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Virgin TV

  • 08-01-2010 6:49pm
    #1
    OrtonViper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭


    Does anyone know if this would work out in the country. I live in Wexford. If so do many of you have it and what is it ike compared to sky. Thanks


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  • #2
    mjsmyth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭mjsmyth


    Unless I am completely mistaken, Virgin TV is a UK Cable TV system. Their equivalent of Chorus / NTL / UPC, so no, it will not work here as it can not be got here.

    mj


  • #3
    OrtonViper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭OrtonViper


    Ah yes, anyway the same question applies to ChorusNtl. Thanks


  • #4
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,622 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    By 'out in the country' do you mean that you live in a rural area? If you do then cable is not for you because it's only available in urban areas, you'd need to look at installing a dish and going for either Freesat (plus an aerial for the local channels) or Sky.

    Typically if you live in a large or medium-sized town you'd have the option of going for a local cable TV supplier and there's usually only one operating in each area.

    What is cable like compared to Sky? You'll get as many opinions are there are boardies on this forum!


  • #5
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,072 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Virgin Media is the renamed NTL in the UK. The Irish operation was sold in 2005 to Liberty Global and is now Chorus NTL (and will, probably, sometime, maybe, perhaps, become UPC Ireland).

    If you're living in a rural area, you typically won't have cable, though you will probably still be able to subscribe to MMDS. MMDS (Multipoint Microwave Distribution System) is essentially a wireless cable service and is a cut-down version of the digital cable TV service. It involves an aerial on your roof which is like a mesh dish with an LNB. Otherwise your only other option for multichannel TV is Sky (or waiting futilly for DTT to ever launch).

    You're better off asking questions about cable/MMDS over on the Cable/MMDS forum.


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