Yet another Sky TV renewal question

[Skyedriver]

Sorry, it's a long post, I know these things have been asked before but the offers and contracts change so quickly. Only the price rises are constant.
Current package: £70.50
Sky Signature
Sky Sports Complete including Sky Sports+
Sky Sports HD
Multiscreen

Expires September price will rise to £91.50 but I can renew today at £81.50 and after talking to the man today I've got that down to £76.50.
Plus a £10 one off charge!! Why? Couldn't tell me.

Then got offered Sky Glass TV (43") which apparently covers all the same stuff plus a free TV.(43"). We don't need another TV, the one we have is only a few years old and fine but the cost would be £74. So less than the straight forward renewal.

An additional complication is that we currently have BT Sport/TNT via BT Broadband. It comes at about £15/month and only on the clunky Discovery+ channel. We have been advised that we should be getting Highland Broadband down our street later this year (FFTTH) at a cost cheaper than the BT but we'll lose the BT Sport/TNT on Discovery+ but could add it to the Sky channels for £28/month.

Seem to recall a lot of negativity towards Sky Glass on here a while back so unlikely to take that option.
Wife watches the most TV, a lot on the usual BBC/ITV channels (mostly recorded earlier so not actually "live") but also a lot of tennis on Sky/Discovery+
I watch the football and MotoGP on Sky & Discovery+ and stuff on Sky Arts/History/Yesterday/Disco Turbo etc

Am I stuck with £76 + £28 for the various TV packages, are there better (easy to operate) and cheaper options?
Ditching the TV licence would save a considerable amount (£15/month) but with wife watching some BBC stuff and the use of iPlayer I guess we can't drop that.

If you've got this far, thanks. Any suggestions to keep costs down?

[thetapeworm]

I can't offer any useful input but am interested to see how you get on, I posted in the "Sky deals anyone?" topic recently as I'm due to renew my Sky Q and it's clear Sky don't really want Q customers any longer but stills seem keen to lock us into 24 month contracts. The shops and shopping centre chaps can't even talk about Q and the sheer frustration I have we the call centre folk just makes me want to cancel... which I don't actually want to do despite knowing I'm being taken for a mug as a customer from the BSkyB analogue days... "ooh you're a "diamond VIP customer, here's some free ice cream

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I'm toying with a jump to Glass but am fearful of the control Sky have over it and the dependence on the Internet (which in fairness is reliable as it's not with Sky) and as hoarders of TV shows "we might watch one day" I don't know if it'll suit the way we watch, or at least collect, TV shows.

I do need a new TV though so it does make a bit of sense, I just don't really trust the "we save your recordings in the cloud" thing because as far as I know if they get removed from listings on Q I still have access to my recordings but if they expire in the world of Glass they are gone?

I mean I probably don't need the stuff I recorded in 2024 given I still haven't watched them but you never know...

[Skyedriver]

Went through the various options, etc etc , inc Glass where you get a new 43" TV to keep, from Sky.
We have two TVs one is almost new and 43" but he still kept trying to sell us it. Got our renewal package down to £76 or we could have a new TV and Glass for £74. Must be R Reeves in Sky accounts!