Paramount plus basic to standard

[Damien1]

Let's face it - when the option is offered to upgrade to tier 2 or 3 to get rid of the ads during Mobland - we will all be doing it. Let's hope they use that extra revenue to keep producing quality content.

(here because I wanted to see if I could upgrade Paramount+)

[hankscorpio]

You can't your service you agreed to has been diminished and you're still paying the same amount. 

[Damien1]

It's all perspective.

I wanted Sky Cinema. I subscribed to sky Cinema and when I found out Paramount was thrown in for free ... Brucey Bonus.

As has already been said, the option to upgrade Paramount is not available - yet. And when it's offered, I'll snap that up.

[BrynMeurig]

As I watch a lot of progamming on Paramount+ (bit of a Trekkie), I've signed up directly with Paramount using a different email address to the one I use for Sky. Sign out of Paramount on Sky, sign back in with new Paramount ID and I now enjoy UHD and Atmos (I have a full Atmos soundbar with sub and rears) through the original tile on the "Apps and Inputs" rail.

To offset some of the cost, I've cancelled Prime Video as I wasn't using it.

I know this isn't everyone's ideal solution, but it works for me.  

[Fothergill1]

Well done @BrynMeurig at last someone has used some common sense and instead of moaning about the free Paramount + with adverts you have used your initiative and done the obvious and signed up directly to an add free subscription.  The only limitation being having to use a different email address but that only takes a few minutes to set up.

Getting Paramount + for free with Sky Cinema was never advertised as with or without adverts as no such options existed when it was introduced.  Paramount later changed the goalposts by following the example of Netflix and introducing the different tiers.  I'm sure at some time Paramount will negotiate with Sky to allow them to sell the different subscriptions (as Sky do with Netflix) but until then the obvious thing is to subscribe direct to Paramount as you have done.

[BrynMeurig]

I have three different Gmail addresses for different purposes, so I just used my social media one to sign up for Paramount+.

The UHD picture quality and the Atmos sound are worth every penny of the subscription fee.

[leahcar]

Think its bad. Sky customers had  no notification or option to.pay for ad free. Been member of sky forxl over 15 years! Didnt exspect this bad service and im a vip member. Im disabelled so tv is my only outlet.

[John1210]

It's nothing to do with Sky. 
paramount changed what they were distributing through Sky. 

So now, we get adverts as part of our free addition to Sky cinema. 

We've not been ripped off, scammed or cheated. 
if adverts are that much of an issue, pay for a subscription. 
That's what I'm doing when I decide to watch my next series on Paramount. 

Also, as for being disabled (I am also disabled), it is irrelevant in this situation. 

[noob1]

I recently renegotiated my sky and while on the phone I was told by the advisor that they have been told that sky will soon be offering customers a upgrade to ad free paramount for a top price.

[lettice · Accepted solution]

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@harrington985 wrote:

Since sky have moved the paramount plus account over to basic, how do I upgrade it back to standard with out ads. There is no way of doing this on paramount plus's website or via sky market place. So how do we change this.

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Available now.

Have a read of this Sky help article with all the details;

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/switching-app-subscription-plan

[laister]

Don't waste your time and energy this does not work I have tried it a dozen times even rang sky and they were clueless.

[John1210]

It does work, I just did it yesterday. 
went to MySky on sky q, then shop and apps. 
chose Paramount +
and it let me upgrade to Premium for £6 per month. 
It took 5mins and the app was upgraded instantly. 

[Damien1]

It does work. I did it on the day lettice posted the info above.

[LGodfrey1984]

What a s*** show. I've never seen a more complicated way to upgrade to ad-free. Why the f*** couldn't you have added an upgrade button to my plan on the website or app? Just wasted over half an hour of my time going through the website and app looking for a way to upgrade to ad-free, but no, that would have been too easy. Instead I'm forced to Google it, read throught a support page and then upgrade through my tv remove and painstackingly enter my card info to pay £6, meaning I'm now how two separate payments coming out of my acccount instead of one. Consider yourself lucky I hate ads more than I hate the hoops I had to jump through to upgrade to Premium just now. Not happy.

[BrynMeurig]

Took me 5 minutes, including cancelling my direct subscription with Paramount