We're on the same without the multi room, so it's like £85 I think.
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We're on the same without the multi room, so it's like £85 I think.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Just play games instead of watching TV.
I currently pay £32.50 for FULL sky package including the 80meg fiber broadband.
Ring, cancel and wait until the last couple of days until they cut you off, they will ring between but keep saying no, on the last few days they will offer around 75% off.
Failing that, get a small HTPC and install Kodi.
Ring, cancel and wait until the last couple of days until they cut you off, they will ring between but keep saying no, on the last few days they will offer around 75% off.
Failing that, get a small HTPC and install Kodi.
Tune in past midnight and they even begin to rub themselves through their panties.
Through their goddamn panties.
What a time to be alive.
Saying that, Beth and Preeti are damn fine.
Bear in mind you won't be able to use DVR functions with freesat unless you pay the monthly fee for Sky+. and there are some channels missing that are available on freeview e.g. Dave
NowTV day/week/month passes. But they're not economical in comparison to a subscription if you watch very regularly.
We've switched from Sky to Freesat from Sky. We chose Freesat from Sky instead just Freesat due it having more of free channels that my other half is interested in. However, we didn't pay any fee to convert as has been suggested in earlier posts. You can just let your subscription lapse and the Sky box will revert to a Freesat from Sky service by default.
We left Sky since the breaking point for us was the fact that Sky kept increasing their montly fee every year for last couple of years consistently. Watching free channels and buying/renting on AppleTV is more than sufficient for us.
We left Sky since the breaking point for us was the fact that Sky kept increasing their montly fee every year for last couple of years consistently. Watching free channels and buying/renting on AppleTV is more than sufficient for us.
Yeah, sky still has us by the balls then
I suppose you could manage with catch up services for most programs, but I still think a DVR is really useful. You can pay sky £10pm to get recording only on that box, or buy a freesat recorder which records for free but obviously more up-front cost.
Apologies if this is a dumb question, but how does Kodi work as a replacement? Do you use a USB Satellite decoder or something? Last time I tried Kodi on a RPi it was a horrible experience so I may have missed something.
This.
Dont miss sky at all. everything is available online and on demand and their hd quality was piss poor anyway. sky hd quality is about as clear as standard freeview. only took them a week to send me 75% off for 12 months offers. Still didn't take them up on it.
GeordieMark
Member
Me too. Last time I shopped around it wasn't really worth moving as there was very little difference in prices if I wanted a similar service.
Sport and Movies are the biggest cost, and I'm not prepared to give up the footy, and the Mrs likes the movies. I'm pretty happy with Sky anyway. The internet is pretty solid.
NekoFever
Member
The pub.
Urgh I dont know how people watch and enjoy Now TV, I mean I guess as a barebones package it works ok.
It's slow unresponsive and the quality is awful.
It literally looked someone had poured fairly liquid in my eyes and then told me to watch TV. I have it through talk talk and hate it.
It's slow unresponsive and the quality is awful.
It literally looked someone had poured fairly liquid in my eyes and then told me to watch TV. I have it through talk talk and hate it.
MilkyJoe
Member
You don't even need to do that, they have to convert the card you have to free sat if you ask, that's what we did on our multiroom box and card.
ike others have said, rinf them up tell them you want out, and then you will get more for less.
But you will be in a contract, make no mistake about that,
I suspect this is part of your problem.
I sometimes use a Now TV box overseas through a DNS forwarder and the quality isn't so bad. Last time I was at my parents place in the UK we tried to watch something on their talk talk box and it looked terrible.
Hazzard4life
Member
I pay £6.00 for the Family pack. I told them that I was on a cost cutting mission and Sky is a luxury I couldn't afford. So they reduced the price dramatically, so I stayed for an extra year
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
I don't watch telly much these days, just grab some episodes of stuff on Netflix now and then, and use iPlayer for Radio 4 comedies and Strictly Come Dancing.
I don't use Kodi as a live tv thing so wouldn't be able to answer that, but it shows me everything I would ever need to watch.
Ah, gotcha. Thought I was missing something obvious.
How dare they charge to watch TV that cost the production companies millions to make - oh, the audacity of it all.
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