Sky TV v Virgin Media

[nevillew]

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!

How much do you spend on magazines JFW ?

[Riddick]

Sky is great, Sky HD is even better. I have the entire lot and there is no way i'd get rid of it. It costs a month considerably less than coming down to watch the town twice a month for 3 hours!

[@MacPhlea]

If it weren't for FX I'd ditch Sy in a heart beat... if anyone can tell me how I can get FX on freesat I'll buy them a beer... or three

[Berniman]

Bump on this thread.  I have got Sky, way too expensive for what you get.  Considering swapping to Virgin as they have a half price deal for 9 months on at the moment.  Sky have offered me £7.50 discount for a year, robbing bastards.

Any Virgin customers tell me what they think or the service?

Any thoughts from anyone else would be welcomed.

[yeo]

Virgins fine not had any probs.

We just threatened to leave Virgin for Sky and got them down to £37 a month

[@MacPhlea]

As an update on this - all the Sky programmes (Dexter, True Blood, Breaking Bad etc) that were stopping me from leaving sky are available on US apple TV ahead of the UK so set myself up a US account on my apple TV... Switched to Freesat and saved myself a packet

[joteddyred]

Bump on this thread.  I have got Sky, way too expensive for what you get.  Considering swapping to Virgin as they have a half price deal for 9 months on at the moment.  Sky have offered me £7.50 discount for a year, robbing bastards.

Any Virgin customers tell me what they think or the service?

Any thoughts from anyone else would be welcomed.

Just had the same.  We already pay £75 a month for the top packkage, one hd box and another multiroom box.  We wanted an additional box because we've just put a tv in the extension.  Tried the we're considering moving to Virgin, butthe bloke wouldn't budge and offered us no discount whatsoever. Instead wanted £109 for the new box and installation and another £10.25 a month.  I need to price up Virgin properly now.

[Ticker45]

Moved to Virgin from Sky after Sky+ box went wrong shortly after buying a new HD tv and asked about an HD box replacement and got short shrift. Luckily had a installation friend who had moved to Virgin so got a "friends and family " package which helped keep costs down. I lumped everything together (Tv/phone/broadband) and apart from getting used to different menus/channel numbers I find Tivo an excellent system and also the broadband is definitely better.

Since moving from Sky I have had two letters and four phone calls asking why I left them. The guy on the last call when told about the Sky+ box etc. apologised and said "that should not have happened as my records showed that I was a long serving customer of Sky and they should have been more helpful", all rather late!

Not too sure how the new "free" BT sports package is going to work out as I do not see Virgin mentioned anywhere in all there advertising but as I can take or leave the Premier League, missing out on 38 of the 380 games played will not bother me too much.

[Berniman]

Just had the same.  We already pay £75 a month for the top packkage, one hd box and another multiroom box.  We wanted an additional box because we've just put a tv in the extension.  Tried the we're considering moving to Virgin, butthe bloke wouldn't budge and offered us no discount whatsoever. Instead wanted £109 for the new box and installation and another £10.25 a month.  I need to price up Virgin properly now.

Do it before the end of Tuesday and you get half price for 9 months.  Check out the website

[dave_bambers_right_sock]

Not too sure how the new "free" BT sports package is going to work out as I do not see Virgin mentioned anywhere in all there advertising but as I can take or leave the Premier League, missing out on 38 of the 380 games played will not bother me too much.

I spoke to virgin last week to get my bill down as have TV(tivo)/BB/phone and mobile, dropped my BB to 60MB from 100MB and saved just over £15 a month, I asked about the BT sports and was told that they (Virgin) were just in talks with BT over cost of the football channels which are to replace ESPN, and  XL customers would get these added for no extra cost.

Also had a call from the re my mobile contract, was meant to upgrade to a new phone back in Jan but decided to stay with the one i already had so they reduced my Monthly bill from £25.99 to £15 pm staying on the same tariff, had a call 2 weeks ago saying as was a loyal customer they could reduce my mobile bill to £11.99pm on a 12 month contract, told them i didn't want to be tied to a 12month contract as i'd prefer the option of going to another provider like O2 or Vodafone, as soon as i said that, she said no problem we can do you a 12 month contract same tariff for £8.00pm. So it is worth giving them a ring, also if you are a customer you can recommend a friend via the website and you get £50, last one we had was credited to our bill.

[dave_bambers_right_sock]

If it weren't for FX I'd ditch Sy in a heart beat... if anyone can tell me how I can get FX on freesat I'll buy them a beer... or three

Not on freesat but......can i claim a pint?

http://livetvcafe.net/video/8HNU11XM5HUR/FX-Network

[ronnie21]

I spoke to virgin last week to get my bill down as have TV(tivo)/BB/phone and mobile, dropped my BB to 60MB from 100MB and saved just over £15 a month, I asked about the BT sports and was told that they (Virgin) were just in talks with BT over cost of the football channels which are to replace ESPN, and  XL customers would get these added for no extra cost.

Just moving over from Sky to Virgin after 12 years - they refused to upgrade my sky box to the recordable one - but Virgin have told me today that they will no longer be carrying ESPN and BT Sports is a no no at present!!

[joteddyred]

Having been on a lengthy call with Virgin today, I was surprised to find that the equivalent package with them and the same number of boxes we currently have is actually quite a bit more expensive than Sky.  It will be cheaper for 9 months, but averaged out over 18 months is more expensive in total.  They couldn't seem to get it any lower, so looks like I'm staying with Sky, which aggrieves me slightly because their customer service leaves a lot to be desired.

[Berniman]

Having been on a lengthy call with Virgin today, I was surprised to find that the equivalent package with them and the same number of boxes we currently have is actually quite a bit more expensive than Sky.  It will be cheaper for 9 months, but averaged out over 18 months is more expensive in total.  They couldn't seem to get it any lower, so looks like I'm staying with Sky, which aggrieves me slightly because their customer service leaves a lot to be desired.

Exactly the same as me.  I have ended up staying, but managed to get about £20 off per month for 12 months.  I was all ready to jump too...

[joteddyred]

Exactly the same as me.  I have ended up staying, but managed to get about £20 off per month for 12 months.  I was all ready to jump too...

That's not bad.  How did you manage that?  The bloke I spoke to last week wouldn't offer any discount whatsoever even when I said we were thinking of moving to Virgin.