SKY SPORTS VALUE FOR MONEY?

craig_minter
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Post by craig_minter »

Totally depends on what sports you are into, and how much you can be bothered to find a good stream of something.

Personally I keep it because I can't be arsed to search for streams with the quality that I want anymore, and because I really like their F1 and NFL coverage.

Their football coverage is easily the best and what they base their offering from, but following a league two club it doesn't matter to me...

Be interesting to see what they do with Boxing coverage now that DAZN is in the UK, just find it a struggle to listen to Smith and Macklin on commentary!
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If you like boxing, football, cricket and darts then definitely worth the money.

If you just like boxing, definitely not.
banjo
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Post by banjo »

knockout wrote: 12 Dec 2020, 16:25 I suspect most of subscriber money (like 90 % or more ) goes straight to pay the premier league and other football leagues .
So if you aren’t watching football it’s not value at all .. you are just subsidising the football department!
That being said they've lost about half the football they did show to BT and Amazon.

I'd like to know how much they pay to show NFL because I guarantee that's a sport most Brits couldn't give a chuff about.
MarkMcBurney
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craig_minter wrote: 13 Dec 2020, 18:41 Totally depends on what sports you are into, and how much you can be bothered to find a good stream of something.

Personally I keep it because I can't be arsed to search for streams with the quality that I want anymore, and because I really like their F1 and NFL coverage.

Their football coverage is easily the best and what they base their offering from, but following a league two club it doesn't matter to me...

Be interesting to see what they do with Boxing coverage now that DAZN is in the UK, just find it a struggle to listen to Smith and Macklin on commentary!
See funnily enough I support a League One club and went with IPTV mainly as a backup initially as I got all the iFollow streams for the games. The quality and reliability was then so good that I ditched Sky completely. In your shoes it is definitely worth £50 for a year of iFollow so you can see how you feel about it for boxing etc too mate. Genuinely haven't had a stream less than 1080 since I've had it.
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Post by Ezzard »

Only watch boxing as a sport. Maybe watch the home nations in the world cup finals but that's it.

I have SKY, BT, Premier, Fite, will get Dazn and buy every PPV even when I know they're going to be shite. I used to read 4-5 magazines a month as a kid. It is fomo for sure. Also, I just enjoy boxing. It's both relaxing and exhilarating for me at the same time.

I dropped the sport for about 10 years. But I get so much enjoyment from it again now.

SKY is not value for money but the average price of a premier league ticket is £32 and that's not worth it either.
craig_minter
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MarkMcBurney wrote: 14 Dec 2020, 15:01
craig_minter wrote: 13 Dec 2020, 18:41 Totally depends on what sports you are into, and how much you can be bothered to find a good stream of something.

Personally I keep it because I can't be arsed to search for streams with the quality that I want anymore, and because I really like their F1 and NFL coverage.

Their football coverage is easily the best and what they base their offering from, but following a league two club it doesn't matter to me...

Be interesting to see what they do with Boxing coverage now that DAZN is in the UK, just find it a struggle to listen to Smith and Macklin on commentary!
See funnily enough I support a League One club and went with IPTV mainly as a backup initially as I got all the iFollow streams for the games. The quality and reliability was then so good that I ditched Sky completely. In your shoes it is definitely worth £50 for a year of iFollow so you can see how you feel about it for boxing etc too mate. Genuinely haven't had a stream less than 1080 since I've had it.
Get ifollow with my season ticket (although I'm hoping I actually can get to a game by end of the month!) Always thought they'd have a decent service.

I'll have to check out what sort of streams I get for the F1 or see if I can get an F1 only package and work something out for Boxing
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craig_minter wrote: 14 Dec 2020, 17:14
MarkMcBurney wrote: 14 Dec 2020, 15:01
craig_minter wrote: 13 Dec 2020, 18:41 Totally depends on what sports you are into, and how much you can be bothered to find a good stream of something.

Personally I keep it because I can't be arsed to search for streams with the quality that I want anymore, and because I really like their F1 and NFL coverage.

Their football coverage is easily the best and what they base their offering from, but following a league two club it doesn't matter to me...

Be interesting to see what they do with Boxing coverage now that DAZN is in the UK, just find it a struggle to listen to Smith and Macklin on commentary!
See funnily enough I support a League One club and went with IPTV mainly as a backup initially as I got all the iFollow streams for the games. The quality and reliability was then so good that I ditched Sky completely. In your shoes it is definitely worth £50 for a year of iFollow so you can see how you feel about it for boxing etc too mate. Genuinely haven't had a stream less than 1080 since I've had it.
Get ifollow with my season ticket (although I'm hoping I actually can get to a game by end of the month!) Always thought they'd have a decent service.

I'll have to check out what sort of streams I get for the F1 or see if I can get an F1 only package and work something out for Boxing
Ah fair enough, I had it before the pandemic so was useful to watch the games
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Post by brilo33 »

poor the british n irish fights in the last couple of years on sky
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