Tv license

[otherclive]

Why not join NowTV a that offers all the Sky packages at a much lower subscription? Generally the contract is for 6 months if you take up their offer. We have the Entertainment, Cinema plus the booster to remove ads. Cost is about £18 a month. Netflix about £10 a month and the Plusnet broadband £28 a month which includes line rental. Works out to under £60 a month. We no longer have a phone.

Currently Sky Essentails with Netflix and 150 mp fibre is £35 pm, with anytime landline another £17 pm. Currently my broadband is 260 mp (measured) but no problem at 150 mp fibre. 300mp adds another £2pm. Reviewing their offering that would meet our needs as even with Virgin we have not used any of their offerings as we go via the various apps, or record tv for later viewing.

 

[Jcloughie]

Why not join NowTV a that offers all the Sky packages at a much lower subscription? Generally the contract is for 6 months if you take up their offer. We have the Entertainment, Cinema plus the booster to remove ads. Cost is about £18 a month. Netflix about £10 a month and the Plusnet broadband £28 a month which includes line rental. Works out to under £60 a month. We no longer have a phone.

Last time I looked at NOW TV. You had to pay a lot extra for Dolby and for HD.

John

 

[Buckman]

Last time I looked at NOW TV. You had to pay a lot extra for Dolby and for HD.

John

The entertainment channel is £5 a month, Cinema £10 a month and the Boost £6 a month. The Boost gives you ad free and also HD. The Ultra Boost at £9 gives you 4k UHD and also Dolby Atmos on 3 devices. When we took out the Sky Cinema about 3 months ago it was £7 for 12 months.

 

[Sam Vimes]

Last time I looked at NOW TV. You had to pay a lot extra for Dolby and for HD.

John

I wonder how many people opt for Dolby, HD,4K etc when their home setup isn't going to be able to produce any noticeable benefit.

Poor acoustics in home; poor hearing; low quality speakers; TV to far away and so on.

 

[Buckman]

I wonder how many people opt for Dolby, HD,4K etc when their home setup isn't going to be able to produce any noticeable benefit.

Poor acoustics in home; poor hearing; low quality speakers; TV to far away and so on.

Yep not bothered with UHD on NowTv or Dolby Atmos. Other channels like Prime ro Netfix give it to you for free. Sadly eyesight and hearing is not longer 100% to tell the difference between HD and UHD or even Dolby Atmos. Our main issue on may channels is clarity of speech as in some programs or films, the actors seem to be mumbling.

 

[RogerL]

I wonder how many people opt for Dolby, HD,4K etc when their home setup isn't going to be able to produce any noticeable benefit.

Poor acoustics in home; poor hearing; low quality speakers; TV to far away and so on.

I gave up on Hi-Fi, and subsequent improvements, back in the '80s when chemotherapy damaged my hearing - a known side-effect and better than the alternative!

 

[otherclive]

Yep not bothered with UHD on NowTv or Dolby Atmos. Other channels like Prime ro Netfix give it to you for free. Sadly eyesight and hearing is not longer 100% to tell the difference between HD and UHD or even Dolby Atmos. Our main issue on may channels is clarity of speech as in some programs or films, the actors seem to be mumbling.

To get any benefit from Dolby Atmos the tv sound has to be output from a better set of aufio kit than the tv speakers. I’ve got it on my new Bose soundbar but that was bought mainly to improve voice clarity and to improve my music listening. To really get any extra benefit I’d have to buy extra speakers for the lounge, or Bose ear buds.

 

[JTQ]

We no longer have a phone.

We opted out of a true "landline" phone, when the rental for it and call charges whether packaged or piecemeal just got to silly money.
We however retained a physical phone so our decades old number survived and we could receive calls along with making outgoing calls, and in particular the lengthy international calling our circumstances needed.
We simply transferred our landline number onto a VoIP phone piggy backed on our internet, at a "rental" cost for that of £1.20 pm, with calls even to our international destinations of a 1.5p/m.
Recent changes have greatly improved our direct mobile phone connectivity, and we could use calling via our PC but my wife in particular is more comfortable using what for all intents and purposes is a normal landline handset.
Our VoIP service is with Andrews & Arnold and its being very good, with a consistent clarity BT's analogue, it replaced, rarely had.

Still on copper as our only viable option out here, but fibre to the box which is in eye sight just down the lane.

 

[Buckman]

We opted out of a true "landline" phone, when the rental for it and call charges whether packaged or piecemeal just got to silly money.
We however retained a physical phone so our decades old number survived and we could receive calls along with making outgoing calls, and in particular the lengthy international calling our circumstances needed.
We simply transferred our landline number onto a VoIP phone piggy backed on our internet, at a "rental" cost for that of £1.20 pm, with calls even to our international destinations of a 1.5p/m.
Recent changes have greatly improved our direct mobile phone connectivity, and we could use calling via our PC but my wife in particular is more comfortable using what for all intents and purposes is a normal landline handset.
Our VoIP service is with Andrews & Arnold and its being very good, with a consistent clarity BT's analogue, it replaced, rarely had.

We did the same with our phone, but at the time the cost was about £6 per month. We now use Whatsapp for our International calls which are mainly to South Africa.

 

[JTQ]

We did the same with our phone, but at the time the cost was about £6 per month. We now use Whatsapp for our International calls which are mainly to South Africa.

Yes, Whatsapp is an option, but does not retain the historical landline number that within an elderly sphere does seem to have its appeal, plus in my case my wife's ease with using a "normal" landline handset. Particularly for what can be extended duration chats!

 

[RogerL]

We opted out of a true "landline" phone, when the rental for it and call charges whether packaged or piecemeal just got to silly money.
We however retained a physical phone so our decades old number survived and we could receive calls along with making outgoing calls, and in particular the lengthy international calling our circumstances needed.
We simply transferred our landline number onto a VoIP phone piggy backed on our internet, at a "rental" cost for that of £1.20 pm, with calls even to our international destinations of a 1.5p/m.
Recent changes have greatly improved our direct mobile phone connectivity, and we could use calling via our PC but my wife in particular is more comfortable using what for all intents and purposes is a normal landline handset.
Our VoIP service is with Andrews & Arnold and its being very good, with a consistent clarity BT's analogue, it replaced, rarely had.

Still on copper as our only viable option out here, but fibre to the box which is in eye sight just down the lane.

Vodafone offer a "free" VOIP landline, it's included in their broadband deal without extra charge - call packages are extra.

Check out Vodafone's fast fibre offers - they're using Openreach to provide underground full fibre to the property (FTTP) in many areas which only had fibre to the cabinet (FTTC)