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[chrisgixer]

Which is best?

Getting a bit narked with the lack of football on sky sports, and there's nothing else that interests me on there, now the cricket is over. ...well, the cricket never really started but you know what I mean.

Bt sport seem to have better football games of thier share, plus they have moto gp.

I think a swap is in order ?

[Stemo]

I get my phone and broadband from sky as well as TV. I can add bt sports for £15 a month or I can change my phone and bb to bt and get it for nowt. Trouble is, bt phone and bob is £33 a month and I'm getting sky for £15 at the moment.
I would never 'swap' sky for bt, I'd need both. Bt as a stand alone would be crap.

[TheBoy]

Depending on your VM contract, you may already have BT Sports via VM? Or did you not take the TV package with VM?

I think BT Sport over the Sky platform is £14, or there abouts.

As you're in contract with VM, I think having BT Broadband/Infinity complete with free BT Sport is not an option.


That said, if you have 2 phone lines, rather than paying for BT Sport over Sky platform, it may be cheaper to get broadband/infinity on the 2nd line, thus get free BT Sport. I believe you can then get BT Sport over the Sky platform for free (but double check).

Food for thought.


I think Pay TV is only going to ruin TV here. Always thought that from the days when Sky (analogue) started. If you have 1 provider, such as Sky, due to poor competition, the prices are too high.  Even the biggest Sky fan would have to agree that Sky doesn't offer value for money. Have 2 or 3 different, competing providers bidding for exclusive content, consumers have to subscribe to multiple providers.

[TheBoy]

I get my phone and broadband from sky as well as TV. I can add bt sports for £15 a month or I can change my phone and bb to bt and get it for nowt. Trouble is, bt phone and bob is £33 a month and I'm getting sky for £15 at the moment.
I would never 'swap' sky for bt, I'd need both. Bt as a stand alone would be crap.

BT do a TV service beyond BT Sport. Sky Sports is available via BT's Vision platform, along with the usual common pay tv channels. I don't think the channel line up is anywhere near that of Sky's. That said, 99% of the Sky channels seem to be dross anyway.

As I said in a previos post, depending on your needs, you need multiple providers. For just sport, I believe both VM and BT do Sky Sports and BT Sport

[pscocoa]

I have bt infinity and bt tv , BT sports etc but no sky because sky broadband  was rubbish at my house and I cancelled everything. Depends on what level of broadband you want in terms of speed and usage permission. With all the bits and pieces I am still paying £60 a month incl line rental but it does the job on films, hd etc. I could add sky sports 1 & 2 for another £20. Minimum I could get down to for infinity level 2 plus line is about £38 excluding calls packs

[chrisgixer]

Only reason Vm got our broadband was because of appalling line quality cutting speed/reliability on the Bt phone network, or the bit between the cabinet and the house.

We refused to pay any more than minimum for that service, and nobody would fix anything, especially "opencreaps" unless we paid more.

So we went from solely sky customers, to sky tv customers, with phone and bb on Virgin for her work.

So that's free bt sport out the window.



I need to check what we actually pay for sky subscriptions as they've offered major discounts to keep us from moving the tv to Vm as well, plus further discounts as they cocked up our bb disconnection and where still charging us for it 3months after it was cut off.


Worth a call to sky then a call to Bt then.

Her work pay for the Vm bb so there's scope there.




I still don't buy this "competition is good" excuse for enforcing 2 contracts for premier league football. Free offers to initially hook people in aside, it is/will be two subscriptions doubling the cost of the same number if games a season.

When sky lost half the pl football to Setsnta/espn/Bt did they half the sky sports subscription cost? No, course they didn't.

Then Setanta/Espn and eventually Bt will want the same amount for the bt sports sub when the first year is up.

So that's TWICE the money for the same number of games. All it's done is open up another contract to sap more money from the public.
So with that in mind, I have to agree.

But there's no denying premiership football is twice the football it's was in the Division1 days.

[chrisgixer]

Or maybe not for Villa fans

[Stemo]

I get my phone and broadband from sky as well as TV. I can add bt sports for £15 a month or I can change my phone and bb to bt and get it for nowt. Trouble is, bt phone and bob is £33 a month and I'm getting sky for £15 at the moment.
I would never 'swap' sky for bt, I'd need both. Bt as a stand alone would be crap.

BT do a TV service beyond BT Sport. Sky Sports is available via BT's Vision platform, along with the usual common pay tv channels. I don't think the channel line up is anywhere near that of Sky's. That said, 99% of the Sky channels seem to be dross anyway.

As I said in a previos post, depending on your needs, you need multiple providers. For just sport, I believe both VM and BT do Sky Sports and BT Sport

If it wasn't for sport in general, and football in particular, I would have freeview/freesat and that would do me fine. So, basically, my whole subscription is for sport.

[Paddy Flannery]

Sky football coverage, for me, nosedived in quality after Gray and Keys left.

Gary Neville, Davie Provan and even Carragher are quality pundits but listening to Tyler with his obvious anti Man Utd bias and that clown Quinn have spoilt many games for me.

I have a similar dilemma to Chris as I have excellent VM BB to support all the devices in this house but I see more and more quality matches beyond my reach on BT.

[SteveAvfc.]

Or maybe not for Villa fans

HA!! One win mid week against the bottom club and the scummers are singing again. Love it.

[chrisgixer]

Or maybe not for Villa fans

HA!! One win mid week against the bottom club and the scummers are singing again. Love it.

Quietly confident Steve. Quietly confident.

[Stemo]

Or maybe not for Villa fans

HA!! One win mid week against the bottom club and the scummers are singing again. Love it.

Quietly confident Steve. Quietly confident.

Hmmm...AV winning.....MU......losing.....

[chrisgixer]

Plenty of time Steve...


...for us to cock it up properly

[Stemo]

Plenty of time Steve...


...for us to cock it up properly

Michael Carrick gone to centre half against Crouch, Phil Jones injured.....hmmm ...

[bored bigyin54]

none of them