Cast your mind back roughly ten years, and you'll remember a very different era of streaming.
The modest monthly subscriptions and cancel-anytime promise made these risk-free alternatives to traditional cable and satellite packages, which came with pricey contracts that locked you in for months, and in many cases, years.
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Everything in one place…
Sky's angle for beating streaming confusion is to have everything in one, organised place â that being its Ultimate TV package.
That includes Sky's original channels (including Sky One and Sky Atlantic) and 130 additional ones, as well as Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Discovery+ and Hayu (the last of which is being added in July), all for ÂĢ24 per month. You also get the What Hi-Fi? Award-winning Sky Stream puck as part of this package, too.
While these are the ad-supported versions (I'll touch on that later), some simple calculations show that this is still a pretty great deal.
Now (formerly Now TV) offers up the…