Its fairly simple for me. I got rid of movies when Sky hiked the price for Sky Go (downloading) to £5/month. I got rid of sports when Sky hiked the "on-demand" price to £5/month (free before).
I now only have the basic entertainment package and I watch nothing at all on it. Wife watches Game of Thrones & Arrow which are easy enough to acquire in other ways (some of them legal
), and the kids watch crap like "toddlers in tiaras"/"I'm American, thick as pig-sh*t and pregnant" (I paraphrase on the second programme
).
No point in paying what I reckon will be nearly £300/year for that after September.
Apparently they have some new "blockbusting" offer they're going to announce this week - to compete with BT. Thing is I know how they work now and whatever the offer is, it'll be changed on the sly - few quid extra here for spurious crap, slight downgrade there to "improve new services". You can't trust Sky and that's the basic problem with them.
Edit - oh and I already have a freesat box (Slingloaded so it streams) which means I wouldn't have to pay Sky's ridiculous £10/month* charge to enable pause/record/BBC iplayer on the Sky box.
*used to be a flat £10 charge to enable it, its now £10/month - that's what I mean about sly changes.