Originally Posted by gadge (Post 34736142)

True hd channels
BBc HD
FX HD
Bio HD
luxe tv HD
Rush HD
Discovery HD
Nat Geo HD
History HD
Crime HD

those are the only ones that show hd and not upscaled the others have a mixture off hd and upscaled.

Originally Posted by Mobes (Post 34736149)

it's a bit sad it upsets you so much mate :)

Originally Posted by joyrider1 (Post 34736154)

Sorry missed your post, too busy eating my cheese on toast......

Originally Posted by joyrider1 (Post 34736118)

stuart, yout loyality to VM is to be applauded, but you cannot go on sticking your head in the sand over this issue. You must agree that SKY are the market leader, and where they lead, others would be foolish not to follow. How can you say HD is not upmost in a lot of VM subscribers minds. Just look through the posts on this forum....how many are about HD, or the lack of it? Putting the same point back at you....how many people are on the CF internet board screaming out for 50meg BB? Hardly a priority is it Stuart?

The simple truth is that VM are painfully slow to embrace this new technology. Many have speculated as to why this is so, lack of available bandwith, lack of funding etc. i have given up following the "coming to VM soon" thread here. Nothing seems to be moving on that front....

Antway, as promised, I have had SKY HD installed today, and I will give my honest opinion to the plus and minus points of both platforms. As I said before. I have been loyal to the Virgin brand for many years, and as a trade unionist I am no big fan of R Murdoch either. So this honest apprasial is without prejudice..

V+ Plus points
Extra tuner as opposed to SKYHD
Slightly better upscaled picture on SD compared to SKYHD
Catch up TV on Demand
Watch TV while going through menus
Free Setanta on XL

SKY HD plus points
Much better, quicker interface when going through menus
more channels in total
30+ HD channels
30+ Channels in 5.1 Surround sound
Much quieter hard drive
160 gb Hard Drive

Anyone else seen any comparisons I missed, please feel free to add. So all in all I am very happy with the SKYHD box and the HD Channels, and 5.1 sound for more or less the same price as I was paying. I have my Plasma hooked up to my PC, so catch up TV is still available to me to enjoy through the various catch up on demand services (iplayer etc). The quality the picture and more impressivley, the Dolby 5.1 sound gives makes me think that the V+ is just wasted on the current set up of Cable TV. There is much more the V+ could do, but it is very underused.

Stuart, I think you will see that the figures you quoted above regards SKY HD subscriptions is now hopelessley out of date. The engineer who installed my SKY HD said (without prompting), the HD offer was so well subscribed they had trouble keeping up with demand. Pity VM's board didnt focus on HD, they would have kept me as a subscriber.........

Originally Posted by joyrider1 (Post 34736150)

More up to date Stuart, andSky are creating 1000 jobs to meet demand in the next quarter


Sky has cut the purchase price of its flagship Sky+ HD box from £150 to £49 with immediate effect.
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The rise in subscriber numbers coupled with reduced churn and increased revenue per subscriber contributed to total revenue of £2,601m in the second half of the year, up 6% on the year before, and an adjusted operating profit of £388m.

Originally Posted by AndyCambs (Post 34736169)

So if the product is selling as well as Sky claim - why did they feel the need to cut the price to £49? Companies are not usually in the charity game?

Originally Posted by AndyCambs (Post 34736169)

So if the product is selling as well as Sky claim - why did they feel the need to cut the price to £49? Companies are not usually in the charity game?

Originally Posted by Gadgie (Post 34736283)

Well I switched over to Sky today, for the lot, TV/Phone & Net. We spent ages debating the pros & cons of it all, and in the end we went over to Sky. Have been a loyal customer to Virgin for years, but we had problems with the Net speed and our TV picture freezing and jumping, they were out 3 times to fix that, but they never did.

Now we will get 31 H/D channels, with 2 more being added every month, and the Net & Phone packages were cheaper as well.
Mind you, when we phoned Virgin and mentioned that we might be leaving, they offered me a £6.50 a month less in our payment, and upgrade our Net from 10 to 20Meg! Having said that, we were never getting near the 10Meg we were paying for before?

I feel a bit bad about it just now, but no doubt that will change on Monday when we got our 31 H/D and movie channels
Cheers, Smudger.

Originally Posted by joyrider1 (Post 34736150)

More up to date Stuart, andSky are creating 1000 jobs to meet demand in the next quarter


Sky slashes price of Sky+ HD box

Wednesday, January 28 2009, 09:22 GMT

By James Welsh
Sky slashes price of Sky+ HD box

Sky has cut the purchase price of its flagship Sky+ HD box from £150 to £49 with immediate effect.

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