A review from an English Gentleman who requires nothing more than a pint of Beer and some good TV.

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As a previous customer of Sky TV I was subjected to their yearly price hikes and their shit customer service (Excuse my language). This was made worse when I was unable to cancel the contract as it was in my sons name and he was out of the country probably partying it up in Magaluf.

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I waited.. waited.. for my son to return because these prices were getting a bit too crazy.

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For those interested I’ll do a price breakdown of the packages I had from Sky.

£22 for Entertainment

£30 for Sky Sports

£5 for Kids (for the grandchildren)

And occasionally me and my wife would indulge ourselves with Sky Cinema during the festive periods.

In total I had been paying Sky £57 a month. Oh I forgot one thing. I was paying 5 quid for HD channels. So the total price was £62 a month. Put it this way £744 quid a year just to be entertained.

Soo…

I was down the local boozer one day with a couple of me mates playing pool and complaining about life’s problems(TV Prices). I was then told by me mate about the days of CCCam on Sky, where you could buy a year subscription for £30.

I drunkenly ran home, wacked out the old laptop and did a Google search on CCCam. To my surprise the old Sky cancelled CCCam, but I found that you could stream the channels.

So I did a quick eBay search and found a fully loaded fire stick with IPTV. I took the chance and bought the fire stick.

Several days later, I received the fire stick with an app called STB Emulator. I got my son round to figure the app out, and to teach an old dog some new tricks.

After a week or so obsessing over the new firestick I was absolutely shocked at how great this was. C’mon guys I paid £60 for this stick.

I’d contacted the seller and asked if I could buy the subscriptions individually. At the time fire sticks was on sale for £25. So I thought I’d buy a few, watch a couple Youtube videos to setup and give them to the family members as Christmas gifts.

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I wrote an email detailing my requirements with an explanation of my non technical skills and the need to purchase some subscription, and in no time, I mean the guy’s response was instance, the response gave a tutorial on setting up the STB Emulator with a subscription.

I’d set the subscription up on the fire stick, I paid for a 6 month subscription at around £20 or something quid (Can’t remember). And handed them over to the wife to wrap as Christmas presents.

As you decided to read the long story, here goes somewhat of a review.

- What impressed me about BeamTK is the layout of channels is similar to Sky. Each category is similar and each channel is of good quality. It felt intuitive to go through each category.

- Similarly the EPG is well populated.

- Even though I only required Sky Channels, I was pleased with being able to view channels from the USA and Ireland.

- In addition, I had access to the English Premiere League, iFollow, Bein Sports and ESPN. Which is not covered by Sky.

- And that’s all I required. It ticked all the boxes.

Upon occasion there was a stream or two down but I would email the guy and there would be a response with the stream fixed.

- What could be worked on is having the Documentaries and Movies on catchup

- Grouping some of the Sports categories together rather than having separate categories.

- Get the VOD server online ASAP

As I conclude this review. I would like to give a thank you to the BeamTK team who have provided both a pleasant and efficient service.

In conclusion. I’d advise anyone reading this long winded review to try their service. There’s no harm in trying.

And as for more personal experience, my subscription which started in October has only got better as the time went on.