Another Sky Price Increase
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Derek, I'm contemplating moving from Sky to BT and had a chat with BT. They told me that Disney Jr was available on BT through kids package at £3/month, so would expect Disney to be also available?
Can you get Sky Atlantic by loading Sky Now onto the BT box? I see Sky Now Movies is available but i need Atlantic for Games of Thrones.
Can you get Sky Atlantic by loading Sky Now onto the BT box? I see Sky Now Movies is available but i need Atlantic for Games of Thrones.
ben_h100 said:
We are also cancelling the TV element of our Sky subscription. Fed up of the monthly charge, especially when I am away during the week and the missus only watches a select few programmes. I just got off the phone with customer services who informed me that we are able to cancel at any time so now I am weighing up our options...
Do we go out and buy a Humax Freesat HD Box with the Freetime feature? (I understand this to be the closest we will get to having Sky+ albeit with different UI and channel options).
Or do we purchase a Freesat card for £25 from Sky and keep the existing equipment? (Unsure if we can use the existing equipment for recording and catch up TV?
Any info/advice on the above greatly appreciated. Also, are there any other options worth considering?
After you give your notice you have 31 days to change your mind. Over those 31 days sky will call you relentlessly with deals to get you to come back.Do we go out and buy a Humax Freesat HD Box with the Freetime feature? (I understand this to be the closest we will get to having Sky+ albeit with different UI and channel options).
Or do we purchase a Freesat card for £25 from Sky and keep the existing equipment? (Unsure if we can use the existing equipment for recording and catch up TV?
Any info/advice on the above greatly appreciated. Also, are there any other options worth considering?
You don't need a free sat card as if you cancel the sky package you still get all the FTA services on your existing equipment.
You lose access to the recordings but they remain on the STB should you enable the TV services again.
Isn't it great that you can choose not to pay them a f
king red cent?
Add to that savings from having a TV license and with a little effort you're saving enough per year to hire a couple of hookers who'll give you a lesbian show and then lick your balls.*
king red cent?Add to that savings from having a TV license and with a little effort you're saving enough per year to hire a couple of hookers who'll give you a lesbian show and then lick your balls.*
- or make a wonderful contribution to some kind of life improvement.
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hab1966 said:
Derek, I'm contemplating moving from Sky to BT and had a chat with BT. They told me that Disney Jr was available on BT through kids package at £3/month, so would expect Disney to be also available?
Can you get Sky Atlantic by loading Sky Now onto the BT box? I see Sky Now Movies is available but i need Atlantic for Games of Thrones.
Sorry for being so late in replying on this, but my younger daughter was married on Friday, and all my time was taken up.Can you get Sky Atlantic by loading Sky Now onto the BT box? I see Sky Now Movies is available but i need Atlantic for Games of Thrones.
Yes, you can get the Disney Channel, and the assumption is that this is in the package.
Sky Atlantic is out, I'm afraid, so GoT is a no go. I've bought the dvd set.
GoT is Sky's best programme and this will limit the chances of it ever being available elsewhere.
How user friendly is the BT box compaired to the sky box? and how easy is the now tv app to use? As this price hike has annoyed me and I am looking at a change.
Would be too
TV Entertainment - with record/pause tv option - £7.50
Get BT Sport in HD with 13 HD channels - £3
kids extra - £3
Sky movies - £13.50
Comes too £27 a month as opposed to £66 a month. Only issue is sky atlantic, sky one and F1.
If I used the now tv sky movies that would be an extra £3.51 saved and I have the TV extra for now TV free with my phone once I activate the subscription so that keeps sky atlantic and sky one.
HMM decisions decisions. I think if sky offer to drop the price into the £30 region I'd be tempted to stay.
Would be too
TV Entertainment - with record/pause tv option - £7.50
Get BT Sport in HD with 13 HD channels - £3
kids extra - £3
Sky movies - £13.50
Comes too £27 a month as opposed to £66 a month. Only issue is sky atlantic, sky one and F1.
If I used the now tv sky movies that would be an extra £3.51 saved and I have the TV extra for now TV free with my phone once I activate the subscription so that keeps sky atlantic and sky one.
HMM decisions decisions. I think if sky offer to drop the price into the £30 region I'd be tempted to stay.
westtra said:
How user friendly is the BT box compaired to the sky box? and how easy is the now tv app to use? As this price hike has annoyed me and I am looking at a change.
Would be too
TV Entertainment - with record/pause tv option - £7.50
Get BT Sport in HD with 13 HD channels - £3
kids extra - £3
Sky movies - £13.50
Comes too £27 a month as opposed to £66 a month. Only issue is sky atlantic, sky one and F1.
If I used the now tv sky movies that would be an extra £3.51 saved and I have the TV extra for now TV free with my phone once I activate the subscription so that keeps sky atlantic and sky one.
HMM decisions decisions. I think if sky offer to drop the price into the £30 region I'd be tempted to stay.
I switched from Sky to BT 18months ago and we have BT Infinity and the Youview box. The youview box is not as slick as the sky box. Bringing up the planner takes an age but the box is functional and allows remote record for example. The NowTV app won't allow you to watch live TV on the Youview box, only films (unless this has changed recently)Would be too
TV Entertainment - with record/pause tv option - £7.50
Get BT Sport in HD with 13 HD channels - £3
kids extra - £3
Sky movies - £13.50
Comes too £27 a month as opposed to £66 a month. Only issue is sky atlantic, sky one and F1.
If I used the now tv sky movies that would be an extra £3.51 saved and I have the TV extra for now TV free with my phone once I activate the subscription so that keeps sky atlantic and sky one.
HMM decisions decisions. I think if sky offer to drop the price into the £30 region I'd be tempted to stay.
For Sky Atlantic, I get it through a NowTV box. I pick up the Entertainment pass every now and then through various offers, currently on a cheap 3month deal which will allows me to catch up with some shows and mainly to watch Game of Thrones.
It's not a perfect solution but I'm very happy given the cost savings.
I have a relatively basic Youview sub with BT Sport included and I pay for Eurosport and some other minor channels.
Netflix I subscribe to separately to cover me off on films and other TV series
Edited by doolie on Wednesday 15th April 15:32
I got the letter through last night, an extra £4/month. All I want to do is watch F1 in HD. I am already paying an obscene amount for this requirement, the sky broadband/wireless is woeful as added salt.
For the first time in 15 years I am not going to a GP overseas this year, we are going to Rimini for the MotoGP instead, for a fraction of the cost.
I'm seriously weighing up a life without sky and only BBC F1. Unfortunately there is no Virgin Media for my postcode. :-/
For the first time in 15 years I am not going to a GP overseas this year, we are going to Rimini for the MotoGP instead, for a fraction of the cost.
I'm seriously weighing up a life without sky and only BBC F1. Unfortunately there is no Virgin Media for my postcode. :-/
I got a letter saying Sky are taking (not asking?) another £3pm from my bank.Really pissed off as you just know it's passing on the cost of the football contract to us. And I don't watch the football!
I have my two boys 50% of the time but they don't watch that much on Sky. I tend to watch Dave a lot or Filmfour or just channel hop until I find something interesting.
My girlfiend has Youview and it's so ste! Takes an age to boot up; sometimes she has to switch it off at the socket as it's obviously froze. I'm worried that nothing else I replace Sky with will be as user-friendly!
I'm in an urban,outer-edge of city location so must be quite up to date with connections.
What are my choices??
I have my two boys 50% of the time but they don't watch that much on Sky. I tend to watch Dave a lot or Filmfour or just channel hop until I find something interesting.
My girlfiend has Youview and it's so s
te! Takes an age to boot up; sometimes she has to switch it off at the socket as it's obviously froze. I'm worried that nothing else I replace Sky with will be as user-friendly!I'm in an urban,outer-edge of city location so must be quite up to date with connections.
What are my choices??
In my letter, Sky actually admitted that it was to cover the cost of the football contract, as well as all the usual BS about trying to improve customer service etc.. Mine's gone up by £4.50, and the overall cost of my package (Line rental, broadband and calls) has gone up about 12% in the 4 years I've had it. Looking at it that way, I suppose 3%pa isn't too bad.
If only they could keep their promise about broadband speed though. It's fecking useless, and the router crashes at least once a week. The problem is, the opposition's just as bad. I got Sky for the sport and films, and there's no package which will let me get which channels I'd use (Sky are no mugs), so I have to have the whole shebang.
Same old story.......
If only they could keep their promise about broadband speed though. It's fecking useless, and the router crashes at least once a week. The problem is, the opposition's just as bad. I got Sky for the sport and films, and there's no package which will let me get which channels I'd use (Sky are no mugs), so I have to have the whole shebang.
Same old story.......
Fastchas said:
I got a letter saying Sky are taking (not asking?) another £3pm from my bank.Really pissed off as you just know it's passing on the cost of the football contract to us. And I don't watch the football!
I have my two boys 50% of the time but they don't watch that much on Sky. I tend to watch Dave a lot or Filmfour or just channel hop until I find something interesting.
My girlfiend has Youview and it's so ste! Takes an age to boot up; sometimes she has to switch it off at the socket as it's obviously froze. I'm worried that nothing else I replace Sky with will be as user-friendly!
I'm in an urban,outer-edge of city location so must be quite up to date with connections.
What are my choices??
We've got youview on a Humax box, it's fine but you need to tweak the power settings on the box in relation to standby else it effectively shuts right down rather than staying nearly ready, do this & ours is ready to use in a few seconds. We've not had freezing etc.. issues, really pleased with the box. We sacked Sky when we moved last summer for Freeview & NowTv via the youview box, saving a fortune & not missing the 'content'.I have my two boys 50% of the time but they don't watch that much on Sky. I tend to watch Dave a lot or Filmfour or just channel hop until I find something interesting.
My girlfiend has Youview and it's so s
te! Takes an age to boot up; sometimes she has to switch it off at the socket as it's obviously froze. I'm worried that nothing else I replace Sky with will be as user-friendly!I'm in an urban,outer-edge of city location so must be quite up to date with connections.
What are my choices??
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