Metropol

cdd wrote: Thu 12 Jun, 2025 21.19

Martin Phillp wrote: Sun 08 Jun, 2025 03.45 I value the background playing option on Premium, so that's a non-starter for me.

Does Android still get that for free?

No, it only works with Premium.

It is the end of an era in the Blewatter Household. As of September, we will no longer have Sky. I feel like we, as a family, are not getting any value from Sky anymore, as we don't tend to watch the premium channels, we don't have Cinema or Sports (Aside from F1), and we use Freesat or our tablets/computers/phones in the rest of the house. We've gone Freesat recording box, fire stick, and we will get Netflix separately, which works out cheaper.

Newspapers if I can help it.

1mbroglio wrote: Tue 07 Oct, 2025 13.57 Newspapers if I can help it.

Even my 74 year old mother has given up newspapers except on Sundays as she likes the magazine that comes with it but the weekday papers are now simply too expensive.

Blewatter wrote: Tue 26 Aug, 2025 14.46 It is the end of an era in the Blewatter Household. As of September, we will no longer have Sky. I feel like we, as a family, are not getting any value from Sky anymore, as we don't tend to watch the premium channels, we don't have Cinema or Sports (Aside from F1), and we use Freesat or our tablets/computers/phones in the rest of the house. We've gone Freesat recording box, fire stick, and we will get Netflix separately, which works out cheaper.

I’ve not had Sky for a couple of years - there is no question, the UI and the box is a polished product, but it’s not worth what they charge and so much of the content is available elsewhere without locking into a long contract with baked in price rises. I just can’t understand why they can’t just keep the price the same for the whole term, that would stem much of the grumbling.

Martin Phillp wrote: Fri 10 Oct, 2025 21.17

1mbroglio wrote: Tue 07 Oct, 2025 13.57 Newspapers if I can help it.

Even my 74 year old mother has given up newspapers except on Sundays as she likes the magazine that comes with it but the weekday papers are now simply too expensive.

It's the opposite with my family. I think paying nearly £3 for a paper that's full of depressing cr*p is ridiculous.

Dr Lobster* wrote: Sun 12 Oct, 2025 16.11 I’ve not had Sky for a couple of years - there is no question, the UI and the box is a polished product, but it’s not worth what they charge and so much of the content is available elsewhere without locking into a long contract with baked in price rises. I just can’t understand why they can’t just keep the price the same for the whole term, that would stem much of the grumbling.

Absolutely. Its only real saving grace is that it is a very refined package, after over 20 years of iterations. The UI and Box are good, and I won't lie, the freesat UI is clunky and slow. However, it works, and we have the channels we watch. We don't really need movies, we don't watch much sports, and the premium channels offer less of a premium experience every year.

If I'd known that MTV 80s and 90s were closing down (they're so much better than the FTA Now/That's music channels that they were worth paying for), I probably wouldn't even have bothered subscribing at the new house we moved to last month, pretty much everything else I watch is on FTA channels. But we're locked into a 2 year contract now.

On an unrelated note, I've recieved a DM from the member Gluben on here (sorry it took me so long to notice it, the aformentioned house move has made me exhausted), but I can't reply to you because you have the ability for people to send you DMs switched off!

I’ve never had a smartphone so am not tied into a contract for features I’d never use. Dumb phone user and proud.

1mbroglio wrote: Tue 14 Oct, 2025 12.48 I’ve never had a smartphone so am not tied into a contract for features I’d never use. Dumb phone user and proud.

"Dumb phone"

Hahaha