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Sky Sports & Movies price increases
Virgin website now showing Movies & Sports priced at £32.75 a month.
Sky Sports on its own now £25.75 per month HD supplement remains at £7 http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...ky-sports.html |
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Been talked about on the "Coming soon thread"
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The Coming Soon thread is 90% drivel. Thanks OP for pointing this out :) |
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Is the price only the wholesale increase from sky or have VM added a little extra on top? After the April rise that saw some customers bills increase by as much as £8 a month?
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I thought you would have known the answer to that - or are you just stirring it for your employer?
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I have just cancelled sky sports collection that is i am afraid a jump too much.
If it is true the increase is such because of the unregulated F1 channel let us opt out of that as i do not really follow F1. £3.25 a month is a very steep increase indeed.:shocked: |
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If i remember correctly sky sports went up by £2 last time for VM customers and half that for sky customers. Yes den it is unnaceptable i am out as the dragons might say.:D |
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Sometimes it seems virgin are happy to constantly increase prices and let their customers blame Sky. Yet VM never mention any price they pay or how much an increase they have had on wholesale prices.
They just sit back and let their customers cry greedy sky greedy sky, an unfortunately the customers fall for it. VM have stuck a stealth tax on this increase aswell as Aprils increase and the autumn phone line increase probably In the pipeline. |
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You will have to find me a link to the finding and proof that sky over charged. Also......From June 2012 Two adverts from Virgin Media have been banned by the ASA, one was an advert on a sponsored search engine, and the second referred to advertising copy on the virginmedia.com website. In both cases the issue revolved around the speed doubling programme underway by Virgin Media. British Sky Broadcasting challenged whether the claims: 1. "Cabled areas only" and "100Mb customers will see price-cut instead of speed doubling" in the small print in ad (a) was misleading and contradicted the main claim. British Sky Broadcasting and two members of the public also challenged whether: 2. "I'm doubling everyone's broadband speeds" in ad (a) and "Richard Branson's doubling your broadband speed" in ad (b) were misleading, because exclusions applied. Extract from complaint While Virgin Media had consulted the copy advice people at CAP, who had advised that the phrase "I'm doubling everyone's broadband speeds" would be difficult to justify if the advert carried exclusions and the copy should have made it immediately obvious that the claims only applied to Virgin Media customers. It appears that this advice did not carry through to the final adverts. The ASA upheld both of the concerns due to the exclusions, which were that existing 100 Mbps customers would see a small price cut, and Virgin Media National (ADSL/ADSL2+) customers would see no doubling at all. The speed doubling is intended to take 18 months to complete, and confusingly for consumers, some see the downstream connection speed double, but the upstream speed does not. This is because the upstream speeds sometimes require further work due to the architecture of DOCSIS cable services. As with many larger providers they rely heavily on claims from the Ofcom speed testing results, but the fact that this testing concentrates on the largest providers, and does not publish any results for areas like the Digital Region may result in consumers being less willing to sign up to new entrants to the market who may actually provide a better broadband experience. Is the maintenance of the existing duopoly an unintended consequence of Ofcom attempting to inform the speed debate? |
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Telly, perhaps this may refresh your memory...
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Well, I was an XL customer and I just saved over £11 per month moving to the Premiere Collection....
And the thread is about Sky Sport & Movies price increases. ;) |
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What cracks me up is we all know he works for Sky but he does not have the balls to admit it himself. :LOL: |
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Anyone know if the VIP collection price will be going up to?
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£93.25 + £13.90 |
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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...el-page-3.html Post #36 tells you all you need to know about this guy and his motives. |
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Therefore that's approximately 6% higher with VM albeit getting faster fibre optic BB with VM but more channels & HD content with Sky. Previous to the price rise it would have been £103.90 for VIP which would have been 3% higher. It really does make you wonder where VM's price rises come from as for Sky customers, Sky Sports Collection is going up by £1 (approx 5% increase) compared to VM customers going up by £3.25 (approx 14% increase). So Sky customers will, at most, get a £2.50 increase this year whereas we've had an April increase, this Oct increase and no doubt a line rental increase later this autumn/winter meaning rises of £5+ for many VM customers. Now I am only writing this as a comparison because it's interesting to compare. I am very happy with my VM services and have no real wish to switch to Sky although with the current economic climate, many customers on the VIP package who could make do with an average ADSL BB service may consider the switch to save £6.40 per month and get more channels & HD content. My main thought in all this is that I believe that VM ought to consider moving to a model with one annual price rise and, if necessary, align this with Sky if they need to incorporate any fee increases in the Sky channels. This would make it much better and give greater clarity to customers as although the annual price rise maybe a little steep, it would not be the current (somewhat stealth method) of doing a larger increase in 3 smaller increments!! Anyway, we may all be happy soon if Media Boy's reports of a number of new channel launches comes true as we may finally get some of the ones we've all been waiting for! :D Superblade7 |
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Virgin charge £25.75 sky sports pack
sky charge £21 virgin charge £32.75 sky sport / movie pack sky charge £28 sky charge £10 for HD virgin charge £7 for HD then your VAT will be a tad more virgin at the end of the day if you want it you'll pay it if you want it cheaper you'll move. |
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Can people unhappy with the price rise cancel their subscription to SKY Sports and SKY Movies just now or do they have to wait to be notified of the price increase from Virgin first?
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Your Sky prices are wrong the prices on Sky's site are the new prices Sky World £65.75 Sky Talk £12.25 Sky unlimited BB (ADSL) £7.50 1 Multiroom box £10.25 Totals £95.75 however to be fair that doesn't include ESPN. Add 12.50 to that total if you wanted Sky fibre 40/10 service. |
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It'll be safe to assume then if anyone decides to cancel either SKY Sports, SKY Movies or both together there would be no problem with them also dropping SKY HD too? |
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Where as virgins 50mb only has a 5Mb upload and it has STM limits. You pay for what ya get as they say. But Sky is about to become even better so keep an eye out :) ---------- Post added at 11:31 ---------- Previous post was at 11:30 ---------- Quote:
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I suppose if you wanted exactly the same as pointed out by some, Sky would be £5 dearer that VIP but with unlimited downloads and more tv content. I'm not saying either is better, like I always say, it's personal choice about cost against services required. Just like to open up the discussion! |
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Sky world price doesn't include ESPN which is £9 extra, and also virgin loyalty discounts need to come in to the equation.
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95.75 + 10.00 ESPN 12.50 Fibre Optic 118.25 total Although after this season how many will pick ESPN with no EPL football. It's also worth noting my price doesn't include unlimited calls and VM BB is faster like I say it's down to your requirements , personally I would never need half what VIP offers we're others will. |
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Asking because I don't know, but does that include unlimited phone calls? Not sure what the Sky Talk at £12.50 that you included covers. |
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I haven't looked recently, but it used to be £5, so that would make the total £123.25. That's a lot more than VM's VIP. |
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I like my VMTV there is enough channels for me,and with sky only able to offer 1mb broadband in my area i prefer to stick with VM for the moment.
But i was just having a think my Sky sports was £20.50 then last year there was a £2 price rise on that to £22.50 then this year a £3.25 rise to £25.75,i make that around 25% increase in just over a year:shocked:which in my mind is ridiculous,when sky are able to offer faster BB speeds in my area i just might consider them. |
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To me the lack of Sky Atlantic on VM is a massive downside, and VM should try to resolve it. Personally, I think Now TV will be the best option to get Atlantic for VM users. I just hope that when they add the entertainment content, Atlantic is a separate option at a reasonable price. Although I want HD, it doesn't upset me too much if a channel is only in SD, especially considering that VM now have a lot of Free HD channels. ;) It will be interesting when Sky add sports to now TV; can't wait to see how they pitch their pricing :) |
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1) ESPN for free on XL 2) TiVo 3) Super fast broadband ESPN is only a great selling point to sports fans who take XL. With BT launching their football channel who knows what the future of ESPN on Virgin will be. TiVo has only been adopted by a 1/4 of Virgins customers so far and looks like the future for Virgin. SKY have the finances and resources to sit back just now and watch how the PVR's of Virgin and Youview take off. They can then at anytime throw their might and muscle behind launching their own answer to the "next generation" of PVR's. As we all know by now, SKY like to do things bigger and better. Super fast broadband is overated. Most homes don't need more than a 20mb connection. I can't think of a time when I will legally max out my current 120mb connection meaning others in my house can't go online at the same time. As a Virgin customer I'm happy with my current services but will be watching closely during the last 8 months of my current contract to see what their future plans are. Adding 8 or 10 HD channels just won't cut it. I'm looking for Virgin to offer: 1) A dedicated 3D channel of their own 2) All missing HD channels that are not owned by SKY 3) More on demand content 4) More catch up content 5) Live TV content on the move 6) 100 more TiVo apps 7) More innovation 8) Access to Premier Sports 9) Add as many missing SD channels as possible 10) Add SKY Atlantic in either SD, HD or both 11) Fix all bugs and other know problems with TiVo 12) Fix TiVo so it records 'recommended movies' automatically |
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VM had a lot of on demand content and catch up services a long time before Sky. Sky are currently beating VM on the ipad app, but the suggestions are that the delay on the VM ipad app is to bring things like streaming to it. And VM should beat Sky to multi room streaming. |
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Sky have the funds to devlop a new box; I suspect they're even doing it now. but the development cycle for youview and even the VM Tivo shows that it's not a piece of cake and There's not a lot of functionality that Tivo is missing anyway. |
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TiVo is ten years plus in the making. Youview looks good but took years of delays to get it to market. Sky might be cash rich but it really isn't easy to develop this sort of product, and besides, I'm not convinced the majority of Sky customers would be bothered by it. After all, most people want connected services to access the sort of content already available on the basic Sky platform.
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I think the only solution, which I heard ofcom considering at one point, would be to split up bskyb into 2 companies, distribution and tv they said this would create a fairer competition environment as vm, bt, topuptv etc would have access to all the same channels as sky.. No exclusive sky only channels like Atlantic that give them a competitive advantage.. Especially when like me I have witnessed sky salesman going around selling sky to vm customers on the premise they have channels vm don't when the truth is the only reason vm don't have is because sky won't release them.
Also it would make pricing more competitive, as sky would have to buy the channels at the same rate as bt and vm and topuptv, so prices would become more competitive and reasonable. |
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The above makes absolute sense to me.:) |
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Over time won't the platform become irrelevant anyway , more and more users are wanting access to content on a plethora of connected devices hence why the likes of Netflix , Lovefilm instant and Now TV have cropped up.
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Also prevent VM withholding access to it cable network, that gets my vote as i once saw a VM salesmen selling VM On the premise sky can't have access to its cable network.
But if Sky does get split expect VM to go out of business, sky will sell its services at rock bottom prices, VM are an always will be stuck with the huge cost of maintaining a cable network. Satalite distribution per home is a fraction of the cost of cable. VM really do not want a price war ;) |
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Back on topic, please.
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Thing is sky don't need access to vm cable network, their distribution platform is over satellite, so cable wouldn't feature in that.. And sky are also selling bt FTTC which we have also established suffers from lower jitter, and has a higher upload than vm currently offer. Only unmatched part at the moment is download speed.
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As I've said the platform will become a moot point , in the next year or two all Sky's content will be available on a multitude of devices to all and in HD , a Now TV Sky Movie sub costs £15.00 a month which is £1.00 cheaper than on the Sky platform itself with entertainment and sport to follow. Now TV is only in early launch stages currently Sky have already stated it will go HD with bookmarking across devices with many more devices added.
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http://corporate.sky.com/media/press...f_sky_channels So Now TV will be available to Talk Talk customers. Previous announcements also confirm Now TV will be available via BT Vision and Smart enabled TV's. I'm amazed that competitors of SKY are embracing NOW TV on their platform. The big question now is will SKY Now also launch on Virgin as a TiVo app? It's cheaper to take SKY Now than it is to actually subscribe to SKY Movies on Virgin. Will Virgin be interested in SKY Now? I don't see this being to their advantage. You'd have Virgin customers paying to watch SKY movies directly to SKY on the Virgin platform. Surely Virgin wouldn't be happy with this. As a Virgin customer, would you want access to SKY Now on your TiVo box? Would you be happy paying less than you currently do for SKY Movies? Oh as an after thought this announcement seems to finally confirm 100% that SKY are indeed with holding SKY Atlantic from their competition. |
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The latest films on NOW TV are PPV on top of the £15, whereas they'll be included in the Sky Movies subscription |
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The only role I can see for Now TV on VM is the Sky Atlantic part. Wheather Sky would be prepared to hive that off as a separate app is very questionable.
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Virgin sell SKY VMTV and hey presto SKY linear channels in HD plus SKY Anytime. Talk Talk make Now TV available and hey presto they finally get access to almost all of SKY's linear SD channels plus SKY Movies and SKY Sports. So will it be hey presto to SKY Atlantic if Virgin allow Now TV to launch on TiVo? |
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Why do VM Withhold access to its broadband network? |
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I agree, will you ever stop moaning about VM not having all Sky channels or is the needle well and truy stuck? But just so it's clear, Virginmedia want access to BT's network to resell ADSL they want all of Sky's tv channels including HD. But they want to with hold access to its cable network from all company's? Do VM resell sky products? YES Do VM resell BT Produdts? YES Do either company resell VM products? No as VM withhold them unfairly. |
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Do you work for Sky (or an affiliated company) - yes or no?
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I just like talking about tv/bb/phone providers. |
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Are you Rupert's love child? ;) Even Rupert's legitimate children have a wider range of interests than promoting Sky while slating their competition. :) |
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Interesting post from the owner of Smallworld http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...9&postcount=60
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Pretty sure it's Wednesday long before then ;):p::D
(Oh come on! Not bad for gone 10pm!) |
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