Just cancelled Sky

Actually just considered that as Rupert Murdoch is in his 80s, a ride on his daughter probably wouldn't be much of a draw. Though I'm not averse to Grilf so not ruling it out entirely.

Yes but massively downgrading package.

Going for a BT broadband, phone and basic tv package with BT sport for £38 a month.

Big saving - I did the same but am now with virgin because BT haven't got Infinity in my area. I've also got a Mag 250 box which has over 900 channels. Was able to flick over to all 8 of tonight's Champions league matches. The box connects to the internet and you can watch virtually everything you can think of including pay per view free of charge. Think the box cost me £240 and I pay £70 a year to keep the service on.

Think so Aka - they've been around for some time in different forms. The big providers have managed to block or restrict them but the box makers seem to stay ahead of the game. I think there are plenty of people on here with one or other type of box. Some of them need to be connected to a satellite dish and the internet. I had one of those but Sky managed to block the HD signals so I got upgraded to this one. Goes off sometimes but still worth it. Apart from live TV the box has a store of hundreds of the best and latest movies and loads of box series. Just finished the full Breaking Bad series and now on complete re-run of Cheers. The content is endless - you name it It's got it.
There's usually someone selling them in your area - I think they are work on a card share - I don't ask to many questions. Every sat they issue a list of where to find your fav team live - sometimes its a foreign commentary but thats not always a bad thing. Fingers crossed I'll get unlimited service for the foreseeable

Amazon Fire Sticks with Kodi installed sell for about £60. Might not be quite as fancy as CH's Mag box but a lot cheaper and it's a one-off fee.

Thanks ch will view that shortly.

crystalhunt

do you use it for betting during a sporting event ?

.. and how many minutes behind live are you ?

Ive got the same box as crystalhunt probably via the same person

Its about 1 minute behind live as I still have a sky box as well - I'm not that keen on it tbh for sport although the rest of the family love it for box sets, films and it even has albums on there

I cancelled a few things from sky - I was paying £95 and they offered a saving of £5/month for 9 months which I said was an insult so I cancelled various things and got it down to £58 - they rang me up 2 weeks later offering sports (which i'd cancelled) for £2.50 for 12 months and I said no unless they had an offer on multi room which i'd also cancelled - they said no.
They rang back another 2 weeks later offering to reinstate everything i'd cancelled and i'd pay £42 for 12 months - no brainer !

Originally if they'd reduced from £95 to £70 I'd have bitten their hands off but all they wanted to offer was a £5 saving and instead I'm saving £53 a month which paid for the dodgy box anyway

They are opportunists who will attempt to lure you with the least they need to do so.
However they seem to all have the same programme of regaining clients where within the first year of cancelling they bring ever increasing offers to tempt you back.
Its utterly laughable because they have dates on the offers and if you ring back after the date they will tell you its expired nothing they can do (or rather the drone bot on the phone who isnt paid to think but to take orders does) like you missed it.
That isnt the case they then send a slightly different (often better) offer within the month to get you in for that month's figures.

Phone em up and just to laugh at em.

When I was leaving Virgin for Talk Talk, whatever Virgin offered me to stay with them Talk Talk trumped.

So I settled for Talk Talk.

Then after I switched Talk Talk went back on a lot of what they'd promised to give me.

When I complain to Talk Talk they said the person I spoke to must have made a mistake because they couldn't afford to do it at that price.

If you can't get it in writing don't believe a word they tell you over the phone.

I need HD now to watch sport

.....which is why I always like to see the over inflated teams like man utd who are a brand rather than a club now lose.
The longer the likes of them carry the weight of daft wage bills with no reward on the pitch the more it will hurt
Its easy for them to take a gamble of 300k a week for rooney for eg because its the fans paying it.
If the fans stop buying shirts or tickets because rooney aint worth 300 times that of somebody on 1000 a week then the equilibrium will eventually be reached because humans are fickle and pick their teams on likelihood of success.
Sure, there are those virtuous individuals who stand by a s hit club, but most dont.
Dont get too many manc supporting plymouth, or scousers choosing halifax.
However you find the reverse in spades

no HD feed from sky

I started a similar thread on here a few months ago. I left Virgin to go to Sky. I've got broadband, phone, tv including sky sports/movies for £53 a month, it's only a one year deal but I'm more than happy with that. I did have to add a few extras channels after it was installed but they were only £8 extra. I've no complaints with them yet.

s.kenbo
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I started a similar thread on here a few months ago

Did you manage to get anything free i.e. tv's tablets or vouchers kenbo?

We were about to cancel sky and move to talk talk.
Will their it dept now be updating all the security???

Roger The Butler    22 Oct 15 23:06 
Mik, do you get access to Sky Sports with one of these? Presumably it isn't legal so Sky could block it and then you are buggered?

If you have a box that records tv can you work the two together and record what is being streamed via the Fire Stick, or do you just have to watch stuff as and when its on?

Yes you get SkySports, though the fact it's streamed makes it less than ideal if you're planning on betting in-running. Not sure about the legalities (though I presume the same as you) but Sky haven't managed to block it yet, if they even can.

I'm not very technical but I don't think you can record using them. It's still the best £60 I've spent all year.

Fire TV stick costs £35 (although if you hol off until Black Friay then it will probably go to £25)

Installing the software is a Youtube video. Takes around 2 hours if you don't know what your doing. on't pay anyone £60 to do it for you.

Argos have them in stock now so what are you waiting for

a friend cancelled sky months ago ........ this morning he was offered 6 months free and the next year at half price.

I wouldnt know Ovalman, its just I read a tech blog about it and they were suggesting you might want to