I have a special level of animosity for Sky TV. Every experience I've had with them was reminiscent of a dying corporation clinging to relevancy that only existed in the cable TV generation. A few examples:<p>Sorting out my dads sky bill after my grandparents went to a rest home revealed an $42 monthly "multi-box" fee. Sky hadn't relied on a dish for a while at this point, and required a separate box for each TV despite having an android app that functionally operated identically. This also disregarded if boxes were in the same house, unlike Netflix's recent changes. I know they were aware of this fee as they increased it alongside the other packages<p>Ah yes the packages. They have managed to split channels down an arbitrary line that excluded some of the most requested channels into separate packages. I had a specific argument with my Dad about package price when he wanted a singular channel and could only get it by increasing the price of his monthly subscription by $28. Before we had removed the multi-box fee, his bill had nearly been $150 dollars <i>per month</i>. A large chunk of this was the sports live streaming.<p>Sports live streaming was an especially sore point, as the list of options was not a list, but singular. Sky TV has held an iron grip on sports live streaming for as long as I remember, to the point that not even the countries second largest ISP could compete. They attempted and shut down their competing service within a year. The price for a generous Sky Sports package? An additional $42 per month.<p>I could rant about this for hours. Not even mentioning the biased news broadcasting, hours of pricing deciphering, and still being stuck to a cable TV programming special after all that.