Seriously thinking of ditching TV sport

[Percyprod]

Although not sport mad myself, my wife is sport mad (She's a PE teacher). We both like to watch football, tennis, cricket etc, but there are 2 things tempting me to get rid of it. First of all cost. Years ago sport was on ITV or BBC. Now to see most sport I have to have and pay for Sky, BT Sport, Amazon Prime, Eurosport and Eurosport Player. As more sports transfer to these companies I feel I get no benefit, nor does anyone else except for those companies. The quality on Prime and Eurosport player is awful as well. Worse than this is the constant battering from bloody Ray Winston and Bet 365. Every few minutes he's on with his arrogant southern accent telling us that if we send lots of money to Bet 365 we will some how be taking part in the sports. What a prat! Worst of all it's been the same terrible advert for ages. I hate adverts anyway, they lie and assume we're all idiots. There. I feel better now. Really do appreciate good old Auntie BBC.

 

[rapparee]

Get IPTV.

All the channels you want for £60 a year.

 

[Percyprod]

I want to keep it legal.

 

[Andy78]

Ditch the paid TV services and spend the same money going to live sporting events. Much more fulfilling.
I imagine.
I'm not into sport that much.

 

[Percyprod]

Any idea of how much that would cost? Tickets, travel, accommodation etc. Even tv looks cheap when compared!

 

[electric al]

Just do it ✔

 

[Andy78]

Any idea of how much that would cost? Tickets, travel, accommodation etc. Even tv looks cheap when compared!

There you go then, your financial burden suddenly appears significantly reduced

 

[Percyprod]

Still not got rid of Ray bloody Winston, I think he'd follow me.

 

[electric al]

Know what you mean - take his advice and cash out now

 

[MJPD29]

After the standard of the champions league final I'll think twice before I watch another match

 

[electric al]

Was crap wasn't it . Mind you good job Chelsea only came up against Arsenal

 

[FatAlan]

Knocked my Sky package down to basic channels like Sky Atlantic which saved a fortune. Just get Now TV online and pay per view if you’re not watching that much.

 

[Rpa07]

I ditched the TV licence the other day and ploughed the money into You tube premium.
Now I watch a lot of YouTube - Doh!
Still waiting for a knock on the door for a check up - keeping the house tidy for a visit from the goon squad is a right bore!

 

[Dustydazzler]

Soon as my sky contract is up in March , I’m ditching sports

No longer represents good value for money

 

[Zerax]

Soon as my sky contract is up in March , I’m ditching sports

No longer represents good value for money

I wish they'd charge each sport channel at the proportional cost of buying the rights for that sport... Sadly, every sport has to subsidise the football costs !

 

[David Prosser]

skysports is on TalkTalk for £8 month. It's not quite a smooth with the pause and rewind but it's much easier on the wallet.

 

[Sparkgap]

I ditched the TV licence the other day and ploughed the money into You tube premium.
Now I watch a lot of YouTube - Doh!
Still waiting for a knock on the door for a check up - keeping the house tidy for a visit from the goon squad is a right bore!

I got rid of my TV 25+ years ago. Have a scan through the channels now and again when visiting family or friends just to see what I'm not missing I can watch DVDs, internet, youtube etc or better still put on some music and chill out with a good book, or even get on with the million jobs needing doing around the house! Nope, who needs TV.

 

[pirate]

Got fed up with Shy too...price kept going up, then you say you are leaving so they reduce it for 6 months...and for some reason they simply won't tailor a custom package for you, so I went for freesat with a Humax box and a NowTV box, the latter so I could see golf mainly.
In January we moved house, to a flat-downsizing...only option there was Virgin TV as the cables were all in and no external aerials allowed.
Which package though?
Oh, said my wife, let's go for the super-duper over the top one, with 2 Tivo boxes and fibre broadband, then we can watch what we each want, and record 12 programmes while watching another 6 on split-screen.
Chap came to install everything, and made right hash of it...but the broadband is very fast indeed. Thus, I signed up to £120/month, reduced to £89/month for the first year...
and then she left me!
Another bonus was my mate fitting a Slingbox, so now I can watch all my thousands of channels and recordings anywhere in the world free of charge as it just logs in to my Tivo box.
So, 2 results, really...

 

[Percyprod]

I used to be with Talk talk, then they introduced me to A lot of very nice Indian Men who wanted to get rid of all the nasty viruses on my computer. Whereas this provided me with hours of entertainment, I decided to join Sky. Those very nice gentlemen followed me though. Naughty Talktalk.

 

[Squid]

Got fed up with Shy too...price kept going up, then you say you are leaving so they reduce it for 6 months...and for some reason they simply won't tailor a custom package for you, so I went for freesat with a Humax box and a NowTV box, the latter so I could see golf mainly.
In January we moved house, to a flat-downsizing...only option there was Virgin TV as the cables were all in and no external aerials allowed.
Which package though?
Oh, said my wife, let's go for the super-duper over the top one, with 2 Tivo boxes and fibre broadband, then we can watch what we each want, and record 12 programmes while watching another 6 on split-screen.
Chap came to install everything, and made right hash of it...but the broadband is very fast indeed. Thus, I signed up to £120/month, reduced to £89/month for the first year...
and then she left me!
Another bonus was my mate fitting a Slingbox, so now I can watch all my thousands of channels and recordings anywhere in the world free of charge as it just logs in to my Tivo box.
So, 2 results, really...

She left you for the Virgin installer guy, must have been impressed with the package......

 

[pirate]

Hmm, hadn't thought of that...
anyway, yesterday I got a new internet dish, so now I've got an erection that points to the sky...
and, it glows in the dark!

 

[Percyprod]

Ooooh!

 

[littlespark]

Must be a heck of a long cable to reach your ship, pirate

 

[telectrix]

Hmm, hadn't thought of that...
anyway, yesterday I got a new internet dish, so now I've got an erection that points to the sky...
and, it glows in the dark!

start at 2.00 mins.

 

[Squid]

Pirate has a new "gal"

 

[Spoon]

I used to be with Talk talk, then they introduced me to A lot of very nice Indian Men who wanted to get rid of all the nasty viruses on my computer. Whereas this provided me with hours of entertainment, I decided to join Sky. Those very nice gentlemen followed me though. Naughty Talktalk.

It's been a bit since I had one of them phone calls.. I did used to enjoy them... They didn't like me as I wasted their time..

 

[Andy78]

It's been a bit since I had one of them phone calls.. I did used to enjoy them... They didn't like me as I wasted their time..

I had one yesterday. Was offering to save me money on the £10.99/month I currently pay for my Sky maintenance cover. I have never had Sky TV.

I calmly asked him what it felt like to lie to people and try to steal from them to earn his living. He apologised and said it was all he had and would be out of the job in 6 weeks. I told him his life was full of choices and he should find another job asap, he is worth far more than this degrading scam. He again apologised for wasting my time and said he would try to better his life.

Makes a change from me winding them up which is my usual tack.

 

[Spoon]

I had one yesterday. Was offering to save me money on the £10.99/month I currently pay for my Sky maintenance cover. I have never had Sky TV.

I calmly asked him what it felt like to lie to people and try to steal from them to earn his living. He apologised and said it was all he had and would be out of the job in 6 weeks. I told him his life was full of choices and he should find another job asap, he is worth far more than this degrading scam. He again apologised for wasting my time and said he would try to better his life.

Makes a change from me winding them up which is my usual tack.

You are a nice man..... Don't get too big headed.
I'm just an arse, so I wind them up.

 

[Andy78]

You are a nice man..... Don't get too big headed.
I'm just an arse, so I wind them up.

I wouldn't go that far, I just got tired of being an arse in that moment.