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Buying Sports without Mixes
loyalsince
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Is there anyway you can get Sky Sports 1,2,3,Xtra (not bothered about Sky Sports News) on its own without any mixes?
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There is a newish thread on here which does mention that from September time Sky are offering a '0 mix' option where you can take out sport 1/2 or movies 1/2 or both without any mixes. Unfortunately it will only be a pound less than with one mix. Can't find the thread but it is around somewhere.
Hope that helps.
£1 saving or the extra channels,thats a tough decision to make,and hey you are not forced to watch EVERYTHING,surely you cannot think everything in 1 mix is shat
Now if it was £16.50 cheaper per month for no mixes that would be attractive
It was mentioned on the other thread that this has been forced on sky by ofcom.
The way they have done it, with effectively a £15 "standing charge" (the 0 mix option) before you add any subscription channels, is effectively a two fingered salute to ofcom.
If the answer is yes then how much is HD mix + Sports for example?
As I understand it, it would be £34.50 for the sports mix (with zero of the standard mixes), plus £10 so £44.50 in total for just the sports in HD. or £45.50 for all the sports in HD plus the variety mix - so it's a £1 saving over current prices.
You can subscribe to either 1 or 2 seperately, if you subscribe to both, you get 3 and xtra as bonus channels
I should have posted,if it was £16.50 for Sports with no mixes that would be attractive
That would be suicide.
No,That would be fair
It's never been mentioned that £15.00 is/was a standing charge and your first mix was just a £1 extra.
It as always been sold as £16.50 for 1 mix plus £1 per extra mix and then add on movies and or sport as required
It alwas WAS £16 for your first mix.
But Ofcom told them they must stop insisting on you having one mix and allow you to have no mixes and just buy sports for example.
So this is their response, a £15 "standing charge" and £1 per mix with no obligation to buy any mixes.
As I say, a great big two fingered salute to Ofcom.
Its currently £16.50 for 1 mix
http://mysky.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts/skytv/pricesandpackages
I get your drift though
"Sky TV subscription and VAT changes: Packages currently £16.50-£46 a month. From 1/9/09 most prices will increase by up to £1.50 a month and from 1/1/10 by no more than a £1 a month due to VAT change. (HD Pack & Multiroom prices increase by 25p a month.)
Prices shown apply to customers paying by Direct Debit. An additional 50p per month is payable by customers paying by continuous credit card.".
so there you go.. Sky are ripping people off well and truly and there's no chance of me giving them £35 a month for Sky Sports and a mix pack..
..the only way you'll get Sky to lower their prices is if 4 or 5 million subscribers say "..we've had enough, it's costing too much.." and cancel their contracts.. only then will Sky ever get the picture. But people in this country are too lazy to complain and just carry on putting up with it..
Its about time that they looked into sorting out a sports package only for the 1,000's of people out there that want just skysports.
Most of us have enough freeview channels nowdays with it all built into the new tv's.
...And in future you will be able to get Sports without a mix and you will save a grand total of...................
£1 GBP............great eh ?
I was one of them until two weeks ago when Sky decided they don't do the HD Mix alone!
I don't want that lot either, nor do I want Skysports, but I DO want the main HD channels - but Sky won't take my money for them now.
What sort of way is that to run a business?
You just want lots of HD channels ( around 15 ? ) for the £10, that is a big ask
Afraid its been that way since the launch of HD. You can't get the HD mix without at least 1 basic mix, but chordiant did allow this to be done in error so that's why you've had it until recently. Obviously someone has noticed and cancelled it.
I wonder how they will justify it to OFCOM when Freesat/Freeview are able to offer a similar "basic" package for £0 per month?
Why would they have to?, the exact same programmes (in fact a few more) are available from Sky without paying a penny.
It's not really different to the standing charge for your phone line.
erm not all freeview channels are avalable for free on sky and soon if greedy sky have their way neither will the itv channels be free on sky