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The latest someone can cancel is 30 days from the bill that had the changes on it - that's always been the case

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Sky Tv are a business not a charity for VM cheapskates.

Big problem is that VM won't pay moneys for channels and customers wont pay increase subs, you cannot have it both ways.

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tell us who else got the sky channels that VM is missing sheshhhhhhhhhhh answer NO ONE sky withholding them but you would never ever answer that would you and since when is only sky allowed to be a business VM is a business don't be foolish eh

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i take it the rise in 2013 is merited,what with s4c,africa channel,5+1.WOWEE

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Yes but no-one other than Sky & VM charge so much.

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yes very true both are far to expensive but the rest don't carry number of channels Vm or sky have either

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I think the biggest problem is the way VM handle these price rises. They seem to advertise numerous 'free' services such as broadband speed doubling and TV Anywhere and then shortly after they announce / release these, they up their prices. VM have got to realise people aren't stupid and it is clearly obvious that the 'free' services come at a cost.

It is also poor that VM stagger their price increases. Nobody likes a price increase but I would stomach it more if they did something like Sky and promise that if prices are to change, they will do so once per year. I could then live with that as I would know it was coming instead of getting numerous price hikes sprung upon us.

I think VM are becoming worse than some of the power companies with the numerous hikes and from some of the prices quoted by others on here, the price hikes equate to more than 10% increases in less than a year, no wonder the company is turning around and starting to make a profit!!!

I guess it really is time for people to start voting with their feet as I almost jumped ship to Sky last April but stayed due to a retentions deal that supposedly guaranteed my price for 2 years but then I got a price rise in September with Sky Sports so they can't even keep their promises on retentions deals. If mine goes up again, I'll definitely consider the switch this time as although I'll miss my TiVo it is now becoming a joke at an ever increasing cost!

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They also don't offer as much , BT in its current form is Freeview with OD. You go on their website or Talk Talks and the prices start to rack up when adding additional channels , you also only get the Freeview channels in HD.

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For £10 from TalkTalk. Pretty good value even if there is no HD.

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Talk Talk's YouView triple play package (the one with the Entertainment TV Pack) offers the likes of FX and Syfy for £44.

As for HD - that will change when a future software update enables adaptive bitrate streaming.

BT's YouView offering isn't anywhere near as strong.....yet.

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Yep, and on VM, you'd need to be on the XL pack to get some of those channels.

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I agree with both of you , it's great Talk Talk and BT Vision are here to shake up the market , however the £44 HDFootyman is quoting doesn't differ vastly from VM's XL with BB and phone pricing or Sky's Entertainment+ with BB and phone plus both offer more channels. I personally think VM's XL TV and Sky's Entertainment+ represent decent value , I'm afraid it's the premium channels which are increasing at too fast a pace for me , aren't sports stars already earning enough.

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And VM is also a business of course. Your point; other than another cheap shot at VM? :confused: :rolleyes:

No. They won't pay over-the-odds for a channel that doesn't get many viewers.

This is true :)

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Hi Dave 42, Yes VM is a business, but they also do deals with Sky, and the majority that VM have are from Sky.

Lets put it this way, IF you took all the Sky channels away from VM, you would not have a business.

We have various companies that deal with VM, but not as big as Sky. Don't know wether people know this, is that Sky have a monoply over broadcasters in the UK.

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A very fair point.

Of course Sky know this too. Hence the possibly over-inflated prices :)

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yes agree VM is sky biggest customer Arthur so let be fair no one else has got the sky channels that's missing on VM that's all I asking for be fair about that bit and I would also agree VM business not be as big without the sky channels