*** Sky TV Cancellation & Negotiation Thread ***

I've just tried to renew. And if you don't pay for HD. You can only get free channels that broadcast in HD. As sky will still broadcast on SD.

And netflix has gone through the roof.

Would like to highlight the Netflix has changes the way it provides the services with the introduction of Ads, as part of their basic services leading to changes in the way sky charges for the services as per Netflix Terms and Polices

So there are 3 options the recent changes that Netflix have done :

Option 1:
Netflix standard with ads will cost you £4.50 a month which Netflix provides for £4.99.

Option2:
Boost to Netflix Standard without ads will cost you £10.50 a month which Netflix provides for £10.99.

Option 3:
Boost to Netflix premium without ads will cost you £15.50 a month which Netflix provides for £17.99.

So for the first option which is with ads there will be ads in between 2 episodes (in an hour).
 
Having just moved to the UK, we got Sky setup, with their broadband.

They messed us about with getting the fiber installed (well, open reach did) and getting the Sky activated and missed an appointment. They’ve given us £90 off our next bill to say sorry. Didn’t even complain. So I’m pleased with that.

Our normal bill will be £97 monthly. Sky Q. HD is costing us £8, we have kids and sports but not cinema. Don’t think that’s too bad. We will review it after 12 months if it’s worth keeping. We have the Netflix included too. So, lots of choice.
 
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Priapus said:
Having just moved to the UK, we got Sky setup, with their broadband.

They messed us about with getting the fiber installed (well, open reach did) and getting the Sky activated and missed an appointment. They’ve given us £90 off our next bill to say sorry. Didn’t even complain. So I’m pleased with that.

Our normal bill will be £97 monthly. Sky Q. HD is costing us £8, we have kids and sports but not cinema. Don’t think that’s too bad. We will review it after 12 months if it’s worth keeping. We have the Netflix included too. So, lots of choice.
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Hmm, you may have signed up to a 24 month contract, plus they will most likely increase the price twice during that time.

I’m expecting to pay £100 a month now, but if I sign up for 24 months I’m going try and get them to keep the price constant. I feel I’ve got a difficult couple of weeks ahead trying to play the game.
 
Slam62 said:
Hmm, you may have signed up to a 24 month contract, plus they will most likely increase the price twice during that time.

I’m expecting to pay £100 a month now, but if I sign up for 24 months I’m going try and get them to keep the price constant. I feel I’ve got a difficult couple of weeks ahead trying to play the game.
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You’re right; I checked and it is indeed a 24 month contract. I must remember to try neg with them at renewal time.
 
3 days left until cancellation.. I left an ultimatum to not bother phoning unless they match the previous deal which was barely justifiable anyway, and now glad I wasn't tempted back somehow..

Sky Tenure: 23 years Customer since 31/01/2001
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In essence, only F1 is the main stumbling block and it's shocking that it's so contractually screwed down in the UK such that we have to pay at least 3x that of F1TV Pro..

My plan is that since the majority of my media I access from an NVidia Shield (Apple TV, Disney+, Netflix etc), I have just ordered a HD Home Run Flex Quatro to sit in the loft and will use Channels DVR or Plex to give me DVR and live TV functionality..

I'm looking at DVB-S2 SAT->IP or similar solutions to have a combination of freesat and freeview through Channels DVR, so everything is in one place.

F1 is slightly unknown, so will explore all options.. Worse case, for the remaining races, Now TV for the £15 one day subscription might work.. I ideally want to DVR it though, as I tend to time shift in case I need to FFWD through some boring bits..
 
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Got 2 sets of triple headers to finish off the season, would be more cost effective to sign up to a free 1 month trial of Sky Stream and add a 31 day rolling sky sports pack to it, then cancel and return the box on the 30th day. That covers 3 races for £25, or you can extend it another month and cover the last 6 for £81 in total. (2x £25 for sports and £31 for 1 month TV). Would need to be timed for the last races so the other 2 on NowTv. If there's 2 names in the house then you could do it twice instead of letting it roll for another month.

Sky are only offering me Stream offers at £50/mo which is not tempting at all considering I cancelled it on a lot less.
 
Now have been doing deals for Sport for £20, I got it for £26 for 6 months a month or two back but my mate got the £20 deal, so worth keeping your eye out, rather than the £15 day sub.
 
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simo182 said:
Now have been doing deals for Sport for £20, I got it for £26 for 6 months a month or two back but my mate got the £20 deal, so worth keeping your eye out, rather than the £15 day sub.
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Yes I got the sports £20 a month deal also, it was for a year. I only watch NFL and get the NFL gamepass which is way better as I can pick which games I want to watch as long as it's not on Sky live :rolleyes:
 
Hopefully someone knows enough to confirm or correct my research.

Nowtv sports is £35 (discounts are available)
Ultra boost is £9
Netflix top package is £18

So if I signed up to nowtv, I would get sports in uhd on 3 devices at once with uhd Netflix for £62, which doesn’t seem too bad to me.

The trouble is we do like to record stuff and skip the commercials. Does the ultra boost allow you to skip commercials on everything, how does that work?

Thanks
 
Well, that was unexpected!

My contract (and so discounts) are up next month. Haven't gotten round to calling to play the cancellation game yet, but I've just had an email through advising they've extended the discounts for another 12 months, with no new contract :)
 
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Slam62 said:
Hopefully someone knows enough to confirm or correct my research.

Nowtv sports is £35 (discounts are available)
Ultra boost is £9
Netflix top package is £18

So if I signed up to nowtv, I would get sports in uhd on 3 devices at once with uhd Netflix for £62, which doesn’t seem too bad to me.

The trouble is we do like to record stuff and skip the commercials. Does the ultra boost allow you to skip commercials on everything, how does that work?

Thanks
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You just don’t get regular adverts on the on demand stuff, but you still see adverts for Sky products/shows etc instead of regular adverts. With Live TV you obviously still get regular adverts.
 
I hope they do some good deals with Sky q come black friday as my contract runs out about then. Dont want the sky stream box as you have to pay extra to skip adds which i dont agree with and i like recording some programs to keep which you cant really do with the stream box. plus it %100 needs broadband for it to operate. Not that the broadband stop working very often but you never know. So i will wait and see what deals they doing black friday.
 
w00dy85 said:
Yes I got the sports £20 a month deal also, it was for a year. I only watch NFL and get the NFL gamepass which is way better as I can pick which games I want to watch as long as it's not on Sky live :rolleyes:
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Great deal especially with 4k just being introduced into the boosts
 
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Haggisman said:
Well, that was unexpected!

My contract (and so discounts) are up next month. Haven't gotten round to calling to play the cancellation game yet, but I've just had an email through advising they've extended the discounts for another 12 months, with no new contract :)
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Well I would check that carefully.

I received the following email;

The offers on your account will end soon so your bill will increase, but don’t worry, we’ve given you new discounts to minimise any impact.

We always strive to give you the best value — which is why we’ve automatically added the new 12‍-‍month discounts to your account.

You don’t need to do a thing and there’s no new contract.

However when i check my estimated future bill it goes up £20 / month.

I was annoyed enough when they did their price rises last time.
My contract started at £45 /month.
They put it up to £51.50 and now they want me to pay £71.50 / month

Yea i don't think so.
So only sport I wish to follow is F1.
Which means F1TVpro i guess. If anyone has experience with this and knows which country is best to purchase and stream from please let me know.
I assume they would all have an english speaking commentary available or am I hoping for too much.
 
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Shac said:
Well I would check that carefully.

I received the following email;

The offers on your account will end soon so your bill will increase, but don’t worry, we’ve given you new discounts to minimise any impact.

We always strive to give you the best value — which is why we’ve automatically added the new 12‍-‍month discounts to your account.

You don’t need to do a thing and there’s no new contract.

However when i check my estimated future bill it goes up £20 / month.

I was annoyed enough when they did their price rises last time.
My contract started at £45 /month.
They put it up to £51.50 and now they want me to pay £71.50 / month

Yea i don't think so.
So only sport I wish to follow is F1.
Which means F1TVpro i guess. If anyone has experience with this and knows which country is best to purchase and stream from please let me know.
I assume they would all have an english speaking commentary available or am I hoping for too much.
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I signed up as a Dutch person but now always use US servers to stream. That's via Nord VPN.
The default is the English F1 TV commentary team but you can click International once the event itself is about to begin and you get the Sky F1 team.

Sometimes its nice to not listen to the Hamilton worshipping lot on Sky and have the F1 TV lot on instead.
 
Shac said:
Well I would check that carefully.

I received the following email;

The offers on your account will end soon so your bill will increase, but don’t worry, we’ve given you new discounts to minimise any impact.

We always strive to give you the best value — which is why we’ve automatically added the new 12‍-‍month discounts to your account.

You don’t need to do a thing and there’s no new contract.

However when i check my estimated future bill it goes up £20 / month.

I was annoyed enough when they did their price rises last time.
My contract started at £45 /month.
They put it up to £51.50 and now they want me to pay £71.50 / month

Yea i don't think so.
So only sport I wish to follow is F1.
Which means F1TVpro i guess. If anyone has experience with this and knows which country is best to purchase and stream from please let me know.
I assume they would all have an english speaking commentary available or am I hoping for too much.
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Nope, definitely the same discounts rather than new ones
 
My box has just had a hard disk failure. I tried deleting a recording my main Q box while I didnt realize was still playing the end credits on my Sky Go on phone.

Had years of good recordings on there which one of the reasons ive never cancelled.

Thopught this wa a good time to cancel but my contract ends next February :p
 
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