Do you have SKY television?

[Easy 10]

MotD provides pretty much all of the Premiership football I want and ditto ITV for the Champions League. On the very rare occasion there is something I want to watch live I'll go to the pub or watch on the web. The latter is poor, of course, compared to a digital broadcast on a big screen but it does the job.

Movies - I've got hundred of DVDs including numerous films I've never watched. If I had Sky Movies, I can't believe I'd often watch anything, as was the case when I used to have Sky.

I just like having it on tap. I'll often pop down the pub for a match, but I like being lazy and loafing in front of the game at home as well. As for DVD's versus sky movies - you're right insomuch as I have loads of DVD's to watch as well anyway. BUT - I love leafing through the numerous movie channels, cos even if its on at 2am, theres nearly always something worthwhile on that I havn't got that I can record, specially on the Classics. I saw Once Upon a Time in the West the other night. Bloody marvellous.

I couldn't live without it now. I would literally shrivel and die.

 

[Cian]

I couldn't live without it now. I would literally shrivel and die.

And I guarantee that if you lost signal, you'd barely notice it was gone after a few days.

 

[Easy 10]

Oh I would.
I'd be chewing a pakistani's ear for HOURS

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

At uni I do, at home I have ntl! I think I pay £20 a month or so for broadband, telly and phone package

 

[hitony]

we have the full sky package, i think its about £43 a month, there was a time when i swore i would never pay out that sort of money to watch telly, but i have to admit as i get older and we dont go out drinking nearly anything like we used to (a few years ago we were out 7 nights a week!!) it is nice to have the entertainment on tap, so to speak.

And the £11 a week (approx) i spend on it barely buys 4 pints these days

 

[Uncle C]

Wouldn't touch em with a barge pole. Customer service is shit

 

[Exmouth Seagull]

Yep, about £55 a month, full wack including HD.

Cheaper than a pint a day.

 

[JJ McClure]

Yep. £26 a month for basic sky (no sky sport or sky movies), plus 8meg broadband and free evening and weekend calls.

 

[tedebear]

Forgot to add we're upgrading to HD in the New Year... so it'll be £46 a month...

 

[Dave the OAP]

when the girls go back to uni, we will look at our stuff, but at home we have Virgin VIP which costs us £85 a month including B Band.

We have all packages and a spare Set top Box as well as V+. V+ is brilliant, but apart from Sky Sports and the terestrial, we are wasting money having it!

 

[Goodfella]

Yes, we do, full package, sky+, HD, Multiroom, and 16mb broadband

About £70 a month i believe.

 

[Gwylan]

I don't have it and wouldn't even consider it (I have a family to support) but I'm staggered at the amount people pay for it. Even without the family, I wouldn't be bothered - the only team I support is Brighton so I'm not interested in the Prem. The only big games are on terrestial anyway and, as Bozza says, if you want to see anything in particular, you can go down the pub.

If you told people in the 60s that one day people would be paying nearly a £100 a month for TV (not even counting the cost of set) you'd have been derided as some sort of looney.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I don't have it and wouldn't even consider it (I have a family to support) but I'm staggered at the amount people pay for it.

If you told people in the 60s that one day people would be paying nearly a £100 a month for TV (not even counting the cost of set) you'd have been derided as some sort of looney.

In the same way if you told someone in 1970's you would be paying £4 a gallon?

 

[Gwylan]

In the same way if you told someone in 1970's you would be paying £4 a gallon?

Nah, that wasn't too far-fetched - seeing that the price of petrol tripled in about a year there was no guarantee that wouldn't happen again.

Apart from that, people were used to paying for petrol, TV was free in the 60s and 70s - I don't think people would have contemplated paying for something that had been provided gratis. A better example would be people buying bottled water - that would have struck someone in the 60s as barking mad.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Nah, that wasn't too far-fetched - seeing that the price of petrol tripled in about a year there was no guarantee that wouldn't happen again.

Apart from that, people were used to paying for petrol, TV was free in the 60s and 70s - I don't think people would have contemplated paying for something that had been provided gratis. A better example would be people buying bottled water - that would have struck someone in the 60s as barking mad.

I stand corrected and bow to your superior memeory

 

[maffew]

It's entertainment (of a sort) People would probably spend more if they went to the pub or theatre every night

yep, I reckon I spend that a month in the pub

 

[Napper]

If you told people in the 60s that one day people would be paying nearly a £100 a month for TV (not even counting the cost of set) you'd have been derided as some sort of looney.

yeah but if you also told them what you get ie internet / all the tv functions these days they would of sectioned you straight away

 

[Grendel]

Much as I resent paying for television, as long as Sky have the rights to the cricket I'll maintain my subscription.

 

[Gully]

Just have a free to air card with a digibox, have had it for about 5 years, gets me all the terrestrial channels plus the digital stuff from the Beeb (Multiscreen, good when Wimbledon is on or to watch Score on Saturday), I also get loads of news channels and Film4...MYOB is right, they do show some good films, saw 21 grammes last week and that was the best film I have seen for ages. I can't see a time when I would want anything more than I have already, much prefer to spend the amount that Sky costs on a gym membership, at least it gets my sorry arse off the sofa...tis all about priorities, keeping fit rates a bit higher than watching the latest sitcom from the states or some highly paid ponces strut their stuff in a live premiership match.

 

[REDLAND]

I wouldn't be without it

£80 a month gets me V+, Sky Movies, Sky Sports and Setanta and all the other stuff, I also get 20Mb broadband as well ..