Is it time to ditch Sky?

Nathan · May 9, 2013

I have been a sky customer for over 10 years, and have the full TV package with them, plus broadband and phone line. The cost per month is just short of £100. With the new BT deal I was wondering if Sky offers the best package these days. Will anyone else be thinking of ditching Sky for BT or something else?

What do you think?

Coldeanseagull · May 9, 2013

I changed last year to the full virgin package, nice tivo box and saved about £20 a month

El Sid · May 9, 2013

Dumped Sky a year ago for Freesat HD+. One-off £200 investment, no bills.

I do miss the footie sometimes but couldn't justify the ongoing cost of Sky.

Uncle C · May 9, 2013

Ditched Sky several years ago after a row with them. Any football I want to see I pirate on the Internet and I see new movies at £3.75 per show at the local cinema.

JTR938 · May 9, 2013

Nathan said:
I have been a sky customer for over 10 years, and have the full TV package with them, plus broadband and phone line. The cost per month is just short of £100. With the new BT deal I was wondering if Sky offers the best package these days. Will anyone else be thinking of ditching Sky for BT or something else?

What do you think?

Having exactly the same thoughts! can be without my sky sports though!
BT customer service is shocking the worst I have ever known! and I cant get Virgin in my area... but £90 a month is a bit much eh?

seagullsovergrimsby · May 9, 2013

Sky Atlantic is only on Sky , other platforms won't have as many HD channels. Some platforms won't have all the channels. If you're switching to BT the BT Sports package is "free" but factored into the overall cost , after 12 months if you want to watch those channels in HD it will an extra £3 a month (charge is waived for the first year if you sign up for broadband before the end of July 2013)

Rookie · May 9, 2013

Surely people will wait and see what Sky offer in retaliation to today's news. They are not going to sit back and watch their broadband business disappear thanks to BT's marketing (not such a good deal when you break it down)

Justice · May 9, 2013

Just call them and tell them your thinking of leaving the price soon comes down, they offered us fibre optic plus 30 notes of the bill.

5mins-from-amex · May 9, 2013

Coldeanseagull said:
I changed last year to the full virgin package, nice tivo box and saved about £20 a month

This, out of interest does your tivo box freeze sometimes?

Coldeanseagull · May 9, 2013

The other plus with virgin, if it goes wrong, they come and fix it. You don't own their equipment so theres no going through insurance companies trying to get problems sorted. One thing I can't get is Sky Atlantic, I've never watched it anyway

Westdene Seagull · May 9, 2013

seagullsovergrimsby said:
Sky Atlantic is only on Sky , other platforms won't have as many HD channels. Some platforms won't have all the channels. If you're switching to BT the BT Sports package is "free" but factored into the overall cost , after 12 months if you want to watch those channels in HD it will an extra £3 a month (charge is waived for the first year if you sign up for broadband before the end of July 2013)

Is it still an extra £10 to get the Sky HD channels ? One of the many reasons I left them !

Coldeanseagull · May 9, 2013

5mins-from-amex said:
This, out of interest does your tivo box freeze sometimes?

I used to get that all the time with the sky+, thankfully only had to do one off at the wall then back on again since I've had it

Westdene Seagull · May 9, 2013

Coldeanseagull said:
I changed last year to the full virgin package, nice tivo box and saved about £20 a month

This .....

5mins-from-amex said:
This, out of interest does your tivo box freeze sometimes?

.... and no. TIVO is a brilliant bit of kit. If you have a problem then get Virgin out, it's free ( unlike Sky ! ).

5mins-from-amex · May 9, 2013

Coldeanseagull said:
I used to get that all the time with the sky+, thankfully only had to do one off at the wall then back on again since I've had it

My box seems to do it at least 2/3 times a week, spoke to virgin and got told that they a currently doing some work on the cables ect in coldean, think i might give them another call! but apart from that well impressed with tivo.

seagullsovergrimsby · May 9, 2013

Westdene Seagull said:
Is it still an extra £10 to get the Sky HD channels ? One of the many reasons I left them !

£10.25 a month if on the full package , there is a reduced price of £5.25 a month for those on the recently introduced Entertainment Plus package.

Westdene Seagull · May 9, 2013

seagullsovergrimsby said:
£10.25 a month if on the full package , there is a reduced price to £5.25 a month for those on the recently introduced Entertainment Plus package.

Well bugger me !!!!! Bloody cheek to STILL be charging extra for HD - all included in the Virgin price.

JTR938 · May 9, 2013

Justice said:
Just call them and tell them your thinking of leaving the price soon comes down, they offered us fibre optic plus 30 notes of the bill.

Tried this... they reduced the price of the sport package to £5 a month for 3 months (roughly £15/16 saving) but go's back to full price afterwards which is conveintly when the football season starts again... clever buggers

Justice · May 9, 2013

JTR938 said:
Tried this... they reduced the price of the sport package to £5 a month for 3 months (roughly £15/16 saving) but go's back to full price afterwards which is conveintly when the football season starts again... clever buggers

mmm I went to the disconnection dept and told them to cut it off before they started groveling give it a try if you haven't already.

algie · May 9, 2013

Justice said:
mmm I went to the disconnection dept and told them to cut it off before they started groveling give it a try if you haven't already.

This.

Done it a few times with Virgin.

JTR938 · May 9, 2013

Justice said:
mmm I went to the disconnection dept and told them to cut it off before they started groveling give it a try if you haven't already.

certainly no harm in trying i guess! Knowing my luck they will call my bluff...
The whole BT thing is a good bit of amo thought, I would guess they are over run today with call of people threatening to leave

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