i've been thinking about shifting over to virgin, how has this affected their sports package?

Virgin don't have the pricing for the sports channels like Sky have done. Their pricing is £31.75 a month + £7 for HD (they do have bundles, which are better value than that though).

On Virgin you do get BT Sport included. On Sky BT Sport is free for 3 months, but then £27.99 month.

I don't think the pricing changes make much difference though really. £18 for 1 channel is bad value, unless you are really into watching one sport only like Golf, F1 or Premier League football. Most will still want all the sports channels.

£18 per month isn't "bad value"

Its less than a lot of people pay for their mobile phone contract, or monthly Costa coffee, beer or fags, and less than you'd pay in admittance to attend just 1 actual game.

Thanks for all the comments, that gives me a much better idea of what he needs.

I meant compared against getting all of the channels. I'd rather pay a bit extra per month than be restricted to 1 or 2 Sky Sports channels.

Yes, I see, its almost like every other channel is paying towards Sky's astronomical funding of the football Premier League....

I was paying £76 a month and thought enough was enough -
So no more HD, no more disney, discovery, childrens channels and dropped to one sky sport and skypackage that had sky atlantic and some other stuff in and sky go for 4 users= £45. I told them I would be happier paying £40 and would leave it with them

They then called me two days later and threw in skysports complete for free and knocked a fiver off.....which seems better than £76

The prices quoted are just a starting point. Get on the phone and haggle! I'm not affected by this latest change (being with virgin), but I have pretty much everything with them (phone, broadband and TV), and just one phone call to them (the retentions team) got me a £40 monthly discount (which took me to less than the "new customer" price I'd started with!).

There's enough on freeview for what I watch on tele. I pay £5 for Sky to watch the rugby on my phone or a tab if I wanted.

It depends on what £18 buys you. I only watch cricket and rugby league on Sky. Two of the cheaper sports. I currently pay £22.50 for the entire Sky Sports package. I called up about the new 'sports choices' to be informed (as noted elsewhere on this thread) that this would cost £18 for first channel and £3 for the second - a monthly saving of £1.50. Given that the vast majority of Sky's budget for sports goes to soccer and Formula 1, I should get a major saving by opting out of them and going only for 'low-budget' sports. I have to continue to subsidise the profligate, corrupt bore-fest that is 'top flight' football, it seems.

I acknowledged this towards the bottom of Page 1.

Day pass on nowTV.com ? Or just use the Sky Mobile and stream to TV as some alternatives

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From what I understand the use of a Kodi is currently sub judice, and I believe one trader has already been successfully prosecuted. Everyone on here will I am sure be aware that the AUP section 1.3 prohibits messages with this sort of content, so please can we avoid it.

Thanks

Understood.