Sky TV v Virgin Media

[woolster]

Sky broadband is shit makes Tiscali & AOL look good and that's saying something.  Virgin TV is good but not a patch on SKY HD.

HD on virgin is the same as sky, and virgin dont charge for the box

[RJack]

Mine was awful kept dropping out.  I had a really bad experience with Sky over my broadband which lead to an ongoing saga for 3 months and trying to get any sense out of their customer service.  It took the threat of cancelling my Sky Tv HD package with them to reimburse me 3 months for both broadband and tv.  I kept HD but changed to Virgin for broadband.  Virgin Broad band is excellent if you play a lot of games online too like CoD etc

[Luci]

Virgin is awesome.

Catch up tv and music on demand being great features..

Also get free ESPN!

[magicroundabout]

yeah i never wanted to drop the broadband. i game on my pc/PS3 a lot so online performance was a must. it was all down to price and they sorted me out nicely.

shame Sky Sports News isn't in HD.

[The Grim Reaper]

Sky HD box used to be the dogs dangly bits but the Virgin Tivo box simply blows it out the water. Can't see Sky bringing out a better box in the future and the only thing that Sky have left to pedal now is 3D which in my opinion won't catch on.

[yeo]

How the fuck can someone made redundant justify £77 a month for TV.

Im with Virgin and just had to cut my package to the minimum,which is £33 quid and frankly without TVOD Virgin can fuck right off.

[Batch]

Sky HD box used to be the dogs dangly bits but the Virgin Tivo box simply blows it out the water.

Its true to an extent, but I don't reckon a large % of customers use Tivo's extra functionality. Sky+ does what most people want.

Broadband on the other hand, unless Sky go FTTC/FTTH (fibre) then Virgin will clearly destroy them on performance.

[Samdy Gray]

I don't have either.

Does that make me cool?

[Jamiesfuturewife]

Oh my gosh I just can't imagine paying that much for TV??? Am I nieave??? My Sky package is £21 a month & I moan about that!

[sonicyouth]

I like the tellybox and the shows what is on it like Doctor Who.

[stfcinbmth]

Oh my gosh I just can't imagine paying that much for TV??? Am I nieave??? My Sky package is £21 a month & I moan about that!

I won't tell you how much my $ly package works out a month then cos you wouldn't believe me, besides I haven't worked it out myself. On the other hand I never use it, total crap

[Barry Scott]

Oh my gosh I just can't imagine paying that much for TV??? Am I nieave??? My Sky package is £21 a month & I moan about that!

The same. I think it depends on how much you enjoy TV. I don't care much for it. I also pay £21 or so a month and I resent paying every penny of it. I do pay £20 ish for my phone though so £41 all in. It doesn't exactly please me. Fuck paying for HD as well. Sure it's good, but £10 good (50% increase in bill)? Not a fucking chance.

@stfcinbmth - I never heard back from my friend about his Italian Sky, I'll have a word when I remember!

[leefer]

I pay eighty quid a month for Sky with Sports and Broadband,and the phone also.

Cant moan at twenty quid a week with all that lot in my opinion though the Sky customer service is scandalous.

[stfcinbmth]

[quote author=Barry Scott link=topic=45165.msg997893#msg997893 date=131568929

@stfcinbmth - I never heard back from my friend about his Italian Sky, I'll have a word when I remember!
[/quote]

Can you remind me Barry, pm might be best concerning that 

[Notts red]

I pay just over £100pm to sky for the family viewing pack, Main tv, 1x multi room, broadband and phone+ line rental. I'm in to my last month of my 12 month contract and can't wait  ! For the first two months I was making a lot of calls after 6 pm only to find out sky free weekends and evenings start after 7 pm. Finding this topic really useful as the Virgin offers sound brilliant compared.