Not long since I was seeking advise on what to do about my very expensive sky package..
Well, got it down to a more realistic £33.
Just got a letter off them this morning, they want another £3 a month taking it up to £36...
Seriously want to dump it now but really like the format, the catch up TV and series link recording etc...
Also I want to keep the disco and geo and history channels, bairn loves the massive amount of cartoon channels as well...
Is there a PVR box that will do the catch up and recording similar to the sky box?
Is there really a similar setup or have sky got it down up?
Cheers,
Steve
All Freesat boxes (Humax etc)will do catchup and series link. I dumped SKY 3-4 years ago, don't really miss anything worth paying for.
I left sky ages ago as I was just sick of all the adverts! I got a Humax pvr box, it plugs straight into your dish, it has x2 hard drives so you can record a program while watching another, lots of channels and I think you get some catchup stuff now on the newer boxes. I won't be going back to sky
We completely binned sky off and replaced it with netflix, catchup services and usenet based
cunning for something like £11/mo, pretty much anything you want to watch streamed to any device in the house with very little faffage.
Sure, a few odds and sods are nigh unobtainium, but between the lot we've not been short of viewing, and not had to suffer any repeats (aside
from the teenager thing watching marvel movies on loop, constantly)
Had a loooong conversation with sky yesterday. Mine went up another £2 - told her I only watch discovery (wheeler dealers!) and why was I being charged for sky plus when I didn't have a sky + box. She initially offered me a bigger subscription, then a 10% discount, then a 25% discount over 10 months, both with a new sky plus HD box. she wouldn't listen when I said my TV has free sat HD built in, and an external HDD that is like sky + so I get most of what I want for free!! After 30 mins she finally did what I wanted and cancelled it!! Within 5 minutes I had an email from the asking me to stay!!!!!!!!!
Thanks chaps, been looking around and the youview from BT looks good.
For £5 a month can get all the freesat channels plus disco Eurosport nat geo animal planet history channel...
Only rub is asked wor lass which channels she wants and the answer... Sky1 for ncis... Doh!
Told her they all on the android TV box but she struggles to use it.....
More experiences please 
[Edited on 4/4/15 by coozer]
Thinking about it more...
If you look carefully, and ask the right people you might find a bloke (possibly called barry) local to you who sells satellite DVR boxes of eastern
european descent for less than the cost of a license fee, and as I understand it, they're not too picky regarding what signals they accept and
record.
So I've heard. anyway.
Ive got a youview box from Talktalk, cant say they are one of the best bits of kit about my freesat box is loads better, but if youve got an Android
box why would you want Sky anyroad, mobdro premium is only 3 euros a year so you can record.
Cheers,
Bob
'Only rub is asked wor lass which channels she wants and the answer... Sky1 for ncis... Doh!'
Skodawoman watches that all the time as well. I'd pay more for a channel that couldn't get it.
I got fed up with the cost of Sky and got rid about 18 months ago - got a digital sat box on the old Astra and Hotbird . Over 1000 channels and its
taken ages to figure out which ones I want to watch but I do get F1 live - use radio 5 live sometimes for a commentary and I suppose I've got to
learn german or italian to understand the rest.
I wouldn't mind paying 10 or even 15 pounds but its about 37 with my alleged 60% discount which gives me 4 sports channels I don't want,
loads of adverts and lots of american crap.
Ok, I miss several programs but not £37 worth
I'll not go back to Sky
I know, the reason i am still with the Sky is she loves the way it works..
Yes, we have a android tv box but she can't use it, she gives up on it cause its not like getting the guide up and selecting the channel....
Maybe I should move the monthly debit other???
I've got a android box with Kodi mobdro and showbox but this all above her..... Its over to me to find the shows, sports and movies.....
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Originally posted by ianhurley20
I got fed up with the cost of Sky and got rid about 18 months ago - got a digital sat box on the old Astra and Hotbird . Over 1000 channels and its taken ages to figure out which ones I want to watch but I do get F1 live - use radio 5 live sometimes for a commentary and I suppose I've got to learn german or italian to understand the rest.
I wouldn't mind paying 10 or even 15 pounds but its about 37 with my alleged 60% discount which gives me 4 sports channels I don't want, loads of adverts and lots of american crap.
Ok, I miss several programs but not £37 worth
I'll not go back to Sky
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Originally posted by coozer
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Originally posted by ianhurley20
I got fed up with the cost of Sky and got rid about 18 months ago - got a digital sat box on the old Astra and Hotbird . Over 1000 channels and its taken ages to figure out which ones I want to watch but I do get F1 live - use radio 5 live sometimes for a commentary and I suppose I've got to learn german or italian to understand the rest.
I wouldn't mind paying 10 or even 15 pounds but its about 37 with my alleged 60% discount which gives me 4 sports channels I don't want, loads of adverts and lots of american crap.
Ok, I miss several programs but not £37 worth
I'll not go back to Sky
What box and dish have you got, I quite fancy a look at some other satellites to see what's available.
Spoke to sky this afternoon and all I got was the run around telling me to check the terms and conditions and 3 different phone numbers to ring after
I went on and on..
Still no further forward.
Leaning towards the BT vision you view. Anybody got it??
I have the bt tv and have found it to be very good box is very user friendly and all the channels I want plus my son has a Netflix account so we can use that for free aswell.
Just switched over to bt from sky. Fed up with raising bills and crap films 90% of the time on movies subscription.
Once i get the roof aerial sorted it'll be ok, but currently only have the internet channels which are a bit limited.
Just pricing up a server to download stuff from usenet website.
So, there we have it, phoned again just now and got a much friendlier dude on the line.. Requested a cancellation, went through the hoops again and
this time came out with a £10 a month reduction for 10 months!
Why on earth can they not price the packages down to cost with a margin?????
Still going together a dish and satellite receiver like ian above to see what else I can get
Perhaps this will help then
http://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/Digital-Satellite-Receivers/Technomate-HD-Receivers
[Edited on 6/4/15 by ianhurley20]
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Originally posted by ianhurley20
Perhaps this will help then
http://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/Digital-Satellite-Receivers/Technomate-HD-Receivers
[Edited on 6/4/15 by ianhurley20]
quote:
Originally posted by ianhurley20
Perhaps this will help then
http://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/Digital-Satellite-Receivers/Technomate-HD-Receivers
[Edited on 6/4/15 by ianhurley20]
Both are good suppliers - if I were going for a new box now it would probably be a Linux based box which could be flashed with Enigma 2 opr similar.
have a look at the you tube vids about the capabilities.
At my last house some years ago I had a motorised 1.2metre dish which gave access to all the satellites. Pre Sky, Discovery used to be at 27.5W and
was clear along with other english channels, all gone to sky now sadly. Different ball game now.
Good luck with whatever you go for.
Given up on sky paying for nowt