Really Quick, Probably Stupid Question

[Pete]

I'd then be tempted to get V+, but I've seen V+ and its slow. It appears there is a samsung version in development according to posts on DS but then its often pot luck which one you end up with.

So I've came to the conclusion that being one of those lucky buggers with the samsung box which is blindingly fast I'll just stick with it as the vast majority of what I'd want to record is on iPlayer and 4OD anyhow. And with them soon adding ITV to on-demand then you'd think they'll be adding more capacity so the few bits and bobs that aren't on the others should start to appear soon

Anyhow the main thing on virgin is the broadband and its amazing. I used to fight and fight with pipex on adsl as it was always being crap in one way or another and then they gave me a cap and now I'm paying less than I ever paid them and getting ten times the speed and no caps.

Plus I don't see why people make such a fuss about the traffic shaping, i mean so long as you download the big stuff at night you're fine and at least they're honest unlike many of the other isps.

Yes I like Virgin. Hopefully I've convinced someone else and I can get my credit too I'd recommended TWO people in Dundee for virgin, and then they brought that offer in, so I'm slightly miffed about that. tsk.

Not as miffed as when ITV Digital wouldn't send me a munkeh though. GRRRRRRR

[nwtv2003]

So I've came to the conclusion that being one of those lucky buggers with the samsung box which is blindingly fast I'll just stick with it as the vast majority of what I'd want to record is on iPlayer and 4OD anyhow.

Same here, I had 7 years of a Cable and Wireless branded Pace 1000 STB, which towards the end of it's life was getting a damn nuisance, it couldn't hack VoD, it was slow at changing channels and would probably crash on a semi daily basis. When it did pack in last August, they came out within 36 hours and swapped the STB, our downstairs box is a huge Samsung one which is great anyway, but when they came to replace mine I got a VBox branded Samsung one, other than it losing the EPG data here and there, it's brilliant, it's how fast Digital Cable should be, it handles VoD like a dream.

I'm with you on that, I'm reluctant to switch to a V+HD for now, I asked the VM engineer who swapped my box and he told me that they aren't really worth bothering with for the time being, probably as it only offers BBC HD and not much HD VoD, for me if they added a couple of more HD channels, I'd get one, but for now, I'm OK. I've got a Sony DVD/HDD that is connected to the STB that can pause and do all the recording, and a good Sony Blu-Ray for the HD.

[cdd]

Using metropol to get you free V+ boxes gav, and goodness knows what else... and there i was, thinking this site was run at a loss!

maybe I should metrodrop too. the "I know the administrator" ploy could work quite well.

[Gavin Scott]

Using metropol to get you free V+ boxes gav, and goodness knows what else... and there i was, thinking this site was run at a loss!

maybe I should metrodrop too. the "I know the administrator" ploy could work quite well.

I'll allow, "personal friend" for a nominal percentage.

[Sput]

Sput should be able to answer this one, he had an issue with a cable socket when he moved into his flat. If I remember correctly he was told that it wasn't working as it had never been connected at the box in the street outside.

Ah herro! It turned out it WAS real, the flat numbers had changed and it was lost on their system. So if it's ntl/virgin/telewest/diamond/c&w and coaxial then you have cable.

[Gavin Scott]

Ah herro! It turned out it WAS real, the flat numbers had changed and it was lost on their system. So if it's ntl/virgin/telewest/diamond/c&w and coaxial then you have cable.

That would explain why I get Virgin junk mail addressed to "the occupier" at Flat 1F3 when the new buzzer entry system designation changed my domicile to Flat 4. Re-registering bills etc caused no end of fuss - and they obviously still have the old numbers on their database.