Sky Sports Golf Coverage- Is it worth it?

[3offTheTee]

Whilst I think the coverage on Sky is good they have just increased the subs by £3 per month plus the VAT increase in January.

Whilst I realise other Sports are involved is the price realistic or are Sky just taking the proverbial?

 

[medwayjon]

Sky Sports packages are so expensive because you are paying for the football coverage whether you watch it or not.

The Premiership & Champions League rights cost them huge amounts and thats why the subs are high.

I dont rate their golf coverage as highly as the beeb but at the end of the day if its all there is, its better than nothing.

 

[birdieman]

It is tough on us that just want to watch golf. I'm not interested in cricket, rugby, wrestling and can take or leave football.
Therefore it's not value for money for me but I still pay it. That's life I suppose.

 

[GB72]

There is no real solution to this one. If you have a near monopoly then you can basically charge what you want and people will pay. If you have teh coverage spread over various providers then costs go up for the individual as you have to subscribe to various providers to get they sport that you want. Take, for example, the sport I watch most of, Rugby. If I want to watch the Premiership and the European cup then I need to subscribe to both Sky and ESPN to get all of the games so I would need to pay more this year than last to get the same coverage.

That said, I am moving house to an area that gets Virgin coverage and their full pack costs the same as I am paying for Sky, includes the Sky Sports channels and ESPN so may be the answer

 

[medwayjon]

GB72, we were on virgin at home and the cost of the complete package (XL phone, broadband, TV + Sky Sports) just got silly, up at £100 a month or so.

The price was great as a new customer but they just seemed to be forever increasing the prices.

 

[chrisd]

My gripe with Sky is that I dont get the best quality picture that they can give me for my £48 per month, as I am not willing to shell out another £10 per month. If the paper shop said that the daily newspaper would be virtually unreadable for the price, but if I pay an extra 50p for the paper it would be in super dooper print I'd tell them where to stuff it ..... why don't I do this with Sky?

 

[thecraw]

Like Birdieman, Sky have me by the short and curlies!!

I don't watch tennis, rugby, darts or whatever. I will watch the occasional game of football but its golf I want and its mainly golf I watch on the TV.

I wish the Golf Channel would set up a European arm and have a separate subscription which gave me access to live European and USPGA golf.

 

[Yerman]

I watch the golf channel via the net and its aweful, Sky is great with sky+, you just have to remember to watch it an hour late then you can fast forward the ads.

 

[GB72]

GB72, we were on virgin at home and the cost of the complete package (XL phone, broadband, TV + Sky Sports) just got silly, up at £100 a month or so.

The price was great as a new customer but they just seemed to be forever increasing the prices.

To be honest, by the time I have paid my Sky, Broadband and phone line it costs about the same as that but at least with Virgin I can get some nice fast net access rather than the half a meg download speed that i get in the village I live in at the moment.

 

[Grumps]

if you fast forward the adds you miss the paddy power advert best laugh ive had in ages

 

[medwayjon]

GB72, we were on virgin at home and the cost of the complete package (XL phone, broadband, TV + Sky Sports) just got silly, up at £100 a month or so.

The price was great as a new customer but they just seemed to be forever increasing the prices.

To be honest, by the time I have paid my Sky, Broadband and phone line it costs about the same as that but at least with Virgin I can get some nice fast net access rather than the half a meg download speed that i get in the village I live in at the moment.

Im lucky that my sky broadband is rapid.

The potential speed on virgin is immense.

I worked for telewest (who virgin bought out) and there was capability for 1gb broadband in theory according to the boffins.

 

[Yerman]

I have sky but virgin media broadband which is the quickest here but is still a rip off their up to 50meg BB rarely gets above 10

 

[TobieC]

If you're recording golf to watch the next day you always need to record the programme afterwards too. The programme ended before the play-off in the USPGA last night and in the US Open they had the programme scheduled to finish 3 hours after the leaders teed off! Can kind of understand it with a play off but the US Open cock up was ridiculous

 

[Aztecs27]

If you're recording golf to watch the next day you always need to record the programme afterwards too. The programme ended before the play-off in the USPGA last night and in the US Open they had the programme scheduled to finish 3 hours after the leaders teed off! Can kind of understand it with a play off but the US Open cock up was ridiculous

Does this mean if I set a manual recording to finish at 12:30am, it's going to have missed the playoff?

I didn't want to find out the result, but ended up hearing it on the radio anyway, so I'm not too fussed...but it would have been nice to watch some last day good quality golf without it being cut off. Normally I record the programme afterwards, but I was so tired last night I didn't really know what I was doing!

 

[jammydodger]

Does this mean if I set a manual recording to finish at 12:30am, it's going to have missed the playoff?

Yep it didnt finish til about 0110 hrs , couldnt go to bed as it was gripping stuff

 

[znuffzz]

sky sports is def worth it if you have sky contract, with virgin or bt then it's a rip off. personally i think virgin is crap anyways.

 

[Aztecs27]

Does this mean if I set a manual recording to finish at 12:30am, it's going to have missed the playoff?

Yep it didnt finish til about 0110 hrs , couldnt go to bed as it was gripping stuff

Arse!

Oh well...Fair play to Kaymer for holding Watson off. I wanted to stay up and watch it, but after a night of massive drinking on Friday and the same all day/night at Twickenham and Clapham on Saturday and a game of American Football yesterday I was absolutely exhausted last night!

 

[viscount17]

sky sports is def worth it if you have sky contract, with virgin or bt then it's a rip off. personally i think virgin is crap anyways.

tbh, it costs the same whether you get sky or virgin. virgin is £20/month extra for all the sky sports channels, so about £60/month. sky is £50/month plus the extra for the BT line.

funny how a 'competitive' industry always manages to come up with the same answer

(where is the cynical smiley when you need him?)

 

[znuffzz]

you dont need a bt line anymore for sky.

i pay about 50 a month for hd, all sports, internet and phone with free weekend and evening.

pretty sure thats better than any other provider.

 

[viscount17]

you dont need a bt line anymore for sky.

i pay about 50 a month for hd, all sports, internet and phone with free weekend and evening.

pretty sure thats better than any other provider.

thanks, I may be contacting them