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Sky Digital costs about £34 per month, which is fair enough. That's not including Sky Box Office.
Additional things to pay for.
Sky Box Office
Premiership +
F1 Digital +
Sky Gamestar P2P
ChelseaTV
MUTV
Sky Box Office Events
Some stuuuuupid Welsch channel
And many more.
I think this is diabolical. My parents pay £34 for the thing, and half the time it doesn't work, and the other half will cost you an extra £30/40. What a con. I pay £34, and expect to see every televised footie match, but don't want to pay an extra £11 per game, or even £60 per season. Same with the games. They're alright, but not worth 50p per every time you sign in. If I wanted to pay to play Tetris, I'd buy a Game Boy. This is not fair on the customers. I expected to see WWF Royal Rumble for free, not for an additional £14. It's just as well many fans boycotted the idea. I think that Sky should re-think the idea of allthis pay to watch, as we already pay enough already.
Thanks for your time.
T-Devil!
Additional things to pay for.
Sky Box Office
Premiership +
F1 Digital +
Sky Gamestar P2P
ChelseaTV
MUTV
Sky Box Office Events
Some stuuuuupid Welsch channel
And many more.
I think this is diabolical. My parents pay £34 for the thing, and half the time it doesn't work, and the other half will cost you an extra £30/40. What a con. I pay £34, and expect to see every televised footie match, but don't want to pay an extra £11 per game, or even £60 per season. Same with the games. They're alright, but not worth 50p per every time you sign in. If I wanted to pay to play Tetris, I'd buy a Game Boy. This is not fair on the customers. I expected to see WWF Royal Rumble for free, not for an additional £14. It's just as well many fans boycotted the idea. I think that Sky should re-think the idea of allthis pay to watch, as we already pay enough already.
Thanks for your time.
T-Devil!
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James Pond wrote:
> T-Devil wrote:
> Sky Digital costs about £34 per month, which is fair
> enough. That's not
> including Sky Box Office.
Additional things to pay
> for.
Premiership +:
The games that are only shown on premiership +, the
> highlights are shown on Sky Sports News straight after the game. So thats how i
> save my self some money.
not if your one of those people who has to see the whole game.
F1 Digital +:
Shown on ITV for the next few years
> anyway. Pay £12 per race to watch all you can see on ITV for free.
> WHY?
Again F1 digital+ is for true fans and rich idiots who want to see the warm ups the qualifing and the race without ads.
but otherwise a rip.
ChelseaTV and MUTV they are just fanzines shown on TV. YOu can get all
> the info they give from the sky sports news channel for free, newspapers,
> magazines. Watching and reading all these other types is far cheaper than buying
> Chelsea TV or MUTV. What a waste of money!
for fans of these teams who just has to have the crappy channel of there team for no real reason.
> T-Devil wrote:
> Sky Digital costs about £34 per month, which is fair
> enough. That's not
> including Sky Box Office.
Additional things to pay
> for.
Premiership +:
The games that are only shown on premiership +, the
> highlights are shown on Sky Sports News straight after the game. So thats how i
> save my self some money.
not if your one of those people who has to see the whole game.
F1 Digital +:
Shown on ITV for the next few years
> anyway. Pay £12 per race to watch all you can see on ITV for free.
> WHY?
Again F1 digital+ is for true fans and rich idiots who want to see the warm ups the qualifing and the race without ads.
but otherwise a rip.
ChelseaTV and MUTV they are just fanzines shown on TV. YOu can get all
> the info they give from the sky sports news channel for free, newspapers,
> magazines. Watching and reading all these other types is far cheaper than buying
> Chelsea TV or MUTV. What a waste of money!
for fans of these teams who just has to have the crappy channel of there team for no real reason.
T-Devil wrote:
> Sky Digital costs about £34 per month, which is fair enough. That's not
> including Sky Box Office.
Additional things to pay for.
Premiership +:
The games that are only shown on premiership +, the highlights are shown on Sky Sports News straight after the game. So thats how i save my self some money.
F1 Digital +:
Shown on ITV for the next few years anyway. Pay £12 per race to watch all you can see on ITV for free. WHY?
ChelseaTV and MUTV they are just fanzines shown on TV. YOu can get all the info they give from the sky sports news channel for free, newspapers, magazines. Watching and reading all these other types is far cheaper than buying Chelsea TV or MUTV. What a waste of money!
> Sky Digital costs about £34 per month, which is fair enough. That's not
> including Sky Box Office.
Additional things to pay for.
Premiership +:
The games that are only shown on premiership +, the highlights are shown on Sky Sports News straight after the game. So thats how i save my self some money.
F1 Digital +:
Shown on ITV for the next few years anyway. Pay £12 per race to watch all you can see on ITV for free. WHY?
ChelseaTV and MUTV they are just fanzines shown on TV. YOu can get all the info they give from the sky sports news channel for free, newspapers, magazines. Watching and reading all these other types is far cheaper than buying Chelsea TV or MUTV. What a waste of money!
Well i wasn't saying sky was bad, it's ment to have the best quality, i think it's a rip that itv2 is free everywhere else but not on sky, you have to have some kinda sub to get it.
it's fine for me at £16 a month as i don't watch sport or the movie channels just channels like sky one and the music channels and paramount ect
it's fine for me at £16 a month as i don't watch sport or the movie channels just channels like sky one and the music channels and paramount ect
Hmm.. Sky made a profit in the quarter but that's ignoring the mountain of debts it has, which don't come into it. I think over all sky is in the red.
They do offer the best priced service:
ONdigital:
- on the verge of going bust
- highest churn rate (users who join and then leave at the first available opportunity) of digital operators
- Already had to put ITV1 and ITV2 on to Sky to raise their revenue, soon their one Unique Selling Point, ITV football, will be moving across to sky as well.
- notoriously unreliable
NTL:
- most expensive service
- good quality if you can get it in your area
- brilliant if you want a cable modem at the same time
- limited range of channels
Sky:
- relatively cheap
- relatively reliable
- good range of channels
- only provider evolving their product (you can now buy Sky+ which works live TiVo)
I have Sky Digital. Overall I find it's a good bargain. And it's not their fault if something's PPV, apart from the football, because many PPV events are organised by autonomous organisations or channels. For instance the WWF decides what will be PPV and what won't, not Sky.
I would like to get FilmFour, bt at an additional £5/month I can't really envisage getting it, especially as I'll most likely be at uni anyway next year.
It's good for what I want:
films:
- Sky Premier 1,2,3,4,WS
- Sky Cinema 1,2
- TCM
- BBCknowledge
- and soon BBC4
music:
- MTV2
- VH1
- occasionally Kerrang
- occasionally Q
Overall I would say that Sky provides the best service out of those available. I wouldn't give it a gold star for services to the human race, but I'd give it first place. If you don't like PPV then you don't have to pay for it, meaning that your bill won't come to £100/month. For what you get £35 is reasonable.
They do offer the best priced service:
ONdigital:
- on the verge of going bust
- highest churn rate (users who join and then leave at the first available opportunity) of digital operators
- Already had to put ITV1 and ITV2 on to Sky to raise their revenue, soon their one Unique Selling Point, ITV football, will be moving across to sky as well.
- notoriously unreliable
NTL:
- most expensive service
- good quality if you can get it in your area
- brilliant if you want a cable modem at the same time
- limited range of channels
Sky:
- relatively cheap
- relatively reliable
- good range of channels
- only provider evolving their product (you can now buy Sky+ which works live TiVo)
I have Sky Digital. Overall I find it's a good bargain. And it's not their fault if something's PPV, apart from the football, because many PPV events are organised by autonomous organisations or channels. For instance the WWF decides what will be PPV and what won't, not Sky.
I would like to get FilmFour, bt at an additional £5/month I can't really envisage getting it, especially as I'll most likely be at uni anyway next year.
It's good for what I want:
films:
- Sky Premier 1,2,3,4,WS
- Sky Cinema 1,2
- TCM
- BBCknowledge
- and soon BBC4
music:
- MTV2
- VH1
- occasionally Kerrang
- occasionally Q
Overall I would say that Sky provides the best service out of those available. I wouldn't give it a gold star for services to the human race, but I'd give it first place. If you don't like PPV then you don't have to pay for it, meaning that your bill won't come to £100/month. For what you get £35 is reasonable.
I think sky's a brilliant deal.
You get all those music channels, kids channels.
We dont get the sports channels, but you get eurosport free. This shows all the tennis tournaments, so im happy.
Sky box office is actually a good deal. you only pay £3 for a film when it costs you £3.50 for a blockbuster film. Ok with blockbuster you get to keep it for 2 nights, but how many people actually watched a rented video more than once?
Al in all I think it's a brilliant deal.
It's worth it if only for E4. where you can see the newest episides of ally mcbeal, friends and ER!
That's worth £34 alone.
CD
You get all those music channels, kids channels.
We dont get the sports channels, but you get eurosport free. This shows all the tennis tournaments, so im happy.
Sky box office is actually a good deal. you only pay £3 for a film when it costs you £3.50 for a blockbuster film. Ok with blockbuster you get to keep it for 2 nights, but how many people actually watched a rented video more than once?
Al in all I think it's a brilliant deal.
It's worth it if only for E4. where you can see the newest episides of ally mcbeal, friends and ER!
That's worth £34 alone.
CD
well your all mugs.
i pay £16 a month i don't get box office as i'd rather go down blockbuster to get a film, i don't like football so don't get the sport channels and don't like paying to watch old films so don't get the film channels.
£16 a month aint bad but if it goes up i might not bother paying anymore and going for the free to air ones.
anyway i doubt you actualy pay more like your parents.
i pay £16 a month i don't get box office as i'd rather go down blockbuster to get a film, i don't like football so don't get the sport channels and don't like paying to watch old films so don't get the film channels.
£16 a month aint bad but if it goes up i might not bother paying anymore and going for the free to air ones.
anyway i doubt you actualy pay more like your parents.
I resently heard that BSKYB have made over £30 million in the past year or so, why should this make them rise their prices again. Its stupid!
I you have to pay £34 for the movie and sports channels, then thats ok. But then if your team isn't playing then your not going to watch the match thats on, and if a there are no decent films (which is very unlikely considering how many screans there are) then your not going to watch them. Also your not going to watch films all day long, unless you lead a very sad life.
They are just people wanting more money and will keep on raising their prices they will have no customers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:(
I you have to pay £34 for the movie and sports channels, then thats ok. But then if your team isn't playing then your not going to watch the match thats on, and if a there are no decent films (which is very unlikely considering how many screans there are) then your not going to watch them. Also your not going to watch films all day long, unless you lead a very sad life.
They are just people wanting more money and will keep on raising their prices they will have no customers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:(
T-Devil wrote:
> So is it common for Digital to cut off or skip channels??? Because, for
> £34, it shouldn't happen. And with all the additional things to pay for,
> it totals out to be over £100 if you use all the available features!
my Sky Digital didnt work and kept getting "no sginal recieved" so we rang them up and they said we had to pay £60 to get some one out to look at it.
we told them by we would cancel it so instead they brought some one out for free. A lead was not working and the satellite dish was not completely finsihed
> So is it common for Digital to cut off or skip channels??? Because, for
> £34, it shouldn't happen. And with all the additional things to pay for,
> it totals out to be over £100 if you use all the available features!
my Sky Digital didnt work and kept getting "no sginal recieved" so we rang them up and they said we had to pay £60 to get some one out to look at it.
we told them by we would cancel it so instead they brought some one out for free. A lead was not working and the satellite dish was not completely finsihed
I agree with Asher, T-devil, stop whinging. It's a brilliant deal considering you get hundreds of channels. If a few are skipped out then tough luck.
So is it common for Digital to cut off or skip channels??? Because, for £34, it shouldn't happen. And with all the additional things to pay for, it totals out to be over £100 if you use all the available features!
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