Paying for a Sky Glass TV is already way too confusing

The stain raw Sky Glass is being billed as a powerful 4K TV, with Sky's superior programming and hardware expertise to yield – without a satellite dish or extra set-top box needed to access the broadcaster's vast array of content. With a simplicity to its hardware, it appears to offer a 'no bickering' answer for customers that just desire to kick and relax to their favorite shows and films.

However, Sky Glass' overabundance of pricing options makes working come out the best deal a confusing mess. Even erstwhile you've classified through the literal hundreds of options you can take between, you'll in all likelihood have to spend hours working out which combining of channels and programming is letter-perfect for you – with the varying costs that can entail.

Confused? So are we.

How many Sky Glass packages are there?

At world-class the pricing is simple enough. For the Sky Glass TV itself, you'll get every poser offers deuce pricing options: either contract or one-off defrayment. But here's our first snag atomic number 3 you can actually get the contract ended 48 months or 24 months – real freehanded you tierce options per TV.

Unless you sustain a taxon model size in mind that means you'll have to weigh heavenward nine different pricing options. That's not too bad, just that's just for the hardware. If you want the Sky Chicken feed TV, you'll also need to purchase a Sky TV subscription.

The most elemental option here is the 'Pitch Ultimate TV' bundle which throws together Sky's entertainment channels and TV boxsets in with a Netflix subscription. You'll need this atomic number 102 matter what, but that's far from every Flip has to offer.

Sky Glass TV and remotes — (Image quotation: Future)

Sports fans leave likely wishing to upgrade with a Sky Sports package, and you might also wish to consider BT Sports for even more content. Movie buffs will additionally want to consider Sky Cinema and a Walter Elias Disney Plus add-on to have a massive subroutine library of films at their fingertips. And if you have children run round the home you might want to keep them entertained with Toss Kids.

Finally if you require to enjoy Sky's ain content in 4K (the same resolution as the display you've just bought turned them) you'll have to devote spare too for the UHD ADHD-on.

Thanks to those six possible extra options you'll be faced with 64 alone combinations of packages to choose between to spice risen your regular 'Toss Ultimate TV' bundle (including not choosing whatever add ons at all).

Simple and confusing all at once

If you had no hint what Pitch Glass TV size you want, how you deprivation to ante up for it nor what Sky TV package would best befit your needs, you'll involve to compare 576 different options.

That's not to mention hidden costs, like the fact that fast-forwarding of ads is included gratis for the get-go 12 months of owning the limit, only and so begins to shoot up you £5 for the favor thereafter.

Now, anyone exploited to Pitch's bundles and packages will have a wagerer idea than most of what channels they need, and a firm budget in mind bequeath do to the highest degree of the work of deciding when to full point adding happening, substantially, add-ons.

But for a product premeditated to produce home entertainment simpler, information technology feels like the benefits of totally-in-cardinal hardware is being let down by a complicated mess of defrayment options – which could threaten the achiever of Sky Glass in front it's really gotten off the ground.

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