Why don't Virginmedia....

[Chrysalis]

infinity in its current guise is a good product, however when they rollout the 80mbit version, I assume the 40mbit product will be canned and they will go back to their one size fits all approach meaning people with say 20mbit are going to be feeling ripped off. The same way people feel now on adsl2+ with crappy 4mbit syncs.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by roughbeast

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That's advertising, it's hardly going to be a blank list of numbers on a sheet showing average speeds.

The point of advertising is to entice. You appear not to have a problem with BT so much as any and all advertising.

Generalisation isn't good - generalising that because your BT Vision service didn't work properly no-one's can for example. My phone line here is good for >20Mb, more than enough to take a BT Vision stream along with normal usage, and I was using IPTV over DSL from Homechoice, working just fine, back in 2006.

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

The point of advertising is to entice.

I want to be enticed by what the product actually does, even if a set of figures is the main illustration. I could go on and blame our consumerist attitudes on the bloated and emotive claims of advertising, but I won't lol.

I take your point about generalisation, but I haven't come across many satisfied customers getting their BT Vision via copper. Indeed, you are my first.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by roughbeast

I want to be enticed by what the product actually does, even if a set of figures is the main illustration. I could go on and blame our consumerist attitudes on the bloated and emotive claims of advertising, but I won't lol.

I take your point about generalisation, but I haven't come across many satisfied customers getting their BT Vision via copper. Indeed, you are my first.

I wasn't, mine was supplied by Homechoice.