Sky TV is going....

My mate says get one of the dodgy boxes off ebay. His mates mate pays £40 a year for all the channels including box office
 
I hate the amount I pay each month for sky & BT sports.

I use the sky go more than anything as I'm a hgv driver and I'm away from home a lot. Sky go and BT sport are really easy to set up on my laptop in my cab so I don't miss a game I'm interested in. The picture is generally very good and buffering is minimal.

I've tried streams via shadygiz blog and they're poor quality although a good option if the game isn't on sky or by sport.

Do I have other options that'll save me my £70 per month? Cheers
 
A couple of lads at work are singing the praises of the Amazon TV fire stick £35 one off payment and all the sports and films you can watch, was thinking about one and feck Sky off, anyone got one ?
 
Can anyone help a total idiot out please? (Without getting too technical)

I currently have the full sky package, with 2 multirooms. A sky hd plus in the conservatory, a sky plus in the living room and a sky box in the daughters bedroom and with bt sport is about £98 per month. The broadband is bt infinity so should be up to the task of streaming.
Do I need 3 x dodgy boxes? 3 x freeview boxes plus some way of streaming films and football? Any initial cost would soon be offset by binning sky.

I would appreciate any advice, thanks.
 
its gone... phoned them today asking for a 50% reduction which would have been 25 quid, they offered a tenner off, i wouldnt budge off my terms so i cancelled the lot, now over to plusnet on the 22nd jan for internet deal and i'l stream and steal my entertainment
 
Around 15 months ago I opened a letter from sky telling me my monthly subscription was going up £3 to £78. I rang them up to tell them to cancel my subscription as I considered it too costly. Some smarmy twat said "it's only a £3 per month rise but we're now giving you MUTV". By this point I was fucking fuming and said "you're really taking the piss now i'm a City supporter".
That was that and they cut me off. Since then I bought a MX pro android box from Ebay. This is mainly good for films and 3pm Saturday Prem games although they have been hard to get recently. Also, a friend of a friend fitted me a dodgy Sky box for £110. I have to pay £45 per year to update the server software but I can get all the Sky channels and BT sport.

I would never of gone down this avenue as I have always paid for Sky subscription but Sky are taking the piss bigtime! They fleece you each month whilst showing you as many adverts as they can. They are slowly bringing in pay per view to be a normal thing whilst they charge 15 quid(or whatever) for a Boxing match for instance whilst showing you as many adverts as they can between rounds!
 
bluemoon risin' said:
Around 15 months ago I opened a letter from sky telling me my monthly subscription was going up £3 to £78. I rang them up to tell them to cancel my subscription as I considered it too costly. Some smarmy twat said "it's only a £3 per month rise but we're now giving you MUTV". By this point I was fucking fuming and said "you're really taking the piss now i'm a City supporter".
That was that and they cut me off. Since then I bought a MX pro android box from Ebay. This is mainly good for films and 3pm Saturday Prem games although they have been hard to get recently. Also, a friend of a friend fitted me a dodgy Sky box for £110. I have to pay £45 per year to update the server software but I can get all the Sky channels and BT sport.

I would never of gone down this avenue as I have always paid for Sky subscription but Sky are taking the piss bigtime! They fleece you each month whilst showing you as many adverts as they can. They are slowly bringing in pay per view to be a normal thing whilst they charge 15 quid(or whatever) for a Boxing match for instance whilst showing you as many adverts as they can between rounds!
Click to expand...
I forgot to mention that when Sky cut me off, I lost all the programmes i'd recorded on the Sky box hard drive including the cherished Stoke FA cup win and QPR game. I rang them when I noticed that the hard drive had been wiped arguing that when I recorded my chosen recordings, I had paid for them at the time so they had no right to erase my hard drive. They gave me some bullshit excuse, so if you do quit Sky, prepare to lose everything you've recorded.
 
big phil said:
Can anyone help a total idiot out please? (Without getting too technical)

I currently have the full sky package, with 2 multirooms. A sky hd plus in the conservatory, a sky plus in the living room and a sky box in the daughters bedroom and with bt sport is about £98 per month. The broadband is bt infinity so should be up to the task of streaming.
Do I need 3 x dodgy boxes? 3 x freeview boxes plus some way of streaming films and football? Any initial cost would soon be offset by binning sky.

I would appreciate any advice, thanks.
Click to expand...


Basically Phil you buy each user an android box, many choices around i should add and just connect to your wifi.

To be honest though i would only trust Virgin and a couple of smaller companies to handle the wifi demands you may carry.
All of you could stream at full 1080p with dts audio (posh audio) with no hassle. I have had 4 devices streaming 1080p myself and 1 streaming 2160p (4k) on the 152MB/s line they offer with no buffering.
 
TCIB said:
Basically Phil you buy each user an android box, many choices around i should add and just connect to your wifi.

To be honest though i would only trust Virgin and a couple of smaller companies to handle the wifi demands you may carry.
All of you could stream at full 1080p with dts audio (posh audio) with no hassle. I have had 4 devices streaming 1080p myself and 1 streaming 2160p (4k) on the 152MB/s line they offer with no buffering.
Click to expand...

Thanks TCIB, if I could just mither you a bit more?

Any particular android box? Also, I have only just upgraded from bt to bt infinity so I'm stuck for 18 months. Appear to be getting 70-80 mb, will this not be enough?

Thanks again buddy.
 
bluekeith said:
When I cancelled I was offered 35% off which was a week ago then yesterday in a phone call I was offered 50% off then today 50% plus a £50 credit . Hold your nerve
Click to expand...
Ok so we've been offered £35 off by asking to cancel. Going to cancel all but broadband and line rental. Anyone used Amazon fire stick? Going to hold our nerve and see what happens.
 
big phil said:
Thanks TCIB, if I could just mither you a bit more?

Any particular android box? Also, I have only just upgraded from bt to bt infinity so I'm stuck for 18 months. Appear to be getting 70-80 mb, will this not be enough?

Thanks again buddy.
Click to expand...


Infinity should be fine bud, sorry i missed you asking me hence late reply.

G-box is very good if you are looking at kodi/xbmc as they have a dedicated team of devs working on firmware and general user experience.
This is the top end one...

Amazon product ASIN B016KK0HEM
 
can anyone chuck some light on this- i cancelled and they would not terminate the broadband i have the Jan 15th bill which is for £31 'the programmes get cut off on the 22 Jan' then another bill of £26 in Feb 'internet only', they said when i find another company the bills will cease, im not under any contract
 
Have a look on Amazon/eBay at Openbox V8s. Every channel,sports/movies/box office for around £70 for 12 months. Then around £30 for for the next 12 months subscription and so on.
 
Sergio<3 said:
Have a look on Amazon/eBay at Openbox V8s. Every channel,sports/movies/box office for around £70 for 12 months. Then around £30 for for the next 12 months subscription and so on.
Click to expand...
Techno mate boxes are better as you can record multiple channels and come with 12month Giff cards open channels .and for all footy movies there's new kid on the block Xbmc ouja has kodi but also games and comes with joypad £99 quid
 
So if a mate was thinking about getting an Openbox V8, as found on eBay for approximately £35......

How do you then get the 12 month subscription for £70 as mentioned?

Can you record/rewind etc on these boxes?

PM's welcome if too risky to post in here.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top