Sky tv alternative

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Can anyone recommend something I can have instead of sky? The monthly cost has gone up

Call sky and tell them you want to leave and they usually offer loads of money discount

Now TV packages are run by Sky.

I cancelled mine a couple of months ago and at the moment I'm paying £6 a month for ITV premium so I don't get the adverts. When I've had enough of that I'll cancel it and do the same with channel 4.

Cancel and get Now TV on offer, every time you cancel Now they give you another offer. I currently have the entertainment package, movies and Hayu for €15 pm.

Drop the TV License fee. Go streaming only.

Watch anything on ITV, 4, 5 etc on demand.

Just pay for Netflix - Disney+ - NOWTV etc
Have 1 a month instead of several.

Drops the cost of watching the telly from License fee + Sky etc to about £15 a month depending on which streamer you have that month

Plus, having it on a rolling basis, means that you can watch everything you want, then have new things to watch when that service rolls around again. 🤪

Thanks all. Didn't know whether to get a stick or some sort of freeview thing? I like recording on my sky box

i need to get my signal through the dish so I have borrowed a friends freesat box which the lead from the dish plugs into.

If signal is fine after testing it I will be ending sky once contract is up.

Also different boxes have different features but yes some can pause, rewind and record. That’s an important feature for us too

Ive got sky stream, I had months of just streaming on apps etc but then got fed up so paid for sky stream but im not actually sure if I like it....
I watch netflix, disney and occasionally eastenders so guess I need to keep the TV license going?

You can normally record straight to USB stick on a tv without sky box, but it can be a bit limiting. For example sometimes you cannot watch another channel at the same time.

There is a huge amount of TV available at the moment I think. You will not get the latest stuff, but with BBC iplayer, Channel 4. ITVx and My5 and all the freeview channels there is a lot of quality tv available just there on those services.

I am with Virgin Media and after my monthly bill went up to over £100, rang them and advised that I wanted to cancel.

They sudddenly managed to reduce the price to £57 for the same package for 18 months...

We were with Sky TV for 20 years. Sent the Sky Q box back and got a Freesat box. Never looked back !

For Now TV, pay the first month and set a reminders to go back to your account in a couple of days, go to cancel your account, it will give you an offer, carry on to cancel it and you will get a better offer for a couple of months at a time usually..about 3 months. It will return to full cost after this time is up so repeat again.

I ended up paying full price every 4th month and getting 3 at reduced cost. At one point I was paying £2.99 a month instead of £8 for entertainment package. Now tv is part of SKY..