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Sky is a useless hog of idiocy, just selling lots and lots of advertising. Most cringeworthy thing to tell about is Sky Bundesliga (the german soccer league). I
by exar0815 10y ago
Sky is a useless hog of idiocy, just selling lots and lots of advertising. Most cringeworthy thing to tell about is Sky Bundesliga (the german soccer league). Its the only way to see the most popular sport in germany. You pay for Sky Entertainment, which you MUST have to get the basic soccer package (no other sports or international soccer) which already amounts to a whopping 42€/Month. When you have that, you can either watch via Cable at your specific address, or can use the abysmal Sky Go system. That runs on Silverlight(sic!) and allows only 3 different devices in 6 Months to connect.
When you surpassed THOSE hurdles, you need to hope that Silverlight works on your OS (good luck Linux), doesn't crap out (what a coincidence with unmaintained software).
Then you can watch the "Game". Except the commercials extend to 30s before the ref starts the game, during the game you get 2-3 times a framed commercial, the commenting person has to advertise multiple of sky's services during the game, the half time is 12 out of 15 minutes commercials, and the second half is the same.
Disgusting. The 2-3 games a year I watch, I freely admit to using other means of watching.
- barking 10y agoSounds about right and that is what will kill it I think. I'd probably still be a customer but for the ads. When I first got sky I naively thought it would have none. But in fact Sky has more ads than free-to-air commercial tv in the UK does. .
- justaman 10y agoYou should see how bad American Football is. $50 USD for "Sunday Ticket" and literally half the game is advertisements. Its gotten so bad the NFL actually took notice that viewership is dropping.
- barking 10y agoSky show nfl in the UK and for a lot of the breaks over there they have a studio discussion of the last play. So they show maybe half the amount of ads you have to watch there and it's still way too many.
- thirdsun 10y agoAs someone who watches a lot of football, Bundesliga and international competitions like Champions League and Euro League, I share your pain. Since Sky lost the broadcast licenses to La Liga and Premier League, I subscribed to DAZN, a legal streaming platform for international sports, and despite several flaws it's better than Sky's abysmal online service and offers a very fair price.