Cutting the cord with Sky TV

That does happen. I actually wanted sky stream rather than sky Q when I was reupping last year but it wouldn’t appear on their site if I was logged in and their call operators kept parroting ‘you already have the best service we provide. I couldn’t really be arsed to argue so just locked that in.

I suspect the opposite is now true because they are winding down the satellite installs.

Just give them the 30-day notice to cancel and then when someone calls you to try and persuade you to stay, say you want the new customer price and speed increase.

That always works for me.

Does anyone have any experience of current latest Google Chromcast tv (4K) and the live TV guide features?

To keep Mrs Ewing happy I'm paying for Sky Q freeview only (Still blimmin £15/mth) and would like to cut the cord on that but know I'd be in trouble as she doesn't like using on demand of ITV or Ch4 with endless adverts and the like.  I keep thinking of renewing SKY Q to combine essentials and Netflix but I object to them still charging £8/month for HD 20 years on so don't really want to, also don't want to commit to them for 18months.

Adding that SKY Q cost to Netflix premium, Disney and prime that's about £50 / month but I'm wondering if the latest google TV unit has a good enough live TV guide to substitute Sky Q.

What does everyone else do with kids who don't really know what live / traditional TV is and think the Sky remote is for boomers?

Currently pay £80 per month for cinema, netflix, broadband, hd, phone etc. Contract expires 11th Jan and the renewal they offered on the app was £115 or something stupid. Called up today and said I wanted to cancel, they offered £95 as the best they could do. So I put my big boy pants on and cancelled.

He's cancelled the phone they would call him back on with a tasty deal.

Not quite sky, but binned viaplay & going to let my strava sub lapse.

Going to see about sacking off Netflix or disneyplus if i can convince our lad to let one go. Keeping bt/tnt sports though.

Then it's time to rein in the bt broadband full pelt line for something more sensible once that contract length ends.

We don't really need to, but all this shit is just snowballing and a lot of it is fairly needless expenditure.

Never mind, as you were. Sky are out of here.

I'm sorry Mr Hermit, we can't apply the discount we've offered you until after all your services have been terminated. Please wait until evrything stops working, give us a call and we'll get it switched on again for you.

Get fucked. I was prepared to let you stay, but there is no way I'm begging you to come back.

Why oh why does my sky q box keep recording BBC breakfast on random mornings? It's not even like it's setting up a series record because it's an individual recording.

One of the funniest I had was leaving Sky broadband. They got it down to £26 and I told them Vodafone offered me £25 for similar speeds.

Woman on the phone: "it's only a quid. Are you willing to leave us over a quid"

Me: "yes"

Woman: stunned silence

I was godsmacked she didn't twat her keyboard a few times and say "oh look we have a super special discount this week for an extra pound".

Insanity.

Don't you worry my other half ensures their permanent custom due to having an issue with almost every single other provider for some reason.

Just had my renewal chat with Sky where each person says they can't match what I'm currently paying until you get to the final line of cancellation "Well, we do have this final final offer for you"

Thanks Mr Sky, see you again in 18months.

Being able to do it via live chat instead of over the phone helps.

Surely worse waiting for a response whilst they field 100 other renewal chat windows.