Leaving Sky - need Sports and Flexible Streaming - best options?

Flapper

Flapper

Flapper

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Hi all,

It's a *very* long time since I posted here, but I think this will be the best place to get advice as people here will be thinking more flexibly about TV and streaming options.

Since lockdown I've been on a pretty 'full fat' Sky Q subscription with UHD, Sky Sports, BT Sport, Netflix and broadband. It's not going up from around £100pm to £130 pm. I'm at the end of my contract so I contacted them via chat saying I wanted to leave - they started offereing me nonsensical deals so I've ended up (reluctantly) giving my notice. If they'd offered me the same deal at £80-£100 I'd have stayed but they don't seem bothered.

So what with all the new streaming service I thought I might leave the old models and move either to NowTV(euugh!) or Apple TV 4k or Sky Stream.

What I'd like is to find a way of accessing Sky Sport and Bt Sport plus a UHD service with good audio. Am I still trapped with SKY or BT? I looked at Apple TV 4K but it seems the only way to access the sports services like that is via Now TV which apparently has a poor picture via Apple and is also very expensive that way (and I'm not even sure if they do Bt sport now).

Maybe a VPN and subs to a US service like Peacock - anyone tried that?

thanks for any advice.

My setup:
Sky Q (currently)
Panasonic UHD tv
AVKey HDMI splitter with 4k passthrough
Arcam AV888 - great sound but won't pass a 4k signal, hence the AVKey splitter
Cloud 6 channel power amp
 
Opting to go back to Zen Internet (mainly for decent service if anything goes wrong) with an Apple TV 4k box. Will swap subscriptions in and out. Tried to subscribe to US Peacock for football via a VPN and a prepaid US credit card, but there are just too many checks and obstacles to make this viable.
 
Flapper said:
Opting to go back to Zen Internet (mainly for decent service if anything goes wrong) with an Apple TV 4k box. Will swap subscriptions in and out. Tried to subscribe to US Peacock for football via a VPN and a prepaid US credit card, but there are just too many checks and obstacles to make this viable.
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You need to get a US iTunes account set up so you can get the US apps on the ATV, then when you log in and go to pay you can then switch back over to your UK account and pay. So instead of paying say $5.99 a month you'd pay £5.99. That's what I've done in the past for Peacock and Max.
 
yeah the now tv sports picture is decent on my 65 inch tv, £21 a month for 6 months plus the boosts cost offer on while the 24th at the moment thinking about getting that myself
 
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