mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 12:25 PM |
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The even rising cost of sub tv
The BEEB reports
BSkyB revamp pushes prices higher
BSkyB is to revamp its pricing structure, in a move which will push the cost of the firm's premium pay-TV package above £500 ($909) a
year.
What do you think of the price vs what you DO watch.
One of the most popular tv channels is uk gold. Now having your parents pay a tv licence to make these programmes, how do you feel about paying to see
them again...
[Edited on 17/10/05 by mangogrooveworkshop]
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BKLOCO
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 12:27 PM |
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chuffin pi$$ed!!!
next question.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want!!! 
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britishtrident
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 12:55 PM |
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Welcome to a world run by R Murdoch -- the half he doesn't run are owned by "Sir" Bill Gates.
On your own head be it or as my grandmother would said "hell mend you" a sky subscription isn't designed to give you something for
nothing is purely design to fill the pockets of those own the service and keep the plebs quiet. 1000+ english speaking (!) channels of rubbish with a
banal mixture of crummy US sitcom re-runs, cartoons, trailer trash freak shows, purple and green, furry puppet muppet wannabees, shoddy home make
over shows, shopping channels with chav presenters and of course sport any old sport presented badlly and brashly and all the while terrestrial
channels slowly getting marginalised more by the minute.
It is the kind of nightmare scenario that used to only be found in science fiction usually as a back drop to nighmarish Phillip K Dick novels.
Quatermas creator Nigel Kneale almost 40 years ago who wrote the TV play The Year of the Sex Olympics.
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Aboardman
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 01:30 PM |
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and also do not forget kit car crisis.
must admit i type record on to dvd all the a kit car is born series and a mg is born.
regards
Andrew
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smart51
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 03:14 PM |
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You may not have much of a choice but one choice you always have is to switch off. If you don't like it, don't pay. You'll never
win but you'll be a few pounds a month (and a few hours a week) better off.
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Russ-Turner
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 03:51 PM |
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Try and make a point of watching
-Simpsons (repeats anyway)
-American chopper
Sometimes catch
-A car is born
-A1GP
and
-The one where some cockney fella buys a crummy motor then gets a mechanic to do it up for him then sells it for a profit... "knees up mother
Brown, roll out the barrell, ee ah guv'nor, bish-bash-wollop, jellied eels wot a motah" (etc.)
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iank
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 04:00 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by smart51
You may not have much of a choice but one choice you always have is to switch off. If you don't like it, don't pay. You'll never
win but you'll be a few pounds a month (and a few hours a week) better off.
Well said. I spent 4 years TV free (watched DVD's on the 'puter). About a year ago I gave in to the kids and now have freeview, which in
a lot of ways I regret. Still has more than enough crap to waste the evenings if you aren't careful (watched the professionals the other night
- complete waste of time)
Only downside is people treat you like a wierdo for not having a TV. Best way to deal with that is just to not care and build a car in the time you
save.
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flak monkey
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 04:04 PM |
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I dont have a TV when I am away at uni, and find when I go home I very very rarely watch it. I dont miss it in the least. I just watch DVD's
when I am away, got quite a good collection now!
David
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Russ-Turner
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 04:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by iank
Well said. I spent 4 years TV free (watched DVD's on the 'puter). About a year ago I gave in to the kids and now have freeview, which in
a lot of ways I regret. Still has more than enough crap to waste the evenings if you aren't careful (watched the professionals the other night
- complete waste of time)
Funny you say that. While having a flick on Sky yesterday I came across the Parliament Channel (yes you read that right) It was showing the B.B.C.
negotiating their charter renewal in which it was said by the head that people would be willing to pay an increase in license fee taking it up to as
much as £180 per annum for a wider choice of digital channels. when they fill them with crap and have an unnecessary number of radio channels too. All
terestrial viewers have to put up with is crap like home renovation programmes, antiques programmes, car boot programmes (you see where i'm
going with this) Maybe if there were less repeats it would be understandable but poll tax on yer telly for £180 would make me want to vomit in terror!
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zilspeed
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 05:05 PM |
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a 'friend' (ahem) cancelled his sky subscription 5 years ago because it was too expensive / rubbish.
They turned all the channels off then three months later they started working again - everything.
Said 'friend' regularly receives letters from them enticing 'him' back again.
'He' isn't interested as 'he' is quite happy getting it all for nothing.
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suparuss
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 05:11 PM |
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well, if the tv licence goes up to £180 ill definately vomit in terror. then sell my tv and buy one that doesnt receive broadcasts and let the bbc
take me to court for not paying for the licence. which i know they will untill you can prove your equipment cant receive broadcasts. theres shag all
on on telly, only thing i watch is top gear and moto gp.
sky is even worse too, you get 10 mins of program to the 5 mins of adverts then another 10 mins of program the 5 mins... etc etc. not to mention the
afformentioned lack of anything decent. cant beat takeshis castle, also been watching a chopper is born with mild interest but other than that its
bloody useless.
£180 tv license would just be the icing on the cake though to be honest. maybe time to join the thousands and get out of here in favour of aussi or
new zealand.
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steve_gus
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 06:47 PM |
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if it was 500 a year id be saving 100 quid! ive got sky+ and a second box, with a full subscription and its 51 a month. im gonna stuff the movie
package soon as we never watch them anyway.
atb
steve
http://www.locostbuilder.co.uk
Just knock off the 's'!
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dave1888
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 08:36 PM |
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Repeat after repeat, My wife insists on sky+ we pay £41 a month for zero entertainment in my view
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JoelP
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 09:50 PM |
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i only pay £15 with ntl, no movie channels but all the discovery stuff, which often makes good viewing 
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flak monkey
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 09:52 PM |
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At the mere mention of NTL (the number of people I know who have had a lot of trouble with them is unbeliveable!)
Enjoy:
Dear Cretins
I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone.
During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and
stupidity of monolithic proportions.
Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional prerogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties - or
more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking
vendor-coffee on the bog in your office: My initial installation was cancelled without warning or notice, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday
sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive.
When he did not arrive at all, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman
telling me to look at your helpful website.... how? I alleviated the boredom to some small degree by playing with my testicles for a few minutes - an
activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept.
The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools - such as a
drill-bit, and his cerebrum.
Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After several further telephone calls (actually 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks) my modem
arrived ... a total of six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it.
I estimate that the downtime of your internet servers is roughly 35%...these are usually the hours between about 6pm and midnight, Monday to Friday,
and most of the useful periods over the weekend.
I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 telephone calls on my mobile to your no-help line this week, and have been unhelpfully
transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are it seems also highly skilled bollock jugglers.
I have been informed that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back); that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me
back); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off); that I will be
transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your
office is closed); that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been redirected to the
irritating Scottish robot woman...and several other variations on this theme.
Doubtless you are no-longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those
crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don't care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustrations
in print than to shout them at your unending hold music.
Forgive me, therefore, if I continue.
I thought BT were crap, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of god-awful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more
disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there
isn't anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a
useless shower of bastards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum - incompetents of the highest order. British Telecom -
wankers though they are - shine like brilliant beacons of success, in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy.
Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you do likewise, and
cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver -
any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief - although these feelings will quickly be replaced by derision, and even
perhaps a small measure of bemused rage.
I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cats litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and
your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting,
and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment
of my feelings towards NTL, and it's worthless employees.
Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of twats
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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JoelP
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| posted on 17/10/05 at 10:09 PM |
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i know, they are shite... i dropped them with the internet (actually, they dropped me after they forgot to send any bills...), and the tv used to
never work, but fortunately the upgraded version usually does, ableit a triffle slow.
i love that letter though, still makes me laugh!
[Edited on 17/10/05 by JoelP]
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