I told them I wanted to leave and they reduced my monthly payments by £10 for 6 months.

Not a fan of Sky. but I watch a lot of the Discovery type programmes like Last of the Alaskans etc also Mountain men. Freeview is unreliable around this area even though I am less than 5 K from the masts at Bluebell hill in Medway. I am not allowed festoon type ariels on the roof.

Clive

But can't you use your existing Sky dish with a Freesat box?

I have Sky myself for broadband, TV and the telephone and I'm reasonably happy with them.

John

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They are all pretty much of the same muchness.

Was with Sky at the last house but with Virgin for the last 3 years as they offered a better internet speed at this address. I have found both of them to be OK but don't get sucked into sales talk and take out services on 'offer' for things you will never use. A bargain is only a bargain in you actually need it.!

All very similar as I said except for a different menu system to find what you want. – However it's a buyers market and lots of deals to invite / keep your custom.

Nick

As a child I lived in Germany for 3 years so only tv in German available, read lots of books, about 5 a week, as an adult I have worked shift work most of my life so never got hooked by tv. Mainly put TV on to watch news, must be one of the few to not watch bake off final as its quiz night down the pub. Never had Sky as I think most of it will turn up on terrestrial tv eventually. F1 lost a fan through their greed, not worth getting sky for a race every couple of weeks. Given a choice of tv or internet I would bin the tv.

Mike

I get Yesterday on Freeview, channel 19.

Andrew

I recently cancelled my Sky contract and used a tip from someone that worked really well for me.

When they ask why you are cancelling, tell them you are emigrating. There is no further attempt to try and bribe you to stay on and they cancel it straight away. Only took a few minutes on the phone.

I paid £189 for a Humax freesat box at Currys / PC World, and it pugged straight onto the same connections and dish that the Sky box was on and works a treat. There are loads of channels to choose from and unless you specifically want Sky channels I would ditch them. My basic Sky HD+ subscription was almost £43 per month, so my freesat box will soon pay for itself.

Phil

We had Sky originally because the TV reception where we live was dreadful. We were paying Sky about £90 per month and decided it had to go, especially as we are not sports or soap fans.

We went with TalkTalk because there broadband speed is good in this area, they were less than half the cost of Sky and the only additional cast was to have a new box. You also need an aerial for Freeview and we already had Freesat built in to the TV.

Customer services have been good on the two occasions we needed to talk to someone and the fitters from BT & TaalkTalk were excellent.

We are still discovering channels and are very pleased with changing.

TV,

No wonder no one gets anything done.

Bitch about subs for a mag going up and pay up to £90 per month to watch a box ?????

Far more interesting things in life. Take Wednesday for instance. Decided to knock off early from work so jumped in the truck at 3:30, Fiat as well [ Oh dear oh dear ] drove up to see the Delectable Debs, only 120 miles, got there at 6.00 as traffic was a bit heavy on the M6.

Had a coffee, hug and cuddle but not in that order and left again at 7:30.

Because traffic had calmed down a bit managed to do the return 120 miles in just a tad under two hours.

Now that was a late afternoon and evening well spent. Who wants to be watching a box ?

Door to door journey time was exactly 2 hours 1 minute but had to stop off at Debs end to throw some diesel in, so a tad in this case was about 8 ? minutes

Netflix type content is most likely the future for TV addicts

Switch it on and dial in what you want when you want it

I remember watching three hours of star trek on sky many years ago, one hour of it was adverts.

They do say a girl will pull you further than dynamite will blow you

Mike