Yes Neo. You'll get the BT channels free on Sky, you just have to contact them and give your set top box details, I think.

Fair enough, £90 a month is fairly punchy as it is.

Fortunately my virgin contract ends at the very beginning of August so I'll wait to see what the best deal is at the time.

Ah good I see now, thanks for clearing that up.

I prefer to watch the games on the tv so glad I won't need another bill, paying more than I can afford already

I really hate Sky though. I've been having problems with my white Sky+ box and was talking to them on the phone. They said it will cost £60 for an engineer to look it, i.e. to fix a problem with a box they supply me with. Alternatively I ugrade to the HD package for £10.25 per month everything for free.

Bloody con artists.

Neo,if you tune into channel 413 on your sky box you"ll see the bt sports channel,that"s where you"ll be watching your free bt sports channel from

Thanks, bobby

my skyboxes normally get replaced for free... i think

That's what I thought Suso, but they told me some tosh about after this so called "12 month warranty period" they no longer replace it for free if there is a problem with it. Bunch of surfers.

Yeah but I'm not paying more, I already pay for the extra large package with phone and 60mb broadband for around £90 a month.
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Just tell them you'll cancel and go to Virgin if they refuse to fix your box.

One Advice guys:

BT is always a 12-month(more) contract. Whereas, Sky isn't (you need to look for agents for this deal).

Sky broadband is woeful though and they use BT's lines anyhow.

TOOR, i don't think there is so much variance in speed with different ISP's(top). I believe it depends on how far your house is from the exchange. Sky services are second to none.

I wouldn't recommend sky broadband..

Agree with Mafia.

It's really time that all suburban areas should have have high speed fibre optic cables.

If you are happy with long term contract with BT, then you might go for it. But, you are going to miss the Sky Movies though.

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TOOR, i don't think there is so much variance in speed with different ISP's(top). I believe it depends on how far your house is from the exchange. Sky services are second to none.
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I had both Sky and BT from the same house, using the same exchange, as Sky use BT's lines anyhow, Sky was crap, BT was decent. I also tried Tiscali and Talk Talk who used BT's lines, they were crap too. When I called Sky to complain about getting a 0.1 speed when paying for 20mb, they blamed it on BT and said there was nothing they could do. I fought with them for weeks to get the MAC code from them.

I now have Virgin and the broadband is excellent.

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Fair enough TOOR and Red Rob...

I watch all games on wiziwig on my tv. Why pay?

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I watch a lot of games on via Wiziwig also but when it comes to important games, I don't want to leave it to chance...you may not get a good stream, it may freeze, lag or buffer a lot or worse still, there may not be one.

Also I'm not only going to be paying for all the other crap my wife watches...I may as well get some of the good stuff too.

i work for them for my sins

thyve bought the right for the espn games i believe plus other sports

ull be able to get it on sky as its now on the chanel lisitnigs but if u put ur broadand through bt ull get it free seems like a decent deal, sldo if u take up the fibre yes bt does fttc in large cities ull get it free

o and it is freeview or youview as its called u get throgh bt basically freeview with nobs on ie pay for fillms and u get the sports channels on that, u have been able to subscribe to sky sports on this platform for a year or so

sounding like a bit of a bt loon here but in reply to a post above about watching footy over the broadband everyone will be in 10 years. this is because the satelite sky use is coming to the end of its life and when every bt line is fibre which is happening u will have no choice but to switch from the satelite to broadband coverage