Finally dumped SKY SPORTS

**Baw187** · 18-07-2017 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by macca70

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Just got sky installed in the new place today.

The sales guy last week said to hold of adding the Sky Sports package til today as they are launching there new Channel set up and will be offering deals to existing customers, looking at about £20 p/m for all the sports.

Have you seen the cost of the Mayweather v MacGregor fight!!! Wowser, that is ludicrous. £90 for existing Sky Sports subscribers and £130 for non existing Sky Sports subscribers!! The UK should take the collective decision to boycott this and stream it from US TV as those prices are properly shocking.

That will be a Kodi watch for free effort that! That price is ludicrous.

**~~High-On-Hibs~~** · 18-07-2017 06:37 PM

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Not sure when Kodi will be shut down for good but it's a great source right now 👌

Never. It will just come back in a different name. They'll never be able to stop it unless they fully regulate the internet. The day that happens will be the day people stop using the internet altogether.

***McD*** · 18-07-2017 06:37 PM

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Your English team see plenty pounds out of It and are on live a lot too so there is a good reason for folk like you to keep it.

I really do hope the day comes when they go belly up. We can all get back to 3pm Saturday KO and support our teams!!!

Im sure the thousands of staff will be really happy for you feeling smug, when they're heading to the job centre. Especially the Scottish staff

**MyJo** · 18-07-2017 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by Baw187

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Google Kodi. Plenty information on how to set it up.

£35 on an amazon firestick and half an hour on google is the best investment i've ever made.

***snooky*** · 18-07-2017 06:38 PM

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Never. It will just come back in a different name. They'll never be able to stop it unless they fully regulate the internet. The day that happens will be the day people stop using the internet altogether.

...and Westmonster will be delighted.

***Scouse Hibee*** · 18-07-2017 06:40 PM

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Your English team see plenty pounds out of It and are on live a lot too so there is a good reason for folk like you to keep it.

I really do hope the day comes when they go belly up. We can all get back to 3pm Saturday KO and support our teams!!!

Yes it will be a tremendous day for their employees eh!

**~~High-On-Hibs~~** · 18-07-2017 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by macca70

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Have you seen the cost of the Mayweather v MacGregor fight!!! Wowser, that is ludicrous. £90 for existing Sky Sports subscribers and £130 for non existing Sky Sports subscribers!! The UK should take the collective decision to boycott this and stream it from US TV as those prices are properly shocking.

Or you could pay some chap 50 quid a year and get everything. All sports, including all PPVs.

***hibeerealist*** · 18-07-2017 06:47 PM

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Im sure the thousands of staff will be really happy for you feeling smug, when they're heading to the job centre. Especially the Scottish staff

ok Rupert but unfortunately there is always a price. What about all the employed staff that have been cast aside by a lot of our football clubs as they cannot afford to pay them?

The only ones making on these obscene tv deals are Rupert & co AND a load of mercenary, mostly foreign, so called footballers!!

***hibeerealist*** · 18-07-2017 06:50 PM

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Yes it will be a tremendous day for their employees eh!

Replied to this comment from another netter, unfortunately there is always a cost and some suffer what about those paid off by many Scottish clubs?

**The_Sauz** · 18-07-2017 06:52 PM

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Im sure the thousands of staff will be really happy for you feeling smug, when they're heading to the job centre. Especially the Scottish staff

Well if it's good enough for the Steel workers/Miners/Fishermen/ Car-Van Plant workers, then it's good enough for sky workers! Plus there are plenty call centres looking for workers, so I'm sure they will survive

***Scouse Hibee*** · 18-07-2017 07:06 PM

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Replied to this comment from another netter, unfortunately there is always a cost and some suffer what about those paid off by many Scottish clubs?

Yes what about them, do you feel smug when you hear of them being paid off too?

**~~High-On-Hibs~~** · 18-07-2017 07:08 PM

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Yes what about them, do you feel smug when you hear of them being paid off too?

You seem awfy smug about it.

***Scouse Hibee*** · 18-07-2017 07:09 PM

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well if it's good enough for the steel workers/miners/fishermen/ car-van plant workers, then it's good enough for sky workers! Plus there are plenty call centres looking for workers, so i'm sure they will survive

wtf?

***Scouse Hibee*** · 18-07-2017 07:10 PM

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You seem awfy smug about it.

Smug about what? You're the one smug about paying 14p a day. I would never feel smug about anyone losing a job.

**~~High-On-Hibs~~** · 18-07-2017 07:16 PM

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Smug about what? You're the one smug about paying 14p a day. I would never feel smug about anyone losing a job.

But you are pretty much saying that people should support Sky in order to protect jobs, while ignoring the jobs that have been lost as a result of Sky. You don't seem to mind job loses, as long as you get what you want out of it, so you can't really claim the moral high ground over anyone else on here.

***Scouse Hibee*** · 18-07-2017 07:22 PM

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But you are pretty much saying that people should support Sky in order to protect jobs, while ignoring the jobs that have been lost as a result of Sky. You don't seem to mind job loses, as long as you get what you want out of it, so you can't really claim the moral high ground over anyone else on here.

Yes I can, as I have never said I would be happy or welcome the loss of someone's job have I now?
People lose jobs for all sorts of reasons linked to many things that I do or buy that I can't directly prevent but to come out and gloat that you will be happy if and when it happens is not in my make up. Also I have never told anyone to support SKY "each to their own" was my comment.

Nameless · 18-07-2017 07:22 PM

Not jumping on the bandwagon, but I have been meaning to reduce my Sky package since January. This thread has prompted me, so that's the sports package binned now. The £30 per month I'm saving will now be getting spent on Hibs tickets for me and the wee man.

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**~~High-On-Hibs~~** · 18-07-2017 07:24 PM

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Yes I can, as I have never said I would be happy or welcome the loss of someone's job have I now?
People lose jobs for all sorts of reasons linked to many things that I do or buy that I can't directly prevent but to come out and gloat that you will be happy if and when it happens is not in my make up.

Nobody has said that they would be on here. You're putting words into peoples mouths.

***Scouse Hibee*** · 18-07-2017 07:26 PM

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Nobody has said that they would be on here. You're putting words into peoples mouths.

Aye right then, I must have dreamt it źzzzzzzzzz

**Baw187** · 18-07-2017 07:44 PM

Incidentally, Andy Murray interview with Guillem Balague on Sky Sports Football now, talking about when he used to go to Hibs games.

For those that haven't cancelled......

***Carheenlea*** · 18-07-2017 07:47 PM

I don't have Sky Sports, but the new deals with the dedicated channels got my attention. Football doesn't really interest me, but a dedicated golf channel was one I'd be interested in. It's about £18, then if you add another it's £22. The temptation is then there to get the football on the off chance of a game catching the eye. When it's then £28 or so for the whole sports package you might ask if for the sake of another few quid if you'd be just as well getting the whole thing.
Simply a marketing tequnique to reel in new subscribers, so I'll just sit it out. Absolute certainty as soon as you subscribe to one sport channel they will be pestering over the blower in no time trying to persuade you to upgrade. I'll just stick to going to the golf clubhouse for the big events I think.

**macca70** · 18-07-2017 07:59 PM

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I don't have Sky Sports, but the new deals with the dedicated channels got my attention. Football doesn't really interest me, but a dedicated golf channel was one I'd be interested in. It's about £18, then if you add another it's £22. The temptation is then there to get the football on the off chance of a game catching the eye. When it's then £28 or so for the whole sports package you might ask if for the sake of another few quid if you'd be just as well getting the whole thing.
Simply a marketing tequnique to reel in new subscribers, so I'll just sit it out. Absolute certainty as soon as you subscribe to one sport channel they will be pestering over the blower in no time trying to persuade you to upgrade. I'll just stick to going to the golf clubhouse for the big events I think.

I just literally got the sports added on tonight as I was advised to wait til they launched the existing customer offer.

£18 for 1 channel or £20 for all 7; Prem League, Football, Golf, F1, Arena, Cricket & Action.

1 click when in my online Sky account and it's all available to view after 1 minute. Brilliant service.

**Famous Fiver** · 18-07-2017 08:03 PM

I ditched Sky when my sub went up to £60 a month. Took the line with them that it was unreasonable to expect an old age pensioner to pay £15 a week to put fuel in Wayne Rooney's limousine. Poor chap on the other end of the line didn't have a comeback to that one. Haven't missed it a bit.

I am putting the £60 in a tin and now have £780 salted away. Can feel a wee holiday coming on.

***Carheenlea*** · 18-07-2017 08:07 PM

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I just literally got the sports added on tonight as I was advised to wait til they launched the existing customer offer.

£18 for 1 channel or £20 for all 7; Prem League, Football, Golf, F1, Arena, Cricket & Action.

1 click when in my online Sky account and it's all available to view after 1 minute. Brilliant service.

That looks a bit different to what I read. Mind you, I don't think I've met two folk who pay the same for their Sky packages!

***Jamesie*** · 18-07-2017 08:17 PM

Was offered a "return to Sky" deal last summer - basic TV package and Sports in HD for £28.60 a month (60% off I believe). That was due to expire this month but was automatically extended "until 2020" so I am told - I'm out of contract now and on a month-to-month deal so will believe that when I see it. I've now started paying an extra £5 a month for Sky Go Extra so that my GF can use the PS4 to watch box sets in her flat and I can watch Sports on her projector when I'm over at hers!

***Jamesie*** · 18-07-2017 08:18 PM

Also picked up Premier Sports HD for £25 for the year recently during a GAA promo they had on - wouldn't pay a monthly fee for it but £25 to see Rangers dumped out of Europe was worth it alone!

**Ozyhibby** · 18-07-2017 08:32 PM

Worrying about people losing there jobs in Sky is like worrying about HMV workers or telephone switchboard operators. It's creative destruction and it's going to happen no matter what.
Sky sell a product for about £40-£100 (based on posts here) a month that anyone with an Internet connection can watch absolutely free. How long can that last? How long did CD's last when folk started downloading? It's the same thing.
There is also the fact that because Netflix and Amazon are so cheap and have a massive amount of great content, that younger people are now sitting watching that rather than Stoke v Bournemouth at night.
And as I say, it's available absolutely free to anyone who wants it. They are being out run by new technology.

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