| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 135293 | 2013-10-17 23:16:00 | Alternative to SKT TV ? | Lloyd68 (17170) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1356290 | 2013-10-20 20:21:00 | I'm deeply unimpressed with Sky's service. On coming home from holiday, I found my Sky box not working. It looks terminal. Called helpdesk on Wednesday, to be told a technician would be despatched. Friday, still no techie. Helpdesk says I'm scheduled for Monday. Hello ?? Is this good enough ? So what are the alternatives to the monopolistic Sky ? Freeview will get TV 1,2,3,4, Prime, Maori and Trackside. What we would really miss would be the Sports channels,UKTV, Living, Food, History and BBC World Are there any creative options that would allow me to such any of these channels out of the ether ? UFB not an option, nor is cable.. I have ADSL whiuch gives me approx 10mb/s cheers Lloyd Thanks for all the helpful responses. Eventually, after some sleuthing, I was able to get the attention of SKY senior management, and the box was replaced. It helps to know how to complain. I remain deeply unimpressed with SKY, which behaves as one might expect a monopoly to do. Their helplines are (mostly) courteous, but ineffective (your request is being actioned....) The alternatives suggested are all essentially SKY clones, which doesn't really help. Netflix and Hulu+ - now that looks a bit more interesting, as a supplement to Freeview. Question is - are these services able to deliver to NZ ? With increased bandwidth becoming more available, this looks like something to wake SKY up out of their (expensive) complacency cheers Lloyd |
Lloyd68 (17170) | ||
| 1356291 | 2013-10-20 23:59:00 | Netflix and Hulu+ : not without some tech know-how (proxies, etc) - unless I'm out-of-date on this. There's always QuickFlix: http://www.quickflix.co.nz/ |
Antmannz (6583) | ||
| 1356292 | 2013-10-21 03:17:00 | Netflix and Hulu are both available after installing a certain pluggin (https://mediahint.com/) for firefox or chrome, it literally takes 3 clicks. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1356293 | 2013-10-21 06:38:00 | Netflix and Hulu are both available after installing a certain pluggin (https://mediahint.com/) for firefox or chrome, it literally takes 3 clicks. I never managed to get that thing to work for me |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1356294 | 2013-10-21 17:38:00 | I never managed to get that thing to work for me Works with BBC iPlayer |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1356295 | 2013-10-21 19:38:00 | Hmm. Now I think I understand. It only targets specific websites? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||