Cancelling Sky
Discussion
Rufus Stone said:
What will I be able to access via the HD box if I cancel my Sky subscription?
You pay for Murdoch subscriptions? Brilliant!In answer to your question, we sign up to NowTV and you get access to a fair bit of Sky stuff. They keep extending the £3/month offer so we take it. Does exclude films and Sport, so bit like a base Sky package.
From memory my box became unusable and they also requested that I send the box back to them when I cancelled.
Lastest about 6 weeks without it, I didn't realise how much the GF and I relied on the record/catch up/on demand functions. I had grand plans of getting a VPN and watching F1 TV live, as this is the bulk of our Sky subscription cost. However it soon dawned on us that having to plan our day around watching the quali/races live as opposed to whenever we're free to watch (usually the same evening) became a bit of an inconvenience.
Lastest about 6 weeks without it, I didn't realise how much the GF and I relied on the record/catch up/on demand functions. I had grand plans of getting a VPN and watching F1 TV live, as this is the bulk of our Sky subscription cost. However it soon dawned on us that having to plan our day around watching the quali/races live as opposed to whenever we're free to watch (usually the same evening) became a bit of an inconvenience.
okv3 said:
From memory my box became unusable and they also requested that I send the box back to them when I cancelled.
The Sky Q boxes are leased and they ask for them back. They also asked for our broadband router back when we cancelled that.The HD boxes are yours to keep, hence why you used to get calls from Domestic & General trying to sell breakdown insurance for them. You should be able to use it to watch anything that’s broadcast unencrypted (so basically anything on Freesat) but I think the recording feature is disabled and they apparently don’t work with LNBs that have been replaced as part of a Sky Q installation.
okv3 said:
I had grand plans of getting a VPN and watching F1 TV live, as this is the bulk of our Sky subscription cost. However it soon dawned on us that having to plan our day around watching the quali/races live as opposed to whenever we're free to watch (usually the same evening) became a bit of an inconvenience.
F1TV works just like iPlayer, so you can watch qualifying/races live or watch it later at a more convenient time if you wish. Likewise if you miss the start of a race you can watch from the beginning.richhead said:
I didnt realize how cheap f1tv was, i just looked it up, around £20.00 for the year, ive gone for that and canceled now tv
Downloaded the app in my firestick, job done.
Does that subscription let you actually watch the races? Downloaded the app in my firestick, job done.
On the website the £19.99 subs seems to only get you Live Timing Data and some archive stuff
JONSCZ said:
Tom8 said:
You pay for Murdoch subscriptions? Brilliant!
You do realise that Murdoch hasn't owned any part of Sky for over 6 years now. It's been owned by Comcast since Oct '18
..and he divested his interest in 20th Century Fox (previously the content division of Sky) to Disney, which is why (among other things) new Star Wars is now a load of s
te....richhead said:
I didnt realize how cheap f1tv was, i just looked it up, around £20.00 for the year, ive gone for that and canceled now tv
Downloaded the app in my firestick, job done.
Sky have exclusive live coverage of F1 in the UK, so you won't be able to watch the races live on that £20 package.Downloaded the app in my firestick, job done.
The full package, including live race coverage, costs between £60-80 for the year. To get that you will need a VPN set to another country, e.g. Canada, which gets the full F1TV package.
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My subscription is up this month and they're wanting £148 p.m. off me now (TV and Broadband), rising again in May with their annual increase and locking me in for 18 months which should be illegal in my eyes. I canned Sports last year but retained F1 as this is probably the only reason I keep it (like many on here). But, I'm so reluctant to continue paying as looking back at what I've watched outside of the F1 for the past 12 months doesn't justify this cost. I'm scared though. I think the product is very good, easy to use, etc., and having just one TV in the house without Sky shows me how painful it is to get to any channel quickly or record, download, stream or whatever I should be doing.
We have Netflix and Prime, purchase others as and when there is something of interest, but someone talk me in to cancelling please! I dread my annual call with them, in fact just last week they called me and spent 20 minutes telling me what a great discount my renewal is, not listening to me at all, and at the end when asked 'will I renew today?' I said not today and the lovely lady literally hung up there and then without a goodbye. Couldn't believe it, so much so I logged a complaint, something I never do! I absolutely loathe the company, but the product is good.
In fact, this rant tells me to say goodbye...! Good therapy this.
We have Netflix and Prime, purchase others as and when there is something of interest, but someone talk me in to cancelling please! I dread my annual call with them, in fact just last week they called me and spent 20 minutes telling me what a great discount my renewal is, not listening to me at all, and at the end when asked 'will I renew today?' I said not today and the lovely lady literally hung up there and then without a goodbye. Couldn't believe it, so much so I logged a complaint, something I never do! I absolutely loathe the company, but the product is good.
In fact, this rant tells me to say goodbye...! Good therapy this.
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