Originally Posted by dontpannic

I'm sorry mate, we shouldn't have to explain things to you, especially the dish thing. In some places Satellite dishes are banned which is why usualsuspect cannot have Sky - I know this anyway. People should NOT be forced to have a dish installed to get a damn channel.

As for the above quote I find that quite rude. A Virgin Media employee has told you that the feed coming into the Telewest network was distorted. He can't prove it because there is no way to get screen captures and audio captures from the equipment, but when you know that the Sky broadcast to the headend was distorted with AD I would be pretty damn sure that Sky were to blame. Why should a Virgin Media employee have to "explain themselves" to you? Why should a general member of the public have to "explain themselves" to you?

As for the slashed tyres comment, yes, you may see some kids around the car, but there is only one feed, one secure feed from Sky to Virgin Media - so because the feed is coming in from Sky, that would be the source, no?

On a side note and a last paragraph to try and wrench this thread back on topic, I'm ex-ntl Bromley and saw no problems with Sky One. There was slight distortion but was not really noticeable as I was watching on a 21" CRT, which is pretty good at hiding the distortion, but funny that it all went when the "Virgin Media is Crap" adverts came on...

Now arcamalpha, It's a bit of a large coincidence, don't you agree? Especially as the distortion was most noticeable during 24 and Lost.