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Virgin Media Rates for 2012
A friend of ours works for Virgin Media and has offered to recommend us for a "Mates" package. She has no idea how much its costs and whether it includes the TIVO Box. We are told it covers telephone, broadband and the highest television package(XL). A monthly figure of £38.01 has been mentioned for a 2 year contract. Has…
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What new channels on Freeview
Does anyone know if there will be any new channels coming to Freeview during 2012. it would be nice to see Travel Channel, Vintage TV, Movies4Men Channels and Electronic Sofa Channel (if a realese date is ever announced). Is anyone in the know?
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Telephone,Broadband & Sky - Need all three - which is the cheap cheerful and best :)
Telephone,Broadband & Sky - Need all three - which is the cheap cheerful and best :) Hi, we are thinking of moving shortly and currently have BT and Sky and Sky Broadband. Out of contract for all three. Hence are looking to review all three suppliers for the house. I am really thick and can not figure who would be the best…
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Freesat questions
I've just built a house for us, we move in about 2 weeks time once it's all certified and i'm looking to get some HD TV. If its bricks and mortar, ask me, if its digital TV stuff I gotta ask you guys.:o I'm thinking about freesat and just wanted to ask some questions.. Its a brand new house so no existing dish, no aerial…
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Sky keep on surcharging and not reading their customer logs
For 7 months now , Sky TV fail to acknowledge that their testing protocol for sky+ and skybox telephone connection is at fault, their customer records are incomplete, not shared amongst service (ha, ha) staff and customer relations addresses the subscriber as if he is an illegal broadcaster syphoning the transmission…
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Never had Sky, what would you do?
Hello We currently have BT broadband, line rental and calls. It's costing us anywhere between £43 and £55 per month. My DH works from home on occasion and needs good bandwidth for downloading work. Other than that, we've never had Sky, so could live without it, but our 7 year old keeps making noises about us being the only…
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BBC i player froze on new HD tv
I have just got a new HD tv and my new Virgin V HD box. I was watching a programme on BBC i player when suddenly the picture froze and I got a message to say that virgin HD was switching off because i wasn't watching it at that time. I had to switch everything off and restart my V box. It is now working again but the…
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Sky scam phone calls
I received a phone call from 0845 4110910 saying they were from Sky TV and saying they were ringing to see if they had any special offers they could give me. They asked for my name and pin number or date of birth. Told them I wasn't happy giving them this and put phone down. Contacted Sky and they said it wasn't them.…
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Sky Movies vs LoveFilm (Streaming) vs Netflix
Hi All, We've currently got Sky Movies which adds £16 each month to our Sky bill. With Netflix now launched at £5.99 and LoveFilm now offering unlimited steaming for £4.99 a month, I'm wondering about changing. As I understand Netflix move TV series than films. On that basis LoveFilm seems the nearest to Sky Movies, but…
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Lovefilms
There is a £4.99 unlimited film download available at the moment for TV's, laptops etc. Is this DVD's only and not HD (BLuurays) and will the sound be DD. I can't help feeling that I've missed something. It cant be cheaper (and better) than SKY or VM movies, can it?
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Recycle old Sky boxes
Hi Does anyone know where I can send our old Sky boxes? We have 3. Does anyone recycle them for cash?
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How to tune TV to watch DVDs?
Hope somebody can help please. I have an LG TV, a Humax and an Alba DVD player. I can't work out how to set a channel on the TV so that I can watch a DVD - I seem to have tried all combinations of buttons on all 3 remotes but nothing works. I have a scart lead from the Humax to the DVD and another scart lead from the Humax…
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Sky Billing nightmare is there any hope
Rejoined Sky on the 16/12/11 having received a half price offer. All seemed to go well and was told would be paying £20.50 a month (Sky enertainment+ and movies). Waited patiently but never got activated so rang them at first opportunity 20/12/11 to find they had tried reactivating the wrong box which they had on record…
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Anyone have netflix.com?
Already posted in the wrong place.Sorry .Just seen an advert for the above and wondered if I would have to disconnect the hdm cable that carries the freesat or could I connect my laptop to the tv with the hdm cable labelled hdm2.? Can't believe it will be straightforward but I live in hope!
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Having problems purchasing virgin bundles on line
I don't know what I am doing wrong but I am trying to order only TVL and phone as a bundle on line but it automatically includes Broadband which I do not want. No matter which way I do it broadband is included. The button on the broadband is clicked as 'not interested' yet it is still showing. I am clicking through from a…
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scared over 3rd tv licence court summons
Hi all, I am new here. I have also posted this message on the CAG forums too, but im still looking for advice/opinions. I have recieved my 3rd court summons in roughly 6 years over non payment of tv licence. One of their officers visited my home in October 2011. Attached to the summons is the piece of paper that the guy…
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Switchover about to happen and I only have 6 channels
The switchover to digital is going to happen in my area soon. At present I have an ariel which doesn't always pick up channels. Sometimes I'm lucky to have 6 channels from the main choice. We get the signal from Crystal Palace which isn't a million miles away but for some reason reception here is bad. Sometimes some…
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Virgin HD
Slightly confused re Virgin Media. I am recently moved home and took my services with me. The engineers came round yesterday to install my TV/Phone/BB and set me up which was all fine. However, at around 8pm last night, I lost Sky Sports 2 HD and a couple of the HD movie channels. The SD channels are all fine The error…
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Lip sync issue when watching DVD's
I have an LG - 32LH5000 LCD Television and whenever I watch DVD's the lip sync is also wrong. I recently replaced my old DVD player with a Sony Blu-Ray player thinking it was the old DVD player but it's made no difference. I have even played DVD's through my son's Xbox, but still find the lip movement out of sync with the…
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Help......tv picture is awful!
Hi everyone! I have recently moved house and bought 2 new samsung tv's. Also had a new aerei put on the house. The tv downstairs we are having sky installed on saturday so im not too bothered about this. But the tv upstairs has an awful signal and i can only watch bbc at the moment. The tv is mounted on the wall. My…
