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sniper007 · 21-03-2012, 08:07

The thing is it's all or nothing. They make it very bad value for the customer to NOT get a full package with either company, so it's basically all sky or all virgin. I like the Virgin broadband which is important to me, but sky TV is better.
I tried to reduce my cost by looking at Virgin M level and it's so deliberately inferior to TV XL that it's justfunny. For me I only require 2-3 of the XL channels but yet I have to subscribe to the whole thing to get it. The best/fairest way would be for a company to come forward and charge on a per channel basis, but that business model will never happen because there are two main competitors (sky/virgin) that like their current package business models which they gain a lot of money from. Of the 200 odd channels I probably have on XL I genuinely watch and record from perhaps 20 of them. Want Nickjunior for kids? Requires XL. No other method to get one channel from XL you want.

21-03-2012, 08:07	#952
sniper007 Inactive Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 480	Re: TV price rises The thing is it's all or nothing. They make it very bad value for the customer to NOT get a full package with either company, so it's basically all sky or all virgin. I like the Virgin broadband which is important to me, but sky TV is better. I tried to reduce my cost by looking at Virgin M level and it's so deliberately inferior to TV XL that it's justfunny. For me I only require 2-3 of the XL channels but yet I have to subscribe to the whole thing to get it. The best/fairest way would be for a company to come forward and charge on a per channel basis, but that business model will never happen because there are two main competitors (sky/virgin) that like their current package business models which they gain a lot of money from. Of the 200 odd channels I probably have on XL I genuinely watch and record from perhaps 20 of them. Want Nickjunior for kids? Requires XL. No other method to get one channel from XL you want.