TV/Broadband/phone BT/Sky/Virgin any recommendations?

I'd like the orgs opinion on Sky, BT and Virgin for their bundles of tv, phone and broadband as I'm paying over the odds for broadband and phone and might as well get fancy tv too.

So far I've found I can't have Virgin cable and BT don't seem to offer HD channels apart from on demand stuff.

Your thoughts please oh mighty org.

[NTECUK]

Just be carefully.who.owns the cable to.your.house.
I.had a spell.with car phone scare house.
When the line went up the creak i had to.leve as they couldn't get bt to fix it.

What mobile company are you with monkeyboy? I'm with O2 and got a pretty good deal with their broadband and home phone package (£22/month for unlimited downloads and line rental). Couple a fast broadband link with a new smart TV and you won't have to bother with the likes of Sky etc.

You're welcome

Sky's done okay for me. I don't really watch much TV and the boxes are generally okay, provided you know how to get into the engineer's menu or which buttons to hold on the front to reset it when it knackers itself (to save yourself the cost of an engineer). The broadband copes just fine with Xbox Live and PC games like ArmA and EvE and is very reliable.

I'm also ready to go on a sim only plan and o2 can't touch Tesco.

Please explain the tv thing? Bt are pod for price but I can't find out what channels they do and it doesn't look like they offer HD channels.

We have sky tv phone and broadband at our current place but we're moving and not planning on taking sky with us.

In my opinion they charge a lot and provide not very much.

I'd prefer to go to BT but subscribe to this thread in the hope it may show me the light

Originally Posted by NTECUK

Just be carefully.who.owns the cable to.your.house.

Openreach owns it. BT and all the other providers are in the same position so any difference is purely down to their customer service.

Originally Posted by monkey

Please explain the tv thing?

It's something like this.....a computer built into your telly. Just means you can access all on the on-demand stuff (BBCiPlayer, 4OD etc) straight from the TV without having to have a PS3/XBox/Media centre.

[NTECUK]

The btw vision is a sd free view recorder.
Can cope with 2 programs intuitive series recording.
The catch up(4do i player )don't add to your download limit.
We can just get in under the 40gig limit .
They do stuff you with day time call charges.
Typical an extra £10 for my bill.
Free view programs are a bit pants imohp .

[NTECUK]

Originally Posted by Spank86

Openreach owns it. BT and all the other providers are in the same position so any difference is purely down to their customer service.

well with sky who could only provide the brood band via bt line at home.(out in the sticks) the usual speed was 1.7 meg
When we went back to bt this jumped to 4 meg
So not exactly cricket ?