cutting cost of sky tv

knitwit67

Hi, I was hoping for some help. I need to reduce my sky package but DH will only allow it if his euro sports are safe to watch his bike racing. Does anyone know the cheapest way to have euro sports. We spend £70.00 a month at the moment :eek: with 2x multi room and sports package. We only need 1 multi room, so that will save £10 but we only watch bbc and itv so there must be cheaper way. Any idea's gratefully recieved thanks

Ames

I think Eurosports is a free channel with sky.

Caz3121

have a look on the sky site - looks like the basic is £18, one of the sports packages is £9 (there are 2 but guess you don't need them both) and multiroom you said you can drop to £10 which gves you a total of £37 per month

sueeve

We pay the basic SKy + £1 for something extra, and Eurosport is included. It is Sky Sport when the cost shoots up.

3Dogs

Just a point - if you cancel you multi-room sbscription/s your box will still work and you will get SKYSAT through it - their free Freeview alterative but you won't get EuroSport on it - that is what we are on at the moment - I would add that if you were to cancel your SKY altogether, a couple of months down the road, they will offer you a great deal to come back to them

They have just offered us the basic package with one pack for £18 plus £1 for any other packs - and giving us Sky Sports FREE for 12 months - can't beat that - we were paying £61 before with HD no monvies - thiswill cost us £20.

Can't beat that can you :j

gonzo127

did you know you can also watch whats on your main Sky box in you other rooms just using a coaxial cable to connect them, then buy a TVLink which will allow you to change the channel from the other room, ok so you can not watch 2 different programs on each TV but do you do that often enough to justify £10 a month?

also if you have their unlimited broadband you can use the Skyplayer program to watch any 'extra' programs you might want on your computer

knitwit67

Thanks to everyone for your imput. I would love to give up sky but DH could not live without it:p. Now I have more of an insight will go to sky see what we can do. Many thanks again for your help:D

MyLastFiver

If you're talking about cycling (as opposed to motorcycling) then I think there are internet feeds where he can watch the big races, plus cyclingtv.com (or cycling.tv or something) for the rest.

kdallsop

gonzo127 wrote: »

also if you have their unlimited broadband you can use the Skyplayer program to watch any 'extra' programs you might want on your computer

Be wary with this, for some of the stuff, they still require you to have multi room.

I turned on the xbox a while ago to see i could watch sky through it. The found I need to pay for multiroom first!!

Bit of a con really

KillerWatt

Virgin now distribute their HD content for free whereas Sly still charge £10 for it, so you could try pointing that out when you call.

Sly will then launch in to their standard spiel about how they have so many more HD channels (which is true), but what they don't tell you is that not all of their HD content actually originates in HD.

I also don't consider 1080i to be true HD, but Sly will argue till the cows come home that it is - that is something you can decide for yourself.

Hammyman

knitwit67 wrote: »

Hi, I was hoping for some help. I need to reduce my sky package but DH will only allow it if his euro sports are safe to watch his bike racing. Does anyone know the cheapest way to have euro sports. We spend £70.00 a month at the moment :eek: with 2x multi room and sports package. We only need 1 multi room, so that will save £10 but we only watch bbc and itv so there must be cheaper way. Any idea's gratefully recieved thanks

I have Eurosports but don't have the Sport package. Never have had the sport package. I get the World one (think that's it) and it comes as part of that. £47 a month inc HD subscription which also gets you Eurosport HD.