Virgin Media - Cable
Discussion
cjs said:
Carreauchompeur said:
The range of channels is somewhat diminished by the withdrawal of Sky's offerings, but the interface and on-demand stuff is, IMHO, vastly superior to Sky.
What withdrawal of Sky offerings? Catch up at the back.Now available: Sky 1, 2, 3, Sky News, Sky Sports News, Real Lives, Sky Arts 1
Plus: Virgin1, Virgin Central, E4 and Cbeebies, Setanta Sports
Catch Up TV - our pick of the last 7 days of TV
Virgin Media is now perfect. Sadly I can't get it in any case so am stuck with Sky!
I run both sky and virgin here.
Sky is more intuitive to use, has more channels and is more expensive. A lot of the extra channels are +1s and the such like so no major biggie really.
My broadband and phone are through Virgin. My internet is very fast and the virgin customer service is excellent; touch wood!
As a package, Virgin is very competitive.......there really aint that much between them to be honest.
Figure out what you want package wise and press either party for a good deal....I hear they both will discount heavily right now.
Good luck.
Sky is more intuitive to use, has more channels and is more expensive. A lot of the extra channels are +1s and the such like so no major biggie really.
My broadband and phone are through Virgin. My internet is very fast and the virgin customer service is excellent; touch wood!
As a package, Virgin is very competitive.......there really aint that much between them to be honest.
Figure out what you want package wise and press either party for a good deal....I hear they both will discount heavily right now.
Good luck.
Echo the above really, had sky for the last 10 years, but more recently we have used virgin. The interface of sky is better, and faster, but other than that I don't miss it.
I have all channels, including sky sports 1,2,3 setanta etc, 20 mb broadband, some silly phone pack thats pretty much always free, and its 70 quid a month. It has only ever stopped working once.
If I had a pound to count the times the sky died, on a windy night I would have many many pounds.
I have all channels, including sky sports 1,2,3 setanta etc, 20 mb broadband, some silly phone pack thats pretty much always free, and its 70 quid a month. It has only ever stopped working once.
If I had a pound to count the times the sky died, on a windy night I would have many many pounds.
Only had a few issues with ours, but nothing a flick of the switch to reset couldnt fix
We have the XL package in our uni house but without the phone. We managed to get Setanta thrown in aswell. At £40 a month its pretty good
The music on demand is not bad either if thats what you are after
Would I get it again....more than likely
Good Luck
We have the XL package in our uni house but without the phone. We managed to get Setanta thrown in aswell. At £40 a month its pretty good
The music on demand is not bad either if thats what you are after
Would I get it again....more than likely
Good Luck
We used to have Virgin/NTL a couple of years ago. The picture quality of Virgin on an LCD/Plasma wasnt as good as Sky, virgin picture was a little hazey around the edges of people. We compared our virgin picture with a friends Sky one and ended up swapping to Sky as it was far superior. This was a couple of years ago so they may have improved??
Still have Broadband and phone through Virgin, very happy with that. However, this is not the cheapest way to get the 3 services.
Still have Broadband and phone through Virgin, very happy with that. However, this is not the cheapest way to get the 3 services.
Girlfriends mum changed from Sky to Virgin and its the biggest load of crap.
Guy installing it made a compelete pigs ear of it absolute mess,
The boxes look like they are from the 50's,
Rubbish user interface,
Poor selection of channels.
Oh and it took them 2 and a half weeks to get her phone line to work and even then it stopped working 3 times afterwards.
Needless to say she has now changed back to Sky and is saving £15 a month on a better package thann she had with Virgin
Guy installing it made a compelete pigs ear of it absolute mess,
The boxes look like they are from the 50's,
Rubbish user interface,
Poor selection of channels.
Oh and it took them 2 and a half weeks to get her phone line to work and even then it stopped working 3 times afterwards.
Needless to say she has now changed back to Sky and is saving £15 a month on a better package thann she had with Virgin
Jsys said:
Their internet is decent enough however I'm not a fan of their TV service. Having used Sky+, I just don't like Virgin's version of on demand TV. I'd rather just have a digital recorder built into the box than a iPlayer esk service.
?V+ is directly equivalent to Sky+. On-demand is something entirely different.
Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff