To Sky or not to Sky?

[M-50]

To have Sky Sports in Ireland is €57 (£50). It should also be noted that we do not receive the same specification with regards to picture quality either, ours is lower plus there has been rumours that Sky have gradually descreased the picture quality over the last 12 months throughout the UK and IRE in an attempt to make HD look far superior, which it does.

How much in the UK for the Sky Sports package?

I cancelled mine a few days ago. It's a complete rip off right now.

[Its Up 4 Grabs Now]

The Barca game is TBC but all the other big English CL games covered by Sky in Feb are on SS2.

As Barca Home is on a Wednesday night it's on ITV.....

Away game on the Tuesday will be on Sky

Great, a whole evening of Clive Tyldsley banging on about “that night in Barcelonaâ€

[Boomer]

To have Sky Sports in Ireland is €57 (£50). It should also be noted that we do not receive the same specification with regards to picture quality either, ours is lower plus there has been rumours that Sky have gradually descreased the picture quality over the last 12 months throughout the UK and IRE in an attempt to make HD look far superior, which it does.

How much in the UK for the Sky Sports package?

I cancelled mine a few days ago. It's a complete rip off right now.

Sky 1 is £12.25
Sky 2 is £12.25
Take both is £20.25 but includes..
Skysports 3
Skysports 4
and Skysports news.

This is without the HD subscription which is £10 for all (subscribed) channels

[Iceman29]

To have Sky Sports in Ireland is €57 (£50). It should also be noted that we do not receive the same specification with regards to picture quality either, ours is lower plus there has been rumours that Sky have gradually descreased the picture quality over the last 12 months throughout the UK and IRE in an attempt to make HD look far superior, which it does.

How much in the UK for the Sky Sports package?

I cancelled mine a few days ago. It's a complete rip off right now.

Sky 1 is £12.25
Sky 2 is £12.25
Take both is £20.25 but includes..
Skysports 3
Skysports 4
and Skysports news.

Additional £10 for HD I think

[Boomer]

To have Sky Sports in Ireland is €57 (£50). It should also be noted that we do not receive the same specification with regards to picture quality either, ours is lower plus there has been rumours that Sky have gradually descreased the picture quality over the last 12 months throughout the UK and IRE in an attempt to make HD look far superior, which it does.

How much in the UK for the Sky Sports package?

I cancelled mine a few days ago. It's a complete rip off right now.

Sky 1 is £12.25
Sky 2 is £12.25
Take both is £20.25 but includes..
Skysports 3
Skysports 4
and Skysports news.

Additional £10 for HD I think

Just did that in my edit!
But that covers all HD channels that you subcribe to.

[Its Up 4 Grabs Now]

I dont blame sky for yesterday... the sky deal is a fraction of the price actually invested by both the yanks and the russian!

In the bigger picture though without Sky’s pimping of every aspect of the game (both here & globally) neither the yanks or the russian would have invested anything like that, if anything at all.

[Iceman29]

I dont blame sky for yesterday... the sky deal is a fraction of the price actually invested by both the yanks and the russian!

In the bigger picture though without Sky’s pimping of every aspect of the game (both here & globally) neither the yanks or the russian would have invested anything like that, if anything at all.

You're blaming the wrong people. Sky has no rights to show games abroad apart from their sister networks. Its the Premier League who has done this.

[safcftm]

think my sky is about 68.50 a month which includes movies and sports (all sky sports channels and ESPN) and a few of the stupid shitty packages they make you take at least one of even though you'd rather be allowed to just subscribe to the sports channels, and the HD subscription (which the fuckers really shouldnt charge, and certainly shouldnt charge again if you take out multiroom)

Sunderland are almost never on Sky and I go to all the home games so its only away games that I ever get to see on there. Not really worth it tbh, its about time they got rid of this ridiculous 3pm Saturday blackout and started showing every match. I would happily buy a Sky SAFC season ticket just so i could see the away games that I can't make and the midweek matches i miss due to work. Seems ridiculous that foreigners can watch pretty much every game live whereas those of us in the fucking country the games are played in have to accept watching some random shit (like west brom v wigan tonight) when there are much better games

Have a "season ticket" option for those who want to watch all the games of a certain club, and a "miscellaneous (sp!)" ticket for those who just want to see all the big games/ shite games/ relegation battles. Like I say, the 3pm blackout serves no useful purpose now and needs to be abolished- if people want to watch games at this time they just get a dodgy link so they already arent attending lower league games. Its about time they realised this- lower league attendances wont suffer much for it, and tbh if they do then maybe there are too many professional clubs in England, they need to be able to stand on their own two feet

[Iceman29]

think my sky is about 68.50 a month which includes movies and sports (all sky sports channels and ESPN) and a few of the stupid shitty packages they make you take at least one of even though you'd rather be allowed to just subscribe to the sports channels, and the HD subscription (which the fuckers really shouldnt charge, and certainly shouldnt charge again if you take out multiroom)

Sunderland are almost never on Sky and I go to all the home games so its only away games that I ever get to see on there. Not really worth it tbh, its about time they got rid of this ridiculous 3pm Saturday blackout and started showing every match. I would happily buy a Sky SAFC season ticket just so i could see the away games that I can't make and the midweek matches i miss due to work. Seems ridiculous that foreigners can watch pretty much every game live whereas those of us in the fucking country the games are played in have to accept watching some random shit (like west brom v wigan tonight) when there are much better games

Have a "season ticket" option for those who want to watch all the games of a certain club, and a "miscellaneous (sp!)" ticket for those who just want to see all the big games/ shite games/ relegation battles. Like I say, the 3pm blackout serves no useful purpose now and needs to be abolished- if people want to watch games at this time they just get a dodgy link so they already arent attending lower league games. Its about time they realised this- lower league attendances wont suffer much for it, and tbh if they do then maybe there are too many professional clubs in England, they need to be able to stand on their own two feet

£68.50 is the right amount with all included. The 3pm blackout is UEFA imposed and not something done by the FA or the football league. Generally I agree with your viewpoint on 3pm kick off

[Boomer]

think my sky is about 68.50 a month which includes movies and sports (all sky sports channels and ESPN) and a few of the stupid shitty packages they make you take at least one of even though you'd rather be allowed to just subscribe to the sports channels, and the HD subscription (which the fuckers really shouldnt charge, and certainly shouldnt charge again if you take out multiroom)

Sunderland are almost never on Sky and I go to all the home games so its only away games that I ever get to see on there. Not really worth it tbh, its about time they got rid of this ridiculous 3pm Saturday blackout and started showing every match. I would happily buy a Sky SAFC season ticket just so i could see the away games that I can't make and the midweek matches i miss due to work. Seems ridiculous that foreigners can watch pretty much every game live whereas those of us in the fucking country the games are played in have to accept watching some random shit (like west brom v wigan tonight) when there are much better games

Have a "season ticket" option for those who want to watch all the games of a certain club, and a "miscellaneous (sp!)" ticket for those who just want to see all the big games/ shite games/ relegation battles. Like I say, the 3pm blackout serves no useful purpose now and needs to be abolished- if people want to watch games at this time they just get a dodgy link so they already arent attending lower league games. Its about time they realised this- lower league attendances wont suffer much for it, and tbh if they do then maybe there are too many professional clubs in England, they need to be able to stand on their own two feet

£68.50 is the right amount with all included. The 3pm blackout is UEFA imposed and not something done by the FA or the football league. Generally I agree with your viewpoint on 3pm kick off

Can't remember if it's still going on but a landlady was challenging it in the courts of law. My mate knows more but it could be a president if won.

Basically your allowed to buy foreign channels such as ESPN etc...so as part of her 'European rights' should be able to buy an oversea's TV station. Simples!
I think the sticking point for her is that she's broadcasting it in her pub rather then for sole use.

Still like the oversea's streams there's nothing illegal in watching the games. Its broadcasting and licencing laws which are breached.

[gunner_ace]

Sky atlantic has just launched today. the new home of all HBO programming in the UK. looks pretty decent as their showing broadwalk empire and are showing sopranos, curb, 6ft under from the very begining.

[clockend_tom]

I have been looking forward to Sky Atlantic - Entourage is bloody brilliant!

[Henry Norris 1913]

Sky atlantic has just launched today. the new home of all HBO programming in the UK. looks pretty decent as their showing broadwalk empire and are showing sopranos, curb, 6ft under from the very begining.

it must be the first time I've used that emoticon to someone other than USM

[Its Up 4 Grabs Now]

I dont blame sky for yesterday... the sky deal is a fraction of the price actually invested by both the yanks and the russian!

In the bigger picture though without Sky’s pimping of every aspect of the game (both here & globally) neither the yanks or the russian would have invested anything like that, if anything at all.

You're blaming the wrong people. Sky has no rights to show games abroad apart from their sister networks. Its the Premier League who has done this.

I wasn’t absolving the PL of blame. Reason I only mentioned Sky & the yanks/russian was cos they were the 2 that CE-Tom mentioned in his post. Point being that contrary to Tom’s post Sky played their part in scenes like yesterday & how football reached this point. Without Sky’s investment in football & everything that came with it the likes of Abramovich would most likely never have glanced football’s way, never mind invested 100s of millions willy-nilly.

To be fair you may be right about who shows games abroad, but then again if we’re talking about Sky’s “sisterâ€

[Boomer]

Sky atlantic has just launched today. the new home of all HBO programming in the UK. looks pretty decent as their showing broadwalk empire and are showing sopranos, curb, 6ft under from the very begining.

it must be the first time I've used that emoticon to someone other than USM

I was going to do the same. Unless Sky Atlantic is showing football lets keep the thread football orientated. Otherwise the mods will relegate this to the basement.

Back on topic, I've got a week to decide on SS Feb subscription.