Sky TV retention deals ( post your haggling successes )

Detail_Merchant

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81855943#Comment_81855943

Sky Atlantic is unique to Sky (though also available from Now TV which is part of Sky).
Do you need to be able to record on a box, or is streaming good enough?
If recording then I think your main options are Sky Q, Virgin Media TV 360, or EE TV Box Pro.
But Sky Q needs a satellite dish, Virgin TV 360 needs Virgin Media cables to your house, and EE TV Box Pro needs you to take BT/EE broadband.

A lot of Sky Atlantic's content will no longer be exclusive to Sky after HBO Max launches in March, but again that's streaming.

If streaming is good enough then Now TV and other streaming apps, e.g. Discovery+, may be good enough to get the content you want, but it's a different experience to just jumping up and down channels.

Posativity12

Does FFTP require a cable to be laid from the connection site in the pavement to the property as it is presently being delivered by a cable from a telegraph pole. Currently it's (FTTP) Im concerned It might prove difficult if this is then case as the box is in the street has been tarmaked around and unless the engineer is prepared to dig this up and make good then any cable laid above could be damaged by anyone walking on it close to our driveway. Just had an EE representative cold calling saying this was not the case and their FFTP can be delivered from the telegraph pole. Im sceptical about wherever this is true. Not that I would ever sign up for anything on the doorstep !

Detail_Merchant

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856586#Comment_81856586

Here's a recent thread that seems to imply that full fibre via a pole is fairly normal (if the previous phone line was via a pole):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6595750/full-fibre-question

Boohoo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856586#Comment_81856586

If you have a cable from TP to your house I would of thought they would use the same way of installation of new FTTP.

If they are going to use the same route make sure you don't have a working sat dish nearby as they may knock it with a ladder as the did with my neighbour a week ago and denied it but CCTV picked it up and they arranged dish realignment through a sat installer.

This was Kelly communications wiring on behalf of Open reach.

JSmithy45AD

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856621#Comment_81856621

100% correct, our FTTP cable uses the same poles that the previous FTTC did. We do have 2 cables to the house now with the older one noticeably sagging :( I might lean out of the window with wire cutters one night.

MouldyOldDough

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856172#Comment_81856172

So Now TV does now include every Sky Q available channel ?

via Discovery+

I've had Sky (currently Q) for 23 years and the price is now ridiculous - so I'm looking at options

And is everything also available via Catchup ?

I remember trying to find Star Trek voyager on catchup on Sky Mix - a few years ago and not being able to and this still appears to be the case !

Detail_Merchant

Re "So Now TV does now include every Sky Q available channel ?"
No, it doesn't include all the Sky Q stuff, that's why I said "If streaming is good enough then Now TV and other streaming apps, e.g. Discovery+, may be good enough to get the content you want, but it's a different experience to just jumping up and down channels."

For Star Trek voyager you would need the Paramount+ app, if you were to go down the streaming route.

miller

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81856586#Comment_81856586

There will be work involved. At the moment Openreach are preparing our road for FTTP, but we already have TOOB available. Our VM contract expires in May so I would rather Openreach were ready so we can get the ONT installed once (box on the attached to the "front" of your property, required for FTTP) which enables a wider range of FTTP providers.

JSmithy45AD

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81858607#Comment_81858607

Usually, the ONT box will only be installed when you've taken up an offer for FTTP, Openreach don't fix the boxes to every property capable of receiving it from the start.