Dave Thorp's Blog

Well least they will be on 17th May 2007. After a lot of thought finally decided to get a V+ box.

Been considering it because virgin refunded the £100 deposit we had to pay when we signed up but did it as a bill credit so we get just over 2 free months now. Been after either a DVD recorder or a PVR so this kind of makes sense (plus we keep missing programmes and when we do miss them they don’t show up on catch up TV on demand)

Means we now pay £45.20 a month and get

Phone size L (free evenings and weekends to landlines) with caller display
Broadband size L (4Mb…. though if they’re upping the speed of size XL to 20Mb hopefully size L will get upped eventually)
TV Size XL with V+ Box

Got a free install on the V+ as well (when it’s meant to be £75 for existing customers who don’t take a second box) so pretty happy there too!

All’s good for me with Virgin Media.

When I signed up I was on 3 for £30 which gave me

Basic TV
2 Mb Broadband
Free Weekend Calls

When virgin took over this was upped to

TV Size L
Broadband Size M (2Mb)
Phone Size M (Free Weekends)

Following the loss of the sky channels they upped it to 3 for £35 giving me

TV Size XL
Broadband Size L (supposed to be 4Mb but clocks at 10Mb most the time)
Phone Size L (Free evenings and weekends)

And now thanks to all the phone changes it should now be 3 for £33.45

Happy days