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Post by Pinwig on Jul 4, 2018 18:06:13 GMT
Browny may have a plan there with the Sky protection bit, but I started thinking wider last night about the benefits of just switching to Virgin because I get my internet through them already. I'm weighing up pros and cons as to whether to stay with Sky or move over to Virgin. Strikes me Virgin has some pluses, but I'd lose Sky Atlantic.
So, anyone on Virgin here? I understand their older Tivo boxes are very unresponsive, but the new one fixes that. Anyone any first hand experience?
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Post by legios on Jul 5, 2018 20:24:08 GMT
I used to be on Virgin before I moved. In general I found that the service was pretty good. I never had any major complaints (one idiotic engineer who got the gain turned up so high it blew the the box out, but the company were very good about getting that sorted.)
I can't really comment on the TiVo box as I never had one. (At the time I signed up it meant buying the same again for a package of HD channels I had no use for as I only had an SD TV...).
When I was with Virgin I found that there was a reasonable selection of stuff to watch. (Admittedly, this was before Sky started Sky Atlantic so as to persuade folk not to go the Virgin route, and I don't know what has migrated to there from elsewhere).
I considered going with Virgin here - the previous owners had wired the place for laser-TV, but in the end I've got enough to watch through my Roku box between Netflix, Crunchyroll and the terrestrial catch-up services that I haven't felt the need to.
Karl
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 5, 2018 22:30:37 GMT
Used to have Virgin TV for years in Scotland days. Good service overall. Still have them for phone/broadband but now have more than enough to watch between Netflix and Prime ans over catch ups so no need for them.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 6, 2018 17:26:08 GMT
Ta. I think I might give Virgin a go to see. If it proves not to be as good a service as Sky I can switch back in 12 months. There's no harm leaving the dish on the wall.
I find it annoying that Sky charge a lot of money for their hardware, but then unless you take out their £15 a month insurance on it, do nothing about boxes when they break. So our option at the moment is cancel Sky or pay hundreds to them for a replacement box, or I buy a new 2TB harddrive and install it myself in the hope that fixes the problem. With Virgin you effectively lease the box. If it goes wrong, regardless of how old it is, they'll send an engineer out free to repair or replace.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 6, 2018 18:42:22 GMT
The only TV sevice I buy in is Netflix or as I call it: 'The Star Trek Channel'. I tend to forget it has other things on it!!!
-Ralph
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