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Hello,

I live in Camberley, GU16 area, and apparently according to a link I followed on this forum I am Langley (Whatever that means??) Anyway I got the packthrough from Virgin Media yesterday and called up and was told that I can have TV Drive/V+ now and have booked in my install for 14 Feb.

I must admit that having been with NTL for about 8-9 years now I have had some awful service, mostly in the early days of the broadband service. But I can see some light at the end of the tunnel. The future looks bright. Unfortunatley due to some 60' trees in my back garden I couldn't switch to Sky, but I now have something to brag about to my mates with their flashy Sky+ and Sky HD.

Also when I arranged my install I had two choices:-

1) To let NTL have the old Samsung box back and pay £75 for install of new machine

or

2) Pay no install fee, keep the Samsung box, get engineer to move this to another room in the house free, and then only pay £5 per month for multi room. Beating Sky who charge £10 per extra box.

Ummmm which one do you think I went for??? Doesn't make much sense to me. May be NTL have no use for/nowhere to store the old units? Or they have to pay for the 'Safe environment disposal'??

Any ideas?

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I suspect thet they want people to get used to having the ability to watch 2 channels simultaneously in different rooms. So much so that they won't want to give it up after 12 months.

This gives a continuing revenue stream, using an old STB that they would otherwise have no great use for. The first year probably pays the cost of the STB. After that it's pure profit.

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I'm sure one morning I saw Press Red on Sky News...

although I convinced myself it was the EuroNews Press Red Button catching up with the real channel. lol

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Bah! I'll not upgrade UNLESS they let me off the £75..I'm not bothered about the whole thing at all.I'll keep the Pace instead.

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Four days to go. Friday afternoon install.
But I believe I read others are being installed Wednesday or Thursday.
Could we all send in our install experience.
On time? Colour? Working? Worth it? etc.

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Hi, no it was a very small square box with TV listings in that I've never seen before. It appeared again today and had listings for BBC1, 2, ITV, Ch 4 & 5 but they were all squashed in together. I have used all of the buttons at one time or another and they've never showed this kind of menu. It doesn't appear all the time, just when it feels like it!

I just wondered if it was some kind of upgrade to the set top box, although I don't know why it would be, now.

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yea getting excited now thursday cant come quick enough now theres another guy on here dont think he lives to far away getting his done tomorrow.ill let you know how i get on with ours.;)

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Sounds like a good idea to me this would work best under a new thread. "Install Experiences" :shocked:

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I'm probably going to sound like a bit of a divvy here, but when I have my set top box installed in the upstairs bedroom, is it right that I can only watch upstairs whatever is on the V+ downstairs at that time? Or can you watch different cable channels?

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you can get the £75 knocked off if you move your pace to another room thats what we are doing with our sammy.;)

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I'm going to but I'm on Saturday, hopefully before 3pm. Got to watch Skysports news for scores etc.

I'm still under the impression I'm getting the other STB for free, with a full subscription for multiroom.

that's what the scottish bird told me on the blower, but I'm phoning up in a bit to varify the broadband rumors, and this offer too.

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you can watch different channels upstairs.;)

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Really? You couldn't before, could you, if you had 2 set top boxes, one being upstairs?

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yes i sometimes go upstairs if the footys on or the missus does to watch the soaps;)

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as far as I'm aware, multiroom has always offered that.

the only way you would have to watch the same channel is through a booster set.

and sky nor Virgin provide them.