Doing away with Sky - Plex with TV Tuners vs Freesat box

ChrisD.

ChrisD.

ChrisD.

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My Sky bill is going to be over £60 with the recent price hikes. I'm out of contract in June and whilst I'll miss Football and F1 in UHD, I do have BT Sports via EE, I can watch the F1 via the F1 app and a VPN, and I'll just make do without the Sky football coverage or go to my local. We don't watch any of the movies or premium channels, apart from Sport it's just free to air TV. North of £720 a year to watch the few games I watch is hard to stomach, that would cover the insurance on both cars as an example.

I have a Plex Server with Plex pass, I can plug in a Freeview tuner to it and get Freeview via Plex with recording capabilities. Or, I could get a Freesat box and make use of the existing dish. I guess another option is to use the native TV tuner but I don't think I can record.

Anyone have any experiences of TV on Plex? Or the Freesat boxes?
 
Thanks Lucid. I've actually ordered a HDHomeRun box to give it a go and see how I get on with it. Her go to is usually Netflix or Plex, so I don't think that would be much of an issue. I think the Sky box gets used 2-3 times a week at most.
 
HDHomeRun installed into the loft and plugged into the aerial. I already had power and a POE there for my Wi-Fi AP. All working fine. There's a small delay when starting to watch a channel and admittedly browsing the guide is not as intuitive as Sky Q, but, it works fine! I can record and manage the channels to remove most of the crap. We've got FTTP so anything else we can watch via streaming. So far so good really.

If it turns into a disaster, we can get VM broadband (which I won't use) and their TV for less than Sky want for TV + Sports alone.
 
Blueball said:
I get Sky football via Now TV. £30 something a month if you ever feel the need, you only have to take the footy and not the whole Sky package.

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It worked out about that on the deal I was on, I was paying just over £50 and got Sports UHD and Netflix. But it’s over £60 with their price rises and I’m not sure I can be bothered to negotiate again. £30 is still expensive for the few matches I watch if I’m lucky enough that they’re televised.
 
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