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Unaffordable TV

TheCatWoman

I've asked AI how much it would cost to have all the common streaming channels and the answer is £120 per month minimum, that dosent' include Sky, the licence fee or any sporting channels which would add another £30-50 a month.

Given how much rubbish there is on terrestial channels, especially now with all the football and the knock on effects of how much less funding there will be for other programing, is this a hidden part of the cost of living?

I don't have any of the streaming channels or Sky and signing up to them would make a serious dent in my finances, how do people afford them and are they worth it? DO you only really use them for one big series each like GoT?

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  • I’ve recently bought a‘smart’ tv, it seems to have a lot of channels, my wife has added Prime Tv and Netflix, the Prime tv comes with the Amazon prime delivery as a free addition, the Netflix is £5.99. I’ve never wanted Sky as I don’t watch sports and normally can find what I want on Freeview. The bonus with the smart tv is being able to pause a program or watch it on demand.

  • in reply to Roy

    I was told you have to have something like sky or a humax box to be able to do that with a smart tv?

    A friend has one, but it seems an awful lot of faff, but then he uses it along with his computer.

    I just saw an article about streaing boxes, great I thought, until I realised they need a good wifi connection, I have a huge long cable running from the hub to humax box, because of the stone built parts of our house and the thickness of the walls stop wifi signals, even out wifi boosters have boosters.

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  • in reply to Roy

    I was told you have to have something like sky or a humax box to be able to do that with a smart tv?

    A friend has one, but it seems an awful lot of faff, but then he uses it along with his computer.

    I just saw an article about streaing boxes, great I thought, until I realised they need a good wifi connection, I have a huge long cable running from the hub to humax box, because of the stone built parts of our house and the thickness of the walls stop wifi signals, even out wifi boosters have boosters.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    My smart TV is about seven years old but it doesn’t need a Sky or Humax box as the programmes are built into the TV. It receives Freeview through the aerial and it connects to broadband to receive Netflix or Prime. It can also receive Sky and pretty much whatever is available, at a cost.

    I watch mostly the Freeview channels, particularly BBC, ITV and Channel 4 on ‘catch up’. The TV licence covers these channels.

    Sometimes I subscribe to Amazon Prime for a month at a time if there is something particularly good to watch. It’s easy to stop and start the subscription to suit. The odd time I subscribe to Netflix for a month, then cancel. 

    I don’t watch a lot of TV so there is no need to have yearly subscriptions to lots of channels.

  • in reply to B

    We have a smart TV and when we moved here there was no aerial, only a dish. We had an expert who came and did something to the dish so we could get Freesat. It picks up slightly different channels from Freeview which we had before, but has all the main channels.

  • in reply to Roy
    Roy said:
    My smart tv is connected to a normal aerial for Freeview, that gives me about 100+ channels.

    I thought that was the case and why I mentioned Freeview too.

    Even my old mum managed with that with no difficulty.

    People have been using Freeview for many years I think and I believe that it's now often built into TVs rather than having to buy a separate Freeview box.

    Roy said:
    I only bought a 50” smart tv

    My last TV was probably about 21" although I have to confess that there is a huge one in the house that I would rather was a window seat as it's in a bay window.

    For some reason I don't have permission to replace it.

    Thinking

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    My smart tv is connected to a normal aerial for Freeview, that gives me about 100+ channels. To use the smart part it is connected to Wi-Fi, that allows all the different streaming and player services to work.

    I have 800mm walls and have Ethernet cables in most rooms. You could just tack them around the skirting boards from the router. The pre made extension cables have the plugs already fitted.

    I only bought a 50” smart tv from Argos as the rooms are quite small, a Toshiba was about £240.