Digital TV Sub help

Dyson

Dyson

Dyson

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My deal with SKY is coming to an end, so I'm looking at my options.

I basically have SKY for Sky+, and the HD content. Its now gone from £22 per month, to £39.50 a month - far too much in my opinion.

I'm very tempted to go to BT TV, as they appear to offer most things I actually use, for barely any cost on top of my present broadband costs.

What is their You View + box like? Does series link work in a similar way?

I think I'm pretty much decided on making the move, just wanted some honest opinions on the idea.
 
Have you gone through the retentions process with Sky? They may offer you a deal.

I'm with BT TV at the moment, I got a good deal on it as a new customer along with the UHD box about 18 months ago. Most of the channels come via normal Freeview (so make sure your signal is good) but the subscription channels are delivered via your internet connection. The channel line-up is fairly poor compared to Sky and you miss out on a lot of HD channels that Sky has (E4 HD, Film 4 HD etc).

Series link isn't as good as Sky, it'll record the current "run" of episodes but if a series takes a break it won't resume the series link afterwards and it wont' record new series/season of shows, whereas Sky usually does. I've missed episodes a few times because of that.

I'll probably switch back to Sky at some point, I had hoped the BT channel line-up would improve over time but it hasn't, and the few channels I do get as a subscriber (SyFy, Universal etc) are terrible these days and don't get any of the popular/new US programmes. AMC isn't very good either, occasionally shows some decent (albeit not new) films but other channels/streaming services seem to get the best of the US AMC stuff so it's fairly pointless.

If you can get it cheap and get them to throw the UHD box in then it's not bad considering you're getting a YouView box to keep, but I'd want to see what offer Sky can do first. One thing to bear in mind is that you need BT Broadband while you have BT TV so they'll make you start/renew your contract for broadband for the minimum term needed if you go with TV.
 
Thanks for that, very helpful.

I've tried Sky this morning, and the best they'd offer was £34 a month, about £10 too much for me. I'll give the retention team a go later, but I want to know I have a back up if you know what I mean. Sky have got the series link sooooo right its annoying
 
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