second hand Virgin Media HD boxes

[Robbo]

Originally Posted by Ernie_C

I was unaware that it was now legal for pubs to show Sky Italia. Any source to corroborate this?

It isn't anything at the moment, its up in the air, until the Karen Murphy case has been heard and judgement given in the European court. All we know at the moment is that prosecutions are not able to take place. So the pubs and clubs are taking advantage of the slowness in proceedings.

[boomer39]

Originally Posted by gadgetfiend

could be possible boomer that the establishment you refer too does have a business sub with sky uk as well as having italia and whatever else, in this case they will not bother too much. Its landlords who use domestic subs and dodgy boxes whom they are primarily targeting.

no idea mate, just know a good few pubs around here have it...
but i do know that my local has changed hands since xmas, and the new landlord is no idiot and would NOT do anything iffy....apart from the fact that he got married again on saturday!!!!!!!!!!!

[padstar1975]

Originally Posted by Ernie_C

All equipment supplied by Virgin Media (including V+) is rented and remains the property of Virgin Media. You may have mistakenly understood that you had bought the box because you paid an upfront charge for its installation/setup/activation.

sorry statement is not correct , i had V+ rented box for a while when i rang for discounted package (compete with SKY) they offered me a deal to pay out right for my box there and then and reduce my rental. I accepted this deal.

[Ernie_C]

Originally Posted by padstar1975

sorry statement is not correct , i had V+ rented box for a while when i rang for discounted package (compete with SKY) they offered me a deal to pay out right for my box there and then and reduce my rental. I accepted this deal.

My statement was completely correct!

What you are referring to I will explain but you still do not own the V+. All V+s remain the property of Virgin Media.

In June 2007, Virgin Media changed the way that their customers paid for V+.

Pre-June 2007, customers paid a monthly fee for V+, either £10 per month if you were on TV XL or £15 per month if you were on a lower TV level. For new customers, this was removed after this date and replaced with a higher installation/activation/setup fee. TV XL customers would then have no additional monthly fee and lower TV would still have a £5 per month fee for V+ services.

For customers who already had V+ at this date, they continued to pay the £10 or £15 per month ad infinitum but were offered a 'conversion' fee. Payment of this fee would allow you to change to the new fee structure and not have to pay the £10 per month charge.

This is what you are describing but, as I said both earlier in this post and in my earlier post, you still do not own the V+. Why would you want to anyway? Do you really want to take responsibility for the maintenance of the box as the owner? You will probably say that, as the owner, you could sell the box. Who would buy a box that cannot be connected and used on the Virgin Media network?

Oh sorry that is what so many people are trying to do with their dodgy boxes now that they no longer work on the more secure Virgin Media cable network.

[hoppy89]

Stealing !!! who's the dopey herbert who calls it "Stealing" my cable package costs me over £60 a month and i dont get no sport or no movies for that amount... at least "Dick Turpin" wore a mask when he was shafting ya

[Ernie_C]

Originally Posted by hoppy89

Stealing !!! who's the dopey herbert who calls it "Stealing" my cable package costs me over £60 a month and i dont get no sport or no movies for that amount... at least "Dick Turpin" wore a mask when he was shafting ya

Dick Turpin's customers did not chose to associate with him.

If you are paying Virgin Media £60 per month, that is your choice, they are not stealing from you.

Unlike Dick Turpin's customers, you can chose to disassociate yourself from Virgin Media and not pay the £60 per month.

[Robbo]

Yes, try go and get a better deal with Sky!

Once you have found it, tell Virgin to to stick theirs where the sun don't shine unless they can better it.



Though,I confess, for me anyway, the deal from Virgin was cheaper, and got two brand new boxes out of it, one a v+ hd.

[hoppy89]

Originally Posted by Ernie_C

Dick Turpin's customers did not chose to associate with him.

If you are paying Virgin Media £60 per month, that is your choice, they are not stealing from you.

Unlike Dick Turpin's customers, you can chose to disassociate yourself from Virgin Media and not pay the £60 per month.

My association with VM is not much of an option,Unfortunatley i can't, jump over to sky, i live in a conservation area were dish's are a big NO NO.. so it seems Vm have me by the short & curlies, unless i go back to the old days of bog standard 5 channels.

[Ernie_C]

Originally Posted by hoppy89

My association with VM is not much of an option,Unfortunatley i can't, jump over to sky, i live in a conservation area were dish's are a big NO NO.. so it seems Vm have me by the short & curlies, unless i go back to the old days of bog standard 5 channels.

It may be Hobson's choice but it is still your choice.

There are other options - TopUp TV, BT Vision. Well they're not very good options but........

[jimbo]

Originally Posted by hoppy89

My association with VM is not much of an option,Unfortunatley i can't, jump over to sky, i live in a conservation area were dish's are a big NO NO.. so it seems Vm have me by the short & curlies, unless i go back to the old days of bog standard 5 channels.

can u not put up a tripod dish in ur back garden either?