General : Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2

[denphone]

Look each to their own preferences as one man's meat is another man's poison as they say.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by ase001

I moved from VM to Sky 6 months ago, I've had absolutely no issues and I'm completely satisfied with their service. I get 38Mbs download, never noticed it dropping. The upload is important to me and I get 7.8Mbs, the best I ever got with VM was 1.75Mb which constantly dropped to 512Kb (I assume throttling) typically I only ever uploaded a build DVD to work.

Years ago VM was the best in many respects, VOD was second to none. It isn't any more, Sky's VOD is really extensive and current. Now VM are putting up prices by 5.5% I think I've made the correct choice in moving to Sky

I'm now paying £20 a month less for a better service.

Have to agree i had nothing but buffering issues on VMs so called 100mb, i switched to a 38mb bt service and have no buffering at all and i'm paying a lot less.
VM really need to brush up.

[Ultimate.Conj]

Originally Posted by denphone

Have you ever tried Sky's broadband? as where my parents live its the stuff of nightmares with speeds of less of 1MB.

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Apart from the occasional blip it still beats the vast majority of the opposition hands down in my humble unbiased opinion.

I'm not knocking the TIVO, Den. It's brilliant, just a big sluggish sometimes.

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Just seen this to confirm everyone's fears/expectations

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/11/v...rice-increase/

Virgin Media customers who are signed up to one of the company's "Big Bundles" will soon see their monthly bill get an inflation-busting price increase. The cable provider says "the vast majority" of subscribers will see their packages rise by up to 5.4 percent (between £3.49 and £3.99 a month), which will include a £1 line rental increase. The changes won't happen right away -- they'll come into effect next February.

[denphone]

One suspects BT , Sky and others will follow.

[theone2k10]

Originally Posted by denphone

One suspects BT , Sky and others will follow.

Ofcourse they will mate, it's getting ridicolous now the cost of line rental alone.

[Ultimate.Conj]

I don't know how they can justify such a high line rental fee when most people use their mobiles

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj

I don't know how they can justify such a high line rental fee when most people use their mobiles

Sadly l have to have a landline as it sends information to the hospital thus l have no choice in the matter.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj

I don't know how they can justify such a high line rental fee when most people use their mobiles

It's a rental fee, not usage fee. Providing the line and associated exchange equipment costs the same whether or not you use it.

[Arthurgray50@blu]

Cheers Spider, That was the channel. Good it was.

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PLEASE. SOMEONE tell me how VM can justify a further increase. Its totally wrong.
What new channels have they brought onto the system.

Only recently we found out that they are losing a large amount of customers, who are going to BT or Sky.

I am trying to persuade my wife to join Sky. The thing that will annoy my wife is if they take off the History channel - like they have done before, with various channels.
Or they move channels

[vincerooney]

Too much now. I'm seriously debating leaving vm. I don't want to but they seem hell bent on forcing people out. Desperately trying to increase profit for a quick sell.

We"re not getting anything new so I don't know how they can justify this? Other than greed

"How can we justify a price increase?"
"Line rental?"
"Ha do we dare do that? People hate line rental and it doesn't cost us anything!"
"Ha yeah let's do it."
"Ya mad you"

[denphone]

Phone retentions up Vince and see if you can get a better deal.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Best of 2015 will be with us on December 7th so we need you to nominate by November 15th for the following:

01) Best Virgin Media UK worker who help viewers on Cable Forum:
02) Best poster OR posters with Information:
03) Channel of the Year:

DO NOT POST ONLINE.

You need to PM US with your vote for it to count.

We will give more info on Round 2 on November 16th.

[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

There's a ***possibility*** that Box Nation HD may be coming to VM around 23/11/15.

Media Boy Sources say that Box Nation HD is not testing on Virgin Media UK (As of November 12th at 4pm).

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by denphone

Sadly l have to have a landline as it sends information to the hospital thus l have no choice in the matter.

Some people also need landlines to call for help with those devices that people put round their neck.

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Media Boy Sources say that Box Nation HD is not testing on Virgin Media UK (As of November 12th at 4pm).

I wonder if there's a required amount of time for channels to test off the EPG (like Sky)?

If there is, it's not looking promising.

[harry_hitch]

Not sure if this might be relevant considering the proposed VM price rise. Sky are being honest with regards pricing, but are at least making a point about the price rises being worthwhile. As much as I still dislike Sky, I have had a faultless TV service from them - considerably better than my last experience with them.

I wonder how much potential future content will be made available for other providers.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/1...0T12DV20151112