Which subscriptions are you likely to subscribe to in 2015
 

With BT Sports becoming a big player in the sports rights market the question is will you be paying for both these sports subscriptions?.

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All depends how much btsport is going to be when the 3 year virgin xl will be, could be anything up to 20 pound IMO. Would probably just keep sky sports if that was the case.

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Indeed if BT Sports is that sort of price then they know where they can put it.

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Especially since their commentators have the personality of a mouldy oven chip, wonder what other rights they are going after.

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From many reports nothing is sacred anymore with regards to future rights.

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Already thinking about dropping Sky Movies and Sports and save myself a bundle of money

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BT Sport has bitten off more than it can chew.

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It really is to early to make any decisions, whilst I agree with the statement " l have simply had enough of the greedy buggers" I will wait to see what the costs are at the time. But, I cannot see myself paying for both.

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I could be dead by then

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I too think it's far too early to make any decision about where my money will be spent. If you told me a few years ago that I would be spending anything like the sort of money I am paying now for a luxury like TV, I'd have called you mad.

I was on the verge of setting sail from Virgin Media right up until August 16th when Virgin negotiated a cracking deal (well I thought so) to secure BT Sports. So I'd guess it will be late August 2015 before I'd need to make any decisions and will football be any part of that decision?

I'm just pretty happy now, obviously I'd be happier if I wasn't spending quite so much money!

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Yeah too early to decide without seeing pricing.
Always been on XL so had Setanta, ESPN and now BT Sports so had some sport included.
Subscribed to Sky Sports for about 6 months a couple years ago but dropped them as too expensive.
Currently use a family members login to view Sky Sports though.
If BT introduce a good paid for package I will consider it as I do watch more European football amd Scottish games than I do the EPL

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It's not the "E"PL!

Or the Premiership!

Anyway, I get away without subscribing to anything at the minute because BT Sport is in xl and thereis a significant amount of free to air European football on ITV.

So for now things stay the same. But what I do in two years time very much depends on finding out exactly what is going to happen to BT's newly acquired rights. As I've said before though, I work a shift pattern and watching sport time shifted is a but rubbish, really, so I would begrudge paying out for an extra subscription. However, it looks like perhaps the time is coming.

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My crystal balls says you will still be alive and kicking in 2060 dear chap.:D

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Quite agree.

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Well, there's a thing :erm:

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Well i chose VM without the sports but doesn't the BT deal run out in 2016 and not 2015?

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The BT Sports deal does indeed run out in 2016 but the Champions League deal starts a year before.

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The BT Sport deal will still be in place in 2015 so I will stick with Premier to get that and still have Sky Sports probably as my team is currently in the Championship and I love my cricket also.

I would not pay for BT Sport for any price really as can cope without some Premier League footy and the Champions League.

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Unfortunately I love sport and have XL TV pack and SKY Sports with HD subscription. Won't hold my breath but I hope SKY will drop this annoying charge of £7 to VM customers for Sports in HD especially when we only get two of their channels in HD :(

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sky will never drop HD charge make far too money from it

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You can't say 'never', Dave, because if their competitors end up not charging and Sky looks too expensive to people, they will start to lose customers.

In recent years, Sky have had the edge over Virgin Media in some respects, but I don't feel that they do any more. This means that they will start to lose customers to VM, who offer more for less. Very soon, they are going to have to take another look at their prices and pricing structure and think of something new that makes them stand out from the rest.

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come on OB you think sky want to lose all that money there making from it and it hundreds of millions and for 1 they could not afford to lose it they need it

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The world is changing Dave and Sky will have to change with it.

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name one company that willingly drops hundreds of millions Den

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But the market is changing quickly as HD is becoming the norm now thus it becomes much harder for suppliers to justify the extra charge in a increasingly competitive market.

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yes agree it becoming the norm and totally against charging twice for same content which the HD charge is should be illegal charging twice for same content

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Excluding premium movies and sports both VM and Sky are pretty much similar if BT Sports not your thing

Entertainment Extra + is £32 and includes HD
VM XL TV is currently £29.50 includes HD another forum member has said this is to increase £2.50 bringing them level.

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Does that include the TIVO fee MM, or is that just for the standard box?

Perhaps the extra £2.50 is to pay for the missing HD channels and Atlantic?!?;)