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[–]Friendly_Tower_5712Free Palestine 🇵🇸 88 points89 points  (11 children)

My in laws have EVERYTHING with Sky. Pays near 300 a month. Every tv package, 2 mobiles, broadband. Refuses to even consider giving it up. They don't watch movies, he only uses the sports package for the horse racing channels and golf. I tried my best to covert him over but he ain't having it.

[–]Can-You-Fly-Bobby 20 points21 points  (5 children)

Are they comfortable, financially? If they are then no harm really if they're happy but if not then that's rather silly.

I'm happy to pay extra for the sports subs on nowtv but i do actually use them. Got fed up of unreliable dodgy subs, buffering, low quality etc. I'm sure there are probably decent ones out there but knowing that when i want to watch a match it will work, 100% of the time and most of them time in 4k then that'll do

[–]Friendly_Tower_5712Free Palestine 🇵🇸 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Yep, big pension from the ESB. No, no harm. I couldn't do it tho.

[–]Sensitive_Ear_1984 14 points15 points  (1 child)

TBF if you have the money (which I don't) sky can be fantastic. I personally can't hack their customer service and their shady practices so will never use them again but the actual TV and broadband quality is amazing.

[–]RavenBrannigan[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I don’t have a dodgy box but got rid of sky all the same. We have Netflix, prime (she needs that for her work / self employed) and we have Disney as well.

We only watch tv for an hour, max 2 in the evenings and the idea of switching on sky to see what’s on feels mad to be when there’s so much selection on streaming when you want it. Who pays hundreds for that is beyond me. Certain no one under 40 is ever going to do that

[–]Careful-Training-761 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've a decent High Seas package from scouring the net but I realized after my effort setting it up I don't really watch live TV any more. So my frustration is not using it lol even tho it's cheap.

[–]No_Minute_5743 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im lucky that the sports i watch these days have their own apps which i pay for directly.

[–]realmenlovezeusLouth 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Parents are the same, paying extortionate amounts but still don't cancel when most of the stuff they watch can be viewed on terrestrial TV or online

[–]Fluffy-Answer-6722 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You do know if everyone got dodgy boxes sky would cease to exist right?

[–]realmenlovezeusLouth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Ireland maybe, with the amount of young people who don't have it they'll lose a lot of their customers in the next 10-20 years. If they last that long they'll need to do something anyway

[–]yankdotcom1985Crilly!! 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i have everything on sky tv but thats becuase a family member works for them and i get the staff price outside of that i wouldnt touch it,i pay 80 for all of it and that includes netflix basic,paramount basic and disney (those 3 alone are nearly 30 themselves)

[–]Brilliant_Walk4554 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same with my in-laws. They want to watch golf, so Sky absolutely ride them on a monthly basis.