faraway saint Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 £42 a month for everything with BT. Contented Including they are cnuts, mind they told you to turn your router off at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Translate the above please. Anybody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Translate the above please. Anybody Sorry, your magic internet box....................."turn it off at night, that'll fix it" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Can I ask what the advantages are of having an android box? I wouldn't want to be relying on a potentially dodgy wifi connection when I do watch TV. Is that how it works? I have a Zgemma box its chipped to take virgin ,initial cost of box is £280 for box and 1st year then £90 per year ,for that I get all virgin channels , sky movies ,sky sport, bt sport ,premier sport and ppv.Only downside is you need to keep virgin broadband so I generally pay £30 a month for that and phone line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 (edited) You out for liquid lunch? Edited April 26, 2016 by shull Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I have a Zgemma box its chipped to take virgin ,initial cost of box is £280 for box and 1st year then £90 per year ,for that I get all virgin channels , sky movies ,sky sport, bt sport ,premier sport and ppv.Only downside is you need to keep virgin broadband so I generally pay £30 a month for that and phone line. Chipped? Sounds dodgy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Chipped? Sounds dodgy.... Chipped is maybe the wrong word, "manipulated "to show virgin channels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Chipped? Sounds illegal.... Shhhh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintnextlifetime Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I've just called Virgin, querying my bill. I'm getting charged £25 for a landline I seldom use, £43 for broadband (currently upgradeable to 200mps), and the rest is for hundreds of TV channels that show mindless drivel. So, in summary....I'm a f**king mug! Their best offer was to give us the lowest rate TV package, downgrade the phone line, and keep broadband as is for £64. I'm tempted to bag the TV and phone altogether, and try get cheaper broadband somewhere. I'm not tied in presently but apparently have to give 30 days notice to leave? Yes they will always say that but your bill is paid a month in advance , so it depends where you are in the billing cycle with regard to telling them when to get tae. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Blair Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I have a Zgemma box its chipped to take virgin ,initial cost of box is £280 for box and 1st year then £90 per year ,for that I get all virgin channels , sky movies ,sky sport, bt sport ,premier sport and ppv.Only downside is you need to keep virgin broadband so I generally pay £30 a month for that and phone line. Who are you paying that to? Decent android box is between £30-90 (I have an Amazon Fire TV which cost £65) Install Kodi then a build such as Pulse or GenTec and, with a decent broadband connection (eg Virgin or Infinity) you'll have all the sport, movies and TV you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Who are you paying that to? Decent android box is between £30-90 (I have an Amazon Fire TV which cost £65) Install Kodi then a build such as Pulse or GenTec and, with a decent broadband connection (eg Virgin or Infinity) you'll have all the sport, movies and TV you want. Tried android boxes and seemed to constantly buffer , this box is just like virgin box play is flawless and all the HD channels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Tried android boxes and seemed to constantly buffer , this box is just like virgin box play is flawless and all the HD channels. You still have "dial up" in Linwood, don't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 (edited) Translate the above please. Anybody Too many Tramadol taken Edited April 26, 2016 by insaintee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Too many Tramadol taken They were the days, I thought you were funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 You still have "dial up" in Linwood, don't you? No piggy backing from the guy through the wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 No piggy backing from the guy through the wall. No need for you personal life to be posted on the forum thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 No need for you personal life to be posted on the forum thanks. I have nothing to hide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I have nothing to hide. That's what the pictures showed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E=Mc2 Posted April 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 You still have "dial up" in Linwood, don't you? And an 8 track in his Hillman Imp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E=Mc2 Posted April 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Thanks for all the suggestions. I nearly left Virgin 18 months ago when I told them I hadn't used their On Demand Movies and they said I, or someone, must have. I challenged them to send an engineer to check my box if that would produce evidence to convince them, or me, of exactly what was watched and when. They said a call out would be £90 and I said "no problem". They even phoned me back to say that I would have to pay the £90 when their system was proved to be correct and did I wish to cancel the engineer. The engineer came out, attached his own gizmo, then phoned Virgin to say that no movies had been rented using this box. I then called them to cancel my account as I felt I had been badly let down. It was then I got the 2 boxes plus everything except Sky Sports and movies for £64.48p per month. This included an £8 per month loyalty bonus, which finished on Monday, as I have been with them 15 years. I did find this box of tricks on Ebay, but I wouldn't know where to start. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-ZGemma-H2H-FreeSat-Satellite-Cable-Receiver-IPTV-1080p-Enigma-OpenATV-Vix-/261799191244 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 That's what the pictures showed. I know ,I've started using Photoshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I know ,I've started using Photoshop. I know fatty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood buddie Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 I know fatty. Its puppy fat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insaintee Posted April 27, 2016 Report Share Posted April 27, 2016 They were the days, I thought you were funny. I was Take more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozbaird Posted April 27, 2016 Report Share Posted April 27, 2016 (edited) We went with the full Sky package a whle ago and have been happy with the service, especially the NFL, golf, F1 and football which as big sports fans is great for us. We hardly ever watched or recorded movies though. Any movies we really want we buy on BluRay. I thought that a cunning plan would be to cancel the movie part of our package and divert the savings towards the SMiSA/GLS bid to buythebuds. Phoned Sky, and instead of cancelling the movie part, they basically offered a big discount on our overall package for six months, which equates to a far bigger saving than merely cancelling the movies. My guess is they reckon in six months, when it reverts to 'normal price' (Ha! Sky - 'normal price'!), you will forget, can't be arsed, just let it revert... Nah, got the date in October marked up in the diary. Will be back onto them before then to once more 'do the discount dance', see what we get off for another six, nine, twelve months. Dealing with Sky really is like taking part in Monty Python's 'Life of Brian' haggling sketch... Surprised Sky haven't as yet sent me my free gourd and beard set. Anyway... Very happy with the Sky service, the HD box with hunners' of terry bites of space, with their catch-up TV service and have no desire to involve myself in Kindle sticks, dingle-dongles, streaming buffers or squiffle-pack triangulation decoders fae' a bloke doon' the pub.... Or Maplins. Hi! De! Hi! Edited April 27, 2016 by pozbaird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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