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Alternatives to Sky and Virgin TV
- Thread starter billyiddo
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Is this where you threaten to leave and they offer you a new deal?
If so, no
Kinda of up for ditching it alltogether, Sport and Movies can be sourced online - and ive seen things like Chromecast and Roku box mentioned before but am not really clued up on the ins and outs - was hoping someone could shed a bit of light on those kinds of setups
Media Centre PC (to sit where your sky-box would be) plugged into your telly with HDMI cable. Then download everything from pirate-bay using utorrent, play it with vlc player. Get all your sport via small, running watery things that sound like 'dreams' -- a poster named 'wiziwig' might help you there (google him).
All you need is a good internet connection.
All you need is a good internet connection.
Sandman
Dean Austin
Jesus! thats crazy. Mine is cost me an arm and a leg at the moment. I rant them to complain as my box is old and knackered and I wanted a new one. They told me i had to pay for it and I said no so struggling on with my 6 year old box that has lag issues and and fills up quickly whilst paying the full monty everything month.
Seems I will actually have to cancel to get it down.
jurgen lineker
Radek Cerny
For how long? A year?
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
NickTB
Alan Hutton
That has to be a typo surely unless you cancelled most of your services?
a spur from swansea
Naybet
Cancelled last night,was paying £88 a month to Sky.....first of all they offered a fiver off !!!....then got through to cancellations offered me £16 off,said no,the girl on the line give me a big speech on loyalty blah blah.....still cancelled though. It comes down to how long you've been with sky,if you been there for a long time you'll get better discounts straight off but like myself only been there a year perhaps may have to do a stand off,so going to wait till the last minute and wait for their call.
Still got a virgin line in the house so may give them a call.
Does anyone know is their a free link/site to most of shows that are on sky atlantic,if i go back to virgin they don't have atlantic so need somewhere to keep in touch with some things on there,thrones/leftovers etc.
Still got a virgin line in the house so may give them a call.
Does anyone know is their a free link/site to most of shows that are on sky atlantic,if i go back to virgin they don't have atlantic so need somewhere to keep in touch with some things on there,thrones/leftovers etc.
Saw something on TV a couple of weeks ago. Some sort of Rouge traders program or scroungers. Some bloke can give you a box that gets all the channels and u pay him like £20 a month. He said he earns about 20-30k a month doing it! They said more people that that than sky.
Sandman
Dean Austin
Will probably be an ex sky technician. As long as you have a box and a satelite dish they can probably find a way around the cad thing. My cousin when he was living in Spain got sky installed for £200 as a one off price, all the channels forever. so they know how to do it.
SpursLodge
Nicola Berti
It's probably a card sharing network. Basically he has a legitimate Sky subscription and then puts the card in a server, you have a linux box that connects to his server and requests the decryption keys which his legitimate card gets and sends to your linux box over the net.
I rung up and told them it was too expensive and they have me 50% off my bill for six months pretty much right away.
When I rented a place before and left when moving out I obviously had to cancel it, sky kept ringing me begging me to return as a customer for a good year afterwards, well worth holding your nerve if you can. Don't forget like phones it's a mature market and there isn't really many new customers so retention is key for them.
I wouldn't mind Now TV but then you don't get on demand and you cant record things which is what I mainly do, pretty much just record tv series to burn through, watch a few on demand and the football.
Sky are quite worried though with BT, that's why they offered free broadband for a year if you extended your line rental subscription for another 18 months. Guess once champions league goes to BT people may switch and take up their broadband, be interesting to see how the next premier league tv auction goes.
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