Sky TV price increase on 1 September 2013 by up to 10%

[reddwarfcrew]

My price increase is 5% which is unwelcome. However, what really annoys me is their pricing structure. If you went into Greggs and asked for a cake and the assistant insisted that you couldn't buy a cake until you'd bought a pie you wouldn't be happy: but that's Skys pricing policy in a nutshell.
I only want to watch Sky Sports, Eurosport and Freeview channels in HD but they demand I purchase several hundred channels of (in my view) rubbish before I can view the channels I am interested in.
I don't know about "believe in better" I'd just like to see them start with fairer.

I may be dreaming this, but I'm sure it is actually possible to subscribe to SkySports without any entertainment pack..... they just don't advertise it.

I'll see if I can find the link.... as I say, I may well be dreaming it.

EDIT.

Looks like you used to: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1304009

but seems to have changed: http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Prog...ge/td-p/584826 perhaps this changed when SkySports dropped off TUTV.

[tytusgroan]

Well I bit the bullet and moved from my other ip to join Sky.After a massive hike from £22pm to£57[ I had a 75% discount from the previous Year]I got quite a shock when I saw what I was going to pay.When I contacted Sky about joining their broadband and negotiate a new deal for the tv,things couldn't have gone better.I have ended up paying less for both,than what i had been previously paying.Now I can only hope my broadband speed doesn't put me into the dark ages when they connect me up.My Max speed is only about 5mbps. Living in a rural area doesn't help unfortunately.Now how to read up in keeping my old router on.

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Well I bit the bullet and moved from my other ip to join Sky.After a massive hike from £22pm to£57[ I had a 75% discount from the previous Year]I got quite a shock when I saw what I was going to pay.When I contacted Sky about joining their broadband and negotiate a new deal for the tv,things couldn't have gone better.I have ended up paying less for both,than what i had been previously paying.Now I can only hope my broadband speed doesn't put me into the dark ages when they connect me up.My Max speed is only about 5mbps. Living in a rural area doesn't help unfortunately.Now how to read up in keeping my old router on.

[launton]

I've removed skytv and downgraded to fibre unlimited. No complaints, SKY has been great and although it wasn't completely about the cost it was hitting £95 a month for Skytalk, TV and BB. Back to freesat for the time being