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gaz2810i · 13-03-2012, 20:13

This Price increase has seriously made me question the cost of my services. It has also made me realise how expensive Virgin is compared with Sky. I have just been on the phone to both companies and I am shocked with what I have heard.

I am on the top VIP package, with two TiVo boxes, and pay around £105.

Needing to cut costs I managed to get Virgin down to around £69.90 by cutting the phone extras, loosing Sky Sports and sky movies, while lowing my Internet to 20 meg. Fantastic I thought...

I then asked about keeping Sky premium and the costs went back up to VIP levels. well £99 (no HD)

I then phoned Sky and amazingly they only wanted £60 for their full Broadband, TV and phone package without the sports and movies. This included multi-room and HD. With Sports and movies it came to a price of £88.

OK I would loose TiVo, ESPN, the great OD service and broadband would be 2 meg instead of 20, but I could keep sky Sports and sky movies, get more HD and finally experience Sky Atlantic for myself.

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gaz2810i Inactive Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: South Ruislip Services: Panasonic 55VT30, Pioneer VSX-LX53, BDP-LX54, Virgin TiVo 1tb (VIP), Toshiba HD-EX1, VM 50gb BB, PS3 Posts: 149	Re: TV price rises This Price increase has seriously made me question the cost of my services. It has also made me realise how expensive Virgin is compared with Sky. I have just been on the phone to both companies and I am shocked with what I have heard. I am on the top VIP package, with two TiVo boxes, and pay around £105. Needing to cut costs I managed to get Virgin down to around £69.90 by cutting the phone extras, loosing Sky Sports and sky movies, while lowing my Internet to 20 meg. Fantastic I thought... I then asked about keeping Sky premium and the costs went back up to VIP levels. well £99 (no HD) I then phoned Sky and amazingly they only wanted £60 for their full Broadband, TV and phone package without the sports and movies. This included multi-room and HD. With Sports and movies it came to a price of £88. OK I would loose TiVo, ESPN, the great OD service and broadband would be 2 meg instead of 20, but I could keep sky Sports and sky movies, get more HD and finally experience Sky Atlantic for myself.