Getting rid of Sky.........What are the alternatives.

Maybe you could run a box through the internet instead of the dish.

I hope so anyway, we got fibre optic connected today so am going to have to research the options but deffo getting rid of Sky, Prime and Netflix subscriptions.

ring them up, tell them you want to cancel everything

They’ll offer you significant discounts to stay

I taught i seen a thread about the annual sky cancellation but cant see it now so i said id put this here.

My father in law has had sky i think since before sky plus and he loves and wont hear about streaming. In later years i have done the annual haggling with sky on price every year and cancelled only for sky to ring back with a resonable offer.

So we are here again and his contract is up in a week and I am just sick of dealing with them and playing the game of cancelling and them coming back with an offer.( offers to stay on are very bad this year)

The price this time is gone up a fair wack from last year and compare to new customers he is getting a very bad deal.

Is there anyway to get around the many phonecalls to get him a good price or is this sky actually just trying to get him off the dish on to streaming this time?

He has the basic which at the moment is 24.99. Its going up to 48.99 which is a big increase

Free to air satellite channels are disappearing. The move is towards streaming.

More4, 4Seven are gone now.

I brought a Sony TV with a digital turner and cancelled my Sky a couple of years ago best decision I ever made. I plugged my Sky cables into my TV. I have all the BBCs, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5. Dave and over 200+ more channels. The only thing that took a little time was putting the channels in numerical order but this was only a once off.

Just incase you don’t know any sky customers who use a non-HD box will have their subscriptions cancelled in October.

https://www.thesun.ie/tech/13641364/sky-tv-channel-closing-down-check-box/amp/

If you want a full list of the channels I have let me know

'alternatives' all the way, especially if after premium channels, official providers have just become too expensive for such…

Not gone , just moved. Sky are shuffling everything around , moving from DVB-S to DVB-S2 so a lot of moves have happened recently.

If you have a linux box with ABM set up to run daily , you wont have noticed them missing as they would have been rescanned automatically.

Any other box ( assuming its not a 20 year old SD box ) you have to manually search for them.

The offers from Now Tv can be amazing. I am currently on an offer for 6 mths @ 1 (ONE) Eur per month.

Couple weeks ago they also offered Sky Sports for 12 mths @ 15 Euro per month.

I will take a long break

My problem is the father in law does not want now tv or freesat etc. He loves the sky set up so i think he will have to pay the extra cost as they do not want to play ball this time in reducing cost. The only way i can see it is they want him on sky stream as they keep offering it when i talk to them.

Yes the loyalty team deal with all package issues. I was on to them yesterday and got €30 cut off my subscription (Including Sports). I've never paid the full cost since I signed up.

A HD box won't default to the same channel list as an SD box if it has previously been an Irish sub box. There are two other options, get a UK box, or an ex UK sub card, cards were available on the likes of Adverts in the past. Silly question, by any chance does your existing tv have a satellite connection.

No, not on that tv unfortunately.

Resale boxes generally used as replacement for faulty one, sd upgrades or as free to air receivers. Though as I said fta isn't as straightforward as with an sd box, ex sub cards don't appear to be as plentiful as they were, Sky Q put an end to that I think. As has been suggested a Freesat box is probably the best way to go, no messing with cards etc.

Can someone please supply a telephone number or email address to cancel/haggle over a sky broadband and TV package ? Finding it on their site/app is like some circle of hell (no doubt on purpose…)

dont know how good these are but….

https://selectra.ie/broadband/providers/sky/contact