Another Sky TV rant

[phil_hg_uk]

I cancelled my sky sat tv package last year, it took me 35 mins on the phone to get them to cancel it. In the end I told them I was leaving the country just so I could get them off the line.

I get a letter from them about once every 2 weeks offering me any package I want for half price.

I now watch all my TV using either Freeview, catchup players such as iPlayer or on Netflix and Sky TV Now (which I currently get for only £4 per month) at first I missed not been able to record programs until I realized that I can just watch them on catchup players instead of having to record them. Yes there are some channels I miss but if you look around the internet they are usually there to be found somewhere

I used to pay sky £34.50 per month I now pay just £9 per month.

 

[Shaun]

[QUOTE 2815790, member: 45"]How do you export recordings?[/quote]

I can't remember the exact process, sorry, and think that export is probably the wrong word - but IIRC you connect the AV outs to the inputs on a DVD recorder, select the recordings to 'export' (can't remember the exact location in the menus), which are then played normally to the TV but also output to the AV outs too, so they are recorded by the DVD recorder.

It's not a digital export - as in a file export.

 

[Shaun]

Bye bye Mr Murdoch.

I think a lot more people are doing that now that fibre has become more widespread; subscription / streaming services like Netflix are cheaper and you can watch what you want when you want to.

As the main entertainment spend in our house, the Sky subscription (no sports) is considered reasonable, but if we were able to get other packages, like VM, we'd probably shop around and tailor the package to suit our viewing preferences a bit more.

 

[sheddy]

Sky - Believe in Blather

 

[asterix]

Mrs A keeps saying she wants Sky but they very cunningly spread the stuff she wants to watch over several packages. Or maybe not so cunning as that's why we don't have it. The hacking scandal also helped.

 

[Kies]

Cancel packages every now and then, suprising the number of times they will ring me and offer sky movies or sports at 1/2 price for 6 months. I recently switched my broadband to them .... £3.75 per month for 12 months and a much better wireless router compared to plusnet.

 

[martint235]

I did leave Sky for a year or so and then went back. Their Sports coverage is good. What I don't understand is their pricing though. In my previous stint with them I had everything, movies, sports the whole works. Now to me if Movies costs £x to buy for a month, your bill would go down by £x if you removed that part of the package. It didn't work like that though, the bill went down less if I removed movies so I always kept them as it wasn't worth the hassle.

VM can't be a****d to put a cable past my house otherwise I'd be with them like a shot. BT have p'd me off so badly in the past that I'll never go back to them for anything.

And if anyone wants a 500gb Freesat box, make me an offer. It just connects to the cables from your existing dish.

 

[Davidc]

I keep getting calls from Sky asking me to subscribe. Goes back to when I had "Freesat from Sky" before Freesat started. Their idea of free was to charge £40 each year for a new viewing card. I offer the person at the call centre £1 a year for their full package, provided they include phone and broadband. They go away.

I also get asked by the people at their stall in the Orchard Shopping Centre in Taunton if I'd like it. Always polite, but I don't stop for long.

I prefer the £0 a year for Freesat HD+, which has everything I want on it plus catch-up services. Just over £100 for a Humax box, and that's it, with a £30 Freesat SD box for the TV in the kitchen.

If I could get terrestrial TV I'd have gone for Freeview HD+ instead. Boxes are the same price and the cabling's easier.

Sky has been on air since the end of the 1980s and so far they've broadcast 30 minutes of exclusive programming I've wanted to watch. Got someone else to record that for me. Murdoch &Co have exactly zero chance of getting me to sign up.

 

[marinyork]

I prefer the £0 a year for Freesat HD+, which has everything I want on it plus catch-up services. Just over £100 for a Humax box, and that's it, with a £30 Freesat SD box for the TV in the kitchen.

Seems as right a place to say as anywhere but I hope people noticed the bouquet of BBC HD channels that officially launched yesterday.

 

[subaqua]

Seems as right a place to say as anywhere but I hope people noticed the bouquet of BBC HD channels that officially launched yesterday.

I noticed it on the planner last week. have spent a few hours changing series recordings to the new HD versions now.

 

[rich p]

I have the cheapest package from VM that allows me to get Eurosport for the cycling.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I think a lot more people are doing that now that fibre has become more widespread; subscription / streaming services like Netflix are cheaper and you can watch what you want when you want to.

That exactly what happened here, I got 56 mb fibre and now I just watch most of my tv via streaming either via my smart tv or the xbox 360.

 

[JoeyB]

Virgin media is the place to be.

Really? I just go wherever the best deal is...at the moment that happens to be Virgin Media. I would imagine I'll go back to Sky again in 18 months time on another Friends and Family half price deal.

 

[subaqua]

I have the cheapest package from VM that allows me to get Eurosport for the cycling.

we have the XL package for similar reasons that and the kids channels which shuts them up upstairs when I want to watch cycling

 

[JoeyB]

What is everyone paying for their packages? Over the 18 month contract and after cashback/discounts my VM package works out to cost under £40 per month. For that I get the phone line, M Phone, XL TV, 60MB broadband, Tivo box plus additional box and Netflix for 6 months. XL package comes with BT Sport and ESPN channels too. I thought that was pretty good? Its only a few quid per month more expensive than the equivalent Sky package on a friends and family half price discount.