SKY Price Rise to £49.50! (Actually only £42.50) ;)

scheming_gypsy

quick question for you regarding sky..
are the music channels part of the standard packages or can i get rid of them and save money? only decent thing on them is Pimp My Ride

Heinz

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

Is there anywhere I can find the new price lists? We have sky+ and currently on the £35 a month package, which I think is the sky movie world with family.

Isn't it outrageous that the all-powerful Sky cannot communicate properly with its 8m or so customers?

The new 'mixes' are detailed HERE and the new prices are detailed HERE.

Join me, cut your costs - delete a couple of 'mixes'.

Stevenj214

scheming_gypsy wrote:

quick question for you regarding sky..
are the music channels part of the standard packages or can i get rid of them and save money? only decent thing on them is Pimp My Ride

some music channels are FTV/FTA - check watever ones are on freesat.

The lowest package MTV is available in at the moment is the kids&music, £16.50

scheming_gypsy

i don't want any music channels all, does my head in when you've got a bird round and she wants to sit and watch music. I want rid and a few pennies in the bank

Lawe

Heinz wrote:

Isn't is outrageous that the all-powerful Sky cannot communicate properly with its 8m or so customers?

The new 'mixes' are detailed HERE and the new prices are detailed HERE.

Join me, cut your costs - delete a couple of 'mixes'.

Going by the list, I can take 2 "mixes" for £15, pay Sky another £10 for my plus box and save £11 a month!

O.k, at the mo I'm on £35 family pack movies no sport, but seeing that for a while, no real good movies are on, I could afford to lose the movie channel and go down to Blockbuster/Postal rental service for my movie fix as and when my 3 year old allows me;)

Heinz

Lawe wrote:

Going by the list, I can take 2 "mixes" for £15, pay Sky another £10 for my plus box and save £11 a month!

O.k, at the mo I'm on £35 family pack movies no sport, but seeing that for a while, no real good movies are on, I could afford to lose the movie channel and go down to Blockbuster/Postal rental service for my movie fix as and when my 3 year old allows me;)

I've never gone for Sky+ because of earlier reports about its reliability, because of the £10 charge and, frankly, because there's so little worth recording that my DVD recorder is sufficient.

However, do I understand correctly that, if you cease your Sky subscription and don't pay Sky the £10 Sky+ fee, your Sky+ box becomes just a receiver - and you cannot record or play back previous recordings?

Lawe

Heinz wrote:

However, do I understand correctly that, if you cease your Sky subscription and don't pay Sky the £10 Sky+ fee, your Sky+ box becomes just a receiver - and you cannot record or play back previous recordings?

That is correct. Don't pay Sky, your plus becomes a zombie.

bridiej

Well, yesterday I bit the bullet and gave my one month's notice, so as from 2nd September we shall just have whatever the free channels are....

Gambler

MY sports package has gone up from £33 to £36. Tied into a + contract until end of October but seriously considering cancelling then.

I think sky+ is great but I am always recording terrestial channels cos sky channels are naff. I love my football but I can easy go down to the pub for the ga,es invloving my club.

I am going to research PVR recorders with twin tuners instead.

cheghead

bridiej wrote:

Well, yesterday I bit the bullet and gave my one month's notice, so as from 2nd September we shall just have whatever the free channels are....

Got rid of Sky a few months ago and sold digibox. Bought a Freeview box with the proceeds. Now that it has E4 it makes it a much better deal. Haven't missed Sky at all!