nheather
Outstanding Member
I have been a Sky customer for many years. Recently I have been reflecting on how much it costs and how much we actually use it.
I predominantly watch Netflix, Prime and Disney+ and if it were just me I would ditch Sky and the licence. There are a few things I watch on Sky but not that many and I could do without. My daughter and son feel the same way.
My wife is the issue though. She doesn’t go anywhere near Netflix, Prime and Disney+ herself. She just watches Sky, but when I look at what she actually watches it is mostly just the free to air channels (BBC and ITV), she very rarely ventures into the Sky channels that we are paying a fortune for.
We are just about to come to the end of a deal which will mean paying £54 a month unless I commit to another 12 or 18 month period to get a better deal. This is just for the standard entertainment plus HD and multi-room.
The challenge is the delivery system. My wife likes the way that Sky works so much so she thinks it is reasonable to pay £54 a month because of the way it allows her to watch BBC1. We have multi-room but again that barely gets used. But she does like having the facility there and being able to record, series link, catch up, on-demand.
I realise that on paper the new Freesat boxes can do all that (multi-room excluded) on paper but how well does it do it.
Has anyone here gone from Sky Q to FreeSat - if so, how would you compare the experience of using the two systems.
Cheers,
Nigel
I predominantly watch Netflix, Prime and Disney+ and if it were just me I would ditch Sky and the licence. There are a few things I watch on Sky but not that many and I could do without. My daughter and son feel the same way.
My wife is the issue though. She doesn’t go anywhere near Netflix, Prime and Disney+ herself. She just watches Sky, but when I look at what she actually watches it is mostly just the free to air channels (BBC and ITV), she very rarely ventures into the Sky channels that we are paying a fortune for.
We are just about to come to the end of a deal which will mean paying £54 a month unless I commit to another 12 or 18 month period to get a better deal. This is just for the standard entertainment plus HD and multi-room.
The challenge is the delivery system. My wife likes the way that Sky works so much so she thinks it is reasonable to pay £54 a month because of the way it allows her to watch BBC1. We have multi-room but again that barely gets used. But she does like having the facility there and being able to record, series link, catch up, on-demand.
I realise that on paper the new Freesat boxes can do all that (multi-room excluded) on paper but how well does it do it.
Has anyone here gone from Sky Q to FreeSat - if so, how would you compare the experience of using the two systems.
Cheers,
Nigel