Virgin media tv- AIBU or is it absolutely shit?

[kolapop]

Why is it so fucking slow? Why is there a 10 second delay after I press any button? Why does it not let me pause a catch up programme and come back to it later? Why do I have to start from the beginning? Why are the menus so ugly?

AIBU to want to go back to sky?

I have a non sleeping baby and have quite a short fuse at the moment and find myself shouting at the tv quite a lot.

I remember seeing TiVo on sex and the city and thinking it looked SO cool, now it's randomly recorded "lip sync battle" cos it thinks I might like it and I'm just offended to be honest.

We switched to sky a few months ago after years with virgin and I love sky tv services so much. The broadband is disappointingly slower and more prone to dropping than it was with virgin, but the tv makes up for it. Our plan was to swap baxk to virgin at the end of our 12 month contract (and back to sky again after the end of that contract, repeat ad infinitum) but I honestly now don't think I want to give up sky tv even temporarily!

Sallying
How do you get the internet without a landline?

Totally delayed response here, sorry! I meant we don't have/use a landline phone, just mobiles. We do and have always had the capacity for it, hence internet ability tech fail there on my part!

Incidentally, that's another reason virgin is rubbish - they only sell 'packages' rather than individual services (TV, Internet etc) so we ended up paying for yonks for a phone service we literally never used.

We had literally no landline for ages you don't need one with Virgin, eventually they badgered us into getting a landline phone line (free installation and line rental)

Thank you Four, I understand now :)
You need a landline to get broadband, whether you have a telephone service or not.
You may be interested to know that there are suggestions of legislation that would force providers to sell broadband without a phone line. But of course they would have to put the broadband charges up to recoup the lost profit. They'll get their money somehow :(

Our broadband was brilliant but changing TV channels seemed to take an age, it was only recently though, it used to be instant. Can't decide who to go with when we move

Getting on my nerves at the moment, particularly the TIVO. Why if a show is delayed start does the TIVO start recording anyway and either miss the end of the program I actually want to watch or not record it at all?

Why can I get wifi signal in my downstairs neighbours living room but not my bathroom? first world problem I know

Why is the TIVO box so slow that my 11month old has finished her lunch before I've managed to load a program?

Grr

It is fucking shit. The shittiest of shit. I hate it. But it's worked out £50 per month cheaper for us this year so we switched. Can't wait to go back to Sky.

I HATE Virgin TV but fully admit the broadband is great.

I miss Sky. We moved and were out of contract with Sky and Virgin was on the new estate. So sick of fairly crap Sky broadband so changed to Virgin and now got shit telly

My friend has virgin broadband, Sky tv's and a BT line!

Why can I get wifi signal in my downstairs neighbours living room but not my bathroom?
Because your WiFi router is not located or adjusted correctly. It needs to be set up more carefully.

You need a landline to get broadband, whether you have a telephone service or not

You don't - not if you are getting your broadband through fibre rather than landline...

Landline doesn't define the material, it's still a landline whether made of copper pair, coaxial or fibre.
The only alternative is a microwave radio link, which a few isolated systems use.

I think only Virgin offer the ability to have broadband and/or TV without any kind of landline being connected.

Landline doesn't define the material, it's still a landline whether made of copper pair, coaxial or fibre.

Apologies - I have always used landline to mean telephone that comes through wire to your house.

To clarify, with Virgin a cable comes to your house to deliver broadband/ television. If in addition you also wish telephone they can additionally provide that, but it is not a requirement.

I swapped from Sky to Virgin, and Tivo really isn't a patch on Sky+. As soon as our contract is up i'm heading back to sky

I left virgin as they were shit! Could never watch anything on catch up, movies would never play unless watching live and the broadband kept failing! Went back to sky and I'm so much happier. Will never use virgin again.

Their internet is the worst!!

Those who get bad internet, are you sure it is the internet and not your browser? We had awful problems with chrome hanging on an older version of windows a couple of times,

Their internet is the worst

From this thread, clearly that is not true for everyone.

We've hd Virgin for years. Very fast. When we first got it it was a bit slow but I phoned their call centre and they got me to change some settings on my computer and the difference was amazing. Their call centre is really easy to get through to. BT though takes hours

Thanks for reminding me I need to ring and cancel ours today. I tried yesterday, surprise surprise there was a "30 minute wait" before anyone would be free to take the call....

I have the same issues - good internet but poor/slow/ error-message-prone TiVo. I can't get Sky because the neighbours' trees at the foot of the garden are too tall. Virgin however don't know that so I call them approximately annually and threaten to leave, which keeps my costs low.

For those missing Sky Atlantic - Now tv is the answer. It has other channels too, so you may be able to reduce your Virgin package if you get it.

I can pause catch up on my V+ box.
Also pause and rewind live programmes.
Its a bit extra for the V+.

The basic box in my sons room doesn't do anything bar provide tv.

We have Now tv also, it works through your broadband and you can install the ap on upto 4 other devices. So my son watches GOT at 2am as its first broadcast through his computer in his room.

Yes it is very delayed... I kicked off and got out my contract early!