Leaving Sky TV - what options do I have?

[Oxide™]

Hello,

I really need to cut back on my monthly bills in order to save enough for a house deposit and one of the luxuries I am considering is Sky TV.

I am a massive fan of Sky and their pvr - I have phone, 40mbit fibre, HD, multiroom and variety HD pack with Sky and pay around £60/month (around £40 in monthly discounts)

If I had to ditch the Variety HD and save £35/month - what cheaper TV alternatives do you recommend please?

I haven't had to research this in years as I have been happy with Sky but there's netflix, amazon prime, chromecast, WD Live etc which I don't know what is recommended - please help

I will really miss the Sky F1, discovery, history, comedy, sky one, sky atlantic channels

 

[Oxide™]

Most people on here seem to be saying that, if you cancel and wait a bit, you'll get a 50% off offer pretty much guaranteed.

If you have the F1 channel then be very sure about leaving as you'll never get it back again.

Not sure I would get 50% discount, I already have 5 discounts applied?

Would I need to get Sky Sports to get the F1 channel in future?

 

[Oxide™]

I dumped sky and all its channels in Feb as my discounts ended and the robbers wanted £80pcm.
We only watch a handful of channels but they were spread amongst the different packages (very clever Sky!!), so cutting packages didn't really work right for us.
So, after ditching Sky i bought 3 x NowTV boxes with enough sky movies and TV packages to last 14 months. It cost me a total of £140, equivalent to less than 2 months sky sub.
Doubt we'll ever go back to Sky now.
Got Sky One, Sky Atlantic, so for me, Arrow, Flash, GoT is covered.
Most things are on catchup so PVR isn't really needed. Sky Box Office is also available to buy the odd movies should you want to.
I also have a FirevTV stick wit Amazon Prime account and have sideloaded Kodi onto it.
Between them they cover pretty much everything i need from my TV (we don't do sports anyway).
So gone from £80pcm to less approx £10pcm.

NowTV seems to be ok - what is the quality and streaming like? So all I'd lose is SkyF1 and pvr functions - would I be able to Fast Forward through all the ads in I'm a Celebrity and Britain's Got Talent etc?

I also have a FirevTV stick wit Amazon Prime account and have sideloaded Kodi onto it - I have no idea what this is lol