Which TV package?

BlondeHeadOn

I am trying to decide which TV & broadband package would be best for us, and which would be best value. I've made my eyes square with reading all the different deals and marketing guff, and am more confused than ever!
Can anyone help?

Our current status is below:

Broadband is Orange (not very good!) and we only have a Freeview box and Humax PVR, no paid TV at all. The broadband speed is not brilliant for watching iPlayer etc., so we want something better.

We have a BT landline, so I was wondering whether to check what deals they could offer us for broadband and TV - BT keep sending me deals, but I haven't bitten yet. However now they are putting up their line rental charges I need to decide whether to improve our deal with them or jump ship to someone else for the phone as well.

I've looked at Virgin which sound attractive.... but I've read very mixed reviews about their customer service.

Sky - we don't like Sky as a company, and still haven't forgiven them for the phone hacking and general underhand ways.... we are both F1 fans, but watch the non-BBC GPs on free-to-air RTL with UK commentary. Some way of cheaply watching the F! coverage without buying the entire Sky package would be good, but not essential. (Principles eh? )

Some other method? (e.g. Now TV).... possible, but we'd need a better broadband speed before we could use this.

Anything else? There may be some other option I've not thought of - if so, please let me know!

Any help gratefully accepted, I really don't know what to do for the best!

[Deleted User]

It's nonsense to knock Sky for 'phone hacking (the TV company wasn't involved) and then ask if NOW TV (operated by Sky) is the way forward.

As you say, "principles eh?"

mije1983

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

It's nonsense to knock Sky for 'phone hacking (the TV company wasn't involved) and then ask if NOW TV (operated by Sky) is the way forward.

As you say, "principles eh?"

And a lot of the pay TV channels are also owned by Sky, including the F1 channel, so even if the OP takes it from a different supplier they will still be lining Sky's pockets!

OP, if you really don't like Sky, then stick with Freeview/Freesat!

macman

Why don't you spend the money upgrading your broadband to FTTC instead (no, not with Horange), and you can then get all the on-demand services via your Humax PVR, assuming it has YouView?
iPlayer needs little more than 2-3Mbps to stream adequately, so what line speed are you able to get from ADSL, and have you optimised this?
With your viewing requirements, I really can't see why you need a TVsubscription service.