Looks like we may be getting rid of Sky and moving everything to EE as a much better deal than Sky can get to. Any opinions on EE TV box compared to Sky ? Google is mixed on it.
It's a wrench to leave the Sky interface when you are so used to it.
EE works OK, and it stops Sky taking the piss so a little discomfort is worth it.
Thanks, it is giving us a big saving so worth the wrench. I think the EE box will connect to the TV with the existing Sky HD HDMI cable, which is behind the wall with access ports, in which case I won’t have to get the 65 inch screen off the wall to swop them over.
Such a timely thread!
Had Virgin for ever, been out of contract for years. Don't even know the landline number. Got all the telly channels and good broadband. £160 quid a month. Yep.
Kids and I watch football but not that much. Most of what Mrs Tyred and I watch is BBC content, BFI or Mubi, both of which are complete bargains I happily pay for. Kids are adept at surfing free trial deals for streaming services they're bothered about.
Suddenly BT Full Fibre is available for just over a quarter of what I'm paying Virgin.
The Virgin broadband is good - its fast and reliable. Not as fast as claimed, but plenty fast enough for us. Outages are very rare.
Don't care about losing PPV sport and the films and all the non-terrestrial channels can get in the sea.
Two questions - what are BT like for customer service and what's my best/simplest/cheapest option to replace the Virgin Tivo box (not that I even think that's worthwhile, but Mrs Tyred still likes it)?
As I mentioned earlier, once Virgin received notification from Sky that I was going back they rang me up 'to go through the change over process' then dropped in to the conversation a deal that blew everything else out of the water so be prepared for that.
I've been looking into it too. HBO Max was the final straw I suppose. It occurred to me that I hardly, if ever watch any Sky produced content, what I had been watching was the HBO stuff on Atlantic, what Sky was providing really was the platform for £80 a month (which includes Netflix and now HBO Max), I didn't even have a DVR as I was using their streaming service Glass. I get my Internet from Vodafone anyway.
I've settled on a Manhattan T4-R 4K Recorder and Freeview via the Internet. It's got a Sky-like interface, DVR plus apps for streaming services. Netflix is somehow £19 a month now, HBO £15, Disney £15... I'm not sure I watch any of them really, I think my family do. Maybe I'll get them to do without 4k and save myself £15 a month. I still can't bring myself to pay £30 for ****ing TNT to watch the DH.
Netflix is somehow £19 a month now, HBO £15, Disney £15... I'm not sure I watch any of them really, I think my family do. Maybe I'll get them to do without 4k and save myself £15 a month. I still can't bring myself to pay £30 for ****ing TNT to watch the DH.
How big is your screen? How much of the content they're watching is actually 4k.
Personally I think the key is not getting sucked into having all the services at once, get one for a few months, then turn it off and get a different one.
