Houlston Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Sky actually rent some of Virgin Medias fiber. Good thing with Virgin is the picture quality doesn't deteriorate in poor weather conditions and Tivo is awesome. Bad thing, no Sky Atlantic and they havent signed up to this new BT Football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeVilla82 Posted May 14, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted May 14, 2013 I'd be surprised if Virgin don't sign up with BT Sport before the start of the season. They left it late with ESPN and the Sky F1 channel (presumably in an attempt to get a better deal with the broadcasters) but usually end up with the channels. Sky Atlantic is an exception - gutted about that. But I'd definitely recommend Virgin - broadband is really quick, reliable and TiVo is pretty awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 15, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted May 15, 2013 Sky actually rent some of Virgin Medias fiber. Good thing with Virgin is the picture quality doesn't deteriorate in poor weather conditions Yeah that is one bad thing about Sky. Even in heavy rain I get poor reception on my signal. Last night, for example, the football was interrupted a few times because of the weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted May 17, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted May 17, 2013 That's strange... I get basically no rain fade from DirecTV. It doesn't quite have to be raining this hard, but close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Just moved to a flat with a communal dish. It seems there is only one SAT feed in the living room. I have been reading online and it seems that because of this I can get Sky + but I can only record the channel I am watching because it is a single feed. Is there any way I can change this to a dual feed easily or is it going to involve an engineer coming out and doing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 You need to have a look at the dish and see if there is a spare oulet on the LNB. If so you could run a co-aux cable from the vacant port to the spare inlet on your Sky+ box. In short... you'll probably need a sky engineer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I have a communal dish and can record two channels. Unable to get multi room though apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Ah nice. Lets hope I can then. Not bothered about multi room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davemk39 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 if there was anything specific I want to see on sky sports I buy the day pass on now tv for 9.99 done so for villa-arsenal. its worth it if theres a super sunday with 2/3 games on the day. talk talk has the most flexible bundles (can be switched on and off monthly) bt has free bt sport with bt broadband (so champs league games in 2 yrs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardiffGreens Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Just moved to a flat with a communal dish. It seems there is only one SAT feed in the living room. I have been reading online and it seems that because of this I can get Sky + but I can only record the channel I am watching because it is a single feed. Is there any way I can change this to a dual feed easily or is it going to involve an engineer coming out and doing it? Same situation as myself - however I had some post through from Sky yesterday (though judging from the content it should have really have gone to the developers) - Sky can now offer a cut-price engineer out to fit some extra stuff to the dish / inputs which will allow people to put a signal splitter on their faceplate (in their home) to get full functionality (i.e. 2 the ability to record something else without the sky box freaking out and ending up on a BSOD...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 http://communaltv.sky.com/news/sky-launches-simple-solution-for-communal-tv-upgrades/ Yeah I saw this just yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Voucher Codes are doing a 50% deal off Sky tv and multiroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I cancelled my sub and they rang me on the last day before the screens went blank I was on a package of movies ssp1 only and variety .....they threw in multi room all the channels and hd etc for the same price I was paying before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Couldn't find a better topic for this question. I left Sky a year ago purely because I didn't like supporting Rupert Murdoch's empire. Has anyone else left Sky for that reason? Is anyone else uneasy about it but not enough to leave? Would they do better without Murdoch if a lot of the leavers are doing it for the same reasons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 18 minutes ago, darrenm said: Couldn't find a better topic for this question. I left Sky a year ago purely because I didn't like supporting Rupert Murdoch's empire. Has anyone else left Sky for that reason? Is anyone else uneasy about it but not enough to leave? Would they do better without Murdoch if a lot of the leavers are doing it for the same reasons? hate Murdoch with a passion i loathe that i give this creep my money but i went without sky for a while and it was lame on those nights in. virgin sucks couldn't stand them. haven't tried BT, but I heard they have far less channels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 Never had Sky, never will, purely because they **** up football. I will throw a party if they ever go bust. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imavillan Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 i have the complete package with Sky, TV, BB, Phone and paying a whopping £103 pm. Anyhow, the picture has been playing up somewhat (pixlating) so i phoned them and they want to charge me for an engineer to come out or sell me insurance. I told them i didnt want this. Several calls later i was just offered a free engineer call out, i also said i could not afford it and asked for a discount. Told me they could not do it so i cancelled the lot there and then said i will go to Virgin for the same package for £65. The cancellation comes in on the 10th Sept. Anyone know if Sky will call me at anytime to try to get me to stay and offer me a discount? Or if i want to stay with Sky and want a discount, whats the best way to go about this? Chat on line? Phone back? I dont really want to move as this is hassle but i will if need be. Anybody else been through a similar thing/process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westholmevillan Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 17 minutes ago, imavillan said: i have the complete package with Sky, TV, BB, Phone and paying a whopping £103 pm. Anyhow, the picture has been playing up somewhat (pixlating) so i phoned them and they want to charge me for an engineer to come out or sell me insurance. I told them i didnt want this. Several calls later i was just offered a free engineer call out, i also said i could not afford it and asked for a discount. Told me they could not do it so i cancelled the lot there and then said i will go to Virgin for the same package for £65. The cancellation comes in on the 10th Sept. Anyone know if Sky will call me at anytime to try to get me to stay and offer me a discount? Or if i want to stay with Sky and want a discount, whats the best way to go about this? Chat on line? Phone back? I dont really want to move as this is hassle but i will if need be. Anybody else been through a similar thing/process? Hi mate. I cancelled Sky over 2 years ago and for 18 months I got calls and cards offering me Sky Sports for only a third of what I was originally paying! My advice to you would be to get a fire tv stick for £35 and install kodi and mobdro on it. I cant go into too much detail on here, but suffice to say that you really wont be missing out on anything that sky give you now with no monthly subscription! In fact you will be getting far more, and for free. Its best if you have a good broadband speed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 13, 2016 Moderator Share Posted August 13, 2016 19 minutes ago, imavillan said: cancellation comes in on the 10th Sept. Anyone know if Sky will call me at anytime to try to get me to stay and offer me a discount? Or if i want to stay with Sky and want a discount, whats the best way to go about this? Chat on line? Phone back? I dont really want to move as this is hassle but i will if need be. Anybody else been through a similar thing/process? @Kingman has posted the details loads of times in other threads. You've basically got no need to panic . He's previously posted: Quote Dude, Cancel your TV Package on the phone and within minutes if you login via the sky service app you will have a 50% off tv offer waiting. Failing that go here https://secure.sky.com/mysky-extras/coming-back-to-sky and get 50% off TV + £50 credit. You must cancel tv package over the phone though so your 31 day cancelation notice is showing active before you can get the above discounts applied. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Just cancel it. You're supporting an evil empire that has destroyed football 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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