Sky!!!

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Sky annoy me to no end. They nick most of the football from terroristial / freeview channels, the cricket as well. Now to add insult to injury they nicked Lost Season 3 off Channel 4! How soon till Formula 1 and Rally for instance end up on a Sky Sport channels? Not happy at all. They just take pretty much all the half decent series being produced and broadcast. I'm sick and tired of the big monolopy they have over TV! How soon will it be before there domination gets so big your pretty much forced to subscribe due to them having all the major broadcasting? Does anyone else share my thoughts on the matter?

[IBM]

I have sky, I think it's great.

[ikonia]

sky is what it is, a big company selecting choice entertainment and selling it on at a proffit.

I subscribe and have my gripes, but I pay for the services, so I expect the better quality coverage.

[Splash]

You have a choice - if all the programmes you want to watch are on Sky you can either subscribe and watch them, or not and don't. It's in no way, shape or form a monopoly as there is plenty of competition from Cable, BBC, ITV etc etc - if they didn't get the most popular stuff (along with a LOT of guff!) then nobody would subscribe and they'd go out of business. I believe it's called Capitalism.

[kopite]

I have sky and love it

[5lab]

what do you expect? you pay £120 per year for the 4 bbc channels, plus radio, plus internet sites etc.. - the rest on terestrial are only supported by adverts.. sky on the other hand get £20-40 per MONTH for your custom - up to £500 per year, and don't need to pay for any radio services.. they also get vast income from advertising. is it surprising they get the better shows?

if the beeb put the licence fee up, you'd winge, so they cant afford the best programming, and you winge. can't have your cake and eat it..

[DR]

I have Sky HD and love it...

[McMav]

what do you expect? you pay £120 per year for the 4 bbc channels, plus radio, plus internet sites etc.. - the rest on terestrial are only supported by adverts.. sky on the other hand get £20-40 per MONTH for your custom - up to £500 per year, and don't need to pay for any radio services.. they also get vast income from advertising. is it surprising they get the better shows?

if the beeb put the licence fee up, you'd winge, so they cant afford the best programming, and you winge. can't have your cake and eat it..

BBC should do away with Licence fee and bring in advertising there us obviously enough to go around.

[Taz]

I reluctantly have Sky. I subscribed mainly for the cricket that was on the terrestial channels for years and moved to Sky. Other than that I don't really watch many of the Sky channels. I do watch a few of the non-Sky channels though.

With the full HD package you're looking at around £600 per year in scubscriptions. Then you have to pay for certain films and sports events on top of that.

So it is expensive and, in my opinion, the adverts are the most annoying feature of Sky. They are carefully synchronised to happen at roughly the same time, they are loud and too frequent.

Unfortunately, Sky have got the consumer over a barrel as there is no other valid competition. So, I'm a subscriber under duress!

[Kumagoro]

I think sky are anti competitive especially highlighted by the ITV malarkey and I agree about the adverts on sky so long and so frequent.

I would say YAY for torrents but I think we are not allowed to talk about that
sort of thing on hexus hahaha.

[Knoxville]

Sky subscribers (such as myslef) pay a premium in order to have a better choice of programming, they don't nick anything, they just use the extra cash to outbid terrestrial t.v companies for big shows.

Admittedly its not great for everybody but there's no substitute and whats shown on terristrial t.v is utter crap mosta the time imo.

[chicken]

I must say I'm a bit miffed about Sky nicking Lost as I've only just moved into a listed building and whereas I had Sky before, sticking a dish on the new house is a bit of a no-no. I have Channel 4 but I haven't had Sky One since last month and now Lost is on there!

Apart from that though I like Sky, they certainly earn their keep by supplying plenty of channels and new technologies with one of the easiest UI's around. It's what the majority of customers want so they deserve to be doing well for following that.

I certainly have less of a problem giving £21/Month to Sky for a few hundred channels than I do £11/Month to the BBC for just a handful!

[Spud1]

I have sky, and I like it

It's relativly cheap (unless you do something stupid like subscribe to HD lol), you get a good picture and a huge range of channels. Sky movies gives you loads of excellent movies (with at least one new one a week), and sky one has some great US syndicated shows such as lost and stargate...even better as they are FINALLY catching up to the US.

In fact for the second half of Lost season 3 (remember only they first 6 episodes are shown this year, the rest follow in february) Sky One actually gets it before any US channel (admittedly only by a few hours)..ah the joys of sky

Oh and lets not forget the quiz channels..i've paid for my entire years subscription with just 3 wins on those channels from free web entry.

[Vini]

I dont watch TV and i like it.

[BlindMelon7]

I've given up watching air TV and I cant be bothered with anything else. I'm happy with making my own movies instead of watching other peoples

[dangel]

I have Sky HD and love it...

No..

You have Sky HD and _Sky_ love it.