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As always, feel like we're being ripped off with shoddy service.
For those of you with sky Q, how much is it costing you for what? I'm about to go into battle and want to be armed!
Sky Stream; Standard Sky channels + Sport + Netflix + UHD + Ad skipping + multi-room + 1 extra box = ~£90
Sky Q was similar but, required an battle annually to bring ~30% price increase down. Stream you 'just' get ~inflation rate increase annually.
Never had my broadband from Sky as prefer the flexibility of keeping that separate.
I was paying £70 for TV, HD, Sports, Multiroom, phone and fibre broadband. At renewal they wanted over £100 so I switched to similar with Virgin for £60. They got it just below £100 when they came begging after I'd left. They certainly seemed to have cut down on the offers.
Reddit is probably the place to go for a full overview
https://www.reddit.com/r/skytv/
We had Stream for 18 months after our TV aerial blow off the roof. It worked really well but it taught us that we didn't really need conventional TV. We use a Fire TV 4k stick and it does everything just as well or better apart from the ad skipping. 4K and Dolby Atmos are built in for no cost where available, Apple TV is better I believe.
ZEN for broadband which is faultless and I do not have to renegotiate every year.
Sky Q £55 for HD and sports
Bit annoying when the same package for new subscribers is £35
I'm paying £69 cos I added Sports Action when the Lions tour was on. Now they've renamed the channel Sky Sports NFL, so I'm paying for a channel I'm completely uninterested in! Cheeky sods. Will be calling tomorrow to cancel.
I might cancel the whole thing cos their shit website has just wound me up.
What do Sky boxes, like the Q and the HD+ give you these days over digi packages like Now TV? I was thinking I only have a Sky+ box to record stuff when I'm not in, but surely with digital you can just stream stuff on catch up... or are there only certain providers that do that?
My monthly Sky Q is £127, it's very much a rip-off:
- Sky Entertainment £35
- Sky Box Sets £5
- Sky Sports Complete £19
- Sky Sports HD £2
- TNT Sports £29
- Sky Cinema £13
- Sky HD £9
- Sky Q Multiscreen Pack £15
I'd happily cancel Sky Sports but my brother watches a lot of football and may have my details...
What do Sky boxes, like the Q and the HD+ give you these days over digi packages like Now TV?
I would have cancelled ages ago but Mrs FD is a Luddite and likes the ‘traditional’ layout
To be fair we did once try a freesat box and the user interface was not a patch on Sky Q, it’s the only thing in reality that keeps us with Sky
However We get Discovery + for ‘free’ . Thats a shocking app
Jeez, I had no idea it added up that much. I know Sky loses money on the PL rights and figured it made it back on the other packages, and the way it slices them ever thinner so you need Package A + add-on 3 + Package C + add-on 12 (etc) in order to watch what you actually want. But I genuinely didn't realise it could get to >£100 a month - that does feel like a ripoff!
Our Sky bill had snuck up to £70(!)/month. So I cancelled - they kept calling & calling managed to get it down to about £30/month or so.
But as we don't watch broadcast TV, then I worked out it was cheaper to purchase/rent any movies rather than Sky Cinema.
I am patiently waiting for the new Apple TV box to come out which we will use instead as there is an app that give you an EPG type TV guide then open up the app to view the program.
Now we just have YouTube Premium (I use it for music too), Disney, Netflix & pick up Apple every now & then when we want to watch something. Happy to also pay £40/year to have add free All4 but have yet to get that up & running, will probably do that when the new series of Taskmaster lands.
We had it all with sky & TNT with amazon. Switching to fibre with virgin & TNT from them saved about £35 PM. Still use sky plus.
£50.50 for sky Q and fibre broadband
They do have offers when you phone to cancel something. I just called to cancel the NFL channel and they offered cancel that and to reduce my Entertainment package by £10 - but it would start a new 24month contract. I probably won't keep them for another 2 years, so I declined.
I am patiently waiting for the new Apple TV box to come out
I honestly wouldn't bother waiting. Between generations it's only ever tiny little upgrades that have near-zero impact on usage (eg. processor bump, latest wifi/Bluetooth standard).
I am patiently waiting for the new Apple TV box to come out
I honestly wouldn't bother waiting. Between generations it's only ever tiny little upgrades that have near-zero impact on usage (eg. processor bump, latest wifi/Bluetooth standard).
I've heard the new one might be cheaper...