Goodbye Sky!

smilermonkey

I did it! I have given Sky the heave Ho! I was paying an outrageous £46 a month for sky with sky plus. They tried to offer me sweeteners to stay but I held firm. The guy was quite naughty really, trying to be my mate and saying 'oh but you'll miss sky plus, I couldn't live without it' .
I see NTL are offering TV, phone and internet for £30 a month, if this is true I will save over £50 a month. Does anyone have this? Apparently I can keep my skyplus box and use it for freeview which might be another option

rog2

Get freeview - boxes are on sale for under £30.00 at Tesco - No annual fee - No ongoing monthly charges.

carriel_2

Hiya, we've just changed to the all in NTL package for £30, it was installed last week, we've kept one box as a freeview box (we had multiroom) & I think the other box will go on Ebay.

The NTL telly is great, you get free stuff too, like being able to watch old episodes of BBC programmes, comedies etc on their 'on demand' service.

We actually went for the next package up + sports we get all of that, plus 2MB broadband & phone with free weekend calls for £44 a month, saves us about £50 per month on what we were paying for everything seperate.

Gorgeous_George

Just record the soaps now and mothball them for 10 years. In 10 years time you won't need Sky. freeview nor NTL.

I'm watching the football tonight at the sports club. Large screen and 20p a pint.



GG

mrcow

smilermonkey wrote:

'oh but you'll miss sky plus, I couldn't live without it'

lol Did you tell him that there's more to life than TV? :rotfl:

Well done. Sky's a BIG waste of money.

If you miss new release films etc, why not try your hand at being a free DVD Rental tart? It can be really fun (and free!). There a whole thread dedicated to it if you do a search.

Mike_St_Helens

smilermonkey wrote:

I did it! I have given Sky the heave Ho! I was paying an outrageous £46 a month for sky with sky plus. They tried to offer me sweeteners to stay but I held firm. The guy was quite naughty really, trying to be my mate and saying 'oh but you'll miss sky plus, I couldn't live without it' .
I see NTL are offering TV, phone and internet for £30 a month, if this is true I will save over £50 a month. Does anyone have this? Apparently I can keep my skyplus box and use it for freeview which might be another option

I have it... It is fab.....

You could try extend your skybox to your bedroom and have freeview there and have the new cable in your main room.

I have the Cable version of SKY+ and extra speed Broadband and still its only £50 all in... I know its a bit naughty... but far far far cheaper than any other package that includes all 3 for ya.

mrcow

rog2 wrote:

Get freeview - boxes are on sale for under £30.00 at Tesco - No annual fee - No ongoing monthly charges.

The OP doesn't need to!

Just keep your Sky box plugged in and you can watch freeview through that for nothing (except More4 and E4 I think?).

Rinko

I thought E4 and E4+1 had gone freeview now?

Also - do you not need a freeview card from Sky anymore? As we are currently looking at reducing our sub or ditching sky completely.

mrcow

Rinko wrote:

I thought E4 and E4+1 had gone freeview now?

Also - do you not need a freeview card from Sky anymore? As we are currently looking at reducing our sub or ditching sky completely.

Yes they are but you don't get them if you just have your Sky cancelled.

I cancelled my Sky over a year ago and still get the following through my Sky box (with just my original viewing card in it)

BBC 1, 2, 3, 4, BBC News, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC Parliament
ITV 1,2,3,4 Childrens ITV
Channel 5
Sky Three, Sky News
abc1,Travel Channel, Men & motors, Movies 4Men (Whatever that is?!), Actionmax and loads of other channels that I never watch!
POP & Tiny POP (kiddies channels)
Chart show TV,The Vault,B4, Classic FM, Fizz Music

All for nothing.

Film 4 also seems to work (but not E4 or More 4, I've just tried them)

Smashing

Anyone looking to get freeview, be sure to check that there is coverage in your area first - http://www.freeview.co.uk/

Kevicho

Or

Just stop watching the idiot box alltogether!

Think of all the hours you will have free to do something with your life

I did this 2 months ago and have setup a side buisiness! Also spare time for learning and other projects (well tbh the business is taking up 100% of my spare time now lol)