Digispy

I can’t remember the last time a new series was added in the high definition VOD section or in the more on demand section.

For a company that is allegedly concentrating on supplying VOD rather thatn linear HD channels, you would think that the library would me updated at least weekly.

Virgin will never catch Sky where HD linear channels are concerned, so why not hit them were it hurts and beef up the HDVOD section.

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming…box-360-603323

After seeing the previews for sky player on the xbox 360, I have to conclude that virgin need to pull something pretty spectacular out of their hats in order to compete with them in terms of a VOD service sky previously never had.

Do you reckon the its a sign that VM have vastly improved in level of service with the forums on here being so quiet.

It used to be so much busier but these days not much happens.

Ok, some history.

I moved in to my flat November 2007, and took out Virgin’s 3 for £30 deal on TV, phone and internet. This was great. After 12 months they hiked my bill up to over £50. When I rang and complained and tried to cancel the guy on the phone told me, ok, I can get it back down to £32 a month for you for the same service. Yeah go for it, I told him.

Now, I am moving house next week and just phoned up Virgin but oh oh, it’s not a cable area. The woman on the phone offered me phone and internet but said they can’t do cable TV there. I told her that was pointless since I mainly wanted the TV, and I’d just cancel my account and go with Sky.

Then she said I’m still tied in to my contract and it would cost me £120 to leave them. What a crock of sh*t. I started my contract back in November 2007. Turns out the bill reduction I got just before Xmas tied me in for another 12 months. Absolute joke. The guy on the phone did not tell me this, since as I knew I would be moving I certainly wouldn’t have agreed to it.

So what am I to do now? Cancel the lot, bite the bullet and pay the £120 and then go with Sky and (what I consider to be) a vastly inferior TV service. Also get my phone and internet with them – but lose the email address I have had for 6 years (an old Blue Yonder one).

Or – keep phone and internet with Virgin and just get TV from Sky? I have a V+ box though, so going back to standard def TV will be a real ballache (even if it is just upscaled at the moment – not really HD).

The Virgin website mentioned something about free TV on the site if you’re in a ‘national’ area rather than cable, but the woman on the phone didn’t mention this. Any ideas?

I really don’t know what to do. I might just go the whole hog and go for Sky HD with internet and phone. Do I need a BT line for this? Would anyone recommend it?

Basically what would you guys do in this situation?

Thanks.

We dont need any smart answers like ” well its free isnt it” or “better than nothing “, but ……why have

3 news channels ( 1 is perhaps enough)
2 pop music channels (1 is again perhaps enough)
2 shopping channels ( zero is the right amount)

looking at sky digitals choice of free services , why cant we have

1)reality tv
2) tcm (where did it and Boomerang go)?
3) boomerang
4) classic fm tv
5) some of the better ’simplychannels’(nature/nostalga/einstein)
6)channel health
7)some asian channel for our asian friends

Thats seven better uses of the existing full time multiplex useage.

AS the letters from G.T administratiors have started to arrive asking for £39.99 per ITV Dig box, can anyone whom has one try responding by way of ‘offering’ less than the £39.99 they want

Remember , nobody (even G.T as said on the BBC 5 Live interview thinks the boxes are worth £39.99), and if one were to charge a nominal storeage fee (as suggested previously) for safekeeping etc (at £5.00 per month x 7 months since ITV DIG collapsedthats £35.00) , offer them a fiver with explanation letter as to why. If they dont take a fiver will they take a tenner or Twenty.

As soon as we know the least they will aceept, then everyone will have a moral reason to pay a more acceptable fee. Yes we know they are worth SOMTHING, but what is that?

We need as I siad earlier some body with a letter already recieved to set the ball rolling.

I now have 3 blank screens channel 14,Chanel 15 & chanel 800 which says its ITN news
Anyone know if there are any new channels coming??

See this link

Plus..another negative story about the service…

Today i contacted EMPA (the makers of The HITS) and asked them why their playlist was so short and their other channels wher very long!!
They said that the list will contonuie to be between 30-40 till about 6 months time, this is due to little adverts they say, i dont know why, they also said that there would be the same amount of adverts as their other channels.
The HITS then said that when the list does get longer it will not include New songs, they say that the HITS is aimed at classic songs and artists.

The HITS then whent on to inform me that they hopefully will be launching a new channel on Freeview only in the new year they say it will include new releases and will be aimed at teens.

The HITS has also confirmed that their channel has currently more viewers that TMF.

when did tivd close i carn’t remenber ,cos if it’s more than a year, then they ask for my box back they just have run out of time ,cos i think 1 year is more than (a reasonable time ) and that’s what the law requires.

keep the faith