Virgin Media Vip Pack - internet gossip?

[Tristan]

Originally Posted by DarthYoda

Nope anyone can apparently take that offer.

What about if your area isn't (yet) TVDrive enabled?

[welwynrose]

apprently not available in my area yet due to one of the talk plans - I've got to call back in a couple of weeks afer the launch

[HDFootyMan]

Interesting offer from Virgin....I would save a grand total of £3 per month but I would gain the Sky Movies channels and 10Meg Broadband and loads of phone options which sadly, I wouldn't use often. But I'm sure my Terajet modem isn't capable of 10Meg so I would have to upgrade that before I could take advantage of this offer.

I don't really care less about the phone to be honest. I only use it for talking to people in the States now and then, the rest of the time I use the 100 free minutes on my mobile (which I will probably change to Virgin in the near future to get 300 minutes free)

Any news on Subscription VOD Movies? Having Sky Movies would be nice but it would be better if I could pay an reasonable amount per month in order to watch "hundreds and hundreds of movies right now" as Mrs. Thurman's sexy voice told me earlier .

[Bob]

I think the SVoD service is just TV Choice (which in all honesty should include the music section) - I can't imagine FilmFlex adopting this approach, especially for newer movies

[Rankrotten]

Does this offer include the 4-play including Virgin Mobile use?

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by Bob

I think the SVoD service is just TV Choice (which in all honesty should include the music section) - I can't imagine FilmFlex adopting this approach, especially for newer movies

But weren't they thinking about doing this? I'm sure I read somewhere that they would charge a flat fee of £8 per month for all but the top movies from Flimflex.

It just seems odd that they can do a great deal with Sky Movies (via this VIP package) but can't with their own VOD Film service.

[Bob]

I would imagine the great deal will be being made on their own services (the broadband and phone line) where they are able to trim their margins. There will be no bargaining on the Sky Sports/Movies side of things. It is likely you will still be paying full price for these, but this is absorbed by reducing the cost of the broadband and landline services within the bundle

As for SVoD, yeah I remember that a good while back on Digital Spy. Granted it was never an official press release from NTL, someone just happened to stumble upon it, because it was removed shortly after.

Only time will tell I suppose

[SlackDad]

Signed up this morning. First chap I spoke to didn't know anything about it, telephoned back and a very nice lady checked and confirmed it was available and then went through a process of applying each discount. I've done the sums and this seems like a very good deal to me.

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by Bob

I would imagine the great deal will be being made on their own services (the broadband and phone line) where they are able to trim their margins. There will be no bargaining on the Sky Sports/Movies side of things. It is likely you will still be paying full price for these, but this is absorbed by reducing the cost of the broadband and landline services within the bundle

As for SVoD, yeah I remember that a good while back on Digital Spy. Granted it was never an official press release from NTL, someone just happened to stumble upon it, because it was removed shortly after.

Only time will tell I suppose

Damn, I thought it was official.

Pity that, because IMO, a SVOD Movies package would kill off Sky Movies on Cable. I wonder what Filmflex thinks about this VIP package? Surely they wouldn't be happy about customers buying less of their movies on demand because they can watch Sky Movies.

Still, this VIP package looks great. But will there be some sort of Super-VIP package which includes the Mobile phone option as well?

[welwynrose]

Originally Posted by SlackDad

Signed up this morning. First chap I spoke to didn't know anything about it, telephoned back and a very nice lady checked and confirmed it was available and then went through a process of applying each discount. I've done the sums and this seems like a very good deal to me.

what area are you in because I was told it wasn't avaliable in my area

[Dean Ashton]

I just phoned up, and a nice Scottish lady at CS sorted it all out for me in around 5 minutes..

I was paying around £100 a month before for all that, but with only 4Mb broadband.. so I save £15, get a better phone plan, and 10Mb broadband.



Dean

[HDFootyMan]

OK...that was interesting.

Good thing I called to upgrade because during the package change, they realized I was being overcharged for broadband (it wasn't showing up as such on my bill).

But getting NTL to acknowledge that the Terajet modems don't support 10 Meg was waayyyy too painful and time consuming. I've got an engineer coming out next week and he better have a new modem with him as I requested.

Still.......I got Sky Groovy Movies for £3 per month and various phone options.

[gazzaaa]

Hi All,
yes its true. I have just come off the phone (150). As of now I have the package. This package adds the international and mobile, sports and films to my current package and it saves me money. Its was no brainer for me.

Thanks,

Gary

[Mike RB]

I called at around 2pm. I explained what the VIP package was and it was 'added'. I have just called back and told it does exist (I know) and that I couldn't have it yet as all the discount codes are not on the system yet.

Could it be that different areas have different billing systems so some of us can't have this package yet? I know they have or are going to be migrating the billing.

I then asked her to confirm my TV Drive and 2nd STB was being charged correctly as my previous bill had them as £15 each. She said the discount codes for that are not on the system and I may have to call back when the next bill arrives for a credit until the billing is resolved.

[videodj]

I called yesterday and explained the deal, didn't know about it though, but did manage to get a £10 discount per month. So not too bad a result.