Sky TV

[miasmum]

I have asked this on Facebook and Di and Saundra kindly replied, but I am a bit clueless and Tim is busy, so will ask you for advice if that's ok?

We really enjoy Formula 1 and it's really annoying now we can only see half the races on mainstream TV. Plus there is the occasional football match I would like to watch, like the Ipswich Norwich derby tomorrow. Football will be very infrequent as Tim isn't interested and as a supporter of a non-premiership team we get diddly squat anyway.

I have looked at the Sky sport package which is £49.50 pm which is a ridiculous amount. Di says they would probably e happy to reduce it as new customers and next year we can haggle.

Someone mentioned Amazon fire stick??????? And Saundra said she gets sport for free through her digibox.

Any advice on the above or suggestions gratefully received

[Diflower]

You don't get sky sports or anything like that with a fire stick - unless I'm missing something.
We need to know the name of whatever Saundra has to investigate, I'm interested too.

[saundra]

Hi it's called kodi. (Xbmc)tv box
I think son got it via Amazon but not sure you connect it to your tv and it needs wifi and you can watch films all the sports channels and eurosport plus all the things I had on sky
It's legal as well
I like eurosport I'm getting used to it and it has Netflix but to be honest I'm sure I don't trawel about just eurosport for me I expect it has its drawbacks and critics but for me it fine

[JoM]

I think you download the Kodi app onto the Firestick. I think there are various boxes you can get which you can download this onto as well as the Firestick.
We got a decent deal with Sky just before Christmas and we get all Sky Sports channels for £15 a month, there's no contract and that price is held for three years. Before that we just used to buy a Now TV day pass if there was a game we wanted to watch on Sky.
It doesn't solve the problem of games shown on BT though. We usually end up trying to find streaming websites and watch online.

[saundra]

I don't download on to a firestick it's just like the little now box
it has all the sky and bt sports channels
I wouldn't know what to buy to be honest

[JoM]

Yeah, I think you can buy the boxes and download it yourself or you can buy them preloaded with Kodi but I remember reading a few months ago that there was some legal action ongoing against people selling them preloaded.

[saundra]

Yes no there was a report in the d m
A few weeks ago where some people had got caught for selling illegal ones
Me I don't know the difference I'm not very internet savvy I just switch it on

[miasmum]

Jo, that sounds a good deal £15 per month. Did you speak to them to arrange that?

What is a NOW TV day pass? That sounds interesting.

[Workingman]

We usually end up trying to find streaming websites and watch online.

Jo, that is very naughty of you...... and me.

Sorry, Shell, but that appears to be the only way nowadays.

Kodi can be downloaded to any PC/Laptop and used with a cheap (£10) DVB-T dongle, but the LiveMix addon has become unavailable and the channels it supported are severely restricted due to copyright reasons. However, F1 is still "free to air" in some countries and some streams are out there. A word of warning, though. F1 provides all the camera work of the race, it is not Sky, so these other broadcasters get get the same picture feed, the problem is the sites carrying these feeds. If you are looking to stream then you absolutely must run your browser in a sandbox, that goes for footie as well, Jo.

[miasmum]

Workingman, whats now TV? I am guessing that it only works if you already have Sky but choose to watch sports when you have a movie package etc?

I am guessing there is no way for me, apart from becoming a Sky subscriber to watch the Ipswich game tomorrow?