threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
We've got the Humax/Freesat combo - 30+ channels of shite.
TV Advice please ?
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I just download whatever i want to watch from any number of download sites, or use the iplayer, 4od, etc... I watch what i want, when i want and rarely see an advert. 
one does get treat like a criminal from TV licensing
, but that's just a simple case of informing them that you don't have a TV, and they believe you, honest, they do 
... they don't continue sending threatening letters a few months later on the assumption that you've moved, or bought a telly and forgot to inform them... honest they don't. 
After 10 years being TV free, I can't be arsed continually jumping through their hoops, so I'm currently being threatened with a squillion pound fine, life in prison, or being deported somewhere they have the death sentence 
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one does get treat like a criminal from TV licensing
, but that's just a simple case of informing them that you don't have a TV, and they believe you, honest, they do ... they don't continue sending threatening letters a few months later on the assumption that you've moved, or bought a telly and forgot to inform them... honest they don't. After 10 years being TV free, I can't be arsed continually jumping through their hoops, so I'm currently being threatened with a squillion pound fine, life in prison, or being deported somewhere they have the death sentence .
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
Are you not going at it from the wrong end? You are looking at bits of kit and subscription but not at what is available on them.
I would start off thinking about how much TV you watch. If it is your main entertainment then it is probably cheap to run it whatever way you choose.
Then what you watch. Do you use the sports channels on sky that you will miss not having?
I am not sure if anyone else can say something is good or bad as it is so much down to what we watch. I have never had Sky and do not watch any sport on TV, nor any american soaps or whatever. I have never wanted to rewind a programme or stop it. I occasionally hit record if something comes on I think my wife would like to see or whatever.
We only have freeview and I find of the 50 channels, I probably watch only 5 mainly but dip into say another 5 for the odd good programme. Only issue that has ever come along was when Glee went onto sky and we could not get it.
If people pay sky to then watch a channel that is free anyway then that seems a bit silly to me. I occasionally scan the TV listings for sky and it all just looks like more of the rubbish that is on the cheapo channels that I dont watch on freeview, so I can not see why anyone would pay for that. But i do accept i may not be in the mainstream with this view.
May be an age thing, I remember two channels and them closing down at 11,30
I would start off thinking about how much TV you watch. If it is your main entertainment then it is probably cheap to run it whatever way you choose.
Then what you watch. Do you use the sports channels on sky that you will miss not having?
I am not sure if anyone else can say something is good or bad as it is so much down to what we watch. I have never had Sky and do not watch any sport on TV, nor any american soaps or whatever. I have never wanted to rewind a programme or stop it. I occasionally hit record if something comes on I think my wife would like to see or whatever.
We only have freeview and I find of the 50 channels, I probably watch only 5 mainly but dip into say another 5 for the odd good programme. Only issue that has ever come along was when Glee went onto sky and we could not get it.
If people pay sky to then watch a channel that is free anyway then that seems a bit silly to me. I occasionally scan the TV listings for sky and it all just looks like more of the rubbish that is on the cheapo channels that I dont watch on freeview, so I can not see why anyone would pay for that. But i do accept i may not be in the mainstream with this view.
May be an age thing, I remember two channels and them closing down at 11,30
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
I just got rid of virgin because of the cost
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
I just download whatever i want to watch from any number of download sites, or use the iplayer, 4od, etc... I watch what i want, when i want and rarely see an advert.
one does get treat like a criminal from TV licensing
You do like to make life easy for self don't you?
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
I do... it's far easier bunging their threatening letters in the bin then thinking, "oh dear.. I'd better inform them again that i don't have a telly" every three to six months, which was the case in the first five years of hoop jumping.
As far as i understand, i have no legal obligation to continually inform the government of what i do not possess.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
We've had a Topfield 8510 for a few years and its been great. 500gb HD recorder.
My broadband provider is offering You view boxes for free, and the broadband deal and phone is about £30 a month which is a quid dearer than I am paying now. Thinking about switching !
We use catch up via the Xbox. We also piggy back onto my father's sky subscription, so we can access that via the Xbox as he doesn't have one. The kids mainly use it to watch Disney XD.
My broadband provider is offering You view boxes for free, and the broadband deal and phone is about £30 a month which is a quid dearer than I am paying now. Thinking about switching !
We use catch up via the Xbox. We also piggy back onto my father's sky subscription, so we can access that via the Xbox as he doesn't have one. The kids mainly use it to watch Disney XD.
The only thing I watch is sport, mainly football. But, and this is the main reason for getting rid, I'm usually at any game that I really want to watch or if not can always nip round to the pub to watch it, I know that comes with expense in itself but not that often, also I work abroad alot and whilst I'm away I dont think my wife views any of the sky (paid for ) channells, everything she watches is on free tv. In short the only thing I'll miss is football and I reckon I can make do without the monthly expense to watch it, might even get me out on my bike even more often than I do now 
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Ring up , cancel your sky and a few days before it runs out they will offer it you for 1/2 price for a year .After that you can always cancel.
The cost of not having free broadband would outweigh the cost of cancelling my current sky sub and paying for a faster connection , bigger down load limit and paying for netflix etc.
The cost of not having free broadband would outweigh the cost of cancelling my current sky sub and paying for a faster connection , bigger down load limit and paying for netflix etc.
Time will tell on that one mate as I gave them 30 days notice last week. I get disconnected March 2nd
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
- Location
- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
Depends...
I am constantly amazed/annoyed at how people get offended at TV licencing not believing they have no TV. This is because the vast majority of people who say they don't have a TV a lying thieves who expect the BBC TV they watch to pay for itself with magic f***ing beans.
If you don't have a TV just put them in the bin. Tell them you've no TV if you like but don't expect them to leave you alone, because, and don't take this personally, you're statistically likely to be lying.
And while I'm on this rant, I don't think they really threaten you, they just say what the penalties are. If you've no TV it's not really a threat, anymore than being aware of a crime and its punishment in any respect is a threat. Where I work I constantly deal with residents letters from TV licencing, and you just put them in the bin and show the bloke/woman in if they come round (unless you actually have a TV in which case just don't let them in, they have no right of entry. But I hope you feel guilty at such freeloading.)
If you don't have a TV just put them in the bin. Tell them you've no TV if you like but don't expect them to leave you alone, because, and don't take this personally, you're statistically likely to be lying.
And while I'm on this rant, I don't think they really threaten you, they just say what the penalties are. If you've no TV it's not really a threat, anymore than being aware of a crime and its punishment in any respect is a threat. Where I work I constantly deal with residents letters from TV licencing, and you just put them in the bin and show the bloke/woman in if they come round (unless you actually have a TV in which case just don't let them in, they have no right of entry. But I hope you feel guilty at such freeloading.)
