Virgin v Sky

Eighthours wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:

Jam-Master Jay wrote:Been with Virgin for years now. For me, the best thing about the TV service is the TV Choice on Demand selection. Great for watching shows like The Wire and the Soprano's at any time of day .

The Broadband connection is pretty much faultless, which is lucky as their customer service can be a bit shite.

Although you should threaten to leave Sky first, see if you can blag anything out of them to make you a happier customer.

The on demand stuff is great- Curb your Enthusiasm, West Wing, Sopranos, Wire, every ep of Peep Show ever.

No, the on demand stuff is gooseberry fool. Series come and go with no progression, most series have missing episodes or are only half a season... it's a completely disorganised disaster, clearly put together by people who don't like television.

Granted, it isn't a perfect system, but it's significantly better than anything Sky offers which has a similar purpose to on demand.

On demand doesn't just cover TV shows, but BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and 4OD, all of which are brilliant to watch through the Virgin box (especially iPlayer). Hard to understand how anyone can think it's gooseberry fool, when it quite clearly isn't and is the best example of on demand content from a TV provider in this country.

Who said you can get ITV HD on the new Sky EPG. Lies!!!!

timble wrote:Who said you can get ITV HD on the new Sky EPG. Lies!!!!

Surely that's a benefit.

lex-man wrote:

timble wrote:Who said you can get ITV HD on the new Sky EPG. Lies!!!!

Surely that's a benefit.

True enough.

timble wrote:Who said you can get ITV HD on the new Sky EPG. Lies!!!!

You input it manually. You can't Sky+ it because of this.

Wikipedia gives you instructions:

"It can also be manually tuned to Sky+HD boxes as an FTA by going to Services, Add Channels: 11.427H, 2/3, 27500, Channel 10510, however it is not in the EPG for Sky."

Oh neat, HD Champions League tomorrow then, YAY! \o/

That is brilliant. How did I not know this?

Funnily enough, we're getting Virgin tomorrow. Just seemed a little expensive to be paying a total of around £120 a month for phone and broadband with BT and telly with Sky. Plus, the Sky+ broke and they wanted me to pay £65 just for an engineer to look at it, never mind repair it. Naturally, they agreed to waive the fee after I rang them to cancel my service.

Eighthours wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:

Jam-Master Jay wrote:Been with Virgin for years now. For me, the best thing about the TV service is the TV Choice on Demand selection. Great for watching shows like The Wire and the Soprano's at any time of day .

The Broadband connection is pretty much faultless, which is lucky as their customer service can be a bit shite.

Although you should threaten to leave Sky first, see if you can blag anything out of them to make you a happier customer.

The on demand stuff is great- Curb your Enthusiasm, West Wing, Sopranos, Wire, every ep of Peep Show ever.

No, the on demand stuff is gooseberry fool. Series come and go with no progression, most series have missing episodes or are only half a season... it's a completely disorganised disaster, clearly put together by people who don't like television.

Sky are much better at HD channels - the selection is so much bigger. Virgin's broadband, though, is bloody brilliant, and that's why I still use them.

It's something you just have to keep checking all the time to see what's actually finally available.

For the price of sky movies though you could get a 25mb Virgin BB connection and download all the exclusive movies and tv you strawberry floating well like without having to wait aaaages for sky to get it.

I'm up in the loft on normal sky at the mo but I've just talked my father in law through it and he's done, so jobs a good un! Cheers for that dude (forgot who it was now).

Here's the guide
http://www.tellytoad.com/page/itv-hd-on-sky-hd.aspx

Carlos wrote:For the price of sky movies though you could get a 25mb Virgin BB connection and download all the exclusive movies and tv you ******* well like without having to wait aaaages for sky to get it.

How long would it take me to download 8gig? About the moment it takes about 2 hours with TalkTalk on a BT line.

Cuttooth wrote:

Eighthours wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:

Jam-Master Jay wrote:Been with Virgin for years now. For me, the best thing about the TV service is the TV Choice on Demand selection. Great for watching shows like The Wire and the Soprano's at any time of day .

The Broadband connection is pretty much faultless, which is lucky as their customer service can be a bit shite.

Although you should threaten to leave Sky first, see if you can blag anything out of them to make you a happier customer.

The on demand stuff is great- Curb your Enthusiasm, West Wing, Sopranos, Wire, every ep of Peep Show ever.

No, the on demand stuff is gooseberry fool. Series come and go with no progression, most series have missing episodes or are only half a season... it's a completely disorganised disaster, clearly put together by people who don't like television.

Sky are much better at HD channels - the selection is so much bigger. Virgin's broadband, though, is bloody brilliant, and that's why I still use them.

It's something you just have to keep checking all the time to see what's actually finally available.

Or you could just search their online listings.

timble wrote:I'm up in the loft on normal sky at the mo but I've just talked my father in law through it and he's done, so jobs a good un! Cheers for that dude (forgot who it was now).

No problem.

Nook29, thanks dude. Its a big thing for me as I hated watching the footy in SD.

Carlos wrote:For the price of sky movies though you could get a 25mb Virgin BB connection and download all the exclusive movies and tv you strawberry floating well like without having to wait aaaages for sky to get it.

Some people prefer not to be pirating scum and have a conscience .

Can you haggle with Virgin over the price?

Ecno wrote:Can you haggle with Virgin over the price?

Not really, you need to be in a position to bargain, mentioning Sky will help.

Nook29 wrote:

Ecno wrote:Can you haggle with Virgin over the price?

Not really, you need to be in a position to bargain, mentioning Sky will help.

I'm a new customer.

Ecno wrote:

Nook29 wrote:

Ecno wrote:Can you haggle with Virgin over the price?

Not really, you need to be in a position to bargain, mentioning Sky will help.

I'm a new customer.

Say Sky have offered you so and so for so much and see what Virgin do. Sky and Virgin literally fought over my sister for her custom, she got a great bargain. Virgin won in the end. Even if you're not interested in Sky, just come up with a reasonable sounding price for what you want that you know is lower than what Virgin quote on their site, and they may lower it for you.

Nook29 wrote:

Ecno wrote:

Nook29 wrote:

Ecno wrote:Can you haggle with Virgin over the price?

Not really, you need to be in a position to bargain, mentioning Sky will help.

I'm a new customer.

Say Sky have offered you so and so for so much and see what Virgin do. Sky and Virgin literally fought over my sister for her custom, she got a great bargain. Virgin won in the end. Even if you're not interested in Sky, just come up with a reasonable sounding price for what you want that you know is lower than what Virgin quote on their site, and they may lower it for you.

Well I was look at BT/02 for broadband and phone rather than Sky.