Fair point on Stream/Glass and HD. I came here to look into that but the hardware sounds terrible with Stream and I am not interested in Glass.
It's funny you mentioned 3 decades - and since this is the Q forum... Sky's heyday was the late 90s and into the 2000s. I didn't have Sky at home when I was younger, and I remember how awesome it was to go round to a friends house on a Sunday evening to catch the Simpsons (before the C4 days even) or a movie that wouldn't be on 'normal' TV for at least another year.
But with the rise of a vast array of on demand content, substantailly more free to air channels, smart TVs, and so on...getting access to the entertainment we want has never been easier.
I cancelled my Q subscription a while back after taking it out when I moved in to a new property. They wanted to increase my price to over £60 a month for what was just glorified Freeview with Multiroom and HD. This was not inclusive of broadband.
They charge a lot for multi room and yet The Sky Q mini multiroom box was terrible - an inferior product which was laggy and did not support 4k output.
HD is not a premium service.
The discussion with the Sky agent was borderline desperation on their part. Suggesting I remove multiroom and take HD off my package 'if cost is a problem' - folks want decent value for money, not to feel ripped off and locked in while they are free to increase prices every year, especially when the extras are things as ubiquitous as HD.
I can honestly say, cancelling the service and saving the money has had literally zero negative impact on what we enjoy watching.
I really feel Sky have completely failed to adapt to the seismic shift in the way folks consume content and charge way too much for what is just a basic level of service. The nickel and diming is quite something. You can get almost all of the basic package with free to air and a smart TV with on demand apps for £0 per month. Adding one of Netflix/Prime/Disney (or even several) is still way way less. Yet they are even now doing "ad free" as an extra 🤣
I do however think that the current deal on essentials with broadband is pretty solid, but the premium demanded for multiroom makes a good deal turn bad.
I'd love to see a simplification of the bundles but I've no interest in giving them my business with their current model. These forums are littered with customers complaining about poor performance and spurious charges.
