Sky Fail To Reach Agreement With Discovery

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50Twuncle wrote: »

Will they let me downgrade for the remaining 2 months of my contract through ?
I bet they won't - they prefer to shoot themselves in the feet .

They may.

Of course they'll also try and tie you in to a new 12 month contract.

10 hours and 6 minutes to go.

Browntoa

Apparently sky have submitted a new offer to discovery

Oakdene

50Twuncle wrote: »

Will they let me downgrade for the remaining 2 months of my contract through ?
I bet they won't - they prefer to shoot themselves in the feet .

They let me do it. My 12 month contract is up on the 4th April & I said I was unhappy at the prospect of losing the channels & they said although they are still in talks & wont confirm that its 100% they are losing the contract, they will let me leave my TV package penalty free.

Naval_Reserve

Called today (31st Jan). Told that I cannot cancel now as negotiations with Discovery are ongoing until midnight(!)

If no agreement, I can cancel tomorrow free of charge despite minimum term ending February 2018.

NR

teddysmum

They haven't said that the channels will go off at midnight tonight,but that they may be removed an unknown date from then.

Midnighter

teddysmum wrote: »

They haven't said that the channels will go off at midnight tonight,but that they may be removed an unknown date from then.

The Discovery channels have had a banner popping up every now and then today stating something along the lines of 'You may not be able to view this channel after tomorrow'. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Not that I'm personally bothered as there's virtually nothing I watch across the channels Discovery offer.

50Twuncle

Has anyone been on to Ofcom yet to get their view of the situation ?

Chrishazle

One wrinkle to be aware of if you're thinking of switching to BT. If, like me, you've connected RF2 on the back of your Sky+ HD box to the loft distribution amp then put magic eyes on your remote TV's to watch/control the Sky box on the remote TV's (admittedly in analogue not digital) - kiss that goodbye with the ultraHD BT TV box as it only has one HDMI output on the back and no scart to attach a modulator. Also the UHD box needs to be hard wired (ethernet) to the BT home hub (router), so if like me you can't do this, it's £20 for a pair of BT mini connectors to connect via your mains wiring. BT do offer an Extrabox - for £99 + £5pm!! - but after research on the net I'm probably going to buy additional mini connectors and either BT Youview+ or BT UHD boxes off Ebay (not sure the smaller BT TV boxes receive HD) for our 2 remote TV's.

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50Twuncle wrote: »

Has anyone been on to Ofcom yet to get their view of the situation ?

Is that a joke? You know you can use smileys right?

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teddysmum wrote: »

They haven't said that the channels will go off at midnight tonight,but that they may be removed an unknown date from then.

I'm actually ITK in this case from a friend and there are currently no plans for a lieu period. Of course that could change at any time.