Here is what I hope will be my final comment on this:

To be honest, I’m not sure why we are even having this discussion. Like some other threads here, this is a thread about Sky. As I have done in the past on some of those other threads, I expressed an opinion based on my experience as a past subscriber. Several others have expressed similar sentiments so there is nothing unique in what I said. Several have also given my comments +1s, so at least some people seem to agree with me.

You have a different opinion, which you have also expressed. That is your good right, as indeed it is mine. So we disagree. Nothing new or surprising there. I have not gone back through all of those posts on all of those threads, but I do not recall ever attacking you for having a different opinion on this subject. I have disagreed with you, and tried to explain why, but I have never accused you of ‘whining’ or making up facts or other inappropriate behaviour. I don’t think I have even ever suggested you were actually wrong about anything, just that I see some things differently.

I also don’t think I have ever climbed on a high horse and cried personal attack before, though I am happy to be corrected on that. There have been many posts over the years. But I would certainly dispute that it is something I do ‘as usual, whenever someone questions my opinion’. Since you have made that assertion, I would be interested to see some evidence for it. Otherwise it might be appropriate for you to take that back.

I actually don’t understand what your second paragraph is about, so I will skip over that.

I do understand your third paragraph and I agree with it. I’m not sure why you stated it. That all seems pretty obvious to me.

At first I didn’t get the point you were making about my Android complaints on other threads. Now I see what you are getting at but I don’t agree that it is relevant or comparable to Sky. The technology I use for streaming is mainly Kodi, which I have no complaints about at all. With the right add-ons (NOT pirates) it works brilliantly for what I want. I use it on both Windows and Android platforms. I do have some issues with Android, but especially with the Shield, and I have gone into those at length. Why not? Is that not what Geekzone is for?

In fact, most of my issues have been solved, at least for the moment. I am not unhappy with the way things are working, though I have started having problems I don’t understand with Chromecast. But with the exception of the Shield, which is a one-time purchase, everything I use is free DIY software. Sky is a paid commercial service. The two cannot be directly compared.

I fully agree with your final statement. I did not think there was any dispute about that and I don’t know why you would. Have I suggested anywhere that your opinion is less relevant than mine? We simply disagree. That is all.

To bring this back to the thread subject and make it relevant, when I was a Sky subscriber, I felt I was not getting value for money because of the issues I have previously described, so like many others, I voted with my feet. The difference for me, which you seem to have such difficulty with, is not that I am still paying for things that I don’t watch, but that I have so much more choice and flexibility for the same money. With Sky, the documentary channels, the Arts Channel, the occasional film, and Freeview were the main things I watched. I used Sky for Freeview as a matter of convenience so I didn’t have to switch devices. I was paying around $100 a month for that.

Since then I have not rushed out to subscribe to a dozen other services, but I know that for the same money I could purchase a hell of a lot more content, including more content that would interest me, than what I was able to get from Sky. You want facts? That is a fact. You keep going on about how I would also be paying for a lot of stuff I don’t watch, but I would also be getting a lot more for that money that I would want to watch, except I probably wouldn’t have enough time. That is my point. I don’t know why you have such a hard time seeing that.

I suggest we end this discussion. We have made our points and it has gone on long enough. I have nothing to add unless I feel I have to respond to another personal attack.