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l think its swings and roundabouts with these companies as generally some leave and some join over a period nash.

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Well someone has to pay for the F1 motor racing bid!

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The F1 bid is from Liberty Media, not Liberty Global.

They are separate companies.

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Well I've jumped on the bandwagon. Just booked Sky Q 2Tb with x2 mini boxes, all TV, Cinema, Sports, fibre unlimited and anytime phone.

£69.00 per month, couldn't complete the order online so had to ring up.

Only thing I'll miss will be BT Sport.

As for sky dishes being blown around, never happened to me or anyone I know.

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My son paid £50 the first time he had problems and a year later when the storms were bad, the wanted £100 because it was a four story building, So he went to Virgin,

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I got notice of the price increase today... "From 1st November, your bill will be going up by £2.99 a month"

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Useful table here showing the increases per bundle. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/bills-and...--the-third-p/

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Not sure about that now since with Q all the equipment is rented including the LNB.When my Q was installed the engineer had to move the dish higher up on the house and re cable didn't charge anything

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I've got my letter the other day...account is in the wifes name so she's going to call them and see if they'll drop our Big Khauna package down to the Fun package.

which is L tv and 100mb BB and talk weekends works out about £60 a month. I'm in a 9 month deal atm for £56 a month but contract is 18 months and package price goes to £100.50 a month after 9 months but not going to pay that.

If VM wont keep us and drop our package down then look like I might be best going to sky.

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No wonder Android TV boxes with Kodi fully installed are selling like hot cakes.

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All controlled by the same bloke though.

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According to Sky, it's been a case of Liberty Media v a joint bid from Discovery and Liberty Global. This suggests slightly less control by Malone than might popularly imagined.
"Another of Mr Malone's businesses, Liberty Global, which owns Virgin Media, has also been exploring a deal, pitting it against its sister company.
Liberty Global has been working with Discovery Communications on its bid, while Silver Lake, the private equity firm which owns the talent management agency WME-IMG, has also been looking at F1".
http://news.sky.com/story/carey-to-t...-line-10565003

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.... this does come up quite a bit, so I'm not really going to go into too much, but make no mistake that Malone's "influence" in all these companies is to the point they are his companies.

I am well aware that he does not have majority shareholdings, although the class of shares he does own gives him far greater control than the actual numbers of shares owned. If being generous, you could say he has de-jure control if not quite the de-facto control of the companies, but nothing happens without his approval. They're his...

As for one sister company bidding against another, he likes that. He had a quote years ago saying that he likes his "kids" to slog it out, that way he gets the best deal.

The bulk of Liberty Media, as was, will be renamed F1 once the deal is completed next year.

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I had an Android box I found it crap to be honest and I paid extra for it £150 sold it on in the end

trying to navigate and find the channels you want is sometimes time consuming. some of the films are HD which the quility is great but then it's finding the links that work.

Live TV is like watching live tv from the camera on your phone pointed at the tv and despite 200mb BB you do get buffering.

It's only good really for old shows like moonlighting and airwolf which I own airwolf box sets anyway just saves me having to run the DVD player for them.

The picture quility is not a patch on VM and SKY's box and in all honesty the box hadn't been used for months would rather do what I do now and pay for it legit at least you get quality.

My main complaint with VM is the movie channels they do nothing but constantly repeat the same films week in week out. Hard to kill, passenger 57, harry potter movies and a load of others it's not like they leave them for maybe 6-12 months before showing them again it's like a 2 week break and they are back on again.

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The movie channels have nothing to do with VM though. They just broadcast them. Its Sky's channels remember.