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09-05-2013, 15:41
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by colin25
I thought that this is bad news for virgin viewers, as they lose ESPN. Looks like BT are gunning more for virgin then sky
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Well that might be your spin on it but perhaps you need a new spin doctor old boy.
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Pfffft! Virgin will come out all water pistols blazing
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No they are employing hitmen as l speak.
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09-05-2013, 15:42
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Well that might be your spin on it but perhaps you need a new spin doctor old boy.
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Please tell me the good news for Virgin customers from this?
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09-05-2013, 15:43
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Please tell me the good news for Virgin customers from this?
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that's the whole debate mate, know one knows yet!
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09-05-2013, 15:44
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
From Mark of VirginMedia on VM Forum:
Hi, all we can say at the moment is that we're talking to BT about making "BT Sport" available to you on VirginMedia at the moment and as soon as we can tell you more we will.
Thanks
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09-05-2013, 15:45
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by colin25
Please tell me the good news for Virgin customers from this?
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But people are making assumptions based just on what has happened today and that's a unwise thing to do in my humble opinion.
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09-05-2013, 15:49
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by Jameseh
This is CableForum. ESPN is free on Virgin, BT Sport is not.
Simples.
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Yes and I pay £114.55 for Virgin at the moment, but with a mixture of Sky and BT can pay £97.20 (ignoring the fact that BT is free for 6 months, and Sky are doing 50%off offers).
In case you're not aware 97 is less than 114, by a distance.
BT Sport is effectively free. You just have to transfer your supplier.
It's like gas and electric. It's all the same, no matter what the supplier is but you go with the cheapest, unless you're stupid.
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09-05-2013, 15:49
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by denphone
But people are making assumption based just on what has happened today and that's a unwise thing to do in my humble opinion.
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If it wasn't for reactionary madness there would be no Internet. Well maybe just for the odd cough erm specialist site
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09-05-2013, 15:52
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by coulsontom
Yes and I pay £114.55 for Virgin at the moment, but with a mixture of Sky and BT can pay £97.20 (ignoring the fact that BT is free for 6 months, and Sky are doing 50%off offers).
In case you're not aware 97 is less than 114, by a distance.
BT Sport is effectively free. You just have to transfer your supplier.
It's like gas and electric. It's all the same, no matter what the supplier is but you go with the cheapest, unless you're stupid.
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Don't want a dish and my street isn't fibre enabled and won't be for some time.
4mb is 15x less than 60mb and 2 tuners is less than 3, unless you're stupid.
Plus are Sky going to offer me a recordable multiroom box free for the life of my contract?
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09-05-2013, 15:57
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by Jameseh
Don't want a dish and my street isn't fibre enabled and won't be for some time.
4mb is 15x less than 60mb and 2 tuners is less than 3, unless you're stupid.
Plus are Sky going to offer me a recordable multiroom box free for the life of my contract?
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who said anything about 4mb?
That is the only thing that Virgin has that Sky doesn't that would bother me.
We have that too but we don't actually use it to record. Even with a multiroom box though, it's still cheaper than Virgin by £7.
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09-05-2013, 15:59
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
My estimated speed is 4mb over ADSL, I get 60mb from Virgin.
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09-05-2013, 16:03
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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My estimated speed is 4mb over ADSL, I get 60mb from Virgin.
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Ouch that's useless.
As I always say to qualify comments I make, it does depend on individual circumstances. Particularly location.
But in general, Sports fans are not worse off today.
The best thing to do would be to constantly switch.
Virgin always have the 50% for 12 months offer, which is great value.
New customers always get better offers. Personally, you should prob switch every time your contract ends and you'd get a better deal. It's just a pain.
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09-05-2013, 16:09
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22462525
The comments section is an interesting read. A lot of people picking holes in BT's strategy. It seems BT are struggling to win people over with this offer.
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09-05-2013, 16:10
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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But in general, Sports fans are not worse off today.
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Again, I just don't see how you can say that. Most sports fans already have sky or virgin.
Sky: prices are going up
Virgin: worryingly left out of the loop
How does that equate with "better off?"
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09-05-2013, 16:15
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by Chad
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As l have said people are not convinced by the so called freebies with barbs at the end of it.
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09-05-2013, 16:22
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Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by coulsontom
Yes and I pay £114.55 for Virgin at the moment, but with a mixture of Sky and BT can pay £97.20 (ignoring the fact that BT is free for 6 months, and Sky are doing 50%off offers).
In case you're not aware 97 is less than 114, by a distance.
BT Sport is effectively free. You just have to transfer your supplier.
It's like gas and electric. It's all the same, no matter what the supplier is but you go with the cheapest, unless you're stupid.
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Have you got a BT phone line into your house?
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