Now that BT Sport have the Champions League they are putting the sub up by £5 a month. Are Sky knocking off £5 a month now they've lost the CL. Are they heckus like.
BT have put their line rental up too (for those of you live outside of Hull). The £5's a bit cheeky really, they say it's for BT Sport Europe, but if you opt out then you lose BT Sports 2 and ESPN which you were getting for free before. This is on their broadband, no idea what it's like for TV only.
You can't expect the money to carry on escalating when it comes to bidding for the TV rights and not expect that to be passed on to the consumer.
It's not worth it is it. Competition is supposed to be better for the consumer but all its done here is raised the prices and doubled the number of subscriptions required. And they're STILL both charging extra for HD. At what point does HD become standard?
I don't pay for HD on Sky, they just turned it on when I got an HD TV, BT wanted paying so I told them to do one, you can hardly tell the difference anyway.
Cancelling BT myself in November, wanted rid of it for a while but they tie you to a 12 month contract when you have it on Sky, and the price rise is a joke. Why they think the likes of RobbieSavage should get their own shows too I just don't know. I noticed Michael Owen is still main commentator so they pay no attention at all to the customers who all want shot of him. Sky has more than enough sport for me especially with our relegation, will be watching lower leagues again. In an ideal world would stream everything but streams aren't reliable enough for me, the amount of times they cut out at critical times. Now TV is no good either as after 3 or 4 hours Karoo throttles the bandwidth so the picture either suffers or cuts out completely.
^^ Spot on Airlie - this particular bubble can't be far from bursting, the ''big clubs'' will go into overdrive clamouring for their own private European Super League or whatever the greedy ****ers are gonna call it.
If anyone is thinking of cancelling SKY, haggle with their cancellation team, it works a treat. I argued that they had lost the Champions league, and pointed out we can't take advantage of the whole bundles here in Hull, stuck with KC etc. Its all too expensive can't justify it all etc. I have BT too and thats going up too etc etc. The nitty gritty > There is a "football package" they like to keep a secret until you absolutely push them, but mention it to them... I get Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 5 only, covers all domestic football games and the Spanish games. It is called Original with Sports 1 - I pay £23 a month (they knock a further £10 off if you have been with them over a year). Hope someone can use this to their advantage...
Iv got an Openbox V8s has every channel you could ever want for free , even Setanta Sport, paid 69,quid for it, get free sport movies the lot with the "24mth free gift" I cancelled sky after 1 day of having it, never looked back , its paid for itself already as sky would of had another 80 quid off me by now
It worked for me too. For anyone with Sky TV/Broadband for several years, with no fibre optic broadband router, no Sky HD receiver/recorder box. I told Sky last week I was considering cancelling my two Sky accounts due to the cost and lack of incentives to keep long serving subscribers on board. I spend a silly amount of money with them which prompted a few tasty offers if I agreed to a new 12 month contract. I tried this last year but got nowhere. This time I got lucky, I signed up for another year and have received a free router worth £70 - activation next week, half price HD subscription at £3 per month for 12 months, a free Sky HD receiver/recorder box (records 200 hours of TV (Worth £300) with free installation. They've actually waived the broadband fee for 12 months (then £10 per month) so I'm now paying less for the next year and getting much more. The installation was completed today. These offers seem to dry up quickly so give it a go and good luck.
Dunno how you managed that but it's definitely an extra. I don't have sports any more, partly because when I did I found it a piss-take paying so for a premium channel to watch in worse quality than I can watch Match of the Day on BBC (where HD is free of course). I don't normally care much for the difference between HD and SD, but watching live football the difference is massive. You can barely tell who anyone is in SD until they go to a close-up. That absolutely categorically isn't true.
I think if your sky package comes to so much then you get HD "for free". I'll brutally honest, I'm still leeching off my parents SkyGo two years out of uni, so I'm not 100%.
I find watching SD football on my HD TV is **** but before when I only had a SD telly I think the picture wasn't so bad. I think maybe my HD set just isn't very good at showing SD.
I think the days of the Premier League owning everyones TV rights are numbered, there's going to be a point where the big clubs take a stand. In their eyes they essentially subsidise the smaller clubs and make the Premier League a profit at the same time. There's got to be a point when they force a renegotiation that favours them more, they essentially hold all the power.
