^^ MY is probably better up on the Virgin charges than I am. The people in Bristol moved into a house with existing Virgin cable. They took up the Phone and Broadband offer but declined the TV package. They already had the Humax box and so put a dish up to use their freesat + instead. I don't know the price for the TV but I gathered it was a lot.
It's best just getting broadband on its own or broadband + phone (and don't use it).
There are three cut off points of around £40, £60-£70 and £90-100 on virgin where if you pay either side it becomes less value for money. As one particular member on here found out (without realising it) virgin redid these prices recently and he got left on one of the old packages and was paying 'over the odds'. He then rang up and they probably placed them on one of these offers and he thought he was being offered a generous retention offer
- we can't tell, he wasn't particularly communicative. Anyway.
It's not really worth getting virgin for tv as is the case generally for pay tv. It's USP these days is really the tivo box because their groundbreaking catch up services that pre-dated iPlayer by quite a long way have been copied by everyone else and the company is much less innovative these days. If you wanted more HD channels (many of which are subs) then maybe. If you want eurosport for the cycling and don't want the eurosport player.
BT home vision, there seem to be quite a few enthusiasts on here. Until the new youview boxes came out they were the worst service imho. Don't see the appeal myself.
Virgin broadband is pretty good apart from the upload speeds, the magical superhub which has problems, traffic management and problems during the upgrade.
The thing is getting your own pvr + free catch up service is effort and a one off cost. It's a hard sell in the UK because people see it as a big one off cost rather than something that might last 5-6 years. As zimzum recently remarked we live in a country where the people regard satellite tv as something you should pay a lot of money for rather than something perfectly normal that should be free or cheap (like much of the world views it). So, so many pieces of electronics can do catch up or vod now. It's just one of those British things, brits are very whiney and penny pinchers about broadband costs but will shell out loads on pay tv.
