Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 35759522)

Aye it's going to be ridiculous. Hopefully one more season with only a small rise before it goes to hell in 16/17

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35759504)

Sky Sports customers set be hit with hefty price rises in the next few years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...ague-deal.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...e-auction.html

Originally Posted by Dave42 (Post 35759507)

we all knew it was going up

Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35759527)

And that's why i have already researched my alternatives and how much it will cost me to have the kit installed

£4.00 a month for Sky sports is a bit to much for me. I can drop sky sports completely and cover my alternative for far less. ;)

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35759516)

Broadcast !!!!

Most of Sky's software releases introduce cost savings , examples of late are Sky Store resulting in the reduction of Sky Box Office capacity , better efficiencies in satellite broadcasting freeing up space , card pairing done by the box saving calls to customer services something that represented an extremely high percentage of the calls received.

I'm sure I read somewhere that moving to the cloud will also represent increased savings for Sky with a goal of moving to STB's without HDD's which are both cheaper to produce and less problematic in the field resulting in fewer engineer visits.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35759524)

You would hope so Vince but don't bet on it.

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35759751)

I can't see Sky Sports going up that much directly because too many people would cancel so the result would be less money than lower increases.
Champions League remains a bit of a mystery to me - BT says it will charge more for it but I can't see people rushing to subscribe to it. Maybe BT will sell it with BT's HD fee and its proposed 4K service for an extra say £6pm. Don't know how that would impact VM customers though.

Originally Posted by tvtimes (Post 35759805)

Or maybe to push YV?

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 35759740)

Sky knew this was a possible scenario and have steadily been rising their prices over the last few years. There won't be a sudden chunky price rise out of the blue, just the usual increases from all providers across all services every year.
The news that the Champions League will be charged separately by BT Sport raises the chances of BT Sport remaining in the XL pack for a bit longer.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35759748)

Personally l think Sky will up the sports prices by £3 to £4 each year in the next 4 years and that for some will still be the straw that breaks the camels back Andrew and if then there is still a strong possibility that Virgin customers will have to fork out even more for BT's Champions League football as well.

Originally Posted by Mad Max (Post 35759534)

They can shove a sports price increase right up their chocolate starfish!

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35758547)

Yip, get rid of all silly football rights and go back to the days of the videprinter(sp?) on Grandstand ;)