*** Sky TV Cancellation & Negotiation Thread ***

ChrisD. said:
Luckily my aerial is in situ and working.

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I have no idea why it's taking a good 10-15 seconds to start watching, I'll have a proper look into it when I have more time, but, it works (eventually). It might be a 'Plexism' or just the way the box works.
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Thanks for this! Useful to see. I suspect it's a Plex-ism, but checking with another software package or I guess testing using the streaming software supplied with it might confirm or disprove.

I've just managed to fix my aerial, so I've just ordered the box myself. :D
 
Yup, definitely the transcoding. I'll see if that can be improved.

Via the native HDHomeRun app (this is the iPad app running on my Mac), it's maybe 1-2 seconds to switch:

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Sadly it is the case that sky just 'works' and works well hence they can charge the earth. Already starting to get some gentle disapproval from the other sofa about cancelling.

It's like when I try and load something from plex on my NAS but there was a power cut from the day before or the film is in the wrong codec or for some reason the plex server on the NAS happened to ```` the bed and it takes 10 mins to get a film going. I don't necessarily mind it but it's hardly a great solution.

Hopefully one day there'll be an ultra clean, almost as good as sky, non subscription option just to watch and record freeview channels with no buggy set top box like humax.
 
dl8860 said:
Sadly it is the case that sky just 'works' and works well hence they can charge the earth.
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As people are finding though what they used to happy to pay for convenience can soon be forgotten when every day prices are going through the roof. That imperfect EPG, and slight lag, or odd internet/network issue is not worth £50 anymore for a great deal of people.

Just migrated a friend away from Sky to 5G broadband, and a PAYG TV option, they were paying eyewatering amounts of money for 6Mbps down/.5Mpbs up a phone line they never used, and a few extra TV channels they watched once or twice a month. They are now getting 450Mbps down/80Mbps up, can actually make use of their 4k TV and Netflix subscription and are happy with Freeview/NowTV/Amazon etc. and saving the best part of £35 per month.
 
Journey said:
As people are finding though what they used to happy to pay for convenience can soon be forgotten when every day prices are going through the roof. That imperfect EPG, and slight lag, or odd internet/network issue is not worth £50 anymore for a great deal of people.
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Very true. Sky however isn't without its issues; spanning tree loops, audio drop outs (which have been going on for years), the quite franky ridiculous standby power consumption etc.

My mrs watches pretty much This Morning occasionally and some stuff on BBC, she doesn't touch any of the premium channels and all I watch is sports. Everything else is catered for by Plex (probably 95% of our viewing), Prime, Netflix (mostly her), and the apps such as ITVX, iPlayer etc.
 
Mine went up 17% from February, this was before they announced the additional April price hikes so my package would have been even more expensive. Used the clause to cancel if the increase goes beyond 10% which they tried to reject saying the base price hadn't gone up more than 10%

Still no winback from Sky, either they're expecting a lot of losses or they haven't got a valuation coming up where they need the numbers.
 
Mine was done 10 months in to a 18 month contract, notification in December for a February price increase. There was no mention in the notice to say what their RPI calculation was for February. I followed the terms and conditions in my renewal agreement and it was accepted I could cancel eventually.

If they just left the pricing alone and offered a longer contract I'd accept it.
 
rodders said:
Anyone seen or know what sky's price hike is in April?

A lot of phone companies at around 14%? Guess sky will be around the same?
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Signed up for BT entertainment and fibre yesterday, on the phone the lady said my timing was perfect as because the order won't be live until after start of March, I won't get this years price increase (RPI + 3.9%). Cue email this morning saying that as of 31st March my bill will go from 39.99 to 45.73 (14.3% increase). Think I'm going to have to ring up and complain, even if it's only to get some goodwill account credit or something.
 
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