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
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