Sports viewing without contract

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

Dirk Diggler

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I only ever express an interest in one team, and that team is Celtic. I have no interest in the EPL but can sometimes find myself watching some Spanish football and Champions League games. I also work away from home for 3 weeks at a time, and during this time a subscription would be a total waste of money.

In the past, I would just add Sky Sports and then cancel it before I left for work. I would only add it again if there were a run of games I was interested in. Now that the football is split across BT Sport and Sky, it's looking like a layout of £40+ a month (more expensive than Sky Q with boxsets and multiroom!) and with BT there's no option to cancel as it's a 12 month contract?

I have no interest in illegal streaming, but I can certainly understand why people are doing it if this is the current price structure!

I would be happy to pay on a per game or per month basis, but it's just not realistic to be paying for a year's subscription when I will be away from home six months minimum, and the six months I am home I will only watch a few select games.

Is there any legal solution available to me?
 
varkanoid said:
What do you mean "as I feared" NowTV mentioned above is what you are describing ?

Can watch it online via your PC, on a tablet/phone or via the NowTV box. Sky Sports passes are available 24hrs, weekly etc and if you get one via Ebay they are even cheaper. eg just paid £16 for 6 months Entertainment pass which should have been about £40. Also got 2 daily Sky Sports passes for £4. No contract. Watch when you want.
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BT Sport. That's what I mean. As previously mentioned, I'd be happy to add Sky Sports on a monthly basis. It's BT sport that's the problem.
 
the_r_sole said:
If it's only Celtic games, can you not get a Celtic TV subscription to watch all their games? (You may have to go through a proxy when you are in the country - but all your money would be direct to the club and you get to watch what you want)
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Would be a bit of a hassle with the proxy, and I'd only get the SPFL games unfortunately.

I honestly think the article linked above is valid. BT Sports hasn't improved the choice for the end user, it's only complicated the experience and made it much more expensive. Them and Sky are using the football as a pawn in their battle for supremacy in the living room with regards to phone, TV & broadband but I think this has the potential to backfire big time.
 
I won't consider leaving Virgin broadband. However, I wouldn't consider their TV. I currently pay £40 to Virgin for excellent broadband (150MB), a landline I never use, and a TiVo box that hasn't even been plugged in for over a year. I then pay Sky £37.50 for Box Sets and one mini box (multiscreen).

I refuse to pay any more as I'm already paying for crap I don't want. I'm not adding monthly subscriptions for more crap (EPL, tennis, golf etc) that I don't want.
 
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