Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
09-06-2009, 19:05
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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Originally Posted by Mullington
What I mean is, would we get an instant rebate? would new channel bundles be concocted? People will be looking towards replacement Sky Sports channels along their current pricing structures.
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Seeing as you're on XL TV and setanta is free on that, i'm sure VM will happily refund the full £0.
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09-06-2009, 19:09
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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Originally Posted by dev
Seeing as you're on XL TV and setanta is free on that, i'm sure VM will happily refund the full £0.
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Same price? Less channels? No sport left in the XL package? That sounds good.
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09-06-2009, 19:45
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
You will have Eurosport - what more do you want?! :lol:
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09-06-2009, 19:49
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
VirginMedia are free to add or remove channels at will to the packages. infact the setanta package was added to XL as a "replacement" to the sky basics which are now back, so they will bee under no obligation to give you a rebate etc for the loss of the channels.
That being said IF a package change (ie loss of channels) amounts to a "siginifant change in the package" you will bee free to end your contract no matter how long is left on it and switch to sky etc.
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09-06-2009, 20:56
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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Originally Posted by beeman
That being said IF a package change (ie loss of channels) amounts to a "siginifant change in the package" you will bee free to end your contract no matter how long is left on it and switch to sky etc.
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Wrong. You can 'cancel the affected service' not the entire contract.
So if Setanta sports get removed from XL tv, you can stop taking XL tv, but that is all
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09-06-2009, 21:01
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Wrong. You can 'cancel the affected service' not the entire contract.
So if Setanta sports get removed from XL tv, you can stop taking XL tv, but that is all
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right AND wrong. if you take the services seperatly then yes you would only bee allowed to cancil the affected servives. However IF you have a bundled deal then you would bee able to cancil the entire bundle as changes to 1 part of the bundle affects the value of the entire bundle.
note im talking from a contractual point of view NOT vm's TOS pov.
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10-06-2009, 08:31
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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10-06-2009, 10:10
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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Originally Posted by ilovehd
Keep your virgin phoneline and broadband then just get sky tv!
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That's definitely the best of both worlds imo.
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10-06-2009, 12:18
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
Why leave VM if Setanta closes, Sky will not have the channel either!
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10-06-2009, 12:36
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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Originally Posted by Stephen
Why leave VM if Setanta closes, Sky will not have the channel either!
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Perhaps people will want a refund from Sky after moving if Setanta isn't there either..
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10-06-2009, 16:25
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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Originally Posted by ilovehd
Keep your virgin phoneline and broadband then just get sky tv!
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..doesn't Sky require you to have a BT phone line if you take their TV?
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10-06-2009, 16:29
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
no they say you will need it to get the full benefits eg red button voting on reality shows
it it is not a condition you can still have sky with no phone line
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10-06-2009, 16:56
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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Originally Posted by howden
..doesn't Sky require you to have a BT phone line if you take their TV?
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If it is just for the TV service itself you can use any Phoneline - you only need a BT one if you want Sky Talk/BB
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10-06-2009, 17:11
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
No i have sky hd with a virgin phoneline and broadband all sky need it to set up there box is a phoneline to do a callback on to activate the box! Cheap sky hd courtesy of step dad awsum!
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10-06-2009, 17:32
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Re: Is it worth keeping Virgin if Setanta goes bust
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Originally Posted by Mullington
Same price? Less channels? No sport left in the XL package? That sounds good.
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when VM added setanta to the XL package there was no price rise (granted there may have been since,but not related to setanta) to reflect the setanta channels added to the package,so you would do well to get a refund 
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