Debating cancelling my sky tv after 18yrs!

[LilWoosmum82]

Hi
I've recently realised that although I'm paying £43/month for my sky tv. I'm not really watching actually sky channels. It's been a slow wake up lol! I tend to watch my netflix/ disney + and old fashioned terrestrial channels. It's a funny feeling as I have had sky tv since, l I left home in 2007. I just feel it's a massive waste of money, am I the only one? Has anyone cancelled their sky tv recently? Have you noticed a difference in your tv / streaming life? Do you feel you're missing out? Xx

We also need the Sports channels. We were paying about £110 for Sky TV, including all Sports channels (no movie channels and also Broadband and basic Netflix. My contract was recently up. They then wanted to charge £146. As you can imagine, that was unacceptable to me (the Netflix part was £5.99). I decided to terminate the contract. They kept bringing the price down. By the day before the last day, they offered it, minus Netflix for £96. I had already arranged the same with virgin for £72! All the sports channels are there and various aspects of the system are better than Sky. They are really pricing themselves out of the market.

You can also get all of the Sports channels with Now TV. Weirdly, despite it being relatively cheap, it’s owned by Sky 🤷‍♀️

Did that include broadband too?

i cancelled this year, with the kids we were living on Disney and Netflix. In the future I’d definitely consider going back, I miss flicking through, I miss randomly finding something and I like Irish and uk tv eg renovation shows and game shows more than sitcoms or dramas

I saw someone previous ask about recordings on sky. You can't keep recordings but anything purchased from sky store ( be it with money or the free films to download they sometimes did) you can keep. Contact sky and tell them you want to keep your purchases then download the sky store app (I think it is) and you can then stream the films from your phone to your tv.

We cancelled a few years ago and haven’t missed it. We bought a freesat box - a one off payment, with no subscription; you can watch lots of channels and record and series link and pause etc, and it’s been great. It paid for itself very quickly so we’ve saved a fortune.

We cancelled sky after 20 years a few months ago. We just have freeview, Netflix, prime and Disney. We never used the sky channels but I miss the sky guide and sky q set up.

Sky Q is being discontinued within the next 12 months and possibly sooner. Dishes will be redundant. All services will be streamed and you’ll have to pay individually for ad free subscriptions to channel 4 etc.

I’m not a happy customer!

Yes! I you decide to move to Virgin, send me a PM and I can give you a £50 discount code!

Where is this, latest I have seen on the Sky forums is about 5 years or is this for new customers so it will become a legacy thing like Sky+HD is

Does the cooling off period apply?

They weren't keen when wanted to cancel..kept offering other deals..in the end my husband was very blunt and said I've been made redundant so there is no money fir any other deal, we have no cash. They let us go .

Thank you but we can't get Virgin here .

How much of that is your broadband, most superfast broadband is £40-£50 if it's the 900Mbps and 24 month contract, is the TV part 24 months or 18.

I'm on the basic sky package and have netflix included. I also have prime.

I like the recording facility and unfortunately as I'm not very "technical" I'm not confident to try anything else

There are cheaper streaming alternatives such as Prime, NowTV, Netflix etc. do a bit of reading up on the types of programmes each of those offer and match it with what type of programmes you generally watch.

We’ve just got rid of Sky tv. All the add ons were ridiculous and it was going to be over £120. It really annoys me that they charge for ultra HD etc - especially as my aging eyesight probably couldn’t tell. Extra for multi room etc.

We bought a firestick and have a Netflix subscription. I gave them the chance to retain my broadband but they wanted an admin fee so I cancelled that too (found cheaper alternative through Money Saving Expert app).

Also replaced our SIM only deals - Sky wanted £11.50 for 8GB a month (x 3 SIM’s). Moved to Lebara for 75p each for 35GB a month.

I do miss the ease of Sky and now have to watch a lot more ads but the price increases were ridiculous.

That’s a shame. Check out Now TV. You can pay for an add on Sports package.

I'd get rid if I didn't use the recording function

What do you record that you couldn't watch on catch up? The beauty of the streaming services is that they save to shows and movies on there to watch when you are ready like a pre recorded option.

Wow! I didn’t know anyone still had sky 😁 you don’t need to record streaming - it streams when you want to watch it, you just tell it to start and it starts, you pause, it pauses, you stop, it waits for you to start again. Occasionally we get sky movies or sky Atlantic via now tv at Xmas etc for about a fiver. You can get all the sky sports channels on there as well. You need a fire stick or a Roku stick which have all the streaming apps on them or most smart tvs have the apps on them as well. I think fire sticks are £25 ish. I’d spend about 10 mins researching what’s best for you because £1000s a year for tv is not right!

Also there are free streaming apps with ads which show all sorts of shite if you’re looking for something random to just watch 😁

A lot of people use Sky because it's convenient, we do, also some are not affected by CoL so think the price is worth this convenience.

It's the convenience mainly, also things disappear from streaming but stay on the Sky box

I'm in Ireland so anything that's on the BBC

Haha I count as well off even by mumsnet standards but I wouldn’t be paying £150 a month for telly. A lot of pps seem to be concerned it’s harder to not have sky than have sky but it’s not an extra £100 a month harder even if you don’t particularly like having to have multiple subscriptions.

Years ago we had sky and it was £50 a month then. We swapped out for Netflix and said we’d spend the rest of the difference on renting/buying new release films if we felt we needed to. We never did. And that was in the years before Netflix made its own films.

I know someone who gets Disney free with their bank account and Amazon is free if you have Amazon prime. If you cancel sky, try other stuff, decide you prefer sky and go back to it at least you will be treated as a new customer so you’ll get better deals 😁 I’m annoyed at the company taking the piss out of loyal customers tbh.

I very reluctantly git rid of mine about 7/8 years ago. We were paying £60+ a month. I thought I’d really miss it but I don’t at all. I have Netflix but most of the stuff I watch is on catch-up. Every so often I get something else like Now or ITV extra for a month or so to watch something specific.