Thinking of ditching Sky for freeview

I dumped Sky when I moved house and can't say I miss it one bit. When I watch it back at my parents house I realise how full of crap it is.
 
Desmo said:
I dumped Sky when I moved house and can't say I miss it one bit. When I watch it back at my parents house I realise how full of crap it is.
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yeah that's one of the reasons why I am thinking of ditching it.

i do a flick through the channels and 99% of the time I can't find anything decent to watch.
 
I have Sky in my house, and I refuse to pay for it. I wanted to ditch it, but noooo… The woman of the house said “but I like to watch it”. I actually made a point of sitting down and watching two hours of music, just to see where the £21 or whatever it is now was getting me, as this was her argument. I was told, “but I like to watch the music, and Sky one has a few shows on”. Ok like what? “Well I don’t know, Simpson’s”. I replied “we have those on DVD already”. So, experiment time was needed.

After 120 minutes of the two hour viewing, I’d managed to view 50 minutes of music, the rest 70 minutes in total, was just adverts, jingles etc… Hardly value for money IMO. I wanted to cancel the useless bit of tat right there and then, but after the ensuing argument I basically transferred the bill to her, and went for a drive as she’d bitched at me long enough.

She’s been paying for a few months, and already she is now saying – “Well we don’t watch it really do we..?” No..!!!!! Really, now you think it’s a waste of money do you? Now YOU are paying for it. So, I think this is now where I win, and we ditch the system, and about time too. Sky TV is not worth the money. A television set is just basically a device to allow me to watch a few movies, as that’s all I do.

For those who are hardcore watchers of shows, music, documentaries etc it might be worth it, but Sky is mostly full of old tat, and I just can’t believe how much they charge for repeats, and useless broadcasts. Most of what is shown is so old, and boring it should actually carry a health warning.

If you are thinking of cancelling Sky, just do it. I’m sure if you are considering it, then once it’s gone, you will not miss it. Since I stopped paying the bill a few months back and cancelled the payment from my account I’ve used the money to buy DVD’s and my collection of re-watch able, when I want to watch them DVD’s is growing nicely.
 
Well.... if you like sky then as you said threaten them

my uncle ened up with 2 sky+ box's with the multiroom(rip off)



Sky bashing : Used to have it i dont see the point of paying just to watch even more adverts , also how exactly for sky multiroom do they justify charging you 10 £ more a month!
 
I have freeview and get a shocking reception. Going from the full sky package to what i have now was a huge difference!

Now i dont even have BBC1 or 2 in the front room!
 
If you have an NTL phone line + Broad Band You can get basicaly the same packed you would get on Sky which would cost you £23 on NTL for £8.50 per month.

Its basicaly the family pack with sky one & two, discovery channels ,history , bravo, paramount, ABC, with most if not all the freeview channels with a lot more i can't really think of right now.

I've never thought once "wish we still had Sky" since the move to NTL its just awsome :)

Also if you just want movies go to one of these online rental places and for £14.99 per month u get 3 DVD's at your house at one time with unlimited times you can rent a month so basicaly as soon you watch send it back and you'll get another within few days.

Sky are just charging so much money for what there offering its getting ridiculous, and as for waitting for Sky HD lol thats going to be even more damn expensive £400 for a box and £10 extra per month for like 5 channels ?
 
I recently dumped Sky and bought myself a Humax 9200T freeview box. Twin Tuners and a 160Gb drive ensures that I've always got something to watch if needed and has most of the functions of Sky+.
 
Hawkpie said:
i do a flick through the channels and 99% of the time I can't find anything decent to watch.
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Now thats one thing I have noticed since moving to Freeview, I flick through the channels quickly and if theres nothing to watch I get out a DVD or jump on the PC. But when I had Sky I found myself wasting hours just constantly flicking through channel after channel without actually watching anything.
 
i agree its awful watching it m8s house and they spend all the time flicking, why pay more to have extra channels to ignore.

I got a freeview and i can find at least 1 thing to watch at some point if not ill play a game or watch a dvd :D
 
Can anyone recommend a decent freeview box?

My arial picture quality is ok, not that great and its a roof one so im worried that picture quality through freeview would be cack and then I would need to shell out for an arial upgrade, but its gotta be better than paying sky for rubbish.
 
Gedalia_w said:
Can anyone recommend a decent freeview box?

My arial picture quality is ok, not that great and its a roof one so im worried that picture quality through freeview would be cack and then I would need to shell out for an arial upgrade, but its gotta be better than paying sky for rubbish.
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The Panasonic box is excellent, but if you want just a straight freeview box we the sony one before the panasonic and it is very good, fast and easy to use, a bit more expensive but definatly worth it
 
Looking at online reviews of the Sony VTX-D800U Freeview box, it seems to be rated quite highly. Bit expensive though at around £80 especially when you consider you can get a DIGIHOME DVB956/1 Freeview box for £30...
 
My Sky subscription is being cancelled in a week or two, its really not worth the £36 or whatever we pay.

I only watch the football on Sky Sports. I rang em up 2 weeks ago in a attempt to lower the bill by cancelling the channels I don't watch (everything other than Sky Sports). The guy on the other end replied: "You will only get £1 p/m off". Thats a lot of channels and only £1 off! :mad:
 
Lol - we ditched Sky last month too (what a lot of rqt room there must be on that sinking ship right now)

how do you 're-tune' it to get the other free channels (the legal way only please)

are E4 & UKHistory supposed to be free or am i just imagining it?
 
NonOfTheAbove said:
Lol - we ditched Sky last month too (what a lot of rqt room there must be on that sinking ship right now)

how do you 're-tune' it to get the other free channels (the legal way only please)

are E4 & UKHistory supposed to be free or am i just imagining it?
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Take a look at http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/

A LOT more channels than freeview and if you already have sky equipment then only £20 (iirc) one off payment for the card and then free..
 
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