SKY VS Virgin Media

[Sumanji]

It was until about 1993.

No fair, I was only 9 then

[Arch Stanton]

Originally Posted by grimwau

My default PIN is 1234. When the engineer fitted the new box I asked him what the default pin was as I had forgotten the one I had changed it to. He said they are all 1234 now.

My default pin on V+ was 0000.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Sumanji

No fair, I was only 9 then

Sky one *really* was awful then. The only good thing on it was "The Simpsons".

I think it actually was the channel that the old BBC series "KYTV" took the mickey out of.

[wewillwinit6time]

Well am I spending the last ten minutes with my beloved Sky Sports News, one would hope not but it seems as though the people at the top do not care about their ever loyal customers, sky are as bad as virgin and vice versa lets hope they get off their high horse and start thinking about us before themselves but alas this will probably be it no more sky sports news and sky news and on with bbc news 24, it makes me shudder just thinking about having to watch bbc news 24, even worse euronews.

Come on you fat cats get it sorted you bunch of selfish uncaring people.

Rant over.

UPDATED 0:02

TOTALLY SELFISH, UTTERLY RIDICULOUS AND FOR WHAT A FEW EXTRA QUID TO YOUR POCKETS ALREADY LINED WITH BILLION DOLLAR NOTES WELL I HOPE YOUR MONEY IS BURNT TO DUST IN A FIRE. GOODBYE.

[ruthie]

That's it, it's gone

[Sumanji]

Good riddance!!

[djorgensen]

You might not like Sky One; I however do enjoy some of the shows, 24, Battlestar, Lost etc.

I have looked on that Virgin One channel and I don’t want to be watching out of date shows nor stuff I could watch freely on BBC One!

I think I'll stick with Virgins Internet service but the TV is going. People might be slagging off Sky One but I see very little quality content on any other channel!

I'm all for having a pop at Sky, but if you're going to act on your customers behalf like Virgin and disagree about paying 90pence per subscriber for a channel some of your subscribers want, seems to me you're going to lose those customers in the long run.

I'd be using Sky if I didn’t live in a listed building which prevents me from erecting a dish!


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My Point is, If I had an option to pay £5 or even £10 extra a month for those channels I'd take it, I think a lot would.
Reading www.virginmedia.com/fairplay I think a lot feel the same as me!

[lauzjp]

in all the hoo-hah I missed where this '90p' figure has come from, someone please explain. is that what it was going to cost each customer per month?

[shugdot]

Sorry, djorgensen, but I don't fancy paying more to watch Sky One or Sky News. What annoys me more is the way the media say that we are losing Sky Two. I've never had it and I am really disappointed that I can't watch a channel I've never had. I believe that Sky News is preferable to News24 but I can live with the BBC offering. If you want to switch to Sky thengo ahead but beware that Sky will likely have to pass the loss of revenue on to their own customers.

[djorgensen]

Thats what Sky Wanted, they wanted something like 38 million or something, divide that by the number of NTL subscribers and you get around 90pence.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...253715,00.html
It even says that Sky allowed Virgin to markert the channels directly.

Seems like a good idea to let customers choose

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I understand Sky is launching its own Freeview style box with Sky One and all the other Basic Sky channels on it

[hedgie]

Originally Posted by ;34236742

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I understand Sky is launching its own Freeview style box with Sky One and all the other Basic Sky channels on it

Is this not another loss leader to get people on to the Sky platform so you can be targetted for subscription based services?

Why does the world need another Freeeview style box I thought you could already get a freeview style card to get the basic channels on staellite anyway? Other than sports, which is all premium channel/pay per view there is very little quality UK based programming on Sky anyway.

Branson has proved he has the bottle to take the fight to the big boys, go and ask British Airways.

If it comes down to who you trust, Murdoch or Branson; I know who I would back for long term customer focussed service.


It just seems sad that customers are the ones who are suffering while the big cheeses squabble.

M

[nembsbe]

Sky - 1 - Our Cancellation to them (Due on 8th March) Withdrawn
Virgin Media - 0 - Still trying to cancel.. (since 9am!)

[Pluto]

Been with Sky since early 90s - then decide to go to VM & all this happens.
We watch Sky One - hmm thinking head on has anyone asked Sky (if ya have Sky system) for just the lost channels & pay the 3p per day?

Originally Posted by nembsbe

Sky - 1 - Our Cancellation to them (Due on 8th March) Withdrawn
Virgin Media - 0 - Still trying to cancel.. (since 9am!)

Whilst in the long run that end result comes to:-

Formed Monoply 1.
Competition 0.

End result, price hikes because there is no longer strong opposition to force competition that usually drives prices down.

[pedro17]

I canalled my sky tv subscription last month, and arranged for the virgin v.i.p, package to be installed on the 7th march, thinking it was a good deal, now I find for the small amount more I was willing to pay i will be loosing the 5 programs my family most watch, I kind of agree with the the stance by virgin, but don't really want to pay price of full package for only half of what we want and am know reconsidering my options.