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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Im with virgin but being tempted to move to sky. I am paying 53.99 for everything should I move or stay with virgin"
what does everything involve?
I'm with sky and I pay £30 pm for line rental and broadband and I have a youview box for entertainment (free) but I pay £4.99 a month to get all the films I want on now tv, I also get amazon prime and Netflix, both of which are cheaper than any package with sky tv |
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I've never had any issues with Virgin, we've been with them for about 15 years. Nobody else matches their broadband speed, if the hardware breaks THEY fix it for free... and you don't have any problems with signal quality whatever the weather is doing.
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I have Sky and Virgin.
I have my broadband, phone and a basic TV package with two boxes (bedrooms).
I have the full sky tv package (front room).
I'm paying approx £120 for all of it!!
The last time I tried to use just one and checked out the price I'd have saved about £3 either way. So I just left it as it was  |
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By *al01Man
over a year ago
solihull |
Been with Virgin for years now. Never really had any major issues with them. Any issues i have had were dealt with really quickly.
Cant fault em to be honest. Had plenty of rows with sky in the past though.!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Im with virgin but being tempted to move to sky. I am paying 53.99 for everything should I move or stay with virgin"
ive had both and prefer virgin though its more expensive than sky i feel its worth paying the extra
I pay £64 a month and dont get any movies, sports channels, inclusive land line minutes or anything for that |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As already said....get a kodi box then get sky....going through topcashback you will get around a £100 back and only pay around £18 pm for a years contract.....then do the same next year   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Had Cable & Wireless, then NTL, then Virgin. Never had a BT line since I moved into this house (resent having to pay line rental in my "package", but not having the phone line would increase my subs by £9 a month - bonkers) Virgin are superb, technical issues (rare) sorted very quickly, I pay for 150mb broadband and usually clip in at 160mb. But recent job loss means I'm gonna reduce to 50mb and get a kodi amazon stick. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Virgin all the way.... for £50 + you get the best Internet connection and all your equipment are covered. You don't have to pay extra if an engineer need to be visit in case of a device fault.
Sky use BT (Openreach) so the maximum speed you'll get is way less than Virgin. Virgin has their own network and cable system. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Virgin is the best. Nothing beats there broadband.
Just ring them and tell them your thinking of leaving they will give you a new deal."
That's what we do  |
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By *Devil77Man
over a year ago
West Midlands |
both providers tend to give better deals to new customers, rather than existing ones.
swap each year, getting a cheap "come back" offer.
im with virgin myself, have a zgemma box hooked up to it too, so get all channels for £80 a year plus about £50 for tv,net and phone. i rang up last year (nov ish) and told them i was going to sky, they knocked nearly £40 off the bill month.
if they just did that in the first place,they'd keep more customers! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Get a kodi box and save yourself all that money, just get broadband
That's what we have done, not missed having Sky at all"
I've done this too.. Just getting used to it and finding what channels are on there etc then I'll be cancelling sky and finding a cheap broadband deal. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Where I live we never had a choice. Only sky covered this area until recently. The last 2 months virgin have been digging every pavement up outside every street and going round the whole village laying the cables, it's a big deal here, was even a community meeting about it! Will be nice to have a choice and see what introductory offers virgin will give to try and convince a whole village to leave sky and come to them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Where I live we never had a choice. Only sky covered this area until recently. The last 2 months virgin have been digging every pavement up outside every street and going round the whole village laying the cables, it's a big deal here, was even a community meeting about it! Will be nice to have a choice and see what introductory offers virgin will give to try and convince a whole village to leave sky and come to them. "
Your missing the point...if you had sky surely you could have change to BT. .talk talk...plus net. ..EE and even the post office. Go to topcashback and see who is paying out the most for a 12 month contract...the do the same next year....it's not all about sky and virgin. D |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I looked at kodi boxes over xmas , got list in all the tech speak , saw a few on amazon are they all the same cause the prices varies "
Some will be slightly better,for instance I changed from a 1gb of ram to a 2gb...it works slightly quicker but I would not pay more then £30 for a 2gb and £22 for a 1gb. D |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
either switch every other year... or use the prices of one to threaten to go to the other....
i am with sky.... it would be cheaper for the same service on virgin, i ask sky if they will pricematch... they do, job done!
to be honest i am probably with sky rather than virgin just for "sky atlantic" now.....
if virgin were to ever get that channel i'd probably switch |
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By *maz.Man
over a year ago
Southampton / iford |
"I looked at kodi boxes over xmas , got list in all the tech speak , saw a few on amazon are they all the same cause the prices varies
Some will be slightly better,for instance I changed from a 1gb of ram to a 2gb...it works slightly quicker but I would not pay more then £30 for a 2gb and £22 for a 1gb. D"
. Cheers I'll give sky month notice and get one , I hear you can get all the sky channels thru it anyway |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm a stingy git and don't pay for either. I do however use my parents skygo account and stream to iPad or connect the laptop to the TV and watch via that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"either switch every other year... or use the prices of one to threaten to go to the other....
i am with sky.... it would be cheaper for the same service on virgin, i ask sky if they will pricematch... they do, job done!
to be honest i am probably with sky
rather than virgin just for "sky atlantic" now.....
if virgin were to ever get that channel i'd probably switch"
Jez just get kodi and shop around...with cashback every year I only pay around £8.50 pm month on average for broadband and watch everything that is on Atlantic and films before they hit the cinema. D |
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By *maz.Man
over a year ago
Southampton / iford |
"either switch every other year... or use the prices of one to threaten to go to the other....
i am with sky.... it would be cheaper for the same service on virgin, i ask sky if they will pricematch... they do, job done!
to be honest i am probably with sky
rather than virgin just for "sky atlantic" now.....
if virgin were to ever get that channel i'd probably switch
Jez just get kodi and shop around...with cashback every year I only pay around £8.50 pm month on average for broadband and watch everything that is on Atlantic and films before they hit the cinema. D"
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I looked at kodi boxes over xmas , got list in all the tech speak , saw a few on amazon are they all the same cause the prices varies
Some will be slightly better,for instance I changed from a 1gb of ram to a 2gb...it works slightly quicker but I would not pay more then £30 for a 2gb and £22 for a 1gb. D. Cheers I'll give sky month notice and get one , I hear you can get all the sky channels thru it anyway "
Don't forget to go through the topcashback as this reduces your overall monthly costs substantially.
And your chosen new provider will give them notice and you keep your landline number. D |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The dogs doodas of Doodah's of boxes is the Nvidia Shield TV, that's the same Nvidia that makes graphic cards"
At around a £190.00 not for me.....you will get a good view from a box for 20 odd quid.....belive me I had one for two years without any problems. D |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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For me it's more down to the quality. If I'm paying for a HD TV, I'd rather watch in HD rather than the awful quality on kodi boxes. And sky has over 85 more channels than virgin's top package including sky Atlantic (I'm not missing game of thrones!) And the box sets are much more recent and updated than Netflix. And the movies are to be fair |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me it's more down to the quality. If I'm paying for a HD TV, I'd rather watch in HD
I still can't tell the difference between SD & HD, but then I'm blind as a bat  "
Haha not alot can to be fair, just down to personal preference really |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Where's best place to shop , seen some on amazon but I don't know if it's fake "
I got mine and ordered for friends and family off ebay...never had a bad one...just search "android box" you will see quite a few,the cheapest I have found is £17.50 but that's from China and will take weeks to come. D |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Free to view for me had sky and virgin in the past both a nightmare to deal with and extortionate prices each month."
I'd let you use my eiffel tower for free Ms Paris |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me it's more down to the quality. If I'm paying for a HD TV, I'd rather watch in HD rather than the awful quality on kodi boxes. And sky has over 85 more channels than virgin's top package including sky Atlantic (I'm not missing game of thrones!) And the box sets are much more recent and updated than Netflix. And the movies are to be fair "
But you don't get the latest movies before they even hit the cinema |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me it's more down to the quality. If I'm paying for a HD TV, I'd rather watch in HD rather than the awful quality on kodi boxes. And sky has over 85 more channels than virgin's top package including sky Atlantic (I'm not missing game of thrones!) And the box sets are much more recent and updated than Netflix. And the movies are to be fair
But you don't get the latest movies before they even hit the cinema "
I'd rather wait and watch it without people walking back and fore on the screen and awful quality  Or just go to the cinema and watch it in IMAX |
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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago
Cambridge |
"Move to sky good prices and there customer service is so much better."
I used to work in Sky Customer Services one summer, they are shit shit shit, I mean REALLY shit.
They would send letters to people saying "you can have this amazing offer" then they would ring up, and that deal wouldn't be available to them at all. We couldn't access it at all, it wasn't possible to give them that deal.
Or people would say "oh yeah, I can give you X Y and Z, but my computer is having problems, I'll make a note, call back and my colleague will sort that for you" but it was complete bollocks, there was no possible way to give them that deal. |
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"Virgin all the way.... for £50 + you get the best Internet connection and all your equipment are covered. You don't have to pay extra if an engineer need to be visit in case of a device fault.
Sky use BT (Openreach) so the maximum speed you'll get is way less than Virgin. Virgin has their own network and cable system. "
Incorrect.
Apart from in a very small number of places (I think the total number of customers is about 1% of the UK total), every single Communications Provider (CP) uses the Openreach network.
The speed you get depends on a number of factors, such as distance from the exchange, any aluminium cables, number of joints, how much bandwidth the CP are willing to pay for, and how many people on your leg are with the same provider. |
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I'm with Virgin and have family with sky
The sky internet is awful compared to my virgin one
The channel choice isn't as good on virgin but still plenty on, you would probably only watch the same channels as you do now so that's probably irrelevant I don't use the phone line ever so can't comment on that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Virgin all the way.... for £50 + you get the best Internet connection and all your equipment are covered. You don't have to pay extra if an engineer need to be visit in case of a device fault.
Sky use BT (Openreach) so the maximum speed you'll get is way less than Virgin. Virgin has their own network and cable system.
Incorrect.
Apart from in a very small number of places (I think the total number of customers is about 1% of the UK total), every single Communications Provider (CP) uses the Openreach network.
The speed you get depends on a number of factors, such as distance from the exchange, any aluminium cables, number of joints, how much bandwidth the CP are willing to pay for, and how many people on your leg are with the same provider."
Nope, sky use their own exchange (svbn) it's just maintained by openreach engineers. Not sure who maintains virgin's fttp exchange though. |
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Incorrect.
Apart from in a very small number of places (I think the total number of customers is about 1% of the UK total), every single Communications Provider (CP) uses the Openreach network.
The speed you get depends on a number of factors, such as distance from the exchange, any aluminium cables, number of joints, how much bandwidth the CP are willing to pay for, and how many people on your leg are with the same provider."
Think again |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Move to sky....
Only reason is not to line the pockets of that traitorous bastard Richard Branson..... "
So you'd rather give it to the Murdochs whose newspapers think swingers, hedonism and sites like these are scum?
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"Move to sky....
Only reason is not to line the pockets of that traitorous bastard Richard Branson.....
So you'd rather give it to the Murdochs whose newspapers think swingers, hedonism and sites like these are scum?
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I don't think Branson has much to do with virgin media nowadays, it's just a branding exercise. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Move to sky....
Only reason is not to line the pockets of that traitorous bastard Richard Branson.....
So you'd rather give it to the Murdochs whose newspapers think swingers, hedonism and sites like these are scum?
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What about BT. .EE..Talk Talk..Plus net. ..Post office....there's more choice then Branson and murdock  |
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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago
upton wirral |
A friend of mine is with virgin and she has had no broadband twice in the last month,the first time was 48 hours so try sky.
I have sky telly but post office broadband and I am happy with it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Virgin but only because the remote makes my cock look bigger
Oh you Defford need a android box.....the remotes are tiny "
Our M8 with the qwerty keyboard remote would be good on girth if not length tho  ...
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me it's more down to the quality. If I'm paying for a HD TV, I'd rather watch in HD rather than the awful quality on kodi boxes. And sky has over 85 more channels than virgin's top package including sky Atlantic (I'm not missing game of thrones!) And the box sets are much more recent and updated than Netflix. And the movies are to be fair "
Sky snob |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me it's more down to the quality. If I'm paying for a HD TV, I'd rather watch in HD rather than the awful quality on kodi boxes. And sky has over 85 more channels than virgin's top package including sky Atlantic (I'm not missing game of thrones!) And the box sets are much more recent and updated than Netflix. And the movies are to be fair
Sky snob "
But.....But..... Game of thrones!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me it's more down to the quality. If I'm paying for a HD TV, I'd rather watch in HD rather than the awful quality on kodi boxes. And sky has over 85 more channels than virgin's top package including sky Atlantic (I'm not missing game of thrones!) And the box sets are much more recent and updated than Netflix. And the movies are to be fair
Sky snob
But.....But..... Game of thrones!! "
there are other places to watch it.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me it's more down to the quality. If I'm paying for a HD TV, I'd rather watch in HD rather than the awful quality on kodi boxes. And sky has over 85 more channels than virgin's top package including sky Atlantic (I'm not missing game of thrones!) And the box sets are much more recent and updated than Netflix. And the movies are to be fair
Sky snob
But.....But..... Game of thrones!!
there are other places to watch it.."
Are you trying to seduce me?  |
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