Sky Subscription too expensive?

Avns1s

I have received notification that the cost of Sky is going up to €66 from September, for Sky standard package with movies and sports.

IMO it's now getting too expensive given the level of adverts and repeats. When I subscribes first about 7 years ago, it was about £36 if memory serves me rightly. Thats almost a 100% increase in that space of time. If only my wages had increased as much!

Anyone else got any thoughts on the cost of Sky??

Rudolph Claus

Tis a waste of money! Scrap it.

zAbbo

36 pounds is like 50 euro or so.

Anyway, I rang up recently complaining about the price, and I've got the half price rate for 3 months.

I'm dropping it soon as well.

Pile of turd that it is.

Only worthwhile if you want sports, but i'm getting an art sports sub.

Mossy Monk

Avns1s wrote:

Anyone else got any thoughts on the cost of Sky??

they wont lower it, it will only keep rising and why? because people are paying it

god's toy

Would love to get NTL yea so they don't have as many channels but then the one they do have are the better sky ones anyway.
when you live in the middle of nowhere you have to go with who you can get.

Sparky

We are scraping sky, once the NTL is in.

Ruu_Old

How often do they increase the subscription? I remember it going up twice since I got it in (including the analogue one), cant remember when though.

Our man in Havana

Normally it is yearly in September.

rambler

Seen a tread on here a few weeks ago about someone who was looking to change to a motorised dish, anyone here with a motorised dish who moved from sky, how do they compare? price wise and viewing content ways?

dts

The price would be ok if the service was better. There is nothing to compare with sky when it is all up and working but its the down time due to failed recordings and screwd up software then poor customer service that drive you mad.
Great product but badly ran.

DMC

Any word on Multiroom and lower packages? (Sport only, Movies only or neither)

okidoki987

I signed up to SKY Sports many moons ago mainly for the boxing Footie was an extra). They then put most of the boxing on PPV :mad:
Took the movies as well but never got round to watching many of them.
Cancelled it when they put it up to (I think it was) 40 a month.
Got NTL instead but I reckon it's only a matter of time before SKY start upping the charge to NTL who then pass it onto the customer.
As said above, it's getting way too expensive and won't come down either.
We will be talking about 100 Euro a month in a few years time, what with HD TV and the like.

TempestSabre

I guess it depends how much you use it. Personally I watch TV so little, the extra cost isn't worth it to me.

Our man in Havana

Multiroom remains €15 a month extra.

zAbbo

I was paying 56euro pm for Sky Mix and the Sports

Had to get the sky mix package as i was getting Sky+, and its free if you have two packages, but 15euro extra if you have one, go figure.

Friend of mine rang up, and said he's off on hols for 3 months, and can they reduce the price for those months as he doesn't want to cancel. So he get thes the half price deal. Says he does this every year.

bigpaddy2004

Maybe im wrong now but is there a Sky Italia? I heard that they show alot of discovery's national geographics, movies & most of them in english most like Sky Digital but only cheaper. Would it be possible to get a subscription card over here or how does it work?

slegs

god's toy wrote:

Would love to get NTL yea so they don't have as many channels but then the one they do have are the better sky ones anyway.
when you live in the middle of nowhere you have to go with who you can get.

ntl sucks doo doo

hshortt

I switched from Sky to NTL, we had the basic NTL anyway, so adding the digital was only an extra 10 Euro a month and once up and running it's been very good, and it's less than half the price.

Cheerio
Howard

slegs

hshortt wrote:

I switched from Sky to NTL, we had the basic NTL anyway, so adding the digital was only an extra 10 Euro a month and once up and running it's been very good, and it's less than half the price.

Cheerio
Howard

u probably wonder what all the fuss is about sky+ when you could use a video recorder...right?

watty

bigpaddy2004 wrote:

Maybe im wrong now but is there a Sky Italia? I heard that they show alot of discovery's national geographics, movies & most of them in english most like Sky Digital but only cheaper. Would it be possible to get a subscription card over here or how does it work?

About as easy asa getting a UK sky sub in Ireland.

Mossy Monk

hshortt wrote:

I switched from Sky to NTL, we had the basic NTL anyway, so adding the digital was only an extra 10 Euro a month and once up and running it's been very good, and it's less than half the price.

so analogue and basic digital with ntl is half the price of the basic Sky package? that is quite the bargain

€30.50 for all 6 mixes on Sky. how does getting digital with ntl cost less than half the price of Sky?

bk

Mossy Monk wrote:

€30.50 for all 6 mixes on Sky. how does getting digital with ntl cost less than half the price of Sky?

It doesn't, €30 in total also, unless you are also getting multi room or a BB setup, it can be significantly cheaper then.

god's toy

okidoki987 wrote:

We will be talking about 100 Euro a month in a few years time, what with HD TV and the like.

See thats the thing, if what I'm paying now (full sub with +) was for Sky+, all channels including HD I would not hate it so much! it's one of those things, I want HD but it's over the top for my bill and how much will that go up when more channels are added.:rolleyes: ?

1huge1

i remember they increased the price by like €7 and said it was because they added rte 1, rte 2, tv3 and TnaG totally stupid considering we get it already

Saruman

I just reduced my subscription as a result of this and mortgage increases etc. I had everything bar sports so im down to the basics of 2 entertainment packs. €23 or so a month.

Mossy Monk

bk wrote:

It doesn't, €30 in total also, unless you are also getting multi room or a BB setup, it can be significantly cheaper then.

oh i know that but hshortt announced that ntl digital is less than half the price. no mention of broadband or multiroom

slave1

The only choice I have is Sky or Chorus analogue, believe you me all the sh1t reception and customer service from Chorus is somewhere I'll never go again.
In the 4 years I've been with Sky I'm now at a stage where I have a FTA box - from a one year multiroom sub - HD box and Sky + sub and have the signal split to 3 more rooms with extra remotes in all rooms to control the Sky+box.
Apart from initial outlays for the extra box and HD recently, my costs are €56.50 a month and with that I've the facility to watch FTA in 4 rooms, Sky+ in four rooms and SKyHD in one room.
Also have the FTA on the PC, just in case there's a major clash of viewing.
Never had a software problem, never lost a signal.

I presume that was a joke about comparing Sky+ to a VCR.

watty

All the basic Digital packages are suspiciusly similar prices at about 21 Euro.
(Cable you must include the TOTAL cost of getting Digital.)

hshortt

Mossy Monk wrote:

so analogue and basic digital with ntl is half the price of the basic Sky package? that is quite the bargain

€30.50 for all 6 mixes on Sky. how does getting digital with ntl cost less than half the price of Sky?

Errmm, OP said he's paying €66 per month. I am paying €27.50 a month for NTL Analouge in five rooms and NTL Digital in one room. By my calculations that's less than half price.

I don't subscribe to movies or sports though, so clearly that would be more expensive for me, (sorry about that point!) but I do get standard TV in 5 rooms. When I switched from Sky to NTL I got the same channels that we watched (family, kids, paramount etc) and my bill at the time was €36.00 per month for Sky, then also €17.50 for standard NTL. €53.50 per month total. I now pay less than half price for the same channels through NTL.

Cheerio
Howard

bk

Actually it is a third of the price, you would need to pay €90 to get the same from Sky.

Even if you want digital in all your rooms with NTL it would cost €50

watty

I have one Sky sub it is 21 Euro approx.
But 4 other non-sub Satellite receivers. I have about 1500 free legal TV and 1300 Radio.

All the BBC & ITV are free.

Unless you want a different pay channel in every room, a basic package is the same from anyone.

And if you only want BBC /ITV and about 40 other very good channels free then Satellite is free after you buy.

If you cancel with NTL you have nothing. If you cancel Sky you still have about 45 decent channels.

You can't simply say NTL is 1/2 the price. That is too simplistic.
If you can get NTL digital (harder than Eircom Broadband due to coverage) and want Pay TV and multiroom and Broadband then it is indeed a best deal there is.

But for many people NTL would be either unavailable or more expensive. It is not a B&W issue. One is not better/worse cheaper/more expensive. It depends on what you want and where you live.

TempestSabre

90% of the content is of no interest to me. I'd be happy with just major sporting events, then films and series. But only on demand and of my choosing.

bk

watty wrote:

But for many people NTL would be either unavailable or more expensive. It is not a B&W issue. One is not better/worse cheaper/more expensive. It depends on what you want and where you live.

Yes and for many people satellite is not available. Of course everyone needs to take into account their own needs and wants.

_Kaiser_

TempestSabre wrote:

90% of the content is of no interest to me. I'd be happy with just major sporting events, then films and series. But only on demand and of my choosing.

I'd be the same, but unfortunately you have to pay the complete monthly sub and for the complete package(s) to get that at the moment - for example: the only thing I'd watch on Sky Sports is the bigger football matches.. but that means I need Sky Sports 1 & 2 anyway.. I've never actually watched 3 or Extra, yet I still have to pay for them. They might say they're "free" with the other 2 channels, but come on - of course you're paying for them!

The industry talks about Video On Demand as being the way forward, but given that it WILL allow customers to pick and choose what they watch and when, I can't see them being in too much of a rush really as revenue is bound to go down overall.

TempestSabre

Kaiser2000 wrote:

I'd be the same, but unfortunately you have to pay the complete monthly sub and for the complete package(s) to get that at the moment - for example: the only thing I'd watch on Sky Sports is the bigger football matches.. but that means I need Sky Sports 1 & 2 anyway.. I've never actually watched 3 or Extra, yet I still have to pay for them. They might say they're "free" with the other 2 channels, but come on - of course you're paying for them!

The industry talks about Video On Demand as being the way forward, but given that it WILL allow customers to pick and choose what they watch and when, I can't see them being in too much of a rush really as revenue is bound to go down overall.

At this point I think I'm better with a HTPC and subscribing to a online DVD rental service where I can get entire series and the movies I want. Or just buying my favorites or borrowing from friends. Watch the big games in the pub and the new movies in the cinema. At least I know when I turn the evil box on, there'll be something of interest on it.

bk

Kaiser2000 wrote:

The industry talks about Video On Demand as being the way forward, but given that it WILL allow customers to pick and choose what they watch and when, I can't see them being in too much of a rush really as revenue is bound to go down overall.

That is why they will probably charge about €5 per match, to make up the cost to be about the same.

In the US, when you subsrcibe to the HBO service, you get the HBO VOD service for free as part of the sub. It is fantastic and works really well.

byte

That HBO method may be one of the better ways of utilising VoD.

bk

byte wrote:

That HBO method may be one of the better ways of utilising VoD.

I agree completely, the VOD service was basically for free. It was amazing watching three episodes of Rome in a row on it in Boston last year via Comcast cable.

DMC

TempestSabre wrote:

90% of the content is of no interest to me. I'd be happy with just major sporting events, then films and series. But only on demand and of my choosing.

There is my problem too. I'd like just the Sky Sports package, even NASN and Setanta possibly, but I don't want any family pack mix, I dont want to pay for it. You can't get a sports only standalone package, you have to get everything bar movies.

byte

Yes, just premium channels alone woudl be nice. I'd probably only have Sky Sports and Setanta then.