Netflix costs £11.99 a month with 4K or £8.99 for HD, Amazon Prime is £7.99 a month, Now TV is £7.99 a month, £11.99 if you want Sky Cinema, and Disney+ is £5.99 a month, and even then you get no where near the channels Sky gives you.
I have the full Sky package which includes Netflix at a discounted rate and Disney+ and yes it costs me £60+ a month but that also includes Sky Sports.
So paying individually is hardly a fraction of the cost and not as many channels anyway.
Bold 1: Entertainment pack just went up on 1st September to £9.99 a month (you do get 17 channels though and all of Sky's premium channels, One, Witness, Comedy, Crime, Documentaries, Atlantic, History and Nature and others like Gold, Nat Geo, Fox and Discovery)
Bold 2: But nowhere near the number of useless channels that attract tiny audiences (shopping and religion anyone?)
Even the BBC, who have been the biggest champions of providing on demand content, including putting entire series online before being shown on TV, are now considering bringing back BBC Three as a linear channel.
Apparently at the expense of BBC4, which I do watch regularly.
If my calculations are correct, NowTV would cost me £63.97 p/m for the Entertainment, Cinema, and Sports pack. There's no mention of the ITV channels being available to stream live via NowTV, not sure about the BBC channels either
At current prices, that package would cost you £55.97 (£9.99 Entertainment, £11.99 Cinema and £33.99 Sports) Plus your monthly broadband cost (but you're likely to have a connection regardless of whether you have streaming services or not, and you'd need it for on demand stuff on Sky anyway)
However, once you sign up though and you're into your free trial period, they often offer you deals, eg, they currently have a deal for Sports for £25 a month for 12 months, Entertainment for £6.99 a month for 6 months to keep you using their service, and just like Sky, when you cancel, they do always offer you a cheaper deal on whichever package you're cancelling (and its all done online, so if you're the kind of person that can't say no to people trying to persuade you to stay when on the phone to cancel, you just tap or click on a button and that's it, done).
For the last 2 years we've had an Entertainment and Cinema deal for £99 for the year, once you took out the monthly price of the Entertainment pack, you were getting all the movie channels with access to the library on demand for £3 for the year.
BBC, ITV, All4, My5, etc are all available as apps within the stick or box (now phased out I believe as they don't advertise it on their site any more) and all offer live TV through it (they don't offer the +1 channels, though, so if you miss a programme, it's the On Demand option for you)
Personally, I'll never go back to Sky, they give you a great experience with SkyQ etc, but their broadband is sh*te and the TV Guide is filled up with hundreds of channels that I would simply never watch, 20 to 30 +1 and +24 channels and as mentioned above, shopping and religion