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Old 11-09-2011, 13:01   #1791
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu View Post
In regards to the comment about VM and Sky, l have both these systems, so lets compare:

Sky; The boxes you buy, are brand new, and if they break down you get a warranty with them and we pay £10.00 per month and that covers everything if it breaks down, for example if our dish has a problem it would cost £90.00 per visit, you can call them as many times and you only pay ten pounds.

We have multi room and pay £10.00 per box. HD cost £10.00 per month (which we don't pay). We get all the channels available, hassle free, If the system fails, we can repair from our own chair, if it requires an engineer, they normall arrive within 24 hours.

On VM, you don't get a new box, it will be a refurbished box, if there is a problem with the box, it will get repaired within a few days, BUT you will still get a refurb box.
VM decide what channels go on the system, price varies on what you want, HD channels are free, but there are limits, again VM decide what HD channels go on.
CS. is rubbish and sometimes they cannot answer the questions.

The cost is cheap on VM, but in bad weather you can lose some pictures, like today l was watching ESPN, free on VM XL, and all the picture went crackly and then disappeared.

There is a big difference between both the above, but to me you get what you pay for.
Really crap comparison. VM on occasion give out refurb boxes but 9 times out of 10 this is not the case. I work with Virgin Media and out of 30 boxes in my van 2 are refurbs which I do not use. In regards to the weather with Sky you are more likely to lose picture than with VM and if you are having the ESPN issue you talk about then you should get an engineer to look at that for you. Virgin also come out free of charge to fix any fault and if you are not at home from the 2nd of September there in no charge whereas if you are with sky it £170!!! Having always though that sky was 100 times better as to content I would rather have the catch up on demand any day as it blows sky out the water.
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