Jules S
Premium Member
Registered: 24th Dec 03
User status: Offline
|
bugger.
Ripped off again.
Twats.
|
Robin
Premium Member
Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
User status: Offline
|
You what? 
|
mav
Member
Registered: 19th Jun 01
Location: Scotland
User status: Offline
|
From Virgin / telewest you mean?
SKy has raised their prices so much Virgin would have had to up the customers bills they said so told Sky to fuck right off...
|
AndyW
Member
Registered: 28th Oct 02
Location: Greater London
User status: Offline
|
well im gonna cancel my cable! we pay £79 a month for our cable etc etc...  if they gonna start taking channels away they will lose my custom!
|
DarkBahamut
Member
Registered: 4th Jun 06
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
User status: Offline
|
Virgin have already put the TV prices up close to 20% anyway. They are probabaly just being cheap bastards like telewest/ntl always were anyway.
|
Antz
Member
Registered: 28th Jul 03
Location: Leeds Drives: Myself Insane!
User status: Offline
|
just get Sky Digital...... it's well better and now you can get BB with that too
|
Colin
Member
Registered: 4th Apr 02
User status: Offline
|
Im going to cancel mine - total waste of money!!
Might bin the hoose phone aswell, £21 a month & I never use it!! 
|
Dom
Member
Registered: 13th Sep 03
User status: Offline
|
There a little more to it than virgin/sky are shit
The current story is that sky doubled (sky haven't denied this) price for virgin to carry sky 1,2,3, sky news and sky travel. Virgin wasn't happy with them upping the price as they believed the channel didn't warrant the hike.
And basically talks between the two broke down middle/end of last week.
Although Virgin have said they won't compensate customers for the lack of channels, they are making up for it. Since last week, virgin have rushed around and signed a few programme deals, like Lost (and a few others i believe) to appear on Virgins V(ideo)O(n)D(emand) channel (something sky can't do without a internet connection  )
It's a bit shit, but does seem apparent that sky pulled out the bullying tatics to scare Virgin some what, especially considering sky bought 17.5% share stake in ITV which NTL/Telewest (before virgin) were about to make a deal. As it is so fishy, ofcom are currently looking into sky and the deal with ITV.
Btw, if it's a rip have a look at virgin medias website as they have a few bundles/deals going, like the V+ HD Box (3 Tuners - so record three and watch something pre-recorded, or record two watch one....something sky+/HD box can't do as it lacks a tuner) are thrown in if paying a fair wack a month. Or another box in the house for nothing etc.
p.s - no i don't work for virgin, just been reading the business sections of newspapers
[Edited on 01-03-2007 by Dom]
|
Dom
Member
Registered: 13th Sep 03
User status: Offline
|
And Antz, actually sky is inferior to cable as cable can do real-time VOD (infact BOD, which is broadcast on demand, trialling in american i believe) which sky can't do without a internet connection....oh which eats into your bandwidth limit that comes with your sky ADSL connection (virgin media unlimited).
Plus, unless you happen to be pretty close to the exchange, chances of getting 16mb is very rare, atleast with cable internet you're going to get something near enough what you want.
And, apparently virgin have been trialing 50mb and 100mb internet connections.
Only major thing (other that decent fireware, tv listings and decoder boxes) sky has over cable is the available bandwidth, so in theory more channels. But like said, virgin have VOD which pretty much solves that.
[Edited on 01-03-2007 by Dom]
|
Robin
Premium Member
Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
User status: Offline
|
Cable IS crap, they don't do it near me.
|
Dom
Member
Registered: 13th Sep 03
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Robin
Cable IS crap, they don't do it near me.
Yea, thats another problem with cable, costs and arm and leg to dig up roads and lay the coax/fibre cables another pro sky have over virgin - can near enough get it anywhere.
Still, apparently they will start digging up roads and laying cable again - well thats the current rumour.
|
LeeM
Member
Registered: 26th Sep 05
Location: Liverpool
User status: Offline
|
virgins 2 for £20 seems like a good deal if u get internet and tv, seeing as the internet on its own is £18!
|
Stenner
Member
Registered: 4th Dec 06
Location: Bristol
User status: Offline
|
internet > Digital.
So i'm sorted.
|
DarkBahamut
Member
Registered: 4th Jun 06
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Dom
Only major thing (other that decent fireware, tv listings and decoder boxes) sky has over cable is the available bandwidth, so in theory more channels. But like said, virgin have VOD which pretty much solves that.
[Edited on 01-03-2007 by Dom]
Untill Virgin put every single TV program there is on VOD than saying that VOD solves the lack of channel is complete rubbish. It is slowly getting better, but Virgins VOD is still only slightly useful at best. I'd much rather the VOD vanished and we got alot more new channel.
|
LeeM
Member
Registered: 26th Sep 05
Location: Liverpool
User status: Offline
|
is VOD what used to be called teleport? if so thats a deal breaker imo, watch things like shameless any time in the week after its been on, all episodes of peep show, etc. awesome!
|
WATSON
Member
Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
User status: Offline
|
Stuck with sky no matter what
We cant get cable ect due to been in a new house 
|
Dom
Member
Registered: 13th Sep 03
User status: Offline
|
VOD uses the same bandwidth as one channel that can offer unlimited amount of programmes, and like i said, it's impossible for cable to have anywhere near the amount of bandwidth as sky (unless fibre was installed directly into each home). They are switching off the old analog stuff on the network soon, which will free a fair amount of bandwidth, but VOD is the best way to go. Especially as it could lead to BOD (google it).
I do agree that it isn't perfect at the moment but it will get better and virgin are signing up more programmes (current deal with ABC and warner i believe).
Few links worth reading - > HERE <, > HERE <, > HERE <
Lee - yea, VOD is basically that. Select any programme/film/etc any time you want
Edit - Also, sky are making the channels on freeview (Sky one/two etc) PAY TV, which also another shitter
[Edited on 01-03-2007 by Dom]
|
Ben D
Member
Registered: 25th Apr 05
Location: South West
User status: Offline
|
Well That's just Bollocks!
Can they just stop supplying Channels i am Subscribed to like that? i used to watch Quite alot of programmes on Sky one such as the Simpsons & Dead Like me & Car wars, Infact my mum always has Sky One/Two on.
If it wasn't for Sky's Reception being so bad & the ballache of needing to get a BT phone line and their Broadband Being shit )oh and it costing more) i would Swap to Sky tomorrow, dont think the Telly will even be watched from now on TBH.
Oh well i have been thinking of Cancelling NTL for months as i have had nothign NUT problems with them since signing up such as:
Salesman Quit the Day after he took my Sign up deposit Delaying installation for 5 Weeks.
They Lost £120 i paid to them when Paying my Bill in my local bank.
They Charged me for 2 Broadband Accounts for 6 months.
Made Multiple Attempts at taking money out of my Account for a bill i already Paid Via Credit Card.
I had Some gormless Pumb arguing on my Doorstep to reposses my NTL Set top box & modem for an hour till i chased him down my driveway .
They decided to send my Broadband bill to my NTL E-mail adress i didint even know i had and refused to send it Via Snail Mail.
And now they Cancel the only channel that's watched in my house
O well might just cancel and get Phone & BB from somewhere else and Use what i woulda spent on TV on a PS3
|
Russ
Member
Registered: 14th Mar 04
Location: Armchair
User status: Offline
|
not impressed, and for virgin to say "we cant afford it" is bollox, branson could of paid a one off fee, or just bought all the shows for his own channel, fact of the matter is, rupert murdoch is a cunt
|
mooney
Member
Registered: 20th Oct 05
Location: north west uk
User status: Offline
|
been told it works out at 3p extra per customer for the sky channels,
|
abdus
Member
Registered: 23rd Feb 06
User status: Offline
|
what a shame
|
Steve
Premium Member
Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
User status: Offline
|
im still unsure why everyone has to have a tv license.
bbc when it goes fully digital should just have viewing cards and not broadcast to people who dont have a license and not care about having bbc
|
Nismo
Member
Registered: 12th Sep 02
User status: Offline
|
Its just virgin being tight stingy bastards, of course SKY are going to put the price up, therea buisness they aint going to do there rivals any favours are they
I dont know why anyone would want cable over SKY
What SKY has lined up is crazy compaired to anything else 
|
deano87
Member
Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
User status: Offline
|
I'm just pissed off that Lost moved from C4 to SkyOne. Weren't too much of a problem, watch through digital, taping on DVD recorder. Now SkyOne has gone, it has completely monopolised some channels.
Hopefully, like has been mentioned, Lost will be available on VOD!
The only thing Sky has over cable is that it's a damn site quicker.
|
AndyW
Member
Registered: 28th Oct 02
Location: Greater London
User status: Offline
|
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/fairplay/index.html
explains it all here
|
