BTW that crap at the top was just a laugh, Im sure NTL are great ....

Ntl is cheap, offers quite a few channels and have now just got a software upgrade so its similar to sky (just slower :rolleyes: ). But they install it pretty quickly and you dont need a dish or anything. Plus the picture is better than a sky setup (no one say it isnt, its been proven ;)) and doesnt fook up in bad weather (hasnt been proven, and it does and doesnt, depends how strong the signal is etc :)).

However, sky offers loads and loads and LOADS of channels (about 400 when i counted my mates so), has great interactive and offers lots of "red button" stuff. Also you can get Sky+ another great thing and its all nice and easy to use and pretty fast software. But, you get a dish on the out-side of your house, its takes a while to install, weather problems, quality of compressed mpeg data (picture) is worse than cable (but not really noticable) compared to cable (due to the bandwidth available on skys network etc) and the hardware/software is pretty out-of-date.

If you have the cash get sky mate, or Sky+. Cable is still some way behind sky, although in the future will beable to offer more choices in TV/Films that sky will, but its time and the money, and ntl havnt got much of the latter.

IMO NTL tis SHITE.

Is Paul_J at your house :look:?

heres my experiance of NTL

Dear Cretins,

I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3 in 1 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, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive I spent a further 57 mins listening to your infuriating hold music and the even more annoying Scottish robot women telling me to look at your helpful website………..HOW?? I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few mins – 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 drill bits and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 phone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived…. six weeks after I requested it, and begun to pay for it. I estimate your Internet server’s downtime is roughly 35%….. Hours between about 6pm – midnight Mon-Fri and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 call on my mobile to your no-help line, 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 then been cut off); 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 (and the been transferred to an answering machine informing me that your office is closed); That I will be transferred to someone and then been transferred to the irritating Scottish robot women…and several other variations on this theme. Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least another thousand dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another of those crucially important testicle-moments to addend 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 sh1t, that they had attained the holy p1ss-pot of god awful customer relation, 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 b@s@rds you truly are. You sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum – incompetents of the highest order. BT ****ers 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 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 disbelieve – quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps 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 your miserable short life, you irritating incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of ****s.

Sky without a doubt, Wish I could get a sky signal

Telewest :look:

I got Sky+ on Tuesday and it's wicked ;)

Sky.. :thumbs:

NTL is pants :lol:

Sky is way better, NTL unreliable and v. slow!

Sky it is then. Was only thinking Ntl cos they do a cheaper package if you have a phoneline and internet with them.

2 people do :look:

sky is the easiest to use

nobody uses NTL, its a bag of ballix

sky, best package imo

ive got sky at home and ntl at my uni flat and sky is much better and easier to use

Sky+

Yep, I have NTL digital. All the channels are the same but NTL is an unreliable, slow pile of crap. Also, not as easy and quick to navigate as Sky.

Sky all the way mate!!
Much much better:)

Sky... everything else is shit

Have recently purchased a nice 32" flat screen and home cinema system but now want more channels.

Shall I go the Sky route or the NTL route?

Also and why??

Thanks..