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Post by mrpon on Jul 12, 2022 15:11:47 GMT
SUCKA!!
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Post by dfunked on Jul 12, 2022 18:28:01 GMT
I wanna quit the gym!
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Post by geefe on Jul 12, 2022 19:15:18 GMT
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robthehermit
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Post by robthehermit on Jul 12, 2022 19:27:42 GMT
So how much are you paying per month? Should be £69 per month includimg broadband once everything is up and running. Currently paying £75ish including netflix. |
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Post by cubby on Jul 12, 2022 20:52:33 GMT
Nice
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Post by pierrepressure on Jul 14, 2022 9:41:14 GMT
What's the best (and legal) way of getting the football on the telly now we've cut sky off?
Used to use the sky go and bt sport app with the in-laws log in but they've cancelled now too.
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Post by Dougs on Jul 14, 2022 10:05:17 GMT
Now TV really. They usually have a 9 month offer for £20-25 a month just before the PL kicks off. Find someone to share with and you're golden. Alternatively you could look at using a VPN and subbing to an overseas service - not technically illegal I don't think but is probably against Ts&Cs.
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Post by mrpon on Jul 14, 2022 10:06:26 GMT
I think what Dougs is meaning is, show that offer to the in-laws  |
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Post by Dougs on Jul 14, 2022 10:26:33 GMT
I wouldn't dare presume! But yes. The quality is crap though.
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Post by jimnastics on Jul 14, 2022 10:39:37 GMT
Football and cricket for me and Nickelodeon (and some others) for the kids are the only reason we're with Sky still for TV, if there were cheaper ways to watch these that were the same quality, reliable, included PVR and multiroom then I would leave in a heartbeat. Sky Q as a system is absolutely outstanding, I will admit that.
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Post by pierrepressure on Jul 14, 2022 12:09:17 GMT
Now TV really. They usually have a 9 month offer for £20-25 a month just before the PL kicks off. Find someone to share with and you're golden. Alternatively you could look at using a VPN and subbing to an overseas service - not technically illegal I don't think but is probably against Ts&Cs. Thanks Dougs, will keep an eye out and will share the sub with the in-laws 😉 Shame about picture quality but I'm sure it's better than nothing. I need it so I can switch off halfway through Arsenal bottling another game. |
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Jul 14, 2022 12:23:30 GMT
Football and cricket for me and Nickelodeon (and some others) for the kids are the only reason we're with Sky still for TV, if there were cheaper ways to watch these that were the same quality, reliable, included PVR and multiroom then I would leave in a heartbeat. Sky Q as a system is absolutely outstanding, I will admit that. Sky sports is the big pull for me. Ultra HD cricket is amazing. Football streams are relatively easy to find but cricket, rugby and league are a chore to find and I can't fault Sky commentary and picture quality on any event really. I get to see the NZ warriors play every now and again along with occasional Super 14 game. My only gripe is the Sky Q remote which I fucking hate. The old remote was clunky but the design was spot on. The Sky Q remote needs to go back to the workshop. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jul 14, 2022 12:39:32 GMT
If it’s the touch one, you can order a Luddite button replacement for it because it is indeed absolutely woeful.
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Post by cubby on Jul 15, 2022 9:54:48 GMT
We have the button version (had no idea there was a touch version, jesus) but my partner absolutely hates the UI on the sky q box, it was so much more straightforward with the old box.
I kind of agree but I just suck it up like everyone else.
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Jul 15, 2022 10:21:44 GMT
Yeh. Hate the UI. The recorded stuff thumbnails can do one. Some have been very spoilery  . A list would suffice. As for the remote, we got one of each but the touch one has been in the drawer from day 2 . Loving the Ultra HD sport. Very difficult to watch iptv streams after watching the Sky stuff. |
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Post by robthehermit on Jul 27, 2022 8:32:46 GMT
So after some jiggery pokery and upgrading it looks like I will now be paying sky £78 per month for:
Sky Q
Sky Q Mini
Sky Cinema
Paramount+
Netflix Premium
65mb Broadband.
Old total was £76.49 so I'm effectively paying £1.51 a month for Sky Cinema, Paramount and Multiroom. I don't think that's too bad.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jul 27, 2022 8:40:36 GMT
I need to give them a jingle. We finally have gigaclear around here, so I would be quite happy to burn the lot down*
*the caveat being that we dont have a TV aerial for freeview
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Post by Dougs on Jul 27, 2022 8:47:11 GMT
Who needs Freeview with a big phat pipe? (TV not Freesat compatible?)
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jul 27, 2022 8:51:37 GMT
I think it is, but its probably rubbish. Its a panaphonics OLED so the TV itself is good but everything else is absolutely shite.
All that said, Sky have been dropping some quality content recently and I do generally like the service. I would definitely drop other subs before it if I was really clearing out.
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Post by EMarkM on Jul 28, 2022 8:29:00 GMT
We still get the most value out of Disney+.
Amazon Prime Video gets an airing now and then.
My personal habits (ooer) are almost completely satisfied by (free) YouTube.
We have a dodgy rooftop aerial (embarrassing for a qualified amateur radio operator, I know) for free view, which works depending upon the weather.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 28, 2022 8:38:34 GMT
We paid for a new aerial last month as most of our old one got blown away in a storm. I think I've watched probably an hour of Freeview content that I couldn't have just streamed from an app instead.
Money well spent...
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Post by Dougs on Jul 28, 2022 8:46:41 GMT
We have 2 aerials in the loft (no stack to put them on), am removing them in the autumn to give us more useable space up there. They're not plugged into anything and have a crap signal as they're in the loft. Pointless
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Jul 28, 2022 18:18:03 GMT
Football and cricket for me and Nickelodeon (and some others) for the kids are the only reason we're with Sky still for TV, if there were cheaper ways to watch these that were the same quality, reliable, included PVR and multiroom then I would leave in a heartbeat. Sky Q as a system is absolutely outstanding, I will admit that. Sky sports is the big pull for me. Ultra HD cricket is amazing. Football streams are relatively easy to find but cricket, rugby and league are a chore to find and I can't fault Sky commentary and picture quality on any event really. I get to see the NZ warriors play every now and again along with occasional Super 14 game. My only gripe is the Sky Q remote which I fucking hate. The old remote was clunky but the design was spot on. The Sky Q remote needs to go back to the workshop. The Sports now has it's own dedicated Ultra HDR channel (858) No more red button faff  |
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Post by robthehermit on Jul 28, 2022 18:23:10 GMT
I will say, having been using streaming only for a few years, having to wait while the download queues up what it thinks is enough for you to start watching is a bit of a ball ache.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 28, 2022 18:25:50 GMT
Aye, Disney+ and the spinning circle whenever you start watching anything does my head in.
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Post by rawshark on Jul 30, 2022 1:28:23 GMT
Apparently Sky is the 3rd best selling TV manufacturer in the UK now with Sky Glass, or so says the CEO. No figures have been released so I’m very dubious about that.
Sky is arse backwards about a lot of things. Content should drive business but business is driving content. Case in point - they wanted Idris Elba on their adverts so gave him a golden handshake that included three seasons of a comedy that no one watched.
Ditto Romesh Ranganathan, who they needed to replace James Corden on their flagship panel show, so agreed to give him two seasons of a sitcom that… you guessed it… no one watched.
Mel and Sue… they just gave them a sitcom for the hell of it despite no one wanting a sitcom with Mel and Sue.
And they still repeat An Idiot Abroad weekly as that was a legitimate hit for them. So the next logical step? Give Karl Pilkington two series of a sitcom that sees him wanking off in a nightclub cubicle for no reason at all. But mercifully few people know about that because no one watched it.
I’d like to think they’d learn from these mistakes but the future line up has Ronesh back again in a sitcom with living blow-up doll Katherine Ryan and more shite with David Walliams and Sheridan Smith in it. Even when they do make an effort things tend to come and go without any fanfare. Midwich Cuckoos might have been good but it was a one and done series that won’t convince anyone to hold onto a subscription.
The Kenneth Branagh thing about Boris Johnson sounds good though.
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Post by cubby on Jul 30, 2022 5:56:44 GMT
Half way through The Lazarus Project and that's pretty good. I haven't heard of any of the shows you just mentioned other than the Idris Elba one, and I thought that was actually ITV.
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Post by geefe on Jul 30, 2022 6:07:05 GMT
Thinking back, I do wonder what Sky actually produced that was ever good. When we had it, I never watched any of their own content. It was always the imported stuff.
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Post by jimnastics on Jul 30, 2022 6:53:23 GMT
Sky sports is the big pull for me. Ultra HD cricket is amazing. Football streams are relatively easy to find but cricket, rugby and league are a chore to find and I can't fault Sky commentary and picture quality on any event really. I get to see the NZ warriors play every now and again along with occasional Super 14 game. My only gripe is the Sky Q remote which I fucking hate. The old remote was clunky but the design was spot on. The Sky Q remote needs to go back to the workshop. The Sports now has it's own dedicated Ultra HDR channel (858) No more red button faff Sky's cricket coverage is probably the best sports commentary and production I've experienced in my life, it's absolutely outstanding. If I could, I would sit and watch every minute of every day of every test match through the "English summer" (working from home 100% now, I do kinda do that anyway, hah!). My boy is also getting much more into watching live football now as well. So as long as Sky keep getting the rights to England's home cricket fixtures and good Prem games then I'm sucked in to paying for Sky in some form.
I was looking at maybe moving to NowTV, but the lack of PVR is a massive downer.... my kids especially record and download so much stuff that they watch regularly, I very much doubt much of it is always available directly through streaming on Now TV. So Sky Q it is for us for the foreseeable (I do wish I had ditched Movies in my last contract haggling though, none of us ever watch movies through that anymore).
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Post by f00b_inc on Aug 22, 2022 8:07:19 GMT
Has anyone tried Now TV Sky Sports? Previously had Virgin Media + Sports but I've recently moved to the sticks. There's also no local pubs in the immediate vicinity showing live sport so I think I will crack pretty quickly and need to get something sorted.
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. A list would suffice. As for the remote, we got one of each but the touch one has been in the drawer from day 2 . 
