Do you have Sky TV?

Do you have Sky TV

  • Yes I have Sky TV

    Votes: 111 67.7%
  • No I don't have Sky TV

    Votes: 53 32.3%

  • Total voters
    164
Friend has one- great HD pictures and a zillion channels. I looked into it as a no brainer at £250 PA.....................however, one slight snag, they are illegal so non starter for me.

Do you know which model/device he's using?
I have a Raspberry Pi programmed to run XBMC but picture quality on streaming sports is very poor (just like those streaming sites on the internet) so I didn't pursue it any further.
 
Do you know which model/device he's using?
I have a Raspberry Pi programmed to run XBMC but picture quality on streaming sports is very poor (just like those streaming sites on the internet) so I didn't pursue it any further.

If you get the right device XBMC is superb quality :thup:
 
Had Sky for years. Initially we got it via cable that my dad got installed while my mum as at work as she was a but prudish and didn't want a dish blighting the house as she thought it was "common" (she was funny like that). In the end, we changed to a dish (no idea how he got that approved) and so when I met my wife we already had it and so I was insistent that when we got our first place together we had to have it...so she could watch loads of interesting TV herself and of course I wouldn't be just watching the sport!!

Gone back to a cable provider as Virgin have done the whole of the new estate we moved to last year. Much quicker broadband, and with TV and phone chucked it's still cheaper than we paid for a similar package via Sky
 
How did you manage to get it so cheap ?

Have you not heard? It's not what you know...! :thup:

Working for them has its obvious perks I would guess....:D

Left Sky 2 years ago mate, after 15 years I got my free deal extended by a generous 0 days. Soon as my billing period expired I got hit with full whack.

£47.50 I pay for mine now.😄
 
Freesat here. Its pretty easy to find ways to watch everything else.
 
Have you not heard? It's not what you know...! :thup:



Left Sky 2 years ago mate, after 15 years I got my free deal extended by a generous 0 days. Soon as my billing period expired I got hit with full whack.

£47.50 I pay for mine now
.😄
Greig that's clearly not full whack I'll wager.:smirk:

I want to go back to SKY as the EPG on Virgin raises my blood pressure everytime I use it. Plus when a programme starts later or finishes later the Virgin recorder doesnt record it. Sky has a smarter recorder that only records when its actually broadcasting.

So, Greig, who do I have to sleep with to get back to SKY at that price?
 
No I don't have Sky TV, nor would I ever. I think the costs are ridiculous and the content is beneath contempt.

I watch less than an hour of TV a week I would think. This week will be different as I will be watching the rugby on Friday but that is exceptional.

95% of the programmes are the equivalent of having a collection of idiots beamed into your house. I prefer to leave it switched off and we watch the very few decent programmes on DVD as box sets.
 
No I don't have Sky TV, nor would I ever. I think the costs are ridiculous and the content is beneath contempt.

I watch less than an hour of TV a week I would think. This week will be different as I will be watching the rugby on Friday but that is exceptional.

95% of the programmes are the equivalent of having a collection of idiots beamed into your house. I prefer to leave it switched off and we watch the very few decent programmes on DVD as box sets.

Yet you post here..........
:whistle:

;)
 
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