Sky TV advice please

[shivas irons]

I'm considering getting my old sky box connected up so I can watch the US Open this year.I contacted Sky and they want £42,apparently I have to get an entertainment package to get the 4 sports channels this seems a tad high to me. Is it possible to get just Sky sports 1&2 which leads me to my next question is the live golf on Sky shown on Sky sports 1 and 2?
Thanks

 

[fundy]

The golf can be on any of the sky sports channels, from 1-4 so you would want to have all of them not just 1 and 2 (for eg tonighjts coverage from the pga tour is on sky sports 3)

As for prices, surprised you cant get a better deal from them, at least initally, they usually offer some half price deals to returning customers

 

[fundy]

If it is just for the US Open then maybe this may be a better option?

http://www.nowtv.com/sports

 

[Jimbooo]

or try nutjob.eu

 

[Garush34]

The price seems about right, it's 20 quid for the sports channels plus something like 20 quid for the basic stuff and a quid each for each extra package. And as stated the golf can be on any channel any week so if your gona go for it go for all the sports nothing worse than paying for it and it being on the channel u don't have.

But loads of places online u can watch it of u want it for just the one week, I use wiziwig when I'm at home has links to different sites that have it on, so u can usually get a good feed.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Sky limit Virgin customers to Sky Sports 1 & 2 in HD. Since then, golf seems to appear more frequently on Sky sports 3 & 4, whilst sports shows that really need HD like Darts and Soccer AM tend to monopolise Sky Sports 1 & 2. So no you can't guarantee it will be on Sky Sports 1 & 2, although iirc the Masters was, so the US Open might be. Your call.

 

[dufferman]

Sky limit Virgin customers to Sky Sports 1 & 2 in HD. Since then, golf seems to appear more frequently on Sky sports 3 & 4, whilst sports shows that really need HD like Darts and Soccer AM tend to monopolise Sky Sports 1 & 2. So no you can't guarantee it will be on Sky Sports 1 & 2, although iirc the Masters was, so the US Open might be. Your call.

I have Virgin now, and can confirm that they do not restrict me to 1 & 2... I have all 4 sky sports channels, not in HD, for £25 a month. Steep, but what can you do?

 

[Blue in Munich]

I have Virgin now, and can confirm that they do not restrict me to 1 & 2... I have all 4 sky sports channels, not in HD, for £25 a month. Steep, but what can you do?

So do I, but only 1 & 2 in HD......... They then push the golf out to 3 & 4 so that Virgin customers like us don't get it in HD, thus hoping that they stay with Sky. If the OP goes for the option of only having 1 & 2 they might not get the golf, and this hopefully explains why.

 

[shivas irons]

The price seems about right, it's 20 quid for the sports channels plus something like 20 quid for the basic stuff and a quid each for each extra package. And as stated the golf can be on any channel any week so if your gona go for it go for all the sports nothing worse than paying for it and it being on the channel u don't have.

But loads of places online u can watch it of u want it for just the one week, I use wiziwig when I'm at home has links to different sites that have it on, so u can usually get a good feed.

Used to watch all the live golf online but have since moved and the connection speed at my new place is dire
Sky's my only option to watch it.

 

[TPO77]

Try using the online chat on the sky website to talk your way into a better deal. Generally they will give you a decent 12 month deal just to get you signed up there and then. Might be because I signed up as a new customer (we had it in the girlfriends name but moved house and I didn't want to pay for installation) but I managed to get full sky package + HD for half price for twelve months and I was only trying to see if the lad would give me a decent deal for joining. Took absolutely no effort to get them to offer a good deal. Might be worth saying that you're considering Virgin and see if that budges them. Their prices are very much a guide though it seems and their sales reps do have the freedom to play about with pricing.

 

[starchild42]

You dont say when you last subscribed but we just picked up a great deal where we get all channels +hd and 3d half price for 12 months. It was on vouchercodes .co.uk and comes to £35.50 per month. Good luck

 

[Cheifi0]

I have just moved house and am looking to get sky. Will have to give that site a look.

 

[Fish]

I watch everything on-line through my EE box which has excellent connection speed. I'd never give Sky a penny of mine or anyone else's hard earned.

Keep getting loads of marketing on this new BT "free sports channel" where if your with BT Broadband, you can watch all the premiership football matches for free! This can be on the standard £10 package or as they prefer, the £15 infinity package. Still looking into to it to see if it covers other sports on the same channels or if its only live premiership football and then goes off!

 

[Hobbit]

After 18yrs of Sky, the last 4yrs being HD, I've just moved to Virgin HD. My decision was based on the picture quality from Virgin, via fibre optic as opposed to Sky's HD via satelite. Most US PGA golf is on Sports 3, non-HD, but the picture quality is pretty much on a par with what I was getting from Sky HD.

Needless to say Sky tried everything to keep me, including sending an engineer out to to service my box. One week in and I'm happy I made the change.

Got an email from Sky last night offering me a new box(2TB), and all at half price for 12mths, and a reminder that I can pull out of the Virgin deal in the first 28days. But for me, it's about the picture quality.

 

[Cheifi0]

I watch everything on-line through my EE box which has excellent connection speed. I'd never give Sky a penny of mine or anyone else's hard earned.

Keep getting loads of marketing on this new BT "free sports channel" where if your with BT Broadband, you can watch all the premiership football matches for free! This can be on the standard £10 package or as they prefer, the £15 infinity package. Still looking into to it to see if it covers other sports on the same channels or if its only live premiership football and then goes off!

From the little research I did BT are creating 2 new sports channels with the main draw of the channels being live premier league football, premiership rugby, and tennis (I think ATP). You also get ESPN thrown in as well. I couldn't see them mention any live golf. Since they are new channels I assume there will be little or no overlap with sky for the live product so I doubt there will be any on BT.

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

I'm considering getting my old sky box connected up so I can watch the US Open this year.I contacted Sky and they want £42,apparently I have to get an entertainment package to get the 4 sports channels this seems a tad high to me. Is it possible to get just Sky sports 1&2 which leads me to my next question is the live golf on Sky shown on Sky sports 1 and 2?
Thanks

Negotiate with them, they are receptive to it, I got my monthly charges down by 25%

 

[Fish]

From the little research I did BT are creating 2 new sports channels with the main draw of the channels being live premier league football, premiership rugby, and tennis (I think ATP). You also get ESPN thrown in as well. I couldn't see them mention any live golf. Since they are new channels I assume there will be little or no overlap with sky for the live product so I doubt there will be any on BT.

OK thanks, I was hoping they were Sky channels being subsidised by what they make on the broadband. Makes more sense if their 2 new channels with ESPN thrown in, still sounds good though although I'm not a fan of BT and have had no issues with EE since moving to them for my phone/s & broadband.