I’ve decided to try and cut the sky package price that we have. Only have basic but it’s still £25/ month plus £7.50 for broadband. They basically said that’s as low as we go. Whilst on I enquired about hd, I eventually got the box/installation/delivery for free but it’s an extra 10.25 a month. I ain’t paying that I said and that was end of call. Any better deals? Think I’m going to go back to free view and get one of their recorders!

nothing.

just watch a bit of iplayer now and again.

I’m paying £50ish/month (no broadband, no line rental, no Sky sports, no porn, no 3D but everything else inc. 1TB box). Bit of a rip off but can’t get Virgin where I am and am too far from the local exchange to get decent bandwidth ADSL so streaming/downloading content isn’t really an option.

£45 a month (I think).

My children love their children’s programmes and I love my HD. In fact I don’t even bother looking at the non-HD channels on the EPG any more.

It’s a lot of money though…

we have the very basic ‘ENTERTAINMENT’ package and its £21.00 a month

+ £7.50 unlimted internet

+ 12.50 phone rental

we have the free evening and weekend calls aswell

im still trying to persuade the wife to chuck sky but typically most of the stuff she records is on FX and other mad channels.

you cant beat the simplicity of the sly interface IMO, but like you freesat is the way i want to go.

Nothing, no TV, but do watch occasional iPlayer / TV series on the iMac.

£100+

Loads… including Multi-room, sky+ HD and all the bells and whistles..

I’ve been contemplating our ‘entertainment’ facilities for our new house.

I’m thinking of binning Sky (£50-60) per month with the entertainments extra, HD channels, broadband (which is crap), line rental etc.

More often than not, I’ll scan through the channels and not find anythign I particularly want to watch. Although Sky Atlantic has had some good serieses that me and Mrs McHamish watch.

For our next house I’m contemplating a freeview recorder, Apple TV and Lovefilm (or similar)…not sure really.

Full HD every channel and broadband £45 a month yes its expensive but worth it well its what less than 1 tank of petrol. I like to watch sport and this is the only way
They have several times tried to charge me for repairing the box I have threatened to cancel every time and they have backed down and fixed for free just come off a years half price movies I cancelled it they tempted me back

what bandwidth do you need to stream stuff fuzzywuzzy ?

at my house its 2meg max speed but i can stream no issue through my apple TV/IPAD on my BT internet

my neighbour on his sky broadband cannot – and i was given the spanish inquisition when he was round and i had eurosport streaming onto the tv from the Ipad.

not all providers are equal.

TBH i grudge the TV licence for all the use we get never mind sky.

You won’t get much off fibre, everything else should be a minimum of 50% off, up to 75% off.

Best way is just to cancel the TV at the end of contract, and tell them you cannot afford it. You will get 50% on the spot, or within 2 weeks. Leave it a month or two to get 75%.

AppleTV/Netflix/iPlayer only here and no regrets. No need for license either.

We were with Virgin but that was hitting £60 we called Sky and played hard ball.

We got phone, broadband unlimited, tv with family pack i think (1 up from std) plus free movies for 2 months for £25 month, however we waid a one off £120 for the years line rental.

Still a lot better than Virgin (and their internet isnt all its cracked up to be even with 20mb connection – they slow it right back at peak times.

Mine comes out at about £40 for TV (the ‘entertainment plus’ or whatever they call it this week) and ADSL. TBH, for the amount I watch it it’s probably not worth it.

Paying line rental is what really sticks in my craw though. The only thing the landline gets used for is for people to ring me up asking about accidents at work and offering to consolidate my loans into one easy to manage package.

The only thing the landline gets used for is for people to ring me up asking about accidents at work and offering to consolidate my loans into one easy to manage package.

I couldn’t get BB without a phone line from Virgin, but found the solution to unsolicited calls was not to plug a phone into the line. Don’t even know my own number…..

Currently paying £12 a month for full pack (including movies but not sport). Broadband and phone with plusnet.
I cancelled SKY at the end of october (due to cost)and two weeks before christmas got a flyer in the post “75% off for a year”.
At that price its fair value.
So I now have sky and HD again (75% off HD too…separate email last month). If they can hold that price I will keep it, but I would not pay more than £15-20 a month for something that is still less good than the BBC. Will have to see how much they want my business when I ring them in November to cancel/haggle.

I pay £52 a month. Basic “entertainment” package, Sky Sports and HD.
I mostly watch sport and once you’ve watched in HD you can’t go back!
Virgin broadband gets claimed back on expenses and no phone line.

What you paying for your sky package?

Your soul

Nowt, cancelled as it was only for my kids and they have flown the nest, the thought of giving Murdoch or Branson money hurts too much !

I couldn’t get BB without a phone line from Virgin, but found the solution to unsolicited calls was not to plug a phone into the line. Don’t even know my own number…..

They do do a BB only for cable customers, it’s more than BB when taken with a phone line, but less than the phone and BB combined. Fwiw I pay under 24 month for 30mg BB and phone line from virgin. Stream all the extra tv I want

I think I was up about £90 for the full package. If I added my (02) broadband on top I was around £110 a month

Switched to BT vision unlimited with fibre optic broadband. Now my total bill is down to £50 a month. Despite some absolute horror stories about BT, I’ve got no complaints. The broadband is superfast, and the on demand BT Vision stuff is very good.

They do do a BB only for cable customers, it’s more than BB when taken with a phone line, but less than the phone and BB combined. Fwiw I pay under 24 month for 30mg BB and phone line from virgin. Stream all the extra tv I want

Interesting, mine has just gone up to £26/month for 20 Mb/s with phone. I’ve been on this package for years mind. Doesn’t seem as competitive as it used to be…..

I use Freesat dye to the poor Freeview reception locally. No monthly charge, I get the BBC channels, I TV, Channel 4 and 5,most in HD too. I have a smart tv so can access I player, ITV player, 4 on demand and 5 player too. I find most tv tedious so only really use I player and the kids only watch cbbc, so anything else is a waste.

Footflaps – you can also pay for the phone line upfront, they will half the cost, 70 for the year, IIRC.

Footflaps – you can also pay for the phone line upfront, they will half the cost, 70 for the year, IIRC.

I don’t want the phone, it just came with the BB whenever I signed up (5-6 years ago)….

Cancel Sky and get a Humax FreeSat box (recording and HD TV)

Get a quote from BT for fibre broadband. Go back to Sky to cancel your Sky broadband – and then get them to match the BT price (but with monthly payments for the yearly BT line rental etc). I went from Sky broadband (3M) to fibre (almost 40M with unlimited downloads) for an extra pound a month.

Spend some of the money saved on Lovefilm to keep the wife happy.