Virgin Media Phone + Broadband + TV

[Thinwhiteduke]

Virgin appear to have a really good deal on at the moment.

I can get 10mb Broadband, Free anytime phone calls, Full TV package (165 channels) + All Sky Sports + All Sky Movies, a Recordable HD+ Box, and an additional box upstairs for the grand total of £67.94 a month - and all via Cable.

On paper that appears to blow Sky and BT out of the water.

Anyone on here had/ Have Virgin and can offer any comments, either positive or negative?

[Muttley]

different strokes and all that but...

calls aren't worth much and you can get decent enough broadband for £10 a month so you're spending £700 a year to watch telly?

no wonder they call it the idiot box

get freeview and treat yourself with the £700

[RobTheRover]

I agree.  Unless you can get away with watching Sky Sports every night for 5 hours, thats a lot of cash to blow on crap telly programmes.  And \"My Family\" is still a load of shite in HD.

[MrFrost]

Virgin are alot better value for money than Sky. Their TV package is far better IMO. The On Demand content is fantastic.

However, when I moved house to a non Virgin area, they expected me to stump up over £500 in cancellation fee's.

I told them to do one, and didn't bother telling them my new address.

I don't see the logic in getting freview and keeping the money! Since when did you get sports, movies etc on freeview?

[RobTheRover]

Eurosport and Film4?

[MrFrost]

Not really the same is it?

[Muttley]

£700 buys a lot of trips to the cinema, DVDs, football matches, books, magazines etc

Admittedly, I'm talking as a single bloke with only a low-maintenance 16 yr old to keep happy (and she's hardwired to her laptop) so for me sky/virgin would be a waste of money - got no real interest in premiership football and if there is a big game I want to watch I'd rather go the pub with mates for a few beers.

[muff licker]

Thinwhiteduke wrote:

Virgin appear to have a really good deal on at the moment.

I can get 10mb Broadband, Free anytime phone calls, Full TV package (165 channels) + All Sky Sports + All Sky Movies, a Recordable HD+ Box, and an additional box upstairs for the grand total of £67.94 a month - and all via Cable.

On paper that appears to blow Sky and BT out of the water.

Anyone on here had/ Have Virgin and can offer any comments, either positive or negative?

I can get you BT Anytime Calls, BB with 20mbps download speed and free technical helpdesk (virgin charge 44ppm), Vision TV with Sky Sports 1&2 and Film Club (70 movies to view every week) and Music as well as Replay (allows you to go back 8 days and watch anything you may have missed from BB, ITV, 4 & 5) and Vision TV which has box sets/single shows ranging from Dramas/lifestle/comedies for £53.50 also including a Free Homehub (wireless router) and Free Vision Box (that lets you pause rewind and record 80 hours)

So I would say that that price smashes Virgin.    

[DubaiRover]

alternatively buy a eurovox box for £100 and get all channels free. just pay for phone and broadband and they can not tell that you are using the eurovox, you just need to have a live cable into your home.
By the way the one I had is still working and is over 3 years old.

[MrFrost]

muff licker wrote:

Thinwhiteduke wrote:

Virgin appear to have a really good deal on at the moment.

I can get 10mb Broadband, Free anytime phone calls, Full TV package (165 channels) + All Sky Sports + All Sky Movies, a Recordable HD+ Box, and an additional box upstairs for the grand total of £67.94 a month - and all via Cable.

On paper that appears to blow Sky and BT out of the water.

Anyone on here had/ Have Virgin and can offer any comments, either positive or negative?

I can get you BT Anytime Calls, BB with 20mbps download speed and free technical helpdesk (virgin charge 44ppm), Vision TV with Sky Sports 1&2 and Film Club (70 movies to view every week) and Music as well as Replay (allows you to go back 8 days and watch anything you may have missed from BB, ITV, 4 & 5) and Vision TV which has box sets/single shows ranging from Dramas/lifestle/comedies for £53.50 also including a Free Homehub (wireless router) and Free Vision Box (that lets you pause rewind and record 80 hours)

So I would say that that price smashes Virgin.    

I'd rather go back to dial up than use BT's Homehub.

It would also help if their technical help team could speak English!

My 18 month contract is up with them in September, and not a moment to soon. On my 6th Homehub now! And I still can't play Fifa 10 properly online through it.

[Thinwhiteduke]

Like Mr Frost I too shall be leaving BT when my contract expires next month.

Their customer service has gor progressively worse, I was without Internet for 3 weeks recently whilst they failed to acknowledge their equipment was at fault and put the onus on me to prove it was - no apology when I was proved right neither.

The Broadband speed has been horrific of late, and, frankly, they seem to treat long term existing customers like something they have scraped off their shoe.

[mushRTID]

MrFrost wrote:

muff licker wrote:

Thinwhiteduke wrote:

Virgin appear to have a really good deal on at the moment.

I can get 10mb Broadband, Free anytime phone calls, Full TV package (165 channels) + All Sky Sports + All Sky Movies, a Recordable HD+ Box, and an additional box upstairs for the grand total of £67.94 a month - and all via Cable.

On paper that appears to blow Sky and BT out of the water.

Anyone on here had/ Have Virgin and can offer any comments, either positive or negative?

I can get you BT Anytime Calls, BB with 20mbps download speed and free technical helpdesk (virgin charge 44ppm), Vision TV with Sky Sports 1&2 and Film Club (70 movies to view every week) and Music as well as Replay (allows you to go back 8 days and watch anything you may have missed from BB, ITV, 4 & 5) and Vision TV which has box sets/single shows ranging from Dramas/lifestle/comedies for £53.50 also including a Free Homehub (wireless router) and Free Vision Box (that lets you pause rewind and record 80 hours)

So I would say that that price smashes Virgin.    

I'd rather go back to dial up than use BT's Homehub.

It would also help if their technical help team could speak English!

My 18 month contract is up with them in September, and not a moment to soon. On my 6th Homehub now! And I still can't play Fifa 10 properly online through it.

This drives me mad, does anyone know if there is a fix yet?

[MrFrost]

No, BT states it is EA that are at fault, EA say it's BT. You could use FIFA 09 by changing the port forwarding settings but it doesn't work for FIFA 10