Virgin or sky?

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I realy don't know what to do. My 12month contract is up in about 5 weeks.

Sky have not treated me well and there customer service is non-existent.
I also find sky broadband slow due to the phoneline 5-6.5mb

Chances are I will be moving soon, but will still be moving within a virgin media area.

At the moment I have BT landline, sky broadband, sky+hd with all 6 packages but no movies or sport.

I Would like the speed of virgin back, I do miss virgin on demand. And I don't really watch normal tv in HD as I don't notice the difference other than in action films.

Does virgin have something similar to sky magic eye?

So what do I do stay with sky as I wont be tied into a 12 month contact or move to virgin or what agghhh.
Any decent offers on either?
 
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These devices area available, not from ntl though. It depends on the type of STB that ntl provide as tehre area two different remote signalling systems in use. The standardish RC5 or IR system, used by the Samsung STBs, or the non standard IrDA used by most of the PACE STBs.

Your Sky stuff may well work with the Samsung box, if that is what ntl give you. Alternatively DigiEye, is what you will want

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virgin seems what u looking for, high speed net, 20mb or 50mb ( they trialing 200mb & 10mb upload the now as well)

video on demand, catch up tv, music on demand ( some of these in HD)
last week added 4 new hd channels with another 3 before xmas
v+box box, can record 2 things & watch another channel.
also the 50mb package will be reduced £9 in Sept :)
& they have some really nice deals going the now for new customers (Modem, free install ect)

had sky , for me personaly was a nightmare. sky would win hands down if it was just HD you where after
 
Quite frankly for me if your not wanting a landline I'd always go for Virgin for one big main reason, no need for a phone line and the extra charges that come with it (though a lady i spoke with at sky mentioned that sky are begining to trial offers that will contend with the horrible BT connection/reconnection charges etc).

Sky have the overall better TV package imo, even down to things like menu movement I always thought Virgin was slow.

The only thing putting me off virgin now is their horrible download throttling, download a large game through steam or somthing and you run the risk of having craptastic internet for a week. Totally unfair when they advertise as having the fastest broadband in the west, when they slow you right down.
 
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The only thing putting me off virgin now is their horrible download throttling, download a large game through steam or somthing and you run the risk of having craptastic internet for a week. Totally unfair when they advertise as having the fastest broadband in the west, when they slow you right down.
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AFAIK its for the day not the week. They throttle the connection until it goes off peak.
 
Neil, The magic eye can be used with a Virgin box.

You need a device at the virgin box end of the coax cable. I can get you one for you like and pick it up or post it out. Drop me an email.
 
Mahnsikir said:
Sky have the overall better TV package imo, even down to things like menu movement I always thought Virgin was slow.
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Whenever I use a sky box and flick through the channels the increase in speed/ responsiveness is like day and night. From the beginning of the channel numbers virgin is okay but as soon as you get near halfway is seems to slow down exponentially. When you get to the radio stations it's not even bearable.
 
yeah sky has a much faster menu, but virgin has a much better menu.
Although sky is rolling out an update at the moment.

certainly leaning heavily towards virgin at the moment.
Will have to get some prices.

Telephone line isn't really here nor there as virgin forces a phone line onto you at £11 a month unless you don't go for there deals. Which is a silly, silly thing for virgin to do.
 
Also any one got an example of what films are on movie pick, as £5 a month for 28 films seems pretty good. But can't see anything else about it.
 
Would say go with XL TV from VM with the V+ (Samsung) box which gives you the nice fast menu that you're used to with Sky, as well as all the on-demand content and HD channels that the service offers.

Then pick your broadband to suit. You can go without the phone line but I think it's cheaper just to have it.
 
We had Sky+HD installed yesterday and the HD stuff looks amazing. I was up till 2am just looking at the hd. So far well pleased.
Broadband comes live next Friday so I'll give it a whirl.
 
I can't stand how slow Vigin's menu is - drives me nuts whenever I visit my parents' home. My Sky+ menu is far superior, and for that reason I wouldn't move to Vigin.
 
Virgin TV for me is pretty slow, tends to lag. Not the actual viewing but when using menu scrolling through channels etc. For broadband there is nothing better speed/stable wise than Virgin Media but there traffic capping is driving me insane, if you download x amount within x times they cut down your speed to 25% of your normal speed for 5 hours.

Would switch broadband but DSL is such a downgrade. We really need to see competition for cable broadband in the future.
 
I'd have Sky+ HD for TV
Virgin for Broadband

Alas, Virgin aren't cabling near me so I'm stuck with Sky.

Therefore, if you aren't seeing the benefits of HD just go with Virgin :)
 
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