Sky. Is it worth it anymore?

you raise a valid point. Since the arrival of BT Sport I have found I watch Sky less. With BT's new deals this can only reduce "Sky time". I only have it for the sport (eg dont have movies) but also have multiroom making mine about £55 a month. Ok I pay a bit more to have a BT Broadband service but I reckon I'm getting close to dropping Sky altogether. The only thing I think I'd really miss is the Spanish matches with English commentary but Im not sure thats worth the money.

I've only got Sports & multiroom & it's over £70. How come you only pay £55? Did you negotiate with them? I take it BT Sport is still free if you have their Broadband?

easier and less expensive ways to have sky imo

You can watch the vast majority of the sports content on the web for free, albeit in lower quality.
Humax do a freesat box that works like the Sky+ (though of course with a lot less channels)

Jan 29, 2014 -- 6:04PM, McCoy Carp wrote:

I've only got Sports & multiroom & it's over £70. How come you only pay £55? Did you negotiate with them? I take it BT Sport is still free if you have their Broadband?

no just normal prices as far as I know

I dont have Sky HD/3D

Problem is, the other half tells me,is that there are programs that she watches on SKY that you can't get on Freeview. I've tried ringing them up to discuss things but couldn't get through and I if you want to e-mail them they don't make that easy either :-(

How about the min. package with sky and the freeview box as your multiroom box?

you probably have the entertainment pack or something like that

My bills way over £100 a month been coughing 20 yrs
I've had enough the bt coverage is miles better sky desperately tried to modernise the program   But it's well behind
Gary Neville's smugness must be turning fans off by the 1000 s.  I like Jamie but you Ned a translator
Also the sky box so dated  and the cents wouldn't even swop mine for a new one 
Till I told them I was off then its new box and three months  free sports.
Too late off next month all the best prem games seen in bt

I pay £75 a month for 3 HD boxes and sports and movies and no BT sport - will have to go round to my dads tonight to watch the spurs game on his dodgy box - he also gets setanta Ireland (they are showing Stoke v Utd on Saturday 3.00) all for £60 a year (and all the p orn you could want)

Also the sky box so dated  and the cents wouldn't even swop mine for a new one 
Till I told them I was off then its new box and three months  free sports.

that's what happened to me -i'd had the box for 10 years and it was faulty, they asked for £60 for an engineer so I rang up to cancel and got a free new HD box and £15 off a month !

It's just over 2 quid a day...

Exactly toffee
Few know all you have to do is ring them and they will drop your bill.
I knew but couldn't be bothered as its so hard to speak to them.
To charge me two multi rooms for boxes that don't even record is a  bad joke.
Useless camp don't even broadcast in hd sound .bt all ready for super hd  tv that will enter my room for the w cup

Padlock is that a dreambox? i hear there coming to an end soon?

no not them

What then son? do share my fellow commrade

I'm the same as padlock, every channel going including sky,bt sport and ruk.

go to ebay and search openbox

Thats a dreambox lol, just different name

presumably that's just another linux based box that does the same thing. i.e. card sharing

no idea i have the whole package with sky only costs me £33. just negotiate with them. threaten to cancel theyl offer you a 20% discount. if thats not enough just cancel all together you have to give them a months notice. i can guarantee you will get a sales call within a week offering you discounts to stay.

How does a dream box work? Do you need a subscription or any other equipment?

card sharing you need tinternet connection

and a dreambox/openbox

Well i've got broadband. I'm sick of Sky, it costs far too much now and is not value for money imo. So with the box and internet can you get all of the sky sports channels?

the lot m8

movies etc do some research on ebay

Ok cheers I will, thanks for the help

no probs

Yeah paul all channels u want, even MUTV for a laugh, boxnation the lot, i reckon its possibly about 130 quid worth off it a month

Your better paying the sky bill then getting cash back sharing your card.  Better pic quality

There are 'dodgy' boxes that cost the price of the box nothing else with no card sharing.

But you need to be with a cable company not sky.

are these open boxes bill pay or just a one off payment?

virgin ok then

theres another one called a smartbox too. £100, then all channels on

what is better sky, virgin or bt from a purely tv perspective.

am i ok if just have virgin phone and internet, paying £84 a month total waist of money got sky sport s but no mvies no porn ,crap really

google Kryptview

Just to clarify ; my area isn't currently covered by cable - so I would not benefit as it is - SKY just taking the proverbials now I'm afraid - 2 great nights of footy & we end up watching highlights - BBC offering that so why bother with sky

i'm getting a dodgy box -the installer said all i need is a sky dish (tick) and internet access (tick) - £60 a year, no card

works on a sky dish geordie dreambox or an openbox

cheers toonangel

Bt by a million miles.

no bother just do some research ebays a good start

surely bt infinity, then get sky sports 1 and 2 is the way to go,how much will that cost

I think this week is about to get worse for Sky with the news that BT and Al Jazzeera are going to outbid them for Footy next year.

Apparently the Arabs are minted !!!!

My old man has a box called the Skybox F5. It cost him £120 installed. The bloke will reset it every year for £60. Pic quality is fine, but the user interface is poo compared to the Sky box.

Ffs, 1-5, what a mactch to miss!!!!!!!!!

My old man has a box called the Skybox F5. It cost him £120 installed. The bloke will reset it every year for £60

that's what my old man must have - it costs him £60 a year but it went off just before xmas and the bloke was on holiday for 3 weeks so he had no satellite for 3 weeks

Toffee87

Think me and your old man have something in common given that my box man was also on holiday for three weeks over christmas. I could even know him.

quite possibly - it is obviously a lucrative business if he can take 3 weeks holiday over xmas

It was a right pain in the ar$e as well as I have to go round there for BT games but he ended coming round to mine for everything even when I wasn't in !

I've ordered 2 boxes anyway and I will definitely be finding out when he takes his holidays !

Sky is a joke,Wont be long before everyone boycotts them,No value for money what so ever

Toffee - does Lee Park give a clue?

Sky is a necessary evil if you're a family man who likes a trade as it keeps the wife and kids happyl. Not as much ball on as there was, but with decent BB we can see most non sky games online anyway. So don't underestimate it for its wife/kids distraction value!

Toffee - does Lee Park give a clue

presumably the golf club - my dad plays there - I've no doubts you will know him - everyone knows him

Also considering leaving Sky. I have full package, HD, multiroom, BoxNation and now BT Sport, plus telephone and broadband. Cost me about £120 a month, with a discount. Defo going to have to reign some of it in.

Toffee

You said earlier that you'll make sure you you know when Alan is going on holiday - the ongoing joke with him is what happens if he snuffs it He said just come to my funeral

doh, i didn't see this thread when i started mine.

Anyone with just Vermin Broadband can just buy a box then get virtually all channels for nothing.

Anyone not on Vermin just do search for Slybox F5s and all channels are around £10 per month (without subscribing to Sly) - but do plenty of research before doing it.

Just to clarify there are 2 types of box for Vermin. One is a HD version which costs around £100 more and shows all HD channels and is easier to update.... apparently.

just seen there is no live game on Saturday tea time this week...great

what kind of fine are u looking at if u get caught with one of these dodgy boxes?

posa, i'm with vermin. what box is this?  same as nowTV etc??

Toffee

You said earlier that you'll make sure you you know when Alan is going on holiday - the ongoing joke with him is what happens if he snuffs itLaugh He said just come to my funeralLaugh

it is a worry

My dad's initials are EC but obviously don't write it and he plays cards with Alan !!

posa, i'm with vermin. what box is this?  same as nowTV etc??

Platini it's a Kryptview - the "normal" box is A780 and HD is 850

http://www.digitaltveurope.net/141511/sky-hbo-target-co-production-in-conten...

Toffee87

No probs

I've had my box for nearly 2yrs so it's paid for itself twice over. Some problems from time to time but still worth it to get rid of Sky who have finally stopped phoning me up. I've got a mate who lives in Altrincham whose got a HD box which also records. He got it from a guy based in Manchester.

Toffee87

No probs

I've had my box for nearly 2yrs so it's paid for itself twice over. Some problems from time to time but still worth it to get rid of Sky who have finally stopped phoning me up. I've got a mate who lives in Altrincham whose got a HD box which also records. He got it from a guy based in Manchester.

Perhaps a bad day for Sky to announce they have secured the rights to show 600 hours of WTF Wresting or whatever its called

crystalhunt

yep the downside is not being able to record but I don't record anything anyway cos all I watch is live sport but the wife records loads

BBC1 London, 7.30pm, Monday 10th February

Inside Out
An investigation into illegal pay-TV packages being sold on the cheap, including secret filming of people being caught out.

Thank heavens you're all honest upstanding citizens

They'll never stop it,next week it will be something else.

Feb 10, 2014 -- 1:31PM, joe39 wrote:

BBC1 London, 7.30pm, Monday 10th FebruaryInside OutAn investigation into illegal pay-TV packages being sold on the cheap, including secret filming of people being caught out.Thank heavens you're all honest upstanding citizens

They were ****g idiots doing it out of a shop, I have been card sharing for about 4 years now with my BLADE HD box.  My dad doesnt bother with sky but loves his football so he bought a rasberry pi for £72 and gets all sportes movies and tv series now

Of course it's worth it. I've got movies and sports packages and HD. All of which means the girlfriend and children get to watch whatever they want, whenever they want and if I'm really lucky I can squint and barely make out a few matches on Sky Go on my ipad with the customary 2 minute delay.

And all of this for just £75 per month.

I pay £60 a year for Sports and movies.I know which I prefer.

Today and tomorrow prem on bt nothing on sky yet again
Soon as the champions league finishes I'm off. Just looked last month £132.60 for phone useless broadband that they slow down when you use a lot multi room which is think they charge me three times for each bedroom.All sports but not movies just a few box office films.
My xbone has netflix fir £6 a month that and bt sport will do me.
My sky box is old fashioned small memory keeps jamming the bedroom ones don't even record and the f uckers won't even swop it Had it since hd came out.ffs

All very interesting but where can I watch West Brom Chelsea tonight?

Feb 11, 2014 -- 6:42PM, kipling wrote:

All very interesting but where can I watch West Brom Chelsea tonight?

The Hawthorns?

Had sky for years and years but thinking of jumping ship.  Will lose more and more sports rights and keep jacking up prices.  If they lose many more premier league games they're in big trouble.

More & more of the big games being lost and BT will probably ramp it up further - lets face it if SKY lose any more of the big footie games then a significant number of viewers will change sides & the share price of Murdoch's company will freefall

The price difference is marked as well.

Sky sports is about £21 on top of your package. BT is just £12 and even free to some people (BT broadband customers). Plus Virgin include it in their XL TV pack.

If they lose any more football, they will have to think about adjusting the price. They wont though. They'll just carry on with their greed.

do BT have anything other than footy ?

I like Rugby league and cricket which you don't get to see if you don't have sky

Not much else yet but they're bidding for more.  They've got rugby union but sky have just done a long term deal for super league.  No doubt bt will bid for England cricket rights when they come up to add to IPL which I think they've got.

Darts is important for me. Sky have the lot, other than a few tournies on terrestrial.

just phoned to cancel mine. Got £10 a month off for the next few months...not great but every little helps

Only really watch the top Premiership games and Champions League. It appears to me that BT are getting most of the top games and generally Sky are getting the lesser games

With Sky losing the CL in 18 months time you have to question the value of the Sky Sports Package unless you watch numerous sports. Not much longer for me I think......

XBMC

The mover,

You've done it wrong mate. You should have insisted on cancelling. You have to give 30 days notice, so you will still get your tv for a month. Trust me during that time, you will get more and more offers until they virtually offer you your package half price for at least 6 months. A year has been known before.

Kingmax,  I'm using XMBC ATM with the mashup plugin. Get all sports channels including bt sports. The picture is not great but well watchable IMO. Is that what you use?

yea, on my apple tv, picture is fine i used to have virgin but the delay on live sports is so far behind you might as well just stream it..

Can only back up what treble says about actually cancelling rather than just threatening. Colleague at work did it and was given 6months free to entice him back.