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Sky lose La Liga games

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Their idea to split sports packages up is a sound one.

The prices, however, are fucking mental.

£18 a month for just F1, & starting next year an extra £5 for the HD channels?! What the actual fuck?!

I honestly think if they dropped prices to £18 for basic broadband & phone, plus £10 a month for each footy/F1/Movies package on top they'd gain more long-term than they'd lose, esp by charging extra for better broadband which is going to be an increasing need as VOD standards rise.

They can DDOS attack all the servers they want, but the streams are still coming, thick & fast & better quality than ever, for free or for just a few quid a month. There's 70 odd-year-olds doing it now FFS.

Their long-term business model just doesn't look sustainable to me at their current pricing models.
 
I was delighted when Sky split their sports channels as I thought that I could drop the F1, cricket, rugby, basically all sports except football, and save a few quid. Then they announced that option was not available in Ireland (presumably because they knew most folks here would do exactly that)
 
I don't even watch TV any more these days, let alone Sky, so I have no idea if the coverage has declined, but I can see that the audiences are tiny - they get fewer than 30,000 viewers for some La Liga games. I can't see how, with all the massive sums being poured into Premier League rights, the likes of Sky can be that bothered about losing something like this.
 
FoxForceFive said:
Their idea to split sports packages up is a sound one.

The prices, however, are fucking mental.

£18 a month for just F1, & starting next year an extra £5 for the HD channels?! What the actual fuck?!

I honestly think if they dropped prices to £18 for basic broadband & phone, plus £10 a month for each footy/F1/Movies package on top they'd gain more long-term than they'd lose, esp by charging extra for better broadband which is going to be an increasing need as VOD standards rise.

They can DDOS attack all the servers they want, but the streams are still coming, thick & fast & better quality than ever, for free or for just a few quid a month. There's 70 odd-year-olds doing it now FFS.

Their long-term business model just doesn't look sustainable to me at their current pricing models.
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My dad is 80, hitting the ace streams like a champ.
 
Hilarious. The consumer is being absolutely screwed here .Long live streaming and fuck the conventional broadcasters to hell.
 
I currently pay for Sky football, the value isnt the best but its discounted for me and flawless in its reliability*, the fact they arrange the league schedule to their needs is BS and the lack of overall coverage is abyssmal

*To be fair when im away i use an app for our matches and its flawless 720p, in fact it does every match we have, unlike Sky. From poking my head into the kodi thread i als understand the paid streaming services are generally perfect too..
 
40 quid all in isn’t bad for the convenience isn’t bad but charging extra for hd is a piss take
 
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