Swapping Sky for Now TV

[thehails]

I’m looking for some input please, we’ve had Sky for years & years, every renewal DH manages to negotiate a renewal price I’ll live with, we’re now out of contract again & the package has gone to over £100 a month, he’s negotiated it to about £70 but that’s still a huge amount of money a month to pay!

We’re considering switching to Now Tv.

Being able to have a sports package is apparently essential 🤷 DH & DS’s watch the F1, football & snooker so need to have these covered, which I think the sports package with Now TV would cover.

They also watch films and documentary’s & DH loves things like porridge, dads army, faulty towers etc so I think we’d need the entertainment & cinema packages

DS who doesn’t live with us currently uses our Sky package to watch sport at his house and we use his Disney+ subscription to watch stuff on that at ours.
To continue doing this I think if we’d need to get Ultra boost.

All this is still cheaper than Sky.

So my question is are we understanding it correctly, will we be able to to do what we currently do with sky but on Now TV instead?

I suspect loads of dibber will have switched from
sky to other options, how do you rate Now Tv in comparison?

Anything I’m missing?

Thanks for your help

[Floridafan]

We went fibre - had Sky for donkeys years and when they were asking £110 for not very much (no sports or anything) I cancelled it. Our son has a Now tv sports package and when he visits he watches it here. Apart from that the only information I can give you is we haven’t missed Sky at all.

[tocpe321]

We switched from Virgin a few months ago.

We had an aerial installed and bought a Freeview recorder for terrestrial TV channels.

We got Community Fibre for our Internet.

We no longer have a landline.

For streaming we pick and choose. Deals come out every so often.

Currently we have Amazon Prime, Apple TV and Netflix.

We have had Disney Plus and Now streaming before.

It's a lot cheaper than staying with Virgin.

[BevS97]

We also just use Freeview plus Disney / Netflix / Amazon prime and I don’t miss a thing.

The nice thing about now and the others is you can switch them on / off by the month. So if you want to watch a series then switch it on and then later you can cancel it.
No hassle.

I’d try just Freeview for a while and see how you go.

We don’t even have a recorder which I thought would be an issue but isn’t as everything is on catchup / on demand.

[LittleDot]

The only thing that keeps me at Sky currently (and we've been overpaying for 15 odd years... !) is the fact you can record and watch later.

You can't do that with NOW TV. If you're out and the Football or F1 is on and you want to watch it when you get back in (even though it hasn't finished yet!) you can't do that with NOW TV.

The ability to record and playback Live TV is what keeps me at Sky currently!

[thehails]

Originally Posted by LittleDot

The only thing that keeps me at Sky currently (and we've been overpaying for 15 odd years... !) is the fact you can record and watch later.

You can't do that with NOW TV. If you're out and the Football or F1 is on and you want to watch it when you get back in (even though it hasn't finished yet!) you can't do that with NOW TV.

The ability to record and playback Live TV is what keeps me at Sky currently!

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Ok that may be a deal breaker for DH - he often records the F1 & watches it later

[vhm672]

Originally Posted by thehails

Ok that may be a deal breaker for DH - he often records the F1 & watches it later

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yeah live sport only with no pause or catch up is always the deal breaker for me.

[tspill]

Originally Posted by LittleDot

The only thing that keeps me at Sky currently (and we've been overpaying for 15 odd years... !) is the fact you can record and watch later.

You can't do that with NOW TV. If you're out and the Football or F1 is on and you want to watch it when you get back in (even though it hasn't finished yet!) you can't do that with NOW TV.

The ability to record and playback Live TV is what keeps me at Sky currently!

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This is a big deal for us as well.
I just renewed at £110 for pretty much everything including Fibre BB.
I do think thats a lot, but I did get it down a bit. I think we will just have to grit our teeth and accept it. We have an apartment where we use other services and tbh. - it is just more of a faff. We do look into moving each time our contract comes close, but Sky just make things so seamless to use.

[jarre]

Originally Posted by thehails

Ok that may be a deal breaker for DH - he often records the F1 & watches it later

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You can subscribe to F1TV if you get a VPN and make an account from a country that allows it, like the USA. I have one and I think it's £6/month. You get access to all the live stuff plus you can watch it back later etc.

[hexagon]

We briefly had Sky about 12 years ago, but we got rid after 1.5 years I think, because 16 year old thought it was a rip off. But it was before streaming was a big thing, so I just watched want I wanted from random links that people had uploaded too 😬🤣😅

We went back to plus net, who have 95% been brilliant compared to skys like 10% 🤣

So we use plusnet and have Netflix, Amazon prime, and get nowtv and disney+ temporarily if there’s something we want to watch. And the only actual tv we watch is the chase and the news and the odd programme, I watch everything on demand though.