Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 

Is it worth moving to sky if setanta goes bust, at the moment i pay £61.50 for XL TV, L Broadband, and Talk anytime.

i can get a similar deal with Sky for £54.50

any thoughts

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If you want unstable connection with sky broadband yeah that would be your best option but if you want stable broadband i mean speeds virign is your best bet. unless your very close to your exchange in which case sky might be better.

But why let the fact of setenta go bust choose where to be?

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Is that all you have?

XL TV, L BB and XL phone should be £53.95

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+ all of sky sports

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go for the vip package then you will have a better deal than sky will ever offer and have xl broadband and sky movies

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Pricing 6 Mix + Sports, BB Mid (up to 8Mbit) + Talk Anytime + Line Rental on the Sky Website I get £59.50?!

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Also,what about the money you will waste in the cost of changing.

Sky charge a connection one off fee of £60 plus any installation costs.
BT require 3 months in advance if you do not pay by direct debit

Also, you will be paying 2 companies rather than recieveing just one bill and have to faff about setting up new direct debits.

Also bare in mind, the price you mentioned for Sky DOES NOT include BT Telephone line rental, so you will be worse off in the end!

Also Sky Sports channels is currently cheaper with Virgin Media, I think Setanta maybe rescued in time anyway.

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You wouldn't get unstable speeds at all we changed our broadband from virgin to sky and haven't looked back.;)

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What contingency plans do Virgin have in place in relation to new packages etc, if Setanta go bust tonight as is predicted.
I am business/hobby reliant on RUK which is part of the Setanta package. I hope this isn't just switched off by Virgin?

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No, Setanta is part of the XL TV package, those on other packages have to pay extra for it as a premium channel.

At the moment you can get the XL TV package(containing Setanta) and all Sky Sports channels for around £38 for a few quid more,you can add all of the Sky Movie channels too!

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Keep your virgin phoneline and broadband then just get sky tv!

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It has nothing to do with Virgin, this is purely Sentanta.

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If setanta goes bust,its gone! which means blank screens on all services inlcuding Sky and BT Vision.

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What I mean is, would we get an instant rebate? would new channel bundles be concocted? People will be looking towards replacement Sky Sports channels along their current pricing structures.

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But its still cheaper to use Virgin Media and Smallworld Media to view Sky Sports channels!

Beware of Tiscali TV, Sky and Virgin Media undercut Tiscali badly with TV channels for the price they pay!

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Seeing as you're on XL TV and setanta is free on that, i'm sure VM will happily refund the full £0.

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Same price? Less channels? No sport left in the XL package? That sounds good.

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You will have Eurosport - what more do you want?! :lol:

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VirginMedia are free to add or remove channels at will to the packages. infact the setanta package was added to XL as a "replacement" to the sky basics which are now back, so they will bee under no obligation to give you a rebate etc for the loss of the channels.

That being said IF a package change (ie loss of channels) amounts to a "siginifant change in the package" you will bee free to end your contract no matter how long is left on it and switch to sky etc.

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 

Wrong. You can 'cancel the affected service' not the entire contract.

So if Setanta sports get removed from XL tv, you can stop taking XL tv, but that is all

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right AND wrong. if you take the services seperatly then yes you would only bee allowed to cancil the affected servives. However IF you have a bundled deal then you would bee able to cancil the entire bundle as changes to 1 part of the bundle affects the value of the entire bundle.

note im talking from a contractual point of view NOT vm's TOS pov.

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That's definitely the best of both worlds imo.

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Why leave VM if Setanta closes, Sky will not have the channel either!

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Perhaps people will want a refund from Sky after moving if Setanta isn't there either..

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..doesn't Sky require you to have a BT phone line if you take their TV?

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no they say you will need it to get the full benefits eg red button voting on reality shows
it it is not a condition you can still have sky with no phone line

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 

If it is just for the TV service itself you can use any Phoneline - you only need a BT one if you want Sky Talk/BB

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No i have sky hd with a virgin phoneline and broadband all sky need it to set up there box is a phoneline to do a callback on to activate the box! Cheap sky hd courtesy of step dad awsum!

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when VM added setanta to the XL package there was no price rise (granted there may have been since,but not related to setanta) to reflect the setanta channels added to the package,so you would do well to get a refund ;)

Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
 

I don't undersatand the OP, hardly anyone took the xl pack because it had setanta included. Most people who took it was for the on demand selection.

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Well it looks like they are shafted espn arn't interested in buying out.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009...ut-setanta-bid

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they are looking to sell the setanta ireland/US part of the business to raise funds. These 2 parts are profitable unlike the uk.

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Len Blavatnik has offered to take a 51% stake in Setanta for £20m, reports indicate.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas...ta-gbp20m.html

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As a vip customer I agree , I had sky for 2 years and I prefer virgin for everything , of course nothing is perfect but change to sky just cause setanta may go bust percie 123? why ? , did you get virgin just because you wanted setanta? setanta's picture quality is mince anyway so I wouldn't worry but I really hope they stay afloat for the sake of my club the mighty dossers !!:D