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Virgin Media Best Deals
Hi everyone :j New to posting, I have been watching for a while, and wondered if you could help. Does anybody know of the best deals for Virgin Media. Currently have sky for TV and virgin for phone and broadband. I know it will be cheeper if I join together. How much are people paying for the best deals on Virgin? Cheers…
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Returning an item to Currys
Can someone advice (pretty sure we can return this) but want some assurance. Bought online a media player drive for the tv - it arrived today ok - tried to use it but we cant fathom how - lots of cables and basically existing setup wont take it. So decided we want to return it - looked online Currys guidelines, mentions we…
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Introduce a friend
Virgin have sent me an Introduce a friend letter, apparently it is worth £30 (me and the firend) each when I introduce a new virgin customer or existing Virgin Mobile customer, Former Virgin Media customers are not eligible. All my friends have to do is sign up to any Virgin Media service, other than standalone Broadband,…
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Cancelling my Sky service early
Hello, I'm moving house in to a rented property and my Landlord as denied permission to have Sky installed, due to a dish being installed. My contact with Sky runs out in March 2010. Although I can't have Sky installed, I may be able to have Virgin Media isntalled due to no dish is required. Would anybody know if I would…
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best media drive - recommendations please
Would like to know what is best portable media drive player and recorder at the moment with 500gig or more storage.
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Cancelling Sky and re-joining at new address
I currently pay for sky at my parent’s house, but am moving out within a couple of weeks. Rather than move my account, can I cancel and re-join at my new address and take advantage of new customer deals, or will they spot that my bank account would be the same? Also if I was to cancel, would it affect my parents being able…
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BBC HD slashes bitrate by 40% and installs new encoders
Some of you with BBC HD may have noticed a change in picture quality in the past couple of weeks. BBC HD used to be broadcast at 20 mbps, then they cut it to 16. Two weeks back they cut it to 9mbps, one of the lowest bitrates in the UK, and far lower than other mainstream HD channels. Reason given is old bitrates were…
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getting rid of sky. aerial problem help please?
I have the basic package on sky at the moemnt and love my sky plus box but realised that the only channels i seem to watch are the free to air type ones. If i stop subscribing to sky what are my alternatives? can I still somehow use the sly box as a recorder like I do at present? the other problem is that I dont have a tv…
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Free view questions
Hi sorry if I am asking a silly/daft question do you still need an external aeriAl to receive Freeview? the reason I ask is that I don't have freeview (have sky) and my daughter would like it in her bedroom, so I considered buying her a new tv/dvd combi for christmas with built in freeview and wondered if there were any…
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Is this legal.
I have a small thread running regarding changing from Virgin to BT. My contract with Virgin was for 3 services billed on one invoice. They at Virgin say that they were not allowed to cancel the television on request from BT. Why? Surely the phone not the TV is the more important of the services. Anyway, the contract then,…
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Performance Channel - What happened to it?
Hi, I used to like watching a digital channel called Performance - as it's name implies, it specialised in airing mainly concerts. However, I can't see it on the sky program guide. Does anyone know what happened to it? Perhaps it closed down which would be a great shame!!
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Freesat (Humax) receiver v/s sky digibox
in a previous thread i have mentioned swapping back over from freesat using a Humax receiver to sky in a 6 month deal. Anyway, I have a HD ready TV and could only watch HD when i had my Humax plugged up. I only have a basic sky digibox its one of those Pace ones. Anyway, my question is why is the picture quality better…
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Sky TV exisiting customer query
When I was living with my parents serveral years ago I signed upto Sky in my name and we all contributed to the cost. When I moved out I asked Sky change the name on the contract but they said they were unable to do so. I am now looking into getting Sky at home but am concerned that they will see me as an existing customer…
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sky can you go from hd to sd???
1. right got sky hd and to be honest its not worth the extra £10 i'm paying each month for the amount hd channels you get on the basic package i got. my question is simply this can i keep running the hd box i own and them simply turn off all the hd channels they send thru because this just save me an extra £120 a year…
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Sky Tv reception and trees
Hi there. My mum has started to have a few problems with her Sky Tv. The problem is the picture is tending to freeze or break up. now, outside there are a few large trees that seem to be inline with the pointing direction of her dish. the tops of the trees are about 20 meters away as the crow flies, and they are in full…
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Should I upgrade Sky+?
I'm going to be purchasing an HD TV shortly. Some of the ones I'm looking at come with Freeview / Freesat. I won't require these however as we have Sky+. Anyway, my question is - is it worth the upgrade to Sky HD? Can I watch normal Sky on an HD telly comfortably? I know I won't be able to watch HD broadcasts, but this is…
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any cheap phone number for sky?
sorry if not in the right forum.
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Sky digital warranty
Had SKY+ for almost a year and I've received a letter (Digital Satellite Warranty Cover Ltd.) urging me to take out a Sky Warranty for £95.00 for 12 months or £9.59 per month. Promises the only same day service on the market* (*being reported before 10am & engineer availability). I normally avoid extended warranties but…
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Transferring from Virgin Media to BT
We have transferred our internet/phone/television package from Virgin to BT. We were told by BT we did not need to do anything everything would be done by them. We knew we would have to give 30 days notice to Virgin. When we got a bill from Virgin we were still being charged for tv access after the 30 days notice even…
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Sky+ clashing when recording only one program
Can anyone help with a Sky+ query please? Over the last 2 days, I have recorded 4 programs, none of which overlaped and all of them failed to record and all said 'clashed' :confused: I tried to set the football up for my hubby tonight and it didnt record :eek:. Again it says clashed. Have absolutely no idea why this is…