Sky tv

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

My sky SD box went tits up this morning and is now dead, fair to say it has lasted some years but have been thinking of cancelling for some time now so this seems a good time to do it, fed up paying for adverts and endless repeats specially on discovery channels,what do others think of Sky?

Mick

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

[wheeltapperParticipant @wheeltapper]

They've got a good cycling team, apart from that,meh.

Roy.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

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

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

Another post gone missing, said our freeview is rubbish here just 19 channels but we have all terrestial catch up and amazon prime + you tube so happy with that

Mick

[SandgrounderParticipant @sandgrounder]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 27/10/2016 10:27:30:

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

[BazParticipant @baz89810]

Mick, Phone Sky and tell them you are cancelling your contract and going to one of the competition, they will most probably give you a new box just to keep your custom. Worked for my son in law.

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

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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

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

My Freeview didn't work too well in summer, found out it was because of a stand of trees on a rise between me and the transmitter, TV signal doesn't pass through leaves it seems,especially when wet. Changed to FreeSat, no complaints at all,and more channels of rubbish than you can imagine as well as the good stuff, usually on BBC or Channel 4

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

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

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

Freesat is an option although there is a cost to get the box, basically I have enough of sky and just want it gone, could get a 2nd hand box with no subscription but seems that sky block free to air channels that should be on freeview but as I said freeview isn't very good here, I do like the yesterday channel not on freeview and not on sky with no subscription but can get it on my tablet, anyway have just took sky box out and emailed sky and now wait for a phone call no doubt

Mick

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Posted by Mick Henshall on 27/10/2016 12:09:17:

……..but seems that sky block free to air channels that should be on freeview but as I said freeview isn't very good here, I do like the yesterday channel not on freeview and not on sky with no subscription……..

I get Yesterday on Freeview, channel 19.

Andrew

[Pat BraveryParticipant @patbravery]

I tried to cancel my Sky contract by phone and email which they made very difficult to do so I just stopped the direct debit and they spent the next 18 months chasing me for £67. Some of the debt collection agencies got a bit near illegal so I started invoicing them for the time and trouble which soon made them back off, all been quiet now for about 6 months. There was a consumer TV program about the way Sky operate when trying to cancel a contract so they are well known in this area. I am happy with BT now. Regards Pat

[Phil PParticipant @philp]

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

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Cable is great for the broadband speed. I get 60 Mbps on the cable modem but only 4 on the ADSL. Actually different situations so slightly biased comparison and I only need a small amount to work from home.

The OP didn't mention what kind of box he was using. Having a TiVo with multichannel recording has totally changed my viewing so apart from news I don't watch live TV and never worry that I'm gong to miss something or have to rush home for a program.
I get the impression that a lot of people are now addicted to catch up, Netflix and internet music services more than regular TV but soaps and things like Bake-off still have big audiences.

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

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.

[Anthony KnightsParticipant @anthonyknights16741]

I have a FreeSat box in the lounge and a FreeView box in the bedroom. One would think that sending a signal up to a geostationary satellite which then rebroadcasts it back to earth would cause a delay between the signals received by Freesat and Freeview. There is, but the Freeview signal is about 2 seconds BEHIND the Freesat signal?????????

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

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 ?

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

How long is a tad? How much does it shorten two hours by?

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

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

[SteveMParticipant @stevem36008]

Sky for me is a stupidly expensive but necessary evil. I'm stuck with it because I love rugby and cricket, and Sky is the only (legal) way to see the good stuff.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

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.

[AjohnwParticipant @ajohnw51620]

We had it and some cable channels years ago. After about 9 months or so we seemed to be waiting for new films to appear. Same on other channels too. The cable connection broke and they wouldn't repair it unless we upgraded so I chucked it out. Fortunately we kept a BT phone and the old aerial still worked.

Some months ago my son wanted another ISP available so went for Virgin. Turns out that the "cable" wasn't broken at all so they must have been trying to force us to upgrade.

One person in the house is paying for amazon prime so we bought the amazon TV dongle. Watching near one movie a night it took a couple of months to go through all of the movies with limited time left that we actually wanted to watch. There are lots more. There are some TV series on it that we watch but I've no idea how long the movies will last. There is also some other software installed on the dongle that initially would find streams for all sorts of things but of late it generally hangs up. The amazon service costs about £80 a year so if next day is selected on orders that's maybe the same as say 12 orders a year or so with free TV except for the cost of the dongle. We did manage to find a live F1 stream but the only one that didn't hang at all was low quality.

One thing I have noticed is that the aerial mast needs to be more rigid than the used to be for receiving freeview. We had it early on and the installer used the usual pole. If there are very high winds it does sometimes generate a bit of interference. Fortunately this has hardly ever happened and never for more than a second or so with long periods in between.

John

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Edited By Ajohnw on 28/10/2016 11:17:22

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Posted by John Stevenson on 27/10/2016 21:53:49:

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 ?

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

Mike

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

Hi chaps,

Just an update– emailed Sky last thursday just had a phone call from a very nice bloke from Sky who has cancelled our account with immediate effect an as we pay month in advance we also have £59 rebate, I am gobsmacked was expecting to have to argue our case but quite the opposite no hassle — result

Mick

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