Which is better and why? Been with sky for years but Virgin are sending us some pretty tempting offers.

Freeview! 😀

Sky seems better to me (but I have Sky and have only experienced VM at others houses so may not have had enough time using it to have a valid opinion, not that that’s a requirement on STW :p ). More channels and better controls IME, I guess it might depend on what bits you subscribe to though. VM’s on-demand stuff might be better but I rarely use Sky’s anyhow.

I had sky up until November 2012, then I swapped to virgin. Faster broadband, tivo, catch up and on demand through your box, youtube through the box. i got the medium tv package so i could have the extreme channel and a couple of documentay (hee hee, shamon!) channels. costs me the same, i get more and faster stuff, only problem is them ringing me up every 3 months trying to get me to take a mobile phone contract out with them.

edit- but i will be going to freeview when my tv contract runs out, more brass for bike bits then!

Anyone and anything but Murdock/Sky after what they did post Hillsborough
They will never get a penny of money*.
Use virgin and the service is excellent – you get the speeds they say and I think in 4 years I have one outage and that was a cut cable due to roadwork error.
Decent catch up on the basic package and cartoons for the kids

*Not a goad or troll to be clear I do mean it.

Neither are getting a penny of my money

If you’re not on a lot of cash, freeview would do the job, wouldn’t it?

If you can get Virgin then I would go that way, they have greater scope for improving tech and seem to be upgrading everyones broadband speeds for fun to annoy BT/Sky.

The user interface is far better on Sky, but the functionality is superior on a Virgin TiVo box.

And the deals are far better, the broadband is normally better, the hub is vastly superior.

sky = arseholes

virgin = arseholes.

Next question.

If you’re not on a lot of cash, freeview would do the job, wouldn’t it?

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johndoh – Member

The user interface is far better on Sky

You mean the remote?

Our virgin phone/TV/broadband deal is cheaper than our previous BT phone/broadband deal, and we no longer need to use free view, which has poor coverage in our area.

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7 to 10k, wasn’t it? Half to a third of what an NQT earns, you said? Just think – if you weren’t spunking money on subscription TV, maybe you could take your kids on holiday without having to take them out of school. 🙂

Pretty happy in general with Virgin – 8 years with them and they’ve been reliable plus the broad band is as fast as it’s supposed to be.

And Virgin are clearly desperate to retain customers so I get a load of services for free after I called to cancel (telling them I’d move to Sky_.

@ pondo. I’m going to ‘spunk’ the cash AND take the kids on holiday. I’d worry more about your own…

@ pondo. I’m going to ‘spunk’ the cash AND take the kids on holiday. I’d worry more about your own…

Pretty sure he just threatened your kids pondo,
FIGHT!!!

I think my work here is done. 🙂

I dunno, you should have heard what he also said about your mum…

And he said your Gran was a slag, he did, honest!

FIGHT!!!

To be fair, I’ve met his Gran and she is, err, quite liberal.

Classic – Virgin Media to Pondo’s gran is a hoe is 21 posts. This is why I love STW 🙂

If you do some proper research, sky’s fibre broadband is IN GENERAL cheaper and more consistent than any of the others if you are able to compare like for like, which isn’t always easy with all the package selections all the company’s ask you to pick from.

IMO the on screen menu from sky is the easiest to use, the newest box is on par with Virgins and the remote is clearer to understand.

IMO the on screen menu from sky is the easiest to use, the newest box is on par with Virgins and the remote is clearer to understand.

Interesting, as I am used to neither having no TV, but tend to swear less at Virgin’s on screen menu when I do find myself in front of a TV.

You mean the remote?

No, the screens you get when trying to find a programme you’ve recored, click to record, delete a recording etc etc etc.

Might be because I had grown so used to the Sky set-up having had Sky for years but still struggling with Virgin after 4 months.

Just about to find out, the Virgin man (not Branson, well don’t think it was him) was round getting it all set up earlier today.

Was BT for phone, O2 for broadband and freeview for telly – cost of BT line seems excessive for what it is, O2 (whose service was consistently great) sold the broadband to Sky and I want as little of my money as possible to go to Murdoch so knew I needed to change.

Virgin were relentless in sending offers by mail, just waited til one came with Tivo, no install charge etc and went for that. Paid line rental up front for the year, even when the discount period ends it’ll be loads cheaper than what we had yesterday.

And now I’ve got fibre broadband and Eurosport, just in time for the Spring classics!

everything about virgin is better except the user interface of the box – its just awkward to use. Not impossible to fathom but not as slick as Skys offering.

OK, irrelevant now anyway. The wife just came home and her response to my suggestion was ‘WE ARE NOT LEAVING SKY!!!’.

So that’s that then.

I though all things Murdock were boycotted in Liverpool 🙂

Whenever Ive looked in to it Virgin comes in more expensive than Sky and BT, plus they would have to run a cable from the front of our house to the back through the house.. That’s not going to happen!