Comments on: Virginmedia.com/skyhd Offers Sky Sports HD On Virgin

By: Mugger

Mugger — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:15:02 +0000

OK peopel chill out, sky charge anyone who wants HD £10 a month and thats for the basic channels,

VM get these for free, £7 is a small charge considering howmuch sky are probably charging virgin for the HD channels.

I recently did a quote on sky for my package and sky was £30 more expensive and that was with less channels and worse broadband, so Virgin is still top notch in my books. stop your complaining

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:19:40 +0000

I gladly paid the £7.00 per month for Sky Sports HD1 and HD2, the only problem was that the picture quality on my new Sony Bravia TV was no different to the Sky sports SD.
When the Virgin engineer came to change the HD box he said he could not see any difference between the two picture qualities.
Quick solution, I canceled it.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:00:05 +0000

I have the full VIP package including 50Mb BB and I get Sky HD TV for nothing. My month bill is about £98.

By: bob gold

bob gold — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:49:55 +0000

i just had there v+ box installed and now find out that they want an extra 7 pounds a month for me to view sky sports and movies in hd. what planet is this company on? their charges at the moment are already ridiculous but i feel this may just be the straw that broke the camels back. enough is enough

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:16:10 +0000

This may just be the last straw. My bill has been over £100 a month for some time, and like many others I feel that my loyalty is being abused by Virgin. Enough!

By: will

will — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:26:12 +0000

what a rip off £7 for what something we was led to belive we would get in a XL package. greed.

By: phil

phil — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:32:43 +0000

hi i have been with virgin media now for 7 years and never had a problem.i have the vip package, top tv,top phone and 50mb broadband,i also have 3 v+ boxes and only paying £110 per month.i have just recieved a letter telling me there will be no extra charge for my hd chanels.if you are on the top package give vm a ring and ask them to upgrade you the vip package, it will work out cheaper than the xxl package.that also includes the 50mb broadband.by the way if anyone tells you that you dont get 50mb download they dont know what they are talking about,download speeds depend on the servers you are downloading from,and most sites cant handle 20mb upwards.if you are downloading torrents,ie music and films you will never get full speed no matter what provider you have.peer to peer is notoriously slow

By: linda christie

linda christie — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:46:30 +0000

I also have the xl package and took on 2 V+HD boxes in May. How can they justify charging for watching HD when they don’t leave the proper cables. At the moment I have 3 tv and only 1 is HD

By: Janis

Janis — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:19:37 +0000

As most of the other customers have stated, I too spend over £90 a month to Virgin and was told HD sports would be coming soon, but an extra £7 a month was not mentioned. I have just been looking on Sky tv costs and may well be changing asap to reduce my bill for the same package, after being loyal to Virgin for approx. 15 years. I think Virgin may well rue this extra charge when many customers leave them.

By: GEOFF MORLEY

GEOFF MORLEY — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:34:12 +0000

I AGREE WITH ALL YOUR COMMENTS SKY HAVE SKY 1 2 3 4 AND 5 WONDER WHAT VIRGIN WILL BE CHARGING EXTRA WHEN 3 4 AND 5 GO HD. The only thing I have against sky is the telephone charges which are all 0845 or 0870 numbers which after a half hour call the cost is enormous. At the moment I do not have a BT phone line and they want £125 quid to install one, on a good point for Virgin, all calls from their lines are free when calling 150 which is a good saving on what it costs to call SKY. This is the only reason I would not go back to sky. Another point is being disabled I need a phone in alot of rooms and going to sky and having to be connnected to a BT line all the time, this takes up I think 1/1/2 lan which means I wouldn`t be able to have all the phones I require, and means I would require 2 lines from BT at more extra cost as a line only takes up to 4 lan which I need for my current phones.