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#3433209 11-Nov-2025 11:12

Changes afoot at Sky as well with a new channel lineup coming soon: https://archive.ph/J1bkE

Juice TV (channel 25) will feature contemporary and timeless music hits across every genre, with 40% New Zealand content. J2 (channel 26) will be focused on classic hits with a modern twist.

Haven't they tried this before? 🤔

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#3433267 11-Nov-2025 11:37

Great news, anything that lessens the mindless repeats is good. Plus they keep South Park from Comedy Central which is the best news of the lot.

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#3433355 11-Nov-2025 14:16

Oh great so its 1 channel replacing 3 , and the return of Juice TV which has been available for free for ages

"Sky Kids will replace Nickelodeon, Nick Jr and Cartoon Network"

https://www.juicetv.live/

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#3435124 17-Nov-2025 07:34

The Black Friday deal is 50% for 1 year using the Sky Pod

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#3435168 17-Nov-2025 11:08

What is a sky pod please?

~~And how do you access the black friday deal?~~
Edit found it here

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#3435175 17-Nov-2025 11:35

DjShadow:

The Black Friday deal is 50% for 1 year using the Sky Pod

Looks like you can get the same deal with the newer white box as well?

"Sky starter, Sky entertainment, Sky sports and Sky movies all for $60 /month for 12 months instead of $120.99 /month with a free sky box or sky pod."

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#3435180 17-Nov-2025 12:06

I’m gobsmacked that people would pay $120 for that. Sky Starter is mostly stuff that can be legitimately found free elsewhere? Movies are inexpensive to stream from many sources so you’d have to watch a lot on Sky to make it worth it. That only leaves Sky Sport.
i just can’t see the value.

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#3435197 17-Nov-2025 12:18

johno1234:

I’m gobsmacked that people would pay $120 for that. Sky Starter is mostly stuff that can be legitimately found free elsewhere? Movies are inexpensive to stream from many sources so you’d have to watch a lot on Sky to make it worth it. That only leaves Sky Sport.
i just can’t see the value.

I think we're back to that problem that streaming was meant to solve by being significantly cheaper, when you add up the cost of all the main ones then you are back to or exceeding the cost of Sky even at full price

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#3435203 17-Nov-2025 12:53

DjShadow:

johno1234:

I’m gobsmacked that people would pay $120 for that. Sky Starter is mostly stuff that can be legitimately found free elsewhere? Movies are inexpensive to stream from many sources so you’d have to watch a lot on Sky to make it worth it. That only leaves Sky Sport.
i just can’t see the value.

I think we're back to that problem that streaming was meant to solve by being significantly cheaper, when you add up the cost of all the main ones then you are back to or exceeding the cost of Sky even at full price

I suspect streaming Netflix alone would give you an equal or better selection to Sky movies.

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#3435204 17-Nov-2025 12:53

DjShadow:

I think we're back to that problem that streaming was meant to solve by being significantly cheaper, when you add up the cost of all the main ones then you are back to or exceeding the cost of Sky even at full price

I just did the math on that and came with the same result. The issue I have is Starter is simply freeview so should free able to be excluded. Entertainment is a collection of repeats that that been repeated many times and continue to be repeated repeatedly. Last time we had Sky movies we would watch something maybe once or twice a month. I like Sky Sport mainly for Bathurst, Olympics and thats about it.

Personally I feel Sky and the Streaming services have wrecked TV viewing, using a certain application to "acquire" some watchable content has become desirable again, I would never do that, honest I wouldn't.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3435208 17-Nov-2025 13:03

Indycar / Supercars really now the use case for me. I'll move to the F1 app next year. Satellite hasn't worked for a year, haven't missed any of the other regular channels other than just sport.

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#3435217 17-Nov-2025 13:25

I was thinking about getting Sky the other day but I barely watch anything on TV these days, I don't think it would be worth it.

For rural people though with poor broadband where streaming doesn't make sense, I can see Sky by satellite as still having a lot of value.

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#3435268 17-Nov-2025 15:09

johno1234:

I’m gobsmacked that people would pay $120 for that. Sky Starter is mostly stuff that can be legitimately found free elsewhere? Movies are inexpensive to stream from many sources so you’d have to watch a lot on Sky to make it worth it. That only leaves Sky Sport.
i just can’t see the value.

That's always been the way really, the other options are upsell activities. The concept of a compulsory starter pack is taking the p1ss in a streaming environment. It's a (very) expensive service fee just like Ticketekmaster with their ticket booking fee.