To not understand why people pay for sky?

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Due to technical issues, I'm running my tv through an old sky box I found in the loft. I don't have a subscription so can't watch any of the sky channels. However, I can see the listings.

It's so much poo it's unbelievable. Why do people pay for this?? Are they mad?

We had the full package for a year and most of it was spent on kids cartoons. It wasn't worth £60 a month for cartoons. The money is being spent on extra curricular activities for the Dc's instead.

I think our sky is £70 pm.

This includes our phone though.

When we moved in we could buy an aerial and pay to get it put up and we would have got about 5 channels because we are rural and don't have good signal, OR we could sign up to sky who fitted the dish for free and gave us lots of channels.

We also like it because we can tape tv. DH is film obsessed and we have movies. He watches about 4 a week. As movies is £16 ish he is spending a lot less on this than we used to in blockbuster.

Finally, we watch much less shit, as we very very rarely watch live tv. We tape or download the stuff we like, in HD, and watch it at our leisure.

zigzag He is friends with my friend so I see him pop up on my Facebook occasionally. He is very un-doom like!

Sky go, on iPad or laptop. Carry it around the house whilst cleaning, yes I do my own cleaning so saving money there .

The real reason is that it is the only method of recording I have ever managed to work, and you can pause and rewind live TV.

DS watches The Big Bang Theory 500 times a day.

We are an ex-sky family. We had been paying for Sky for more than 10 years, the fee coming out of the direct debit without question. We were watching it less and less. The movies were always shite, and dh was less interested in football than he had been. I think we were paying about £75 a month for something we rarely watched. So we cancelled a few months ago.

Dh misses the cricket, but that's it.

We have Netflix now for £6 a month and buy movies we actually want to see through Apple TV. It works out much cheaper.

I love my sky. My son loves sky junior.

Disney junior

I'm a bit baffled by a lot of the responses. It seems that people with Sky seem to think that you only get channels 1-5 if you don't pay. I have a freeview + box and get the majority of programmes people are mentioning and also can pause, rewind live tv and record programmes.
The only reason to pay for Sky for us would be for the sport, and then we would lose the excuse of going to the pub to watch the match

YABU
Greys Anatomy
The Following
Movies
Lots of babysitting channels

Not allowed rooftop aerial here, no cable when I moved in, can't even get freebiew without a huge booster box or two in the loft (my next door neighbour tried. It cost her £300 and her picture still wasn't great.)

Therefore if we want TV, it has to be Sky. Though we now have cable and Virgin, and I'm swapping next month, as it will actually cost me less!

I just had a look at the freeview website. NONE of the decent channels are available on it, therefore those saying they can watch all the programmes on freeview must be watching two-yr-old series at best.

We struggle to keep up with watching what we have recorded on Freeview and have never felt that we have missed out by not having Sky. We particularly like all the European crime dramas on BBC4 and have loads to catch up on.

All the Sky listings on this thread so far I have no interest in. OH likes watching Rugby which is on the BBC so he doesn't feel the need for Sky sport either.

Sky would be a complete waste of money for us.

Sky sports

and I don't mind watching GOT and walking dead

Its all individual isnt it, what someone things is shite someone else may love, no right or wrong.

considering all the programmes are on the internet I don't see the point

I dont see the point in faffing about trying to look up stuff online (and not everything is actually available), hogging the computer and then having to watch it on a small screen when instead I can just put on the TV and watch any channel or anything I have stored on the hard drive of the Sky box at the touch of a button.

We looked into cancelling, but couldn't get broadband, line rental and phone calls for less. Basic tv package. We get free phone calls abroad including in the daytime that other companies don't offer.

YABU we can't get freeview here so sky is our only option. Its our only luxury too

I'm constantly amazed how how many people think that satellite =Sky. There are so many channels on Freesat, and you only have to pay once to get a set top box with all the scheduled recording facilities.
Plus it means you aren't putting yet more money into Murdoch's pocket.

Our laptop connects to the tv, so we can stream things online (no faffing when you know what you're doing ) and watch it through our big tv screen.

Ours does. All you need is an HDMI cable. We sometimes get buffering which is annoying.

Our DVD player has iPlayer on it, but none of the other channels.

Not DVD player, BluRay

I dunno what we did before sky + plus yes there is shit on but there is shit on freeview as well just a better variety of shit to chose from

When I was stuck to the sofa with a constantly bf baby I caught up with loads of old stuff - x files, er (which I didn't watch when it was on as didn't have sky), loads of fun yet rubbish tv like the baby channels when I was pregnant and murder mystery channels when I was stuck on sofa with spd.

The children's channels are good and movie channels too and we watch the documentary channels alot.

I do often think there's not much on and is it worth it but then I go to my mum's and see how dire freeview is.

Because I spend every single sodding evening alone.

Because I much prefer the programmes shown on the Sky channels to those shown on the Freeview channels.

As long as my house is heated and my child is fed I can spend the rest of my very small income however I bloody well want to.

Dear god people pick some tenuous things to feel superior about.