How much do you spend on your TV in a year?

MLH1

Got Freesat for 2 rooms so €500 installed and no bills every another €160 on the Licence. Think some people spend well over the 100 yo yo's a month on it, hardy worth it for few hours in the evening?

Biggins

In answer, I spend €50+ a month (film channels, etc).
However as TV has turned into crap, the wife and I are seriously thinking of going Freeview shortly.
So it should be a lot less soon.

NIMAN

Used to cost me £500+ for Sky TV, plus €160 for the licence.

Just ditched Sky, and about to buy a Freesat PVR, so it will be the cost of that + the yearly RTE licence fee.

jc84

160 tv license and 1452 for sky (121 per month) robbing bastards

neilthefunkeone

MLH1 wrote: »

Got Freesat for 2 rooms so €500 installed and no bills every another €160 on the Licence. Think some people spend well over the 100 yo yo's a month on it, hardy worth it for few hours in the evening?

500... seriously???

I got a hd pvr box, dish, lnb & cable for 90.. found an old sky box in parents house..2 room in for 90 bills... man they saw you coming...:eek:

amacachi

If it weren't for sports I wouldn't be spending anything on TV at all.

JoseJones

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

500... seriously???

I got a hd pvr box, dish, lnb & cable for 90.. found an old sky box in parents house..2 room in for 90 bills... man they saw you coming...:eek:

He said freesat though, not free to air

Biggins

My Tv was on tonight for just an hour and fifteen minutes approx.
(News and The FrontLine)
Before and after, it was turned off. so bad has Tv got in general, for reason mentioned above, we are cutting back.
We can afford to pay more - but why pay anything extra (above the Irish TV licence) for mostly pure crap!

NIMAN

jc84 wrote: »

160 tv license and 1452 for sky (121 per month) robbing bastards

:eek:

Thats plain mental

JoseJones

Biggins wrote: »

My Tv was on tonight for just an hour and fifteen minutes approx.
(News and The FrontLine)
Before and after, it was turned off. so bad has Tv got in general, for reason mentioned above, we are cutting back.
We can afford to pay more - but why pay anything extra (above the Irish TV licence) for mostly pure crap!

Totally agree, any good TV shows that come out you can either download or get the box sets and watch them as you please.

neilthefunkeone

JoseJones wrote: »

He said freesat though, not free to air

Yes and that's what I have too...

charlemont

Freeview, So I pay nothing.

JoseJones

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

Yes and that's what I have too...

If you're using an old sky box, you don't have freesat.

www.freesat.co.uk

Biggins

JoseJones wrote: »

Totally agree, any good TV shows that come out you can either download or get the box sets and watch them as you please.

Thats all we watch now, boxsets. We have shelves full of them.
As I type I'm watching the classic "Whatever happened to the Likely lads?" collection on one monitor while typing onto the forum with another dual monitor beside it.

neilthefunkeone

JoseJones wrote: »

If you're using an old sky box, you don't have freesat.

www.freesat.co.uk

how is that???? I get all the channels listed on freesat page you linked?? Sky box connected to sat dish... no viewing card... pointed at astra 2... am I missing something???

sh1tstirrer

€160 licence and €360 sky. I would dump sky in the morning if it wasn't for the wife. The most annoying thing about it is them stupid reality shows especially the x factor. Come to think of it I would dump the tv as well and RTE could shove their licence where the sun doesn't shine.

JoseJones

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

how is that???? I get all the channels listed on freesat page you linked?? Sky box connected to sat dish... no viewing card... pointed at astra 2... am I missing something???

What you have is free-to-air, not freesat. Freesat has a 7 day EPG, "red button" interactive services, auto tuning of channels and generally a cleaner and neater interface than FTA boxes that only give now and next, and often no programme information. A HD freesat PVR would be around €200 I think, so €500 for a multiroom setup seems about right.

Edit: Actually a sky box with no viewing card isn't that far off a freesat box, but that HD PVR box you said you got for €90 is definitely not freesat, but FTA.

Richard Dower

Nothing, i don't have Freesat or UPC or Sky or even the old RTE ariel, i refuse to pay.

neilthefunkeone

JoseJones wrote: »

What you have is free-to-air, not freesat. Freesat has a 7 day EPG, "red button" interactive services, auto tuning of channels and generally a cleaner and neater interface than FTA boxes that only give now and next, and often no programme information. A HD freesat PVR would be around €200 I think, so €500 for a multiroom setup seems about right.

Edit: Actually a sky box with no viewing card isn't that far off a freesat box, but that HD PVR box you said you got for €90 is definitely not freesat, but FTA.

Ah cool.. yeah you can use the interactive services on the sky box and it has the full epg.. The other box just has now and next..

Sorry to drag the topic off..!!!!

Minstrel27

€120 for Al Jazeera Sports
€50 for a 6 month Polsat card that has stayed on for 10 months now
€150 for a Cyfra+ card
All the rest that I watch is FTA

Great value imo.

AntiRip

Is it just me or do people think Sky are going to get quite a hammering in this recession? The amount of people I know throwing out sky and getting FTA/Freesat is unreal. I myself and my parents are just waiting for a good combo box to come out. My sister and brother have already switched over.

I would have thrown it out a LONG time ago only for the OH with her reality tv shows and the fact I find it hard to find e! channel shows online...because they are so crap!

Joey the lips

I would love free sat however i would miss rte and tv3 so i am still on sky. The only way around this is a high aerial i am told

BUMMER.

staker

70 yoyos a month for the Sky-really gotta throw off a few packages.

Richard Dower wrote: »

Nothing, i don't have Freesat or UPC or Sky or even the old RTE ariel, i refuse to pay.

Do you need a TV licence for the broadband signal?

AntiRip

staker wrote: »

70 yoyos a month for the Sky-really gotta throw off a few packages.


Do you need a TV licence for the broadband signal?

I think you need a licence for an apparatus that's able to receive a signal. So broadband signal..no (not yet anyway) a tv tuner card..yes

pickarooney

0 euros

cena

jc84 wrote: »

160 tv license and 1452 for sky (121 per month) robbing bastards

My mother rang them up and said she wanted it gone and they cut it down too half price.

Minstrel27

jc84 wrote: »

1452 for sky (121 per month) robbing bastards

If they are robbing you then why do you allow it to continue?

diceyreilly

€14 a month for UPC and €13.33 a month for TV Licence..

cena

diceyreilly wrote: »

€14 a month for UPC and €13.33 a month for TV Licence..

IS upc that cheap. dodn't think its in my area. Would get rid of sky only the sports and sky atlantic

diceyreilly

cena wrote: »

IS upc that cheap. dodn't think its in my area. Would get rid of sky only the sports and sky atlantic

It was €21 for my package, but when they got rid of ITV 2 i rang to cancel and they offered me that for life so i couldnt turn that down..

pixelburp

I pay

160 for the TV license;
Now, I also have the broadband-only package with UPC. It's approx. 44eurobucks, but it also comes with a surcharge of about €7 which I suspect is to cover the fact they can't turn off the TV signal in the UPC box. So I get the basic Irish/English channels, along with Sky 1, Discovery & a couple of other channels not worth having.