Anyone gone without Sky after having it?

[Tiggsy]

Maybe i'm being daft...but just about to get a new TV with free sat and just wondered what sky offers me? As far as I can see the only thing it gives me over freesat/bittorrent/blockbusters is Skyone (and I only watch that for House and 24 which i tend to torrent anyway)

I'm tempted to stick a harddrive recorded thingy in with the PS3, 360, apple TV, etc and do away with sky....anyone else survive without it in this age of downloads?

[Frankeh]

Since I started torrenting TV shows, I've given up my Sky. Waste of money.
Only channels I miss are paramount and sky one.

[patmahe]

Got rid of sky years ago, have never missed it, and in fact have been glad I got rid of it when I go to others houses and see the crap thats on most of the time.

[Adrian Swarl]

When I moved into this place I wanted to bring Sky with me and upgrade to Sky+, but due to "technical problems" I couldn't get Sky+. So, I binned Sky off and went BT Vision.

Apart from the History/Discovery stuff (Nazis, sharks and Nazi sharks), I don't miss Sky one little bit and now pay a pittance for "Freeview Plus".

[JJCW]

Normally i can scan every channel and don't find anything i consider worth watching.
Was very easy to live without it at uni.

I might miss the sports now though

[Tiggsy]

So would something like this:

http://www.cwdigital.co.uk/showproduct.asp?ProdRef...

Be a viable alternative? My TV has built in freesat but i suppose that wont help if i am wanting the twin recording possibilities i have with sky + right now?

[wiffmaster]

We got rid of it last year, having had the full package for around ten years. Can't say it's been missed, especially as I just torrent or buy the DVD boxset of any series which are particularly good and can watch them advert free. Unless you're using Sky Sports on a regular basis, I really don't see how you'd miss it.

[sleep envy]

Adrian Swarl said:

When I moved into this place I wanted to bring Sky with me and upgrade to Sky+, but due to "technical problems" I couldn't get Sky+. So, I binned Sky off and went BT Vision.

Apart from the History/Discovery stuff (Nazis, sharks and Nazi sharks), I don't miss Sky one little bit and now pay a pittance for "Freeview Plus".

we've got BT vision - much better deals than sky although not having the football is a pisser

[Alfahorn]

I have Sky HD and I'm very happy with it.

[Wheelrepairit]

I got shot of sky and replaced with a Humax freesat box.

Spot on, records and pauses just like a sky+ does.

Not missed sky one bit

[s.m.h.]

I bought a Humax Freesat box a while ago. Thought there would be loads of channels to watch.
Sure there are hundreds listed but most don't interest me or the missus.
I took the box back as we have a Panny CRT which has a great picture but not HD and we cut the Sky+ down to under £20 a month (no mtv etc or sky sport).

Unless you really don't watch any of the Sky channels, its difficult to justify £250 for a multi-sat HD recorder as there's not that much on non sky channels.Plus IIRC its only the Panasonic Freesat PVR's that allow you to record other inputs other than satellite - but they're circa £800..

Also... I seem to recall some of the Freesat channels are not the same quality as the Sky broadcasts. Is this right??

[Nolar Dog]

I used to have the full package Sky for when mates came round and wanted to watch movies or sport. I hardly ever watch TV and never when I'm home alone so I got rid of it in the end.

In manage just fine.

[Adrian Swarl]

sleep envy said:

Adrian Swarl said:

When I moved into this place I wanted to bring Sky with me and upgrade to Sky+, but due to "technical problems" I couldn't get Sky+. So, I binned Sky off and went BT Vision.

Apart from the History/Discovery stuff (Nazis, sharks and Nazi sharks), I don't miss Sky one little bit and now pay a pittance for "Freeview Plus".

we've got BT vision - much better deals than sky although not having the football is a pisser

Ah, well I'm one of those weird blokes who doesn't like football.

[DangerousMike]

I first got into Sky when I was young, 18, it was down to the bad influence of a gang of 'mates' I hung around with. I was a regular user for 2 or 3 years, then the group I used to do Sky with moved onto harder stuff. I had slowly been realising that Sky was doing me no good, and I was determined to give it up. I quit my crappy job and moved to Uni and managed three years where I was clean. Unfortunately upon leaving uni I returned home, I couldn't a job, and I relapsed. My Sky usage was worse than ever. It was starting to wreck my relationship, ruin my friendship. I was living just for sky and it was costing me.

After 2 years of living like that, I managed to kick it. I've been sky free for 10 years now... I just take it one day at a time. The hardest thing for me is walking past the windows of Curries.digital, but I just look the other way and stay strong.

thanks for listening.

[dirty boy]

I've been Sky+less for two months now.

It's killing me.

[DangerousMike]

stay strong, think of your family! don't let them down now. If you give in now you will regret it for ever.

[colonel c]

Although I might still be in somthing of a 'honeymoon period'
Having only recently upgraded to Sky+HD. I think I manage my tv viewing much more efficiently now.
I simply record most programs that look interesting. (remote record via t'internet is handy). So when I have time to watch a little telly there are plenty of thing saved up. I find I'm watching more programs now instead of wasting time aimless channel hopping.
However #~I think the extra £10 or so for HD is a bit much give the number of HD channels available at the moment.

[Tiggsy]

colonel c said:

I find I'm watching more programs now instead of wasting time aimless channel hopping.

I suppose this is my problem...i have a pretty full schedule of TV without sky...tonight, for example, i'm going to be playing a little xbox and then watching Rescue me and House on bittorrents via the PS3. I dont have time to sky hop! The only thing i would miss is the big Sky 1 shows in HD (like 24) but its a lot for just that (i could by the bluerays if i wanted to i suppose!)

[dirty boy]

colonel c said:

Although I might still be in somthing of a 'honeymoon period'
Having only recently upgraded to Sky+HD. I think I manage my tv viewing much more efficiently now.
I simply record most programs that look interesting. (remote record via t'internet is handy). So when I have time to watch a little telly there are plenty of thing saved up. I find I'm watching more programs now instead of wasting time aimless channel hopping.
However #~I think the extra £10 or so for HD is a bit much give the number of HD channels available at the moment.

That's what I found, so often there'd be a decent program on at 11:30pm (way way past my bed time) and i'd simply record it and watch it when the wife and kids were out

[spydersingh]

Tiggsy said:

colonel c said:

I find I'm watching more programs now instead of wasting time aimless channel hopping.

I suppose this is my problem...i have a pretty full schedule of TV without sky...tonight, for example, i'm going to be playing a little xbox and then watching Rescue me and House on bittorrents via the PS3. I dont have time to sky hop! The only thing i would miss is the big Sky 1 shows in HD (like 24) but its a lot for just that (i could by the bluerays if i wanted to i suppose!)

If can connect laptop/comp to TV, can torrent HD TV as well. It will just depend on if you can be bothered with additional download times/larger file sizes and coded/VLC player.