BT Vision

[medsecslave]

Does anyone have any thoughts on BT vision versus Sky TV. BT are trying hard to keep me as a customer and have offered me a similar package to Sky but it all sounds a bit confusing compared to Sky and the BT vision website has confused me even more! Help!!

[Greedyfly]

I am now a Virgin Media customer as we moved to a cable area and the broadband is 100% better than BT.

I found BT Vision good in the sense that you have the recording function but in terms of variety of things to watch either playing on the various channels or on demand I thought it was terrible. They played the same thing over and over. The films were often either not updated or repeated and the box itself always crashed and/or updated at the one time of day I would be watching tv lol.

The broadband was a complete rip off, we were lucky if we got 4mb during any day (obviously worse at weekends) whereas Virgins saving grace is we have between 10mb and 20mb at all times. And it is far cheaper.

Once my contract with Virgin is over I shall be switching to Sky (I have never had sky but feel it will be better for me)

[Greedyfly]

Better for in terms of tv variety, sorry forgot to add the last bit. Virgin has the same downfall as BT for me. There is never anything I want to watch.

But it is personal preference. I guess it all depends on what you are into.

[medsecslave]

Thanks - I opted for Sky. The engineer came today to install it and said he never hears anything positive about BT Vision. I was also annoyed that BT were suddenly able to drop my bill substantially to match Sky i.e. £120 per quarter when I've been paying around £250 per quarter for years!! Amazing what they'll do to keep your custom!!