…have had a Sky package for years (no sport currently), landline connection, fibre broadband etc. Contract is up, supposedly a VIP customer etc. but its creeping up to £100 a month. Not really inclined to change broadband (it’s a decent speed for up here), but seriously thinking about canning the Sky Q TV set-up.
The boy has a mate who’s sent me the details of one of these snide-boxes, £40/year, fella does all communication/fixes across social media…anyone have experience of similar?
Unbroken1 I considered ditching sky for one of those last year when my contract was up . I know a few people who use them, went and had a look. Wasn’t impressed.
Ended up haggling sky down a bit on the TV package and ditched them completely for the internet (they wanted £35 a month for 60 Mbps, managed to get 1000 for £29 with youfibre)
I got one last year and it’s brilliant. We still have the full package with sky and will be keeping that as the missus and kids like it but am i fuck paying another 30 quid per month for bt sport, 15 quid for netflix and 20-30 quid everytime there’s a ppv fight on. Costs me 50 per year and it’s well worth.
…OK, interesting, yeah this occurred to me as an option too, reduce the Sky package down to bare bones and get the other box too.
I have IPTV stick and its decent. I still have the basic sky package with fibre for €50 (No installation fee) as well
Our sky is 85 quid per month, that’s movies, sports, hd, fibre broadband and multi-room. When the deal ends our price goes up to 135 notes before negotiating again. Fuck that.
Unbroken1 Yeah, I get what you are saying about the prices creeping.
The boxes my mate and brother have, I didn’t like the interface and to some extent the picture quality was what put me off. Also there have been a few live sporting events (boxing, footy) I’ve gone round to peoples houses to watch and they are buffering quite regulalry.
I’m no expert on the snidey boxes, maybe there are some that are decent. If my sky bill goes up much more when I’m next due to renew I’ll probably consider making the switch myself. I’d have to find something better than the ones I’ve seen though
I got one last month. Very impressed with it. £50 a year and I can watch any live sport, any TV show and thousands of movies.
The people that run it provide support on how to get the most out of it etc, I thought it was one guy holed up in his bedroom but it is actually being done on a huge scale (they have alluded to having thousands of customers).
I had a couple of hiccups when trying to watch a 4k film, but they resolved it pretty quickly. I honestly can’t fault it.
I’ve had a Droid box for years. They can be a faff, need regular updates as channels need adding etc. In all honesty I rarely use it now. SMART TV with Netflix and a decent browser means all the sport stuff is on various streaming sites. How much TV can you actually watch? A decent Broadband is essential though.
gcw Would add that the feeds are probably 2-3 mins behind the live action though
That’s no big deal as far as I’m concerned. Maybe the ones I’ve seen haven’t been the best examples.
If the picture quality is good and there is no (or very little) buffering I can see it being worth having. May get one for the lad for Christmas, I’m forever sending him to my paresnt house to watch the footy.
KODI is your friend
All you need is a Firestick. These providers always have apps you can download ontothe Firestick so no special box is required
https://kodi.tv/
You can actually install it all on a PC and link it to your TV that way too, same as having a stick or Droid box but with the obvious benefits of a better CPU, graphics card etc etc
Matt as an example, on the football menu for a game i can choose the SD, HD or UHD stream.
It’s done via a fire stick as someone mentioned earlier.
One minor thing I forgot…..when watching a game, the ball will flicker when it’s booted by a player. I think that is the settings on my TV though, not the app
I’m experimenting with a Fire Stick based app.
It’s decent in concept, but doesn’t work so great, you end up with buffering, synch issues and a iffy picture.
I’ve tried signal boosters but suspect the app itself has quite a heavy overhead, have skys full fat broadband with no problem streaming anything else, either in the house or the garden.
Is probably sound if wired to the router, but fucked if I’m rerouting cabling etc to find out.
In short, close but no cigar.
Have you tried clearing the cache on the app MC?
