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Just tried to get match choice on sky sports 2 and it says no interactive events are on at the moment.But it gives a list of upcoming events and guess what,Football First is one of them starting tonight.So what has happened to it?

Strange,it's not showing now and it's taken the repeat showing of Football First off interactive too at 23.45

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:mad::mad::mad::mad: Wanted to wanted to watch Tottenham on Football First last night, and saw this stupid advert saying there were problems.

What they hell is VM playing at, they cliam that the TIVO box is supposed to be the best piece of technocolgy going and cannot provide this certain item.

TiVo is crap, and l am so angry that l am paying for a piece of junk that VM claim is the best.

I went into the TiVo service following VM advert about it, and l stated on this forum that l would only get it if it could obtain the RED BUTTON for FOOTBALL FIRST so that could watch Tottenham, last night l couldn't watch it and l am not very happy.:mad:

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Nothing to do with TiVo. It was a fault at Sky's end. They fixed it at 03:30.

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SKY had loads of problems yesterday, the golf kept breaking up because of the thunderstorms in London. I would imagine a similar thing affected Football First. Problems on SKY Sports are unlikely to be Virgin Media related, always blame SKY first and foremost.

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Match choice on Sky worked as I watched the United game.

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Muppetman, are you telling me that YOU watched the United game on FOOTBALL FIRST on the RED BUTTON on VM.

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No Arthur he is not as he has a Sky box but the problem is down to Sky as Virgin take their interactive feeds from them and there were problems with these last night.

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Thanks for the replies chaps.I later found out that the interactive was working on the repeat showing at 23.45 and again this morning on the repeat of the repeat:)

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No first 30 minutes of La Liga games, Football First only works every other week...

Useless.

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no Barcelona game today and it on red button :td::td::td:

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Where's my red button for Barca v Osasuna on SS1? This is flipping useless.

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Just logged on to say the same thing.

I am on v+

I am now watching an illegal stream

Pathetic

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I'm on v+ too. I pay for this, where is it?

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One word Pathetic.

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us VM customers always getting treat like second class citizens it sucks Den mate

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One simple question before l throw the TiVo box out the window, do we get the RED BUTTON on the damn thing Yes or No.

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Quite Frankly its not on i have sky sports until the Cricket season is finished and it goes up to £25.75.

It looks like either sky have trouble with the streams,or more likely are not supplying the stream in the first place as it does not appear in the red button august calendar,have tried it on my box and no red button either,plenty of waffle on the Liverpool v Manchester City game though.:(

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There is no excuse for not having the full red button as we are paying enough.

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yes but it on limited things :mad:

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I suggest paying for subscription tv through the internet, and then streaming to tv. That's what I do. VMedia just cannot deliver their promises.

PM me if you need ideas.

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Does anyone have Virgin broadband and Sky TV? Me and my mrs only really watch Sky Sports and Sky Movies, and this useless red button support is doing my head in.

smallcone, I've been looking at getting a foreign streaming service via VPN for the football, any suggestions?

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I suggest VM provide me with what I'm paying for. £3.25 per month price increase for Sky Sports. Will we get red button coverage of La Liga for that?

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I've never considered being without a paid subscription for sky sports - that I can record.

But this is just taking the [Mod Edit]out of me. I'm really thinking about it.

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If you don't mind watching a relatively naff picture on an iPad Sky Sports TV (1-4, News, F1 & ESPN) is only £5 a month.

I have no idea how or why they offer it for that price.

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Sorry to say this but VM won't do that, l am actually trying my hardest to persuade my wife to go back to Sky.

I have simply had enough of the very engineering side and poor service from the whole company, They make all these promises, but nothing gets done, you contact the CEO office and all they do is offer you a discount for the bad service.

I will always be critical of a company if they provide a bad service, we pay a great deal of money for services and we simply don't get it. Yes l have been with both Sky and now VM, but my god Sky is ten times better at there service.

People may say that we get the content from Sky, but VM makes these promises but dont keep them, when you have a fault, they send poor engineers out and you NEVER get a supervisor phone up and say ' are you happy with the repair'. My wife has a go at me if say the truth and have a go at VM Engs. If the truth hurts then tough. I turned on my Red Button several times and the service was down.

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The Red Button experience is the only thing I preferred on my old V+ box to the TiVo I now have. I don't want BBC Sport aps or anything else the Tivo offers up when I press the Red Button. I just want to tune into the channel i'm watching for snooker, tennis, football etc... press the Red Button and be given the option of watching other matches not being covered by the main channel at that time. Simple....well you would think so wouldn't you.

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I have said this all along, in all my years on Sky, l hardly ever had to call Sky with a problem.

With VM l have had so many engineer call out that l have lost count - terrible service, and yet we have members on here praising them to high hilt, When l pay for a service, them l expect it, l don't want to get fob off by a CS or an engineer to say this and that is causing the problem.

I paid a warranty each year for our dish, and when there was a problem it was worth every penny, with VM we pay £5.00 per month for the upkeep of the box - VM told us that - and yet we have a system that does not work properly, and there fore VM should repair it.

At the moment there are problems, according to the VM website since FRIDAY and it won't be fixed until today MONDAY, how pathetic.

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The handful of times we've had issues with our boxes (around 5 in i would say at least 12 13 years) we've had someone out the day after we called. Always on time, with a courtesy call to let us know they were close, issues fixed that day and never cost us a penny :)

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Arthur, I'm sorry about the problems you're having, but what you describe is the experience I had with Sky so don't be too surprised to hear people on this board praise Virgin-some of us have actually found the service to be much better. Obviously there are those like yourselves for whom the opposite is true.

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The choice of courts on Sky Sports Red Button for the US Open Tennis is wonderful imo.... :-)

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Seconded.:tu:

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Tivo brings a whole new meaning to the term "Red button". Waste is the first word that comes to my mind. Never thought I would say this but I am missing Brighthouse ( that`s bad - no really it is)

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I'm taking it you mean Brighthouse as in the US cable provider in Florida. :)

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Sorry because it was obvious to me I did not think about it :dozey:. Yes you are right.

My family complain like mad when the place they stay offers it . When there I just watch what ever is on. (but it seem o.k to me) As I stay at a Disney hotel for the family get together I see very little TV. Except for the early morning news which is mainly Fox !!!
Love to see what they make of Virgin ( or Sky for that matter).

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Welcome back Itshim and its like you have not been away.;)

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Have to keep my fans happy ( any offers for a script writer- needs to be good at one liners!:erm:)
When the family started talking TV (mostly started when seeing a billboard ) The moan was about various cable companies. Why do they generate so many moans :D. Back in my youth its was BBC or nothing !!!!

PS thank you to my niece for this. Anyone know the source?

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The courts did not specify what sport should be on the sky sports interactive on VM,when VM sold its channels to sky the red button on sky sports was part of that deal.

And as such as far as we were aware it was the full sky sport red button service ,cricket is on sky sports 1 red red button tomorrow we shall see.;)

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You do realise that courts are what tennis is played on, right? ;)

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Oh damm! my fault sorry read the post wong am on the way to specsavers now. :D:D:dunce::dunce: