Do I move to Virgin Media?
Central cake
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Hello,
Let me tell you what I currently have
Sky TV (Entertainment Plus) 3 boxes (1x 2tb, 1x 500gb i think and 1x Sky plus) I currently have Sky Sports and Sky Movies but this will be dropping off as I am trying to save money.
Sky Fibre internet. On 33mb down and 9 up.
Sky talk weekend.
Now a month I pay £87. But I been looking at Virgin Media again. I went on their site and with the option of 100mb, TV XL and Talk evenings and weekends its £53.29 for the first 6 months and £80.27 there after with a one off payment of £49.95 but I am missing the third box. And loosing space on one of the boxes for recordings.
I understand the three tuners and that is a plus but its not a deal clincher for me now due to catchup and +1 channels.
I dont need 152mb either. Also how good is the hub now? Last I heard it was very very poor on wireless.
My other option is to ditch Sky phone and internet but keep the TV and move over to Virgin 100mb and phone line. This is £28.49 per month for the first 6 months and then £36.49 there after. My Sky subscription would then be
So my three options are:
1. Move everything to Virgin Media and pay £80 per month
2. Stay with Sky and pay £87
3. Mix them up. Keep TV with Sky and move to Virgin Media for the internet and phone and pay £96 a month but get faster net and better television (in my opinion before I get flamed).
Please lets not turn this into a flame wars between the two companies. I am not hear for this. I am hear to get opinions and what would be better for me.
Thanks for reading.
Let me tell you what I currently have
Sky TV (Entertainment Plus) 3 boxes (1x 2tb, 1x 500gb i think and 1x Sky plus) I currently have Sky Sports and Sky Movies but this will be dropping off as I am trying to save money.
Sky Fibre internet. On 33mb down and 9 up.
Sky talk weekend.
Now a month I pay £87. But I been looking at Virgin Media again. I went on their site and with the option of 100mb, TV XL and Talk evenings and weekends its £53.29 for the first 6 months and £80.27 there after with a one off payment of £49.95 but I am missing the third box. And loosing space on one of the boxes for recordings.
I understand the three tuners and that is a plus but its not a deal clincher for me now due to catchup and +1 channels.
I dont need 152mb either. Also how good is the hub now? Last I heard it was very very poor on wireless.
My other option is to ditch Sky phone and internet but keep the TV and move over to Virgin 100mb and phone line. This is £28.49 per month for the first 6 months and then £36.49 there after. My Sky subscription would then be
So my three options are:
1. Move everything to Virgin Media and pay £80 per month
2. Stay with Sky and pay £87
3. Mix them up. Keep TV with Sky and move to Virgin Media for the internet and phone and pay £96 a month but get faster net and better television (in my opinion before I get flamed).
Please lets not turn this into a flame wars between the two companies. I am not hear for this. I am hear to get opinions and what would be better for me.
Thanks for reading.
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If you can afford it i suggest keeping Sky for your tv and getting Virgin for your broadband, the superhub 2 is quite good and it's wireless has decent range too.
and the new ITV channel, as both of these are Sky exclusives
I have never watched Sky Atlantic and new ITV Channel?
Or he could subscribe to NOWTV entertainment pack for £4.99 which includes Sky Atlantic, as for ITV who cares nobody watches that junk anymore.
I moved to Virgin early last year as I was offered a rather significant discount for the first 12 months of the 18 month contract that would have saved me a lot of money in the long run.
I hated TiVo with a passion. Sky+ is very intuitive, especially the remote control, but I found TiVo to be quite clunky and slow. It also makes far too much of a chore out of series linking and recording things as well compared to Sky+.
The wishlist searches are a great idea though, but that was about the only thing I liked.
Luckily, when Virgin briefly lost ESPN last year it opened up a window of opportunity that allowed me to fully cancel all my services and return to Sky.
The new ITV channel will be called ITV Encore and it will launch later this year
it will show all of ITV's new Drama series from 2015
More details here http://corporate.sky.com/media/press_releases/2014/itv_encore_to_launch_on_sky
ITV Encore will be available to NOW TV customers see my Link above
I know mate but come on it's ITV lol. Nobody will be too bothered about it.
Absolutely spot on about the Tivo it's a great piece of kit but i too find it very clunky and slow too.
And you only have to do it once, unlike with Sky+ where you have to set it up again every time the series restarts (assuming you even know there is a new series starting).
TiVo blows Sky+ out of the water and is the reason I switched to VM for my TV after many years of Sky TV and VM internet.
I've had the superhub for a while now, at least a year I think, and I've never had a problem with the wireless.
I'm now on 30 speed (I dropped down from 50 a couple of months back to save money...and within the next month the free upgrade is taking me back up to 50
In fact I often get more, I just did a test and got a result of 33.3.
Recording and series recording on the TIVO is as simple as it could be, you just click on the programme on the EPG and select whether you want to record or series record from the selection. There really is nothing difficult about it. Once you set the series record, it will remember to record the next series for you, and the next, etc.
My daughter has no choice because she can't get cable, but whenever she comes over to my place, she is so envious. The kids' viewing is a cinch, with not only the on demand selections, but with Netflix and the music juke box - they all love it and would prefer to have VM rather than Sky any day.
I have read over your comments again, Jason, I am just amazed and confused about how you could say that! However, as long as you are happy with Sky, that's fine for you.
As for ITV Encore, this will just be repeats in the first year and I expect it will lose its exclusivity after the first year when it starts screening something more worthwhile.
I fully appreciate a lot of people love TiVo and that's cool but for me it just didn't happen. My main issue with the series linking was recording priorities when I had multiple clashes, which I did on a few occasions.
If I was recording multiple things on a Thursday night, for example, and I had to record one more thing, I couldn't simply select the repeat showing on a Friday and series link that. I had to series link it anyway and then fart around with the recording priority list to make sure the program was picked up on another day.
But that's just me - I don't want to turn this in to a TiVo -v- Sky+ debate as it's not what the OP wants. I'm glad I got a chance to use TiVo, don't get me wrong, but I certainly wouldn't go back to it.
Although I might if Virgin offered to cut my SIM only deal in half
Not quite sure I understand that example you have given, but this has never been a problem for me.
I only intervened because the OP was considering options and I didn't want these comments to be unduly influential. Most people like the TIVO, but I do acknowledge there are one or two dissenting voices as well.
I can get you set up on mates rates if you want. Basically for £52.99 a month you'll get:
100mb broadband
XL TV
1 tivo box and an additional V HD box
phone line with weekend calls
Just PM me if you're interested. You will need to send you details to my friend at VM though.
I ask myself "would I send my details to anyone who was not my friend or family member"?
What like a bank or utility company? Unfortunately in life we do need to pass our details on for things to happen.
Why don't you ring Sky up and cancel I'll guarantee you get a discount off what you're paying now, But you must go thru with the cancellation, the person on the phone will offer nothing to you, after a couple of weeks a retentions person will ring you, providing you've got marketing calls ticked yes on your account page,. On that call they offered me 25% off for 12 months.
Sky are chucking discounts around like confetti right now.
BIB this is true i fell behind with Sky payments due to losing job ended up getting services suspended, last week Sky rang up and wrote the entire debt of and switched my services back on. I think companies like Sky n VM are starting to look over their shoulders now with Netflix etc gaining numbers.
It's a fair point. But you wouldn't have to give me your details, I'll just provide my friend's address (which is Virgin Media staff one) and you can mail him directly.
Still I can understand why people wouldn't . . . . .