Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Thanks for highlighting the deal Superblade.

I must admit that every summer I consider Sky on a 50% 12 month deal and run it alongside VM, mainly because of the little price difference between Sky Sports on VM and the whole lot on Sky. In fact the only reason I didn't do it last year was because of the Sky Sports season ticket offer.

We'll see what happens this summer, hopefully VM offer that deal again

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Not vm boxes but don't be surprised to see boxes arrive that support all 3 services terrestial, sattelite and cable.
My Samsung tv has a sattelite, cable and ariel connector. I only discovered the cable one last night.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I like the idea of one-box-fits-all :) It will help when changing providers
Just need 4k connectivity, more tuners, bigger hard-drive and cloud storage just in case lol

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I think if you add multi-room on as well it narrow considerably - Sky multi room is £11.50 no matter which box type you have but if you don't have Tivo them at £6.50 (?ish) VM is much cheaper. Have a couple of multi-rooms and the savings are soon eaten into. TBH is the Sky Multi-room was in line with Virgin I would move back tomorrow.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

The most annoying thing about Sky Mulitrooms is their stupid "Call-back" system...totally outdated along with most of their technology. I'm glad we dont have that trouble with VM.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

My sister lives in a tower block and they have a communal dish too but when my sister got sky in she found she kept loosing signal all the time. She was also `conned` by the sky agent who signed her up because the feed to the flats is only a single one and so she could only record from the channels she was watching! Even the guy installing the box told her she could record 2 channels. She got rid of it as soon as she could and went back to virgin

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Isn`t Sky`s call back system designed to stop people sharing their sky subscription with a friend or family member?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

If you sign up for Sky multiscreen now your no longer required to have your boxes connected to the phone line.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Also doesn't Sky multiroom now include skygo extra which allows you to download shows/movies to your pc/console?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Yes it does.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I live in an apartment block that houses 6 properties. Sky will not install a communal system unless 4 of the apartments agree to sign up. The problem we have is 2 of the apartments are rented on short term 6 month rents and one of the apartments the owners will not have sky so that means i can't have sky. We are not allowed to put dished on the building even though i own my apartment. This means i have no choice but BT or cable

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

As with all, I have being looking around too. Since nothing is coming to Virgin TV soon:erm:
I started to think how could they address it?
Simple: :doh:
Drop the price by 20%
Make Netflix free
Unrestricted upload on the broadband and increase it from my 1.5mb to at least 10mb!

That would match the deal I've been offered from Sky - except for Sky-Atlantic

Ok I only get 40mb download compared to 50Mb on VM but that won't make much difference to me! I don't plan to stream 4K video anytime soon!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I wouldn't go back to SKY, as even with a half price offer their service is still inferior to Virgin. Plus locked into a contract for another 11 months.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I wouldn't willingly go back to Sky either...their service is shocking and I've not had any problems at all with VM.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Netflix has nothing to do with vm they just provide the tivo app, a deal was meant to happen but no idea what happened there.

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On the otherhand i wouldn't go back to vm after the way they treated me when i left sending threatening letters before i even got final bill, then tried to take money twice for final bill, they claim i still owe them £145 but yet they can never seem to send me proof of this debt when i ask lol.
Also my final bill says £103 my bank shows vm have taken £103 twice they refunded the second one as direct debit guarantee covered it but as it stands i have proof they got paid yet they fail to provide proof of this magical debt lol.
This is why you see me sometimes refer to vm as *******s.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

To balance that I've had very few issues with Sky , VM on the other hand were a complete nightmare with problems such as broadband going down , oversubscription on both broadband and On Demand in my area , numerous billing issues , terrible offshore customer support.

I guess most people will have different experiences of each provider , area you live etc can also factor in on your experience.