes call charges to landlines and mobile numbers. Looking at the website the monthlies are due to increase to £39 in April but I haven’t been notified yet.
Presumably with that increase I’ll be able to break the 18 month contract I entered into a year ago.
Presumably with that increase I’ll be able to break the 18 month contract I entered into a year ago.
Greshamst said:
Just got in to a letter saying increases due on 1st April 2020, although appears to only be for those out of an agreed contract term.
Extra £2 for broadband, and extra £1.70 for tv.
Murdoch really doesn’t want inflation to eat into his profits does he!
Murdoch hasn't had anything to do with Sky for quite some time - he sold it to Comcast.Extra £2 for broadband, and extra £1.70 for tv.
Murdoch really doesn’t want inflation to eat into his profits does he!
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