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Originally Posted by stann0
My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.
I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?
Any feedback welcome!
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I'm in a contract and don't even want the 360. Virgin seem to be able to force you onto stream with their 'We reserve the right to change your STB' clause in their t&c's.
If you want to carry on recording, Sky still offer Sky Q, but you now have to ring up for this (so that they can try to persuade you to have Sky Stream) as it cannot now be ordered online.
BT have some good deals, particularly if you want the sport channels as per another forum member:
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Originally Posted by neil79;c-107542208
Checked with Sky if they can beat the BT offer and they would beat BT for fibre but there seemed to be some confusion on the TV package that I required.
If you take a sky TV package you can't just take the Sport package like on BT. You are required to take a Sky ultimate or maybe Sky Essentials add on and doing the sums the discount on the fibre is lost on the TV deal. The Sky salesperson seemed surprised when I said the Sky TV was more expensive than BT and advised me to double check the BT renewal offer small print which I will do. The Sky person seemed to think I would need to pay BT for the TV box with FTA channels and a recording feature but that is included with the Sport package. The sky Ultimate was offered at £14 for channels I don't require which is cheaper than on the Sky website.
Quite surprised that Sky currently don't seem to be able to beat my BT renewal deal. They have been calling me for the last 2 years about going back to Sky and at one time offered to payoff my BT contract so I could go back to Sky.
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