This Saturday, Sky Sports serves up Watford vs Arsenal live and exclusive, starting at 5:30pm. Here’s how you can watch it.
You can watch all the action live and exclusive on Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 1 HD at home, or if you’re not around or you don’t have (or don’t want) a pay TV subscription, you can stream all of the action live on Sky Go or Virgin TV Anywhere, or if you’re not a Sky or Virgin TV customer, you can sign up for a Now TV Sports Pass to watch the game live on your phone.
If you’ve not already figured out how you’re going to watch the game, which starts at 5:30pm, we’ve rounded up all of the deals going, letting you know how to get the games for the least, whether or not you can get games in HD and everything else you’ll need to watch or stream.
Watch Watford vs Arsenal with Sky Sports and a Sky TV subscription
Related: Sky Sports and BT Sport fixtures for October-November and December-JanuaryThe full Sky Sports pack costs £25.50/month in addition to a Sky TV subscription. The entry-level Sky TV bundle (Original Bundle) costs £20/month, for a grand total of £45.50/month.
If you want to watch the games in HD, you’ll need to take out the Family Bundle of channels (£36/month) plus the HD Pack (£5.25/month) on top of Sky Sports (£25/month) which comes to £66.75/month in total.
Alternatively, you can just get Sky Sports 1 on its own for £13/month. If you only care about Premier League football, this is a good idea as you’ll save £150 a year compared to the full pack of Sky Sports channels.
Again, you’ll need to take a regular bundle of Sky TV channels in order to get this. With the £20/month Original Bundle, this comes to £33/month in total.
With the Family Bundle (£36/month) plus the HD Pack (£5.25/month) this works out at £54.25/month.
All Sky TV subscribers get access to Sky Go as standard, which means you can stream games live on up to two devices – including iOS and Android devices, Windows and Mac desktops and laptops and Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles.
Sky Go Extra – which lets you watch on up to four devices, costs another £5/month.
| Sports Packages | Total Monthly Cost |
|---|---|
| Original Bundle (£20) + Sky Sports 1/2 (£13) | £33/month |
| Original Bundle (£20) + Sky Sports Bundle (£25.50) | £45.50/month |
| Family Bundle (£36) + Sky Sports 1/2 (£13) + HD Pack (£5.25) | £54.25/month |
| Family Bundle (£36) + Sky Sports Bundle 1/2 (£25.50) + HD Pack (£5.25) | £66.75/month |
Watch Watford vs Arsenal with Sky Sports and a Virgin Media subscription
Related: How to get Sky Sports 1 on its ownThe full line-up of Sky Sports channels is available on Virgin Media for £27.25/month.
If you only want Sky Sports 1 with Virgin TV, that’ll set you back £17/month. All Sky Sports channels can be watched in HD on Virgin Media for an extra £7/month premium.
The cheapest Virgin TV package you can get costs £13/month – this is the Virgin More TV with the entry-level V HD set-top box.
To recap, Sky Sports 1 (£17) plus More TV and V HD (£13) costs £30/month and £37/month for Sky Sports 1 in HD.
The Sky Sports Collection (£27.25) plus More and V HD (£13) which totals £40.25/month or £47.25/month for every Sky Sports channel in HD.
If you want a TV package you can record games on, you’ll need to dig a little deeper and pay £18/month for Virgin More TV with a TiVo box.
Without the HD bolt-on, Sky Sports 1 plus a TiVo box costs £35/month and £42/month for Sky Sports 1 in HD.
Virgin TV customers with a TiVo box have the option to stream games live via Virgin TV Anywhere.
| Sports Packages | Total Monthly Cost |
|---|---|
| Virgin More TV with V HD (£13) + Sky Sports 1 (£17) | £30/month |
| Virgin More TV with V HD (£13) + Sky Sports Collection (£27.25) | £40.25/month |
| Virgin More TV with TiVo (£18) + Sky Sports 1 (£17) | £35/month |
| Virgin More TV with TiVo (£18) + Sky Sports Collection (£27.25) | £45.25/month |
| Virgin More TV with V HD (£13) + Sky Sports 1 (£17) + HD (£7) | £37/month |
| Virgin More TV with V HD (£13) + Sky Sports Collection (£27.25) + HD (£7) | £47.25/month |
| Virgin More TV with TiVo (£18) + Sky Sports 1 (£17) + HD (£7) | £42/month |
| Virgin More TV with TiVo (£18) + Sky Sports Collection (£27.25) + HD (£7) | £52.25/month |
Watch Watford vs Arsenal with Sky Sports and a BT TV subscription
Related: Read our BT TV review and find out how to get BT Sport on Sky, Virgin, BT TV and FreeviewTo get Sky Sports with BT TV, you’ll need to be able to get BT Infinity, BT’s FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet)-based broadband service.
At its cheapest, BT Infinity currently costs £10/month plus line rental (£17.99/month for the standard rate).
BT TV offers you the TV Starter service for no extra cost. This gives you a basic set-top box which gives you all of the same channels you’d get on Freeview HD plus extra channels and catch-up content delivered over the broadband connection. The TV Starter box is driveless, so you won’t be able to record any games.
The Entertainment Plus service costs £7.50/month and comes with a YouView box with a 500GB drive (300 hours SD, 125 hours HD).
Entertainment Ultra HD costs £15/month and gives you a YouView box with a 1TB drive (600 hours SD, 250 hours HD).
You can only get Sky Sports 1 and 2 with BT TV. These cost £22/month on top of your BT TV package on a rolling monthly basis. Sky Sports isn’t currently available in HD on BT TV.
| Sports Packages | Total Monthly Cost |
|---|---|
| BT Infinity 1 (£9.75) + BT TV Starter (£0) + Sky Sports (£22) | £31.75/month |
| BT Infinity 1 (£9.75) + BT TV Entertainment Plus (£7.50) + Sky Sports (£22) | £39.25/month |
Watch Watford vs Arsenal with Sky Sports and a TalkTalk TV subscription
TalkTalk TV has a six channel Sky Sports package called Sky Sports Boost, consisting of Sky Sports 1-5 and Sky Sports F1, in standard definition only.
The standard price of the Sky Sports Boost is £30/month, but throughout the 2015/16 Premier League season TalkTalk has cut this price down to £11/month.
To get TalkTalk TV you’ll need to be a TalkTalk broadband customer signed up to the TalkTalk Essentials or Plus bundles.
TalkTalk Essentials TV, which comes with a driveless YouView set-top box, costs £7.50/month for the first three months and £10/month after that.
TalkTalk Plus TV costs £10/month. The set-top box comes with a 350 GB hard drive (200 hours SD, 80 hours HD).
Both of the set-top boxes give you access to digital terrestrial channels delivered through your aerial and extra pay TV channels delivered over a broadband connection.
You’ll need to pay TalkTalk line rental with both services (£16.70/month, £180.36/year).
Sky Sports isn’t currently available in HD from TalkTalk TV.
| Sports Packages | Total Monthly Cost |
|---|---|
| TalkTalk Essentials TV (£10) + Sky Sports Boost (£11) | £21/month |
| TalkTalk Plus TV (£10) + Sky Sports Boost (£11) | £21/month |
Watch Watford vs Arsenal with a Sky Sports Now TV pass
Related: Read our Now TV Box (2015) reviewNow TV is available to stream from desktops, laptops and smart TVs as well as mobile devices (iOS and Android) plus Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
By far the cheapest and easiest way to watch the Watford vs Arsenal game is to sign up for a Now TV 24 hour pass. This costs £6.99 and gives you a day’s access to all of the Sky Sports channels via Now TV.
If there’s more matches you want to watch throughout the week, you can sign up for a £10.99 weekly pass or stump up £31.99 for 30 days access if you want to get a month of live sporting action in.
Now TV doesn’t currently offer any high definition live streams – SD is the best it’s going to get.
| 24 Hour Pass | Weekly Pass | Monthly Pass | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entertainment | n/a | n/a | £6.99 |
| Movies | n/a | n/a | £9.99 |
| Sports | £6.99 | £10.99 | £31.99 |
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