I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
27-02-2007, 14:23
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
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Originally Posted by freakfunk
Im finished with cable, the new recordable box is another in a longline of crap they issue that doesnt work.
Hangs up
Channels go missing
Channels take ages to change
HEAVY LAG
CANT cable ever do anything that works properly? its been like this from day one?
Im soo sick of it, there not even cheap no more, the HD channels? WTF they dont have nothing. ANd you get so much more tv with sky, in the news channels alone, FOX NEWS, AL JAZEERA CNN etc etc.
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Stop whinging lol. With regards to your problems I think you need faults on that. The V+ is nowhere near how bad you say it is.
Mine hasn't hung...
No channels have gone missing...
Channels take around a second to change...
No lag whatsoever...
In my experience and numerous others Cable always have been, are, and always will be better than the bully-boy Sky. HD is still a developing technology, and as for no content, have you not visited the HD VOD section? The amount of programming done in HD does not warrant an entire channel on it. You say that Sky has more HD, but 75% of it is SD badly upscaled!
You may get more TV with Sky. A load of crappy +1 waste of space channels and more religious, foriegn, and shopping crap that you wouldn't watch anyway.
With your comment regarding taking up to a minute to change channels you have to stop making things up! That is rubbish and you know it. If it really is that slow get onto Faults. There's no point saying "My V+ is faulty so I'm going onto Cableforum to lick sky's 4rse."
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27-02-2007, 14:30
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#32
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
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Originally Posted by freakfunk
Hangs up
Channels go missing
Channels take ages to change
HEAVY LAG
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As for your news channels your not missing anything worth watching.
Claire's folks sky plus box is slower than any ntl box and we must have had a 'not satellite signal received' thing happening 2-3 times a week when we lived there.
My brand new sky amstrad stb keeps losing the guide and has a fair amount of pixelation which I never had on a pace box.
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01-03-2007, 21:26
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#33
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
keep calling
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02-03-2007, 16:50
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
I have sky+ & a standard samsung cable box.
I also have 10 Mb cable internet and ZEN ADSL
(I need multiple fixed ip addresses and that is not an option with cable)
firstly.. TIVO is better than any of the other current systems in just about every way except having multiple tuners.
sky plus? AtoZ listings? it is quicker to wait for the program to come on air than find it here!
series links? yea right! at least 5 failures a week! give me my tivo!!
no satellite signal! seen several times a week!
(I have two sky+ boxes on the same dish at any one time only ONE box says this so it must be internal to the box!!)..
Broadband...
cable 10Mb consistent day night day.. had a problem with the modem a few weeks ago.. got it replaced (within 24 hours) not one disconection since (connection monitord 24.7)
ADSL at least 5 disconects a day!
speed sync at 6.2Mb
download speed varies between 5.6 & .2Mb's! (yes that IS 200Kb's!!)
no complaints about my BT phone line..
so internet.. if cable where to provide multiple fixed IP addresses I would scrap ADSL in a heartbeat!
TV.. I would miss sky one.. but I would not miss the sloww buggy and unreliable sky+ box! it is more like a PC than a domestic appliance!
I am going to get v+ box to compare soon..
I just wish Virgin would do a deal with tivo to give us G3 tivo boxes
then I would kick sky+ in the head!
as a personal note I was never a big fan of NTL..
But SKY have done sooo much harm in the uk!
they have all but killed the independant satellite dealer (the way the sky deal works is a real pain for anyone with limited cashflow)
they killed uk tivo
they murderd BSB! (though that was pretty well doomed from day one)
and consistently worked to reduce the quality of both their transmissions and the majority of their programs!
I work in the entertainment trade (mainly projection TV) and the complaints we used to get after the switch from analog to digital was awe inspiring!
we dont get too many about this now.. not because things have inproved more just people have got used to it! (and it is relativly hard to see the problems with sky's quality when you are watching one of those ghastly DLP projectors LOL!!)
so if the V+ box is at least as good (from a hardware prespective) as sky+
I can see me ending my subscription with sky real soon!!
Just my prespective!!
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03-03-2007, 09:23
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#35
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE Freeview and BT for me
Sadly, We had to terminate our Virgin Media contract. We've been with NTL for years. The main reason for returning to BT was that the Virgin Media telephone landline service is uncompetitive: the basic option for £11 offers a poor return for the customer, yes the connection was reliable but compare what BT can offer to customers: caller line identity (never an option with my VM landline); discount on friends and family; including the extra details available online, Virgin Media offers a very poor telephone deal. The TV epg is a joke appears when it feels like it. We could not go to Sky we have a great dislike for the Murdochs, we instead decided to go to Freeview.
If Virgin Media really wants to progress there must be a complete revamp of the telephone service which is frankly an out of date service.
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03-03-2007, 10:30
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#36
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
Sky is crap BT is crappier... Virgin Media is the future, but we will always have moaners no matter how good a service is, moaners are never happy, they keep looking for excuses to well... moan.
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03-03-2007, 10:33
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
does anyone know what this phone number may be 001111, when check last recieved call. tried phone but am told dialled incorrectly 
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03-03-2007, 11:46
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
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Originally Posted by handyman
My brand new sky amstrad stb keeps losing the guide and has a fair amount of pixelation which I never had on a pace box.
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what a bunch of lies, sky's epg data is not delivered the same way ntl's is and thus you dont "lose" the guide unless certain things happen, and those certain things do not happen very often.
you clearly work for or are an ntl fanboy.
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03-03-2007, 12:30
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
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Originally Posted by gooner4life
what a bunch of lies, sky's epg data is not delivered the same way ntl's is and thus you dont "lose" the guide unless certain things happen, and those certain things do not happen very often.
you clearly work for or are an ntl fanboy.
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hmm... thinks how man digiboxes with memory problems have I seen this week (especialy amstrad)
hmm 7 this week...
clearly this is very rare lol!
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03-03-2007, 13:02
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
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Originally Posted by gooner4life
what a bunch of lies, sky's epg data is not delivered the same way ntl's is and thus you dont "lose" the guide unless certain things happen, and those certain things do not happen very often.
you clearly work for or are an ntl fanboy.
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OK, you said:
Then you said:
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thus you dont "lose" the guide unless certain things happen, and those certain things do not happen very often.
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OK, so is he telling porkies, or is the scenario you mention that "does not happen very often" be the actual problem?
 Could you have aimed anywhere else except your foot before you shot it?
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03-03-2007, 13:54
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
Isn't it a wonder how Bt have been caught napping? This company
was at the forefront of telecommunications for decades. Yet, it didn't
foresee the expansion of the broadband business, or VOD? And with
all those assets and prominent market position. I'm shocked that
their inertia has cost them so much. Incredible.
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03-03-2007, 14:49
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
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Originally Posted by SydneyHopper
Isn't it a wonder how Bt have been caught napping? This company
was at the forefront of telecommunications for decades. Yet, it didn't
foresee the expansion of the broadband business, or VOD? And with
all those assets and prominent market position. I'm shocked that
their inertia has cost them so much. Incredible.
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Erm, no. remember the failure to implement System X?
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03-03-2007, 15:31
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
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Originally Posted by NTLVictim
Erm, no. remember the failure to implement System X?
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Eggs hatch lee!
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03-03-2007, 16:06
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
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Originally Posted by SydneyHopper
Eggs hatch lee!
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Pardon? Who's Lee?
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03-03-2007, 16:15
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Re: I'm Finished with CABLE sky and BT for me
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Originally Posted by valor
Sky is crap BT is crappier... Virgin Media is the future, but we will always have moaners no matter how good a service is, moaners are never happy, they keep looking for excuses to well... moan.
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Are you moaning?
Can we have some constructive comments and without the colourful gutter language.
The reality is Virgin Media services are not good or as rosy as you think; it's not a matter of how good a service is, it is whether the customer receives value for money and frankly there are areas of service where Virgin Media is uncompetitive or is failing to provide a quality service and when it comes to telecommunications BT is still ahead.
We have Freeview not Sky after years of poor NTL service.
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