Virgin Media or Sky?

[ctay]

I have been a sky customer for 14 years, but I am thinking about going to Virgin. Use if for the usual sky sports channels, movies etc.

Any thoughts, which is cheaper??

[Bald Rover]

Bt vision now has sky sports!

[MrFrost]

Virgin Media without a doubt. Alot better value.
Just don't move to a non Virgin area whilst still in your contract.

[CusworthRovers]

Anybody had that offer from Sky, of Free Mobile TV for Player, PC and iPhone etc. All for a year free of charge inclusive of all Sky sports 1,2,3,4 and SSN.

Stick with Rupert

[donnyjay]

No but I had an offer from BT earlier today.

 He offered me free weekend calls (as they have done every 2/3 months for the last year) which I wearily declined explaining that I've got unlimited calls on the mobile and only use the home phone line for the internet.

He then said they'd also put a block on unsolicited sales calls to my number.

And they say Americans don't understand irony.

[NorthNorfolkRover]

With Sky sports news going off free view soon does anyone know the cheapest way to get it ? Do you need an internet connection next to tour tv for bt vision ?

[DaveDRFC]

If your main interest is Sport, then stick with Sky. As far as I'm aware Virgin, BT etc only have 2 of the Sky Sports channels, and Sky are increasingly putting football (especially Championship games) on Sky Sports 3. EDIT - My work colleague informs me you can get all of the Sky Sports channels on Virgin, but only 2 of them in HD.

As for Sky Sports News, I'm pretty sure it counts as a news channel rather than a sports channel so the cheapest way to get it would be to get a sky package with the News mix included. Or you could just use it as an excuse to go down the pub whenever the footy is on!

[MrFrost]

DaveDRFC wrote:

If your main interest is Sport, then stick with Sky. As far as I'm aware Virgin, BT etc only have 2 of the Sky Sports channels, and Sky are increasingly putting football (especially Championship games) on Sky Sports 3. EDIT - My work colleague informs me you can get all of the Sky Sports channels on Virgin, but only 2 of them in HD.

As for Sky Sports News, I'm pretty sure it counts as a news channel rather than a sports channel so the cheapest way to get it would be to get a sky package with the News mix included. Or you could just use it as an excuse to go down the pub whenever the footy is on!

I think also get ESPN included with them. Virgin will roll out all Sky's HD channels eventually.
Virgin are alot better for money IMO, their On Demand content is fantastic.

[Nudga]

MrFrost wrote:

Virgin Media without a doubt. Alot better value.
Just don't move to a non Virgin area whilst still in your contract.

But VirginMedia have a tendancy to slide their little extras into the bill that they don't tell you about. They did it to us twice so we f**ked em off for being lying, robbin t**ts.

[MrFrost]

What extra's did they charge you? Only problem I had with them was when I came to move house. Because I was moving to a non Virgin property, I still had to pay up the remainder of my contract (about £280) and the cost of the V+ Bpx (£300). They said they didn't have anyone available to collect the box so i'd have to pay for it.
I told them to b*llocks.

I'm also cancelling BT as from next month, thank God. Possibly the worst company in terms of service I have ever encountered. Been with them 18 months, out of which i'd say 6 have been without broadband for one reason or another. I'm on my 5th one of those shitty homehubs. And the bas**rds still wont compensate me for the fcucking about i've had to do!

I'm so happy that I can now provide my own broadband!

[Nudga]

They were slipping in an extra 5p a minute on top of calls to mobiles, extra 3p on land line calls and £5 for extra channels that we didn't know we had and didn't want or ask for. It added up to paying between £8 and £15 a month extra. We thought that we had been using the phone a bit too much until my missus had a good look at the bill.

This happened twice, they just seemed to add it on when you're not looking.