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I agree too it is a good deal. Also wonder if the other sky sports channels will be added in hd?

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That's the 64 million dollar question TG and hopefully we will know soon enough.

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My reading of the offer is that it will just be the SD channels included and you'll still have to pay the £7.00 HD charge each month.

Even so it is still a great offer and one most Sky Sports subscribers will surely take if they can afford to stump up the £150.00 upfront.

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Bit more on this new customers who take the offer it looks like you'll get the Big Kahuna bundle which includes the following

• 10 month Sports Season Ticket
• All 6 Sky Sports channels – 2 available in HD *extra £7pm looking at the build a bundle page
• BT Sport, ESPN & Eurosport HD
• Superfast up to 152Mb broadband
• 16x faster than regular broadband°
• 500GB TiVo® box
• 230+ TV channels (43 HD)
• Free installation (worth £49.95)
• Unlimited weekend calls to UK landlines∆, 0870 and Virgin Mobile numbers

Anyone taking the bundle will pay £45 a month + Virgin Phone line (£15.99 a month) for the first 10 months

http://store.virginmedia.com/discove...on-the-go.html

Whether existing customers go to that bundle or not I don't know

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I am tempted. I was planning to dump BT end November.

It gives you sports..but doesn't say which tv channels

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The Big Kahuna comes with XL TV Colin, so everything (including BT Sport) except the Premium Channels.

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Its basically the old XL TV pack giving you every channel plus HD channels except the premium channels and the SS HD channels the ad looks worded wrong as the HD channels appear to be £7pm extra

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http://advanced-television.com/2014/...season-ticket/

Virgin Media has unveiled its new ‘Season Ticket’ offer. Available to new and existing customers until the close of the transfer widow at the end of August, the Season Ticket gives ten months access to Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2, Sky Sports 3, Sky Sports 4 and Sky Sports 5 for a one-off upfront cost of £150.
A statement from Virgin Media claims the savings add up to over 40 per cent compared to paying month-by-month.
Virgin Media is now delivering all the live sporting action from Sky Sports, BT Sport, ESPN, British Eurosport, Premier Sport, BoxNation, Racing TV and more. Customers will see their HD sport line-up increase on July 15th, when it adds Sky Sports 3 HD, Sky Sports 4 HD and Sky Sports F1 HD whilst Sky Sports 5 and Sky Sports 5 HD will be available from launch on August 12th.
Virgin Media customers will also soon have access to all their Sky Sports channels on the go, for the first time, through a dedicated app. This will be initially available for iOS mobile and tablet devices, as well as online, with an Android version coming later.
Dana Strong, Chief Operating Officer at Virgin Media, said; “Virgin Media is now the home of all the major live sports in the UK in HD or on the go. This is the first time all the Sky and BT Sport channels will be available in one place, backed by superfast broadband, for a single great value price. It doesn’t matter if you are watching at home or on the go, you now have front row access to all the top sporting action with Virgin Media.”

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skys tv fixtures

The first 43 of 116 Premier League fixtures on Sky Sports are as follows:

AUGUST

Sat 16: Arsenal v Crystal Palace (5.30pm)

Sun 17: Liverpool v Southampton (1.30pm)

Sun 17: Newcastle United v Manchester City (4pm)

Mon 18: Burnley v Chelsea (8pm)

Sat 23: Everton v Arsenal (5.30pm)

Sun 24: Hull City v Stoke City (1.30pm)

Sun 24: Sunderland v Manchester United (4pm)

Mon 25: Manchester City v Liverpool (8pm)

Sat 30: Everton v Chelsea (5.30pm)

Sun 31: Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool (1.30pm)

Sun 31: Leicester City v Arsenal (4pm)

SEPTEMBER

Sat 13: Liverpool v Aston Villa (5.30pm)

Sun 14: Manchester United v Queens Park Rangers (4pm)

Mon 15: Hull City v West Ham United (8pm)

Sat 20: West Ham United v Liverpool (5.30pm)

Sun 21: Leicester City v Manchester United (1.30pm)

Sun 21: Manchester City v Chelsea (4pm)

Sat 27: Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur (5.30pm)

Sun 28: West Bromwich Albion v Burnley (4pm)

Mon 29: Stoke City v Newcastle United (8pm)

OCTOBER

Sat 4: Aston Villa v Manchester City (5.30pm)

Sun 5: Chelsea v Arsenal (2.05pm)

Sun 5: West Ham United v Queens Park Rangers (4.15pm)

Sun 19: Queens Park Rangers v Liverpool (1.30pm)

Sun 19: Stoke City v Swansea City (4pm)

Mon 20: West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United (8pm)

Sat 25: Swansea City v Leicester City (5.30pm)

Sun 26: Burnley v Everton (1.30pm)

Sun 26: Manchester United v Chelsea (4pm)

Mon 27: Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa (8pm)

NOVEMBER

Sun 2: Manchester City v Manchester United (1.30pm)

Sun 2: Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur (4pm)

Mon 3: Crystal Palace v Sunderland (8pm)

Sat 8: Queens Park Rangers v Manchester City (5.30pm)

Sun 9: West Bromwich Albion v Newcastle United (1.30pm)

Sun 9: Swansea City v Arsenal (4pm)

Sat 22: Arsenal v Manchester United (5.30pm)

Sun 23: Crystal Palace v Liverpool (1.30pm)

Sun 23: Hull City v Tottenham Hotspur (4pm)

Mon 24: Aston Villa v Southampton (8pm)

Sat 29: Sunderland v Chelsea (5.30pm)

Sun 30: Southampton v Manchester City (1.30pm)

Sun 30: Tottenham Hotspur v Everton (4pm)

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Sky Sport & BT Sport games can be found here

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Thanks Dave42 and muppetman11

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Newcastle on first game of the season. Good times. Though the undoubtedly huge thrashing will probably depress me quite quickly.

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Sky Sports free to air on the opening day for Sky, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and UPC customers

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Can't understand why City are playing away for their first game of the season, I always thought that the team who won the league played their first game at home!

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Never heard that one....

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BT Sports fixtures to November 29th 12.45pm kick-off, unless stated

Saturday 16 August: Manchester United v Swansea

Saturday 23 August: Aston Villa v Newcastle

Saturday 30 August: Burnley v Manchester United

Saturday 13 September: Arsenal v Manchester City

Saturday 20 September: Queens Park Rangers v Stoke City

Saturday 27 September: Liverpool v Everton

Sunday 5 October: Manchester United v Everton - 12pm

Saturday 18 October: Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur

Saturday 25 October: West Ham United v Manchester City

Saturday 1 November: Newcastle United v Liverpool

Saturday 8 November: Liverpool v Chelsea

Saturday 29 November: West Bromwich Albion v Arsenal

Pre-season friendlies

Wednesday 16 July: Brondby v Liverpool - 6pm

Saturday 19 July: Preston North End v Liverpool - 3pm

Saturday 19 July: Seattle Sounders v Tottenham Hotspur - 9pm

Tuesday 22 July: Sydney FC v Newcastle United - 8.30am

Wednesday 23 July: Wellington Phoenix v West Ham United - 7.30am

Wednesday 23 July: AS Roma v Liverpool - 7.30pm

Wednesday 23 July: Toronto FC v Tottenham Hotspur - midnight

Saturday 26 July: Chicago Fire v Tottenham Hotspur - 1am

Saturday 26 July: Sydney FC v West Ham United - 2am

Saturday 26 July: Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle United - 4.30am

Saturday 2 August: Valencia v Monaco (Emirates Cup) - 1.30pm

Saturday 2 August: Arsenal v Benfica (Emirates Cup) - 4pm

Sunday 3 August: Benfica v Valencia (Emirates Cup) - 1.30pm

Sunday 3 August: Arsenal v Monaco (Emirates Cup) - 4pm

Sunday 10 August: Liverpool v Borussia Dortmund - 12.15pm

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Just talked to a very nice guy at VM and bought the Sky Sports Season ticket...

Great deal!

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So how much did you actually save then Doug, if you don't mind me asking?

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Not at all Max!

My calculation is that have saved £12.25 per month for ten months having paid the £150 upfront.

So my O Level Maths tells me that is £122.50 saved!
If you want Sky Sports is a very good offer!

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So it defo doesn't include the HD channels without paying the £7 then?

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No I think including the HD channels for £150 for ten months was asking a bit much.... ;)

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i got 20% off my bills from Sky, because of the offer. So thank you Virgin. I might come back to Virgin in 8 mths, when offer finishes :)

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Thanks for answering and yes, you're right ;)

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It's a decent deal, but I couldn't go back to watching sport, especially the footie in SD, the difference in quality is just too good.

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Oh am paying the £7 for HD....agree with you.

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You think you've got problems!?

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To be honest, it is only the Sport in HD I ever want, entertainment channels can be standard, not bothered. But i like to see that the green stuff players are on is grass :)

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Hmmm. So rumours that the Sky Sports increase won't be for everyone, and a ten month offer for the sd channels.

I reckon the hd fee is going up.

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So dosen't that mean that you are only saving approx £42.50 per year Doug? If, as you quoted £112.50 saved less £70 for the HD?

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Yes its still a good offer even if its all in SD.

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This is how Sky's prices will be going up on September 1st

The Original Bundle - No change
The Variety Bundle - £2.00
The Family Bundle - £1.00
Sky Sports (1 or 2) - No change
Sky Sports Pack (1 & 2) - £2.50
Sky Movies (1 or 2) - No change
Sky Movies Pack (1 & 2) - £0.50
HD Pack - No change
Multiscreen - No change

Rumors suggest not everyone will be affected by the Sky Sports price rise with virgin media but we'll just have to wait and see

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No Sky Sports SD is £27.25 per month and am paying £15 per month so that is a saving of £12.25 per month for ten months.

The HD charge is not relevant to the saving... that make sense?

This offer makes Sky Sports 1 or 2 on its own for £17 a month look a bit naff!

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yes, but single offers often do. Who in their right mind would take broadband without a phone? etc

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Got you, thanks Doug.

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Raises glass... cheers mate.

---------- Post added at 18:21 ---------- Previous post was at 18:20 ----------

Agreed but was only pointing out the Season Ticket makes it impossibly naff rather than naff...

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true, there are grades to that :)

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Anyone seen the new fixture list announcement on sky sports news?? Sky are sounding desperate. First of all the complete ramming of the top 4 "more matches that matter!!" then bringing out all the third rate analysts like phil thompson and alan smith to moan and gasp at the wonderful fixtures...and then some ceo of sky sports saying to people "theyve never had it so good" as well as throwing out some meaningless statistics about 98% of matches meaning something...i diidnt really catch that part?

They look scared of BT sport to be honest never seen them act like this before.

I've never had it so good...perhaps sky but your customers have never paid so much ;) (obviously excluding that season ticket malarky ...)

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The problem is the quantity. There are some very decent looking fixtures in amongst all that lot. And in fairness, as per last year, the better games are generally on Sky because they get more first picks, and get to choose which rounds BT use their first picks.

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I'd like to see BT get access to Sky Sports on its YouView STB this would help even more with deals in my opinion.

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All the Sky Sports HD channels are here. All we need is SSN HD now!

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If you ignore the anti-sky rhetoric by some...the fixtures look fine. And not sure what else sky would say about their new line up...don't watch us :D

I remember a few were deriding BT sports last year at this time, because it wasn't guaranteed to be on Virgin. Now it is the best thing since sliced bread...go figure

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haha yes i cant imagine sky saying "we have an average line up of fixtures for the first month but dont worry our december is looking better" :D

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l think good old Colin is getting himself into a tizzy over some who are anti Sky and he needs to calm down a bit as we would not want him to have a heart attack.:D

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Hmm. I just phoned up about the Season Ticket and was told by a very polite Indian chap called Edward that I had to go to the Big Kahuna to get it. It just isn't worth that change for me as I would be paying a lot more each month. Shame.

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i reckon if you call back and get someone else you'll get it

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Has anyone had any joy getting the season ticket on its own without the Kahuna bundle?

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That's not the deal but you may get lucky.....

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Nope, just trying to give it appropriate balance :)

---------- Post added at 15:49 ---------- Previous post was at 15:47 ----------

The sky fixtures are good, and if not, who else would you go to?

Not as if you can select another provider

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Brilliant.....:D:D

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well sky are be far the best sports provider that wont change at all

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They may lose the football prestige next year. And that is the sport I am interested in. The rest of the sports are just filling

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Fairly confident Sky will not lose the Premier League....

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Unless BT Sports bid through the roof for the Premier League rights the status quo will remain the same with Sky winning most of the packages.

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well sky all ready nearly £2BN up on BT Den so no way will sky let them beat them

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Funny, I like football, but I could do without it on the tv. It's locally accessible to the majority of the country and if certain competitions were kept free to air then I really don't see the need to pay to watch it on tv. A sporting series which only visits your home country once a season, which is an international tour, or which is played wholly abroad on the other hand are why I have any interest in paying for sports channels (I like f1, baseball and ATP tour tennis).

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That's what I noticed , its the same with Sky who won't let you take the HD Sport without firstly taking the more expensive family pack , with the pay TV market stagnating clearly the platforms appear to be insistent we take all the premium products even if in fact you only need one.

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If Scotland go independent, I wonder if Scots would be able to watch Saturday 3pm games live like the Irish currently do via Setanta Sports?

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At the last PL auction it was widely reported that BT beat the Sky bids on all but one package, Sky asked for another bid and were granted it, whether BT were offered another bid after that i don't know.

It was also reported that after BT won the CL auction Sky pleaded for 3 days to be allowed to bid again but were turned down. Interesting that Sky then said BT had paid over the odds when they were willing to bid higher.

Make of that what you will

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No point in answering that. It won't happen.

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According to this page:
http://store.virginmedia.com/big-bundles/big-bang.html
you only need the Big Bang bundle to buy the season ticket.

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Yes you're right but would lose some TV channels if I went on the Big Bang bundle which don't really want to do. Plus the Big Bang with two tivos is about what I'm paying now anyway.

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Press release on the new deal for Sky Sports season ticket

http://about.virginmedia.com/press-r...-on-sky-sports

Offer available till September 1st Sky Sports HD channels are an extra £7 a month.

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It a bit smoke and mirrors this offer.
If you are with VM on the top package you probably won't see any benefit by switching. I don't anyway. It's states £84.21 but without Sky movies or hd or any additional boxes. I have 3 boxes (inc 1 TiVo), Sky Sports and Movies all year round, 152 Mb broadband and talk unlimited extra on my phone and I don't pay a great deal more than this offer.
Yes compared to sky it does make huge savings.
Yes for people who just want to watch the football for the season and want to upgrade to this then it's an ok deal.

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Extremely good deal for me.... dead chuffed. 12 pounds per month off Sky Sports... :-)

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I don't know why, Doug. BT has bigger pockets than Sky. It all depends whether they are prepared to pay 'Sky' high prices. If they wanted to they could land the contract.

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We shall see... I think BT caught Sky out on the Champions League but won't again.

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Sky really can`t afford to lose the Premier League football rights so will undoubtedly bid a silly price in my opinion. If they don`t we could see BT having the most and best games with someone else such as Eurosport picking up the rest and Sky Sports with none.

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Isn't that "BT" high prices now :D

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Out of curiosity, were Sky forced to give VM the remaining SS HD channels, or did they come to a deal?

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They came to a deal which was obviously beneficial to both parties.

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Thanks. I thought that was the case, so I presume more channels will follow. Looking forward to SS News HD coming to VM in the near future. :)

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Because of the threat of BT Sports Sky and Virgin have developed a Entente Cordiale relationship which is beneficial to both of them and curbs the threat of BT in the process.

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SKY Sports 5 to show 75 live games within the first 5 weeks:

http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...ff-new-channel

"The opening five weeks will offer 24 European Qualifiers, 18 UEFA Champions League fixtures, weekend triple-headers from La Liga and up to three games a week from Holland’s top division, Eredivisie, including regular live coverage of Ajax, Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven and FC Twente."

What I find intriguing is what SKY plan to do when they lose the Champions League rights next year.

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Not show it

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Perhaps buy the TV rights for leagues like the Portugese , Russian or some of the leagues in South America and maybe some of the other TV rights for other leagues which BT Sports currently have.

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Yes, and SA would be the final screw! :D

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Why would South America be the final screw?

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South Africa, shirley?

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It's funny, until now Sky and VM have been sworn enemies yet because of BT they seem to be resolving some of their differences.

Between this, and VM's owner Liberty buying the ITV stake Sky owned, I think Sky are more worried about BT, and rightly so, considering their war chest.

Of course, as a VM customer, this is a good thing if it means the deals between VM and Sky get better, as it may translate to lower costs for premium Sky content on VM, as the currently £150 deal actually may be a consequence of their current co-operation.

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you naughty man Colin you know what SA means

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Sod all?

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the sky channel that they cant get 10% of there customers watching :D

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You dare not mention its name, like the Scottish play,..but bad luck for a virgin...customer :D

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Saudi Arabia.

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BT Sport and ESPN are now available to BT customers with ADSL broadband providing the speed is sufficient minimum speed of 5.25 to 6.5 Mbps is required

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...64&postcount=1

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Nope still sticking to VM!

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The 'season ticket offer' is a good offer but its a shame the HD still carries the extra monthly premium. Sports (and Films) in particular benefit from HD but the overall cost is still more than i am prepared to pay so i am unlikely to take up the offer.

when i first heard about the 'season ticket' i tried to find some info and found this...

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/v...-sports-lovers

You can imagine how excited i was when i read that -it indicated the bundle included HD and premier sports, racing and box nation.. now THAT would have been an offer too good to refuse.

I am not saying the sky sports season ticket is not a good offer because clearly it offers a substantial saving on the monthly price. But i still feel sports subscriptions are overpriced if you want all the channels and HD. Isnt it about time sky and virgin started to look at these HD premiums..if you have the Big Kahuna you are paying an extra £7 a month for watching 6 HD versions of sky sports channels . Not value in my eyes.

just going back to that link i posted- imagine you could pay up front or a sports package that had ALL the channels and in HD- £150 a year for that or maybe slightly more say £200 would be more reasonable. £200 a year to watch sports i think is a fairer price than the current levels and imagine what the increase in subscriptions would be.

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I have said before the season ticket is a stonking offer even just in SD imo.

I saved money going onto the Kahuna anyway, gained much much faster broadband and landline calls at weekends, and now have saved an extra packet on Sky Sports.

The 7HD charge is not just for Kahuna of course.

Also if, like me, you have all the Sky Movies in HD then the £7 is rather better value....

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Premier League remains key battleground between BT Sport and Sky.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...-sky-tv-rights

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exactly Den they both know premier league is the big battle for them

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Some worrying statements in that article.

"Now it will have to decide how to proceed after plumping for a “middle way” that offers BT Sport free to its own broadband customers and charges £12 a month to Sky customers. That strategy will have to shift anyway when it starts exclusively showing all Champions League and Europa League games live from 2015-16."

"Petter confirmed that those viewers who get BT Sport free would have to pay a top-up charge to watch the majority of those matches. That could clear the way for a strategy whereby BT customers get the main channels free but pay extra for a premium service – which could house the most attractive Premier League games."

So BT won the Champions League rights but it means BT Sports is going to get more expensive, even for those who get it free. SKY lost the rights but won't be putting down the price of their subscription. So from next year it's going to get even more expensive to watch what I currently already get from SKY and BT Sports. Whilst both companies are offering interesting packages and bundles when taking their sports channels, the actually cost to have both sets of channels without being part of some kind of promotional package or bundle is going to become sky high.

It's going to be about £55 per month to take both sets of channels in HD from next year :mad:

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That was always going to happen. Only the deluded few could think that a price war to pay more money would help the customers.

I suspect I will choose to loose a few games, rather than pay more. Though offers might come.

Suspect next year I will watch both, depending on price, but year after, will wait to see who gets the most premier league rights, and just have that channel (whether BT or Sky)

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Personally I preferred when SKY had all pay TV football rights, about 8 years ago, with international and European games featuring on free to air TV. Now we have a situation where there is 2 big pay TV players, with a fair split of attractive TV rights, with very little free to air football left. Now we're pretty much having to pay double the money to watch the same stuff we got from 1 provider and terrestrial TV. It can only get worse as bidding wars intensify. I reckon in 3 years time it'll cost about £70.00 per month to subscribe to both BT Sports and SKY Sports.

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Yes, i don't see it getting cheaper

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nope prices will only go one way up and up

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Like most people I only have so much money to spend so as the cost of watching football goes up there will come a point when I will have to choose either Sky Sports or BT Sports. At present I get BT Sports bundled in with my tv package so it isn`t too bad but if that ever changes then obviously I will have to review the situation.
I agree it was better when Sky had all the domestic football and ITV/B.B.C had the internationals and Champions league etc

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I think that we will see a lot of people dump the sports, it's overpriced, and becoming out of the reach of the ordinary working family, if things continue as they are I would be forced to have a total rethink on my TV spend!

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If it keeps up..you will be renamed "Really Mad Max" :)

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very much agreed. undoubtedly bt will try to rob customers blind the minute the vm contract/CL contract starts. just like sky do. and yet ofcom won't stop this neverending tidal wave where the customer pays the price for living in the uk and being involved in such a competitive football market where each company tries to throw money to beat the other.

lovely.

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Agreed, I am in exactly the same position and if I am unable to negotiate a new customer loyalty discount in October I will have a decision to make.