Virgin Media TV?

[Bristol spark]

I currently have Virgin Media broadband 100, paying £37/Month. (well my company does )

For the last 18 Months i have been streaming tv which really sucks as the picture quality is awful on my 50" 4K tv

I can't have a regular tv aerial or sky dish (landlord won't allow holes!)

Have been looking at Virgin Media Tv, and for an extra £0.76/ month (and £20 for the box) i can have the basic tv package which is a no brainer.

All i want is the basic channels (in HD) and Sky sports F1 HD.

It looks like you can add Sky sports as an add on without taking out the VIP tv package?
However helpfully Virgin do not say how much it is to add Sky sports, as i don't have the basic package yet!

So can anyone tell me how much Virgin charge for adding Sky sports HD to the basic tv package?


Cheers

[Bristol spark]

Thanks, didn't think of that!

The house is a new build (I'm the first in) which was designed for virgin media, it has the brown box by the front door, and 2 other boxes in the lounge (the other side of the house).

1 is the coax cable connected to a block with only 1 output which is used for router.

The other i assume is for telephone.

[Bristol spark]

forsure said:

I've got the basic Virgin TV package.

Just had a look at my account, and it appears that adding Sky Sport would be £31.75 a month extra.

Thanks, that looks good, as i currently pay now tv £33/Month.

Is that in HD?, or do they still charge extra.

Have just signed up for the basic tv package, box should be delivered on Monday

[Bristol spark]

Thanks. Well had a call earlier from Virgin and appears that i do need an engineer for the install.

However they have waived the £40 engineer fee, and reduced the monthly charge down to £34/Month.

So guess it will be £72/month with Sky sports HD which is not too bad.


Will the virgin box play Sports in Ultra HD? or is that only for sky customers with the Q box?

[Bristol spark]

Thanks, no issues at all with the broadband, i get just over 100 Meg.
Netflix/Amazon play excellant picture quality.
Its streaming live tv that is st, as the broadcasters dont alow you to stream in HD.

Anyway ive signed up for the "mix" tv selection with the new Tivo V6 box and 100 meg broadband for £50/month.
And will then add Sky sports HD for around £38 extra.

Engineer booked for next Thursday, so will see what its like.

[Bristol spark]

Well have had a play with Virgin TV for a few days now.

In the end i ended up with Full house Tv, Sky sports HD and 100mb broadband all for £103/Month

The Tivo V6 box is very good, very quick and easy to use.
Can even use my iphone to change channel or set programme to record.

Im surprised how poor the picture quality is on the standard definition tv for this day in age?

However the HD channels are incredible picture quality, so glad i went for full house.

The F1 channel in HD is much better quality than nowtv was.
In fact all sport seems epic in HD!


Its a little disappointing not all channels have a HD (disc turbo etc).


Why do we still have standard definition channels? Surely 1080p should be the standard now?