Is your sub worth it?
 

I know its only boxing day and we still have bank hol mon and tues to come but with all the programming on over xmas and new year have you watched enough tv to justify your sub?Like us we have done quite a bit off recording various films and comedies but when we looked what was on the hard drive its all mainly the free channels eg bbc/itv 1,2,3,4/film4 and a couple on fiver and bbc 3 plus one on gold outnumbered.

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No. I pay for a phone line I hardly use and tv service are very rarely watch VOD on only thing worth having is the 50 meg

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In my case yes, Nat Geo HD breaking up the biggest, Bravo ( shame it is going to close) world strongest man. SyFi Haven the lists go on!

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basic sub is fine, I am questioning whether I want/need the second box, I'd love to upgrade it, but the cost/benefit doesn't work for me, just now :)

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I'm on VIP50 and to be honest, most of my viewing is BBC4 / BBC2 and BBC1. The only sub channels I watch are the Discovery channels and Sports occasionally. Mind you, the kids watch Disney, film channels, music channels and the Broadband is well used so it all balances out I guess.

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Not at all in my opinion.

I dropped the payment chanels three years ago when I could get FreeView, mainly because we watch BBC1/2/4 and Channel 4. So now I have the free channels only and also have access to on demand and PPV films. The rest of the line up of channels seem to be repeats of stuff. I use Virgin BB and that is my main reason for remaining. I have a basic phone line thrown in but never ever use it.

I now use FreeView HD and that covers the same channels that I watch the most. Costs nothing!

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If only they offered a DIY bundle where you could select the channels you want to add to it ;). Never gonna happen I know sadly but we pay for SO MUCH that we never ever are going to watch.

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at present yes but its going to be bordering no soon thanks to sky.

My main watching

film 4
virgin 1
living as chuck moved there and watching nikita
FX
scifi
bravo

take virgin 1, bravo away and scifi/fx are only premium left I watch.

I will probably still pay as I still get HD and watch NCIS

I am finding it hard to justify it no doubt others having same thoughts wondering as we lose quality subscription channels. I hope virgin listen that they need to look at its strategy.

Tell sky to sling there hook they broke the contract and bring out more own branded channels. I would tell them ditching bravo, virgin 1 is direct breach of there shabby contract therefore virgin will relaunch said channels. I just cant see it ever working be a platform provider not having security for when sky play dirty again.

You cant concentrate on broadband alone and shaft TV even vod weakened due to selling channels losing content. Yes you can have the best PVR with this pending tivo deal but they goto beef up getting serious on providing premium channels.

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If you only watch NCIS you'd be better off buying them from iTunes or the DVD's (albeit they're going at FIVE pace on those).

You'd save yourself a bundle.

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A lot of people on this forum download the US series and watch them on the American timeline

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Are they as hot for downloading TV as they are for movies and music ?

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Well I don't think they discuss Movies and Music downloads preferring to keep it on the QT. ;)

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Same here , same here ...

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I'm on VIP50 and have to say I feel I'm getting pretty good value for what I'm paying. Forget TV and broadband, my biggest saving comes from the various deals on telephone calls in this package. I'm very rarely over £7.00 worth of telephone calls in the month. Before VIP I was about £40.00 to £50.00.

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It's all horses for courses. I would like my sub to be reduced, and would love to be able to pick and choose what channels to have, but as has been said, this will never happen.

However, I do like to have the choice available. One persons likes is another persons dislike etc

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As I am staff my sub is worth it, even if I wasn't staff it would be worth it as I like the choice I have with my XL TV package as for VOD I do use it regularly.

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Same here my subscription is well worth it due to being staff.

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I like to have the choice. I don't need 50mb, but not being throttled at peak times for normal downloads justifies it for me.

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Meatball Mariana on hearty Italian bread with lettuce, tomatoes and chilli sauce - that sub is definitely worth it ;)

Just kidding, XL TV is perfect for my family as we heavily use the on demand and music on demand service. Also it's so that there's no monthly charges with the V+ :)

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My BB and XL TV are definately worth it.

Sky Sports is ok for me but without the red button it is a limited service. If we don't get 100% red button like Sky customers do then I would be willing to keep my BB and move to Sky for TV as I could probably live without on demand and I don't care much for HD so won't be paying for that.

Plus Youview is looking quite decent for catch up on demand tv as well so that is another advantage Virgin would lose over its competitors.

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I used to think so but now I am doubting it after looking at skys packages. If only I was closer to the asdl exchange i would move. Reducing from 50mbit to "should be able to get 2mbit" just scares me.

How much of a discount do you staff get by the way?? ;)

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It is not that good as my 20Mb doubled in price recently, which is true.;)

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ha ha :D ;)

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I get TV XL, 50mb BB and a fairly basic phone line all for about £70 per month. Is it worth this price....no not in my opinion. I would be happy paying £50 for it, but I feel forced into paying this premium to get working internet (been down the 10 and 20mb internet road before and had peak time issues).

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Well worth it.
Discovery Channels, National Geo HD, History HD and of course BBC, some ITV and Five were on the recordings let alone VOD.

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Every HD show on cables so called superior on demand platform tonight says high demand , I had to watch the show in sd