"I've been loyal to VM for 15 years (NTL onward) despite moving house. Word for word I agree, finally with some comfort that I'm not alone and there better things - with the main poster of this thread. I agree so much that I thought I'd written the post myself and in a moment of advancing seniority forgotten that I'd written it myself! I even pay the same. So with a TiVo box that regularly has 3 red lights lit, with an advancing broadband speed heading over 200mb, with a router that just about services 4 people, Hive, Sonos, Apple TV, power lines, FIFA 16 and CofC on every available 'ageing device', even a xmas tree that turns itself on at sunset - with an 'ecosystem' that now prepares itself for the ever growing IoT, I felt prepared with VM to battle it out with whatever comes next.
"Until yesterday.
"On a shopping break, I headed into EE to discover that with EE TV, I can record 4 shows in HD. I can walk from 1 room to the kitchen, to have Michael Buerk on the BBC news follow me. I can upgrade to Sky Sports for only the months that I'll actually use it. And record sky sports / movies from Now TV. They'll even as a deal get supersize my already too much 10gb phone data allowance to 20gb so I can move my wife onto a shared data plan. Take all these savings (less the admittedly extra phone incentive) and I'm £1000 a year better off. Time to spend £500 each on 2 new smart TVs that offer even more capability to stream room to room and I'm quickly talking myself into moving away from a company that is rewarding loyalty with additional costs for no additional benefit.
"Why shouldn't I move from VM to EE? I've got 2 reasons : both of which I already have an answer for : they can only offer 80gb speed not 150 or more that's coming. But do I really need this anyway? And so far there isn't a second EE TV box available but there is one in the pipeline. And if I can stream to a second smart tv anyway from the 1tb EE TV box there is no need for a second box anyway"
"Until yesterday.
"On a shopping break, I headed into EE to discover that with EE TV, I can record 4 shows in HD. I can walk from 1 room to the kitchen, to have Michael Buerk on the BBC news follow me. I can upgrade to Sky Sports for only the months that I'll actually use it. And record sky sports / movies from Now TV. They'll even as a deal get supersize my already too much 10gb phone data allowance to 20gb so I can move my wife onto a shared data plan. Take all these savings (less the admittedly extra phone incentive) and I'm £1000 a year better off. Time to spend £500 each on 2 new smart TVs that offer even more capability to stream room to room and I'm quickly talking myself into moving away from a company that is rewarding loyalty with additional costs for no additional benefit.
"Why shouldn't I move from VM to EE? I've got 2 reasons : both of which I already have an answer for : they can only offer 80gb speed not 150 or more that's coming. But do I really need this anyway? And so far there isn't a second EE TV box available but there is one in the pipeline. And if I can stream to a second smart tv anyway from the 1tb EE TV box there is no need for a second box anyway"
Can EE TV record from the Now TV app? I didn't think it could.
ReplyDeleteFor me the weakness of the Now TV service is that you can only get the last month of a series via catch up (same as iPlayer), so if EE TV does allow you to record the channels from NOW TV that would make it a serious contender for many.
If you do take up EE TV please let this blog know how you find the service
Isn't EE being bought by BT? I would guess it will eventually be merged in with their TV service.
ReplyDeleteThis blog becomes less and less about Virgin Media….
ReplyDeleteNot really sure why it continues...
@Mark - I'm not really sure why you bother to keep reading the blog....
ReplyDeleteI for one am grateful for this PSA - I probably wouldn't have even known what EE TV was without it. I will look into this in more detail - thanks.
If nothing else it gives you bargaining power when you call up to "cancel" VM...
If the blog continues to be be blatantly anti-Virgin and to concentrate only on what is available from other provider, then I won't be reading it @ Ro-Me-ro.
ReplyDeleteI think the blog has lost it's original focus. You are free to disagree.
Just to be clear, this blog is neither anti nor pro Virgin Media; it is, however, pro-CUSTOMER and always has been. If anyone only wants Virgin Media press releases they can be found on www.virginmedia.com
ReplyDelete@Nialli Well said, thank you
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