Sky or Virgin? What to do

magicroundabout

magicroundabout

magicroundabout

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Basically i have with virgin currently:
Tivo 500mb
Multiroom with V+ HD Box
HD Sky Sports
TV XL
M Phone
50mb broadband

with the price increase my bills will go to just under £100pm

So sky then phoned up with their offer of TV, any package for half price over 12 months. I'll just have to source my own boxes. The package i chose = £43pm. Basically everything apart from Movies.

So speaking with Virgin i cancelled my TV as they couldn't do a deal and on 1st May i'll be dropping to just M phone and 50mb Broadband (which is increasing to 100mb soon) for £40pm.

so added to Sky i'd be paying £83pm + upfront cost of Sky Boxes from 3rd party source.

Now Virgin have phoned today and offered myself my same package (as written above) but changing my broadband to 60mb, for £79.90pm for 12 months.

What i'm unsure of now is whether to change to Sky TV (more channels in HD etc) or stick with Virgin TV and their TiVo box?

The difference in price is neither here nor there but the quality of TV is important. I just don't know what to choose.
 
magicroundabout said:
^ this is my point. love TiVo. but miss sky Sports news HD, Sky Sports 1,2,3,4 HD, Atlantic HD etc etc.
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i get sports HD 1 & 2 on tivo. annoying sky wont let them have 3&4 HD.

OP: remember that the tivo box can do a lot more than the sky box and can record an extra thing, which can be useful.

i managed to get my package down to £85 with everything bar the movies and unlimited calls. we just pay for mobile calls.
 
it's amazing what companies do to keep you or have your business.

Virgin won't move on £79.90pm for their offer but Sky have thrown in £100 credit on our account + multi room free for 12 months on top of their 6 months half price etc.

Basically it works out the same so we're gonna go with Sky. Virgin will refund us £89.90 as we payed an upfront cost back in Aug which we've used to buy a 1tb Sky HD box.

It also means we'll be getting upgraded to 100mb too instead of 60mb which they offered.

it's worked out to be a pretty good deal tbh
 
virgin cause i hate what murdoc has done... thats not a proper response tho i guess but id hate to have to go over to his lot
 
I moved back to Sky recently. I don't miss TiVo at all. Anytime+ works with other ISP's now, so that helps with some missing features.

But the Sky box is so much faster and easier to navigate around.
 
I only pay £35pm for Infinity + phone+ line rental, sort it out. :p

Basically Virgin have better broadband, a better set top box and better on-demand and catch-up TV services. Sky have more channels and more HD channels, plus they have Sky Go, which can be useful.

If you really love your sports, Sky are probably the better choice because you can't get Sky Sports 3 & 4 HD with Virgin (although Virgin is the cheaper way to go if you JUST want sports and don't care about any other channels). If you really want as many HD channels as possible, Sky are again the better bet. If you're more interested in the best overall package, Virgin are probably the better choice.

IMO, Sky would be screwed if they were forced to sell Sky Sports 3 & 4 HD to Virgin Media (like they are forced to sell Sky Sports 1 & 2 HD to them). ;)
 
Went Virgin a few months back after being with Sky for many years. Loving Tivo and not a single regret or thought of going back. Have XL everything and 3 extra boxes and will be just under £100 a month once the introductory discounts finish..

A big decider for me though is the BB, ADSL is so pants in my area.
 
i've kept my broadband with VM as for £40pm i'll be getting 120mb + Phone.

It's just the TV which i've switched to sky for. Lots more sport in HD and i get Sky Atlantic back.
 
None.

Orange home phone and broadband (ADSL MAX @ 12mb) £19.
Freesat £0.
Humax PVR £200ish - Pays for itself in 3 months.
Old sky box into second room (already cabled) - Freeview without doing anything £0.

Job done.

I used to have EVERYTHING on Sky. I looked at the value for money and found it to be very low. I do not miss Sky at all. The only thing I miss is the occasional Bristol City game on Sky Sports, but there is always the pub for that.
 
TiVo is clearly the winner when it comes to functionality and VOD but surely sky must have to update something in 2012 to keep us at sky? All I want is iplayer etc
 
I'd stick with virgin just for the bb! I find most sky channels pointless personally, I use free sky go for the football and f1 that i watch and stream the rest so bb is important to me! Although no fibre in my area yet :(
 
I moved from sky a few months back, I do miss some of the hd stuff and do wish virgin would sort that out this year , but I like tivo and I especially like the bb!
 
Hi Guys

mad question, but can anyone help me?

I have standard Virgin HD box,

If I were to purchase a second hand Tivo box, would it work?

Without me having to pay anything more to Virgin?

Regards

Lew
 
Looks like I'm gonna have to make the switch to virgin as well soon. Moving soon and max bb speed I can get there is 1-2mbs. The postcode was due to get upgraded to the new superfast bb on 30th may, but checking bt's site it's now showing a 2 month delay.

Think I'll just make the move, cant live with that speed of bb as I need it for work. Shame as I'll miss sky atlantic and f1 hd.
 
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