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Has anyone upgraded to Sky Q?

Thoughts and how much did you pay?

Due to be installed later this month. IIRC £12/month plus £100 upfront for two boxes.

Have had it since about 2 months from when it came out.  I love it,  the extra boxes around the house have stopped arguments,  4k football is awesome and the epg is much faster.  When one of the boxes started playing up, got an engineer out sharpish and he fixed it and didn't have to pay a penny.

I pay about £140 a month but have sports/movies, unlimited fibre broadband and also phone through sky

£40/month for movies and sport. Rang up and cancelled when paying £80ish, phoned back 30days later when it went off and was offered £40. Phone plus unlimited 80/20 fibre is £30/month from Plusnet.

had sky q installed just after it was launched, i have full package and about £140 a month. Put the main box in the room my dad watches tv as it was only way to put box nation on it. think btsport can only be put on the main box also.
love the fact i can access the recordings anywhere in the house and the mini boxes can be moved, the boxes are all wifi boosters too so very good wifi and extra booster will be supplied FOC if you need on.
all the equipment inside the house is rented rather than owned so they will repair everything when it breaks (but not the dish etc)

love having a lie in and watching recordings on my tablet

Had Q installed yesterday and fell foul of this as well. Apparently BT want £6/month to make it multibox but seeing as how I only paid £5/month for it in the first place we'll just have to cope with watching it on the main box.

New menu structure is proving fun - seems to be 7 button presses to get to the std TV Guide.

UHD 10bit movies and sport are pretty damn good.

Can't believe people pay £140/m for a bit of tele. You must all be nuts.

Amen.

I mean, telly is great but there must be cheaper ways to get a good package.

£140 a month includes broadband and phone and keeps mother(huge sports fan)  quiet with all the sport she can absorb

I was using Kodi for a year and sky must have sent me a new offer every month and then in November they offered me 70% off and a £75 voucher for M&S.

Snapped their hand off for that one so I have movies, sports and multi room for £32 a month and I got an M&S Christmas Dinner. 

Will be cancelling again next November and flipping it to the Mrs name. 

I get all that for £30 a month....

Mine is £25 a month, and I get everything on scuy, a built in netflix, all ppv sport, and every football match, too.

Android boxes?

For the TV yes, phone, internet with normal utility companies...

i have my own place built onto my parents and we stare utilities there is no way they would accept getting sky channels without paying for them

When your contract renewal comes up negotiate hard for a reduction saying you will have to cancel if they cannot beat your current offer.  You should be able to get your current service for £90/month.  Tell them you know of people who have this deal.

When I got mine half price, they didn't want to give me a better deal on the phone so I cancelled.  Within 24 hours there was an offer available to me on the Sky app of 50% off.

i keep trying this get nowhere, bt offered me a saving of £0.99 a month when i ended up leaving them for sky. i dont want to threaten to leave sky incase they take me up on the offer and then charge me to reconnect the next day.
I only run good downhill

I threatened to leave and got nothing so I left and they offered to reconnect me at half price, I refused and they offered to reconnect me for free for 6 months and then continue at half price.

If they don't play ball, leave. you will be contacted within a fortnight. 

And if they still don't play ball why would you want to be with a Company that offers everybody else half price but tells you to f**k off?

At that stage I'd feel justified buying a Kodi box and nicking everything.

i actually have a firestick with kodi on it (though not fully loaded as of yet) but as stated before i live in the same house as my parents although its basically split in 2 its all under the same postal address
they are so honest if they found out that something in there basket hadn't been paid for in a supermarket then they would return to the shop to make sure it was paid for before the police turned up at there door

telling them i am using something thats not exactly 100% lawful like kodi or bittorrent would not be a conversation 1 they would understand or 2 they would tolerate

Your Not Breaking the Law.

its a grey area, but even if i say its 100% legal they wont believe it as they read too much guff

You don't need to mention the Kodi box, just phone and cancel.  When they ask why, just say it's getting too expensive and you're looking at other options such as Netfilx, Amazon etc and you can live without the sports if they question that too.  Don't get suckered in with any offer they make you on the phone that's less than 50% off, simply cancel and give them the 30 days notice.

Even if you don't get an offer in that time, you can always bottle it on day 29 or 30 and cancel the cancel - there is really nothing to lose.

If I was Sky I'd instruct the call agents to make chicken sounds if someone did this.

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I need some advice please.

I have just signed up to Sky Q + Broadband after switching away from them to join BT for the last year. They came and installed on Monday.

The package I signed up to is:-

Line Rental - £17.40
Broadband Unlimited - £5
Sky Pay as you talk - £0
Original Bundle with Cinema & Sports (40% discount) - £34.80

Monthly Total - £57.20

I was happy with that before I realised that the bundle I had chosen didn't include Sky Atlantic or, more importantly, any HD channels. Also no HD channels for Sports. This is a killer, absolutely cannot watch in standard definition any more.

So ring back up, as still in cooling off period, and try and get the rest for free. Not budging and fully cancelled before telling them to reverse the cancellation. The best they could offer me was a surcharge on the above of £15.20 (£6 for HD sports, and the rest for TV bundle). The 40% discount works on the bundle but not on the extras i.e. sports.

So total bill with everything is £72.40. I could take movies off and it becomes £67.70. Decisions...decisions.

I can still cancel everything for no loss, I assume I could take the broadband elsewhere and still keep the 40% discount on the TV too so that's an option. Any thoughts?

Think I can just improve the broadband. Line rental upfront with Plus net equivalent £15.49 a month then £2.01 per month for unlimited + £55 cashback. Saves a decent chunk versus Sky broadband, I assume that won't affect my TV discount.

wish i could help mark but as you can see from previous post sky rip me off and i just take it