Fenderman wrote:GoldenStreet wrote:Fenderman wrote:I do watch some shows regularly such as Have i got news for you, not going out (a sitcom) and some BBC4 stuff but not enough to justify paying £143 as i also pay £91 a month for Sky!
£1092 per annum for Sky would appear to make the current BBC licence fee of £157.50 seem pretty good value for money!
Bill
I never thought about it like that!
Just for the sake of accuracy, Sky does not cost £1092 per annum.
We pay £1065 a year to Sky and of course, you might be tempted to conclude that the £1092 wasn't all that far out.
But... that £88.80 a month includes:
(a) Sky subscription for the several
hundred channels you get via satellite, plus
(b) all the extra movie channels (and unlimited downloads of films)
(c) access to "box sets" of TV series,
(d) truly unlimited broadband (without which the possibility of downloading unlimited movies and TV programmes would be less valuable),
(e) telephone (landline) rental and
(f) inclusive calls - free of extra charge - to virtually every landline phone on the planet and to mobiles (cellphones) in the USA (very useful with a son living in Texas).
Additionally, we were provided with the Sky+HD box free of charge.
A basic Sky subscription and a free box (giving access to three hundred and eighty-eight TV channels including the well-known pay-channels, plus the ability to record and download broadcast TV, catch-up TV and box-sets) costs £25 a month, which is £300 a year.