Steve (sdh2903) Posted January 27, 2017 Author Posted January 27, 2017 I hope so too. But as above skys attitude is rubbish. We had sky q installed in 3 rooms last year and the equipment is great for us but I will downgrade my package and maybe get rid of them altogether if this happens. The bt package would work out cheaper for us too but we'd have to move TV, broadband and phone which would be a big hassle. Sky seem happy to pour hundreds of millions into premier league football for maybe 6 hours of live broadcast a week, yet won't pay up for 12 channels broadcasting for 24 hours a day. I can understand them not wanting to be held to ransom by discovery but get round the table and sort it out. Quote
corsechris Posted January 27, 2017 Posted January 27, 2017 Discovery is one of the 4 Sky offerings I watch, certainly mot happy at the suggestion it'll get dropped, particulalry since they won't compensate us. I too hope it's just brinkmanship. Might look at BT as I have BT broadband & phones. Virgin was a non starter. tried to contact Sky to have a moan, no chance! Quote
darve Posted January 27, 2017 Posted January 27, 2017 I have Virgin and they've slowly nipped it up to just under £90 a month which is a joke being I hardly watch TV and don't have a home phone. I really need to do something about it. Have therefore decided to drop down to Internet only and have freeview. It would be a real pain to get an aerial to the lounge. The router is right near the TV. Does something exist out there that is a "box" you can connect to the Internet and stream the freeview channels (and ideally have Netflix, but could use the xbox for that)? I pay my TV licence so assume this would be legal? Thanks Quote
Lawrie Posted January 27, 2017 Posted January 27, 2017 Much the same with me and Sky. The price kept going up to pay for Football and movies I didn't watch. I usually watched the GPs in the evening anyway (who wants 3+ hours of it). Pulled the plug 4 years ago, and haven't really missed it, and I'm £1,000 a year better off. Quote
Deanspoors Posted January 27, 2017 Posted January 27, 2017 Darve, you can get an media box, such as Amazon Fire TV/Stick, download Kodi on to it and then there is a wide variety of third party add-ons, enabling you to watch thousands of movies and TV channels from all over the world. There is all the Freeview channels in SD and HD as well as many Sky channels, sky sports, sky F1, Bein sports, Discovery channel, etc, etc. it's also free, all you need is a half decent internet connection. Quote
Pistol Pete Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 I have just moved from by, although cheaper than by they put their prices up in September and I read they have another one planned for April. I have a smart tv and am now on Vodafone. £28 per month with no line rental costs for fibre broadband. The by vision box still works as a digital recorder and have purchased amazon prime. At the moment I'm sorted. Quote
John K Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 18 hours ago, Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - WSCC AO Rep said: ...The premium package is currently on offer at about £10/month, I believe it's normally about £18, that's still £26 a month less than my current Sky subscription. I'm so very, very tempted... Don't forget to add my consultancy services fee into your calculations... 105% of the saving, paid up front, annually recurring and with a 6 year cancellation notice period... 1 Quote
corsechris Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 Hate to say it, but I can't see an alternative to sticking with sky if I want to carry on watching the same stuff I do now. NowTV would work, apart from the fact you can't record it. Already have freesat, just need some legitimate way to record sky1, Atlantic, living. Quote
XTR2Turbo Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 I am obviously out of touch. I would never guess that someone would be paying £90 a month for TV !!! Unless you were literally doing nothing but just watching TV I just don't see how that could be justified. I question the value of the standard TV licence I watch 10:00pm news (normally on iplayer) and occasional other programs such as This Week and documentaries such as Attenborough. Over Christmas I looked at the schedules and could not find anything that interested me at all. David Quote
clansman Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 20 hours ago, Quinten Uijldert - Northants AO said: Have a look at the offering by NowTV. You can watch all the blockbuster TV series/channels for SKY on there for a small amount a month... Did I not read somewhere that NowTV are also loosing the same channels. Also Eurosport will be lost from Sky which is a major disaster as no World superbike , BSB and loads of other stuff ......I'm nae amused with sky. Quote
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 Yeah, Now TV, if I've understood correctly, is effectively the non contract, non dish requireing version of Sky. You, in effect, buy for a month, or several months programming at a time and receive it via a combination of internet, for paid content and antenna for the standard free to air programs. The Discovery channels rolling banner ad says it will be lost from Sky and Now. But Now provides access to the Sky "only" channels, such as Loving, Atlantic, Sky One. And services such as BT's tv will provide Discovery etc. Quote
SootySport Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 I've never had to pay for any off these modern media packages, phones etc. But if I did, I would buy a Panasonic all singing and dancing Freeview Play smart TV and subscribe monthly to any of the TV/Film channels. No lengthy contracts to worry about and you can chop and change subscriptions depending which TV series you follow. Just need a decent budget internet connection of at 5meg. on top of that for HD viewing. If you were viewing Films and TV series for free on Putlocker etc. sadly they have all been closed down by the US courts recently due to copyright infringements. Watched the Grand Tour for free on Amazon Prime with the 30 day free trial period. If you are slave to football then you are going to raped by Sky and BT Vision financially as their are no alternatives. Quote
John K Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 2 hours ago, SootySport said: But if I did, I would buy a Panasonic all singing and dancing Freeview Play smart TV Only problem with buying an integrated device is that the freeview/smart TV stuff will be outdated before the TV is end of life. Yes you will get updates to download but sometimes video compression tech outstrips the hardware. Then you will want to upgrade individual components... Quote
SootySport Posted January 28, 2017 Posted January 28, 2017 15 minutes ago, John K said: Only problem with buying an integrated device is that the freeview/smart TV stuff will be outdated before the TV is end of life. Yes you will get updates to download but sometimes video compression tech outstrips the hardware. Then you will want to upgrade individual components... You are right there but who buys a TV to last forever. If the whole system changes I'll buy another integrated TV, in real terms the cost of electrical gizmos is always falling. If I get 5 to 10 years use out of it i'll be happy. All TV's have HD on them and SHD is becoming rapidly the norm. Quote
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