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Vlad_Dracul 16-02-2007 10:02

A little tip for Virgin Media
 
Heres a very usefull little tip.

Concentrate more on ensuring the integrity , throughput and uptime of your hardware and network and a little less time and money on sending a constant stream of paperwork through the post telling me virtually nothing. I dont care whos name is over the door, i just want as close as possible to 24/7 high quality throughput on my data connection.

It seems to me that all these companies who are insistant upon streaming television through the internet are actually a threat to the internet. The best place for television is via a sat dish or a tv antenna. I dont want great wadges of data down a data link which may ultimately threaten my basic services such as email,NG and web browsing.

Most of the tv content we have already via sky and terrestrial is trash or repated trash. Cheap television for brainless chavs. We dont need more of it.

Downloads 16-02-2007 11:08

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
I thought the best place for TV was down cable over fibre. I may be wrong though, i'm not a techie.

I don't see America rushing to launch TV over satellite, the companies are all laying new fibre.

RUSTY 16-02-2007 14:04

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
downloads. yep. daughter lives in cincinnati, terrific cable and phone service with lots of deals and `if ` it fails fixed very quickly. sats mostly used out of town.

tweetypie/8 18-02-2007 15:08

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by dooper786 (Post 34223687)
Heres a very usefull little tip.

Concentrate more on ensuring the integrity , throughput and uptime of your hardware and network and a little less time and money on sending a constant stream of paperwork through the post telling me virtually nothing. I dont care whos name is over the door, i just want as close as possible to 24/7 high quality throughput on my data connection.

It seems to me that all these companies who are insistant upon streaming television through the internet are actually a threat to the internet. The best place for television is via a sat dish or a tv antenna. I dont want great wadges of data down a data link which may ultimately threaten my basic services such as email,NG and web browsing.

Most of the tv content we have already via sky and terrestrial is trash or repated trash. Cheap television for brainless chavs. We dont need more of it.

you dont want great wadges of data,i dont want an eysore of a dish stuck on my house :rolleyes:

banjo 18-02-2007 15:14

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by tweetypie/8 (Post 34225326)
you dont want great wadges of data,i dont want an eysore of a dish stuck on my house :rolleyes:

Then use free view or cable TV, no problem, I too cannot see why we need TV eating bandwidth with repeats that are a waste of resources :)

Richy99 20-02-2007 15:01

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by dooper786 (Post 34223687)
Heres a very usefull little tip.

Concentrate more on ensuring the integrity , throughput and uptime of your hardware and network and a little less time and money on sending a constant stream of paperwork through the post telling me virtually nothing. I dont care whos name is over the door, i just want as close as possible to 24/7 high quality throughput on my data connection.

.

they'd probably have more money to spend on the network if people didnt keep calling retentions to get discounts because an incentive to get new customers get things a bit cheaper or fred down the road complained and now gets everything half price and then everyone else wants the same

NTLVictim 20-02-2007 15:19

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
If they were any good, they wouldn't have to offer retentions...

Richy99 20-02-2007 21:35

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
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Originally Posted by NTLVictim (Post 34227091)
If they were any good, they wouldn't have to offer retentions...

even if they were performing 100% people would still want things cheaper if new users get an incentive to move to the service and have it slighly cheaper

NTLVictim 20-02-2007 22:21

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
"Want" and "Get " would be very different if they were firing on all cylinders.

lostandconfused 20-02-2007 22:57

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by NTLVictim (Post 34227548)
"Want" and "Get " would be very different if they were firing on all cylinders.

so you can honestly say that even of your services were working perfectly you would be happy to pay more than someone else you knew that was getting the same products? if you can your one of a minority

Anonymouse 20-02-2007 23:43

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by banjo (Post 34225336)
Then use free view or cable TV, no problem, I too cannot see why we need TV eating bandwidth with repeats that are a waste of resources :)

Oh, it's worse than that; at one point, the powers that be were talking about requiring you to get a TV licence if you watched TV via a PC, or even just because you had the capability of watching TV - never mind whether or not you actually were watching anything.

Well, they can get stuffed. The day I get a licence demand from TVL is the day I cancel my BB subscription and I'll bloody well do without the Internet. Or go back to dialup, as horrifying a prospect as that is. :mad:

NTLVictim 21-02-2007 09:02

Re: A little tip for Virgin Media
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by lostandconfused (Post 34227578)
so you can honestly say that even of your services were working perfectly you would be happy to pay more than someone else you knew that was getting the same products? if you can your one of a minority

Someone else wouldn't be getting it cheaper than me if VM were perfect, the price would be the price.

Same way that a can of beans from Tesco costs the same to everyone.


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