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Originally Posted by nialli
My experience has been that Freeview's okay for the BBC channels but everything else on the platform has very poor PQ, especially the likes of More4, E4 and Film4. The Virgin TV channels (Dave, UKHistory, Virgin1) are a little better. Lots of digital artefacts and poor rendering. And I live in an area with perfect Freeview reception (couple of miles from Crystal Palace) with three separate Freeview tuners to compare (two built in to TVs, the third in my Panasonic DVD recorder).
By comparison, the picture on both my V+ and Samsung V box is fantastic; no contest. I'm viewing the V+ via HDMI and the quality is near-HD (on the SD rendering). Samsung is on a smaller Sony screen (20") via SCART and is a huge improvement over the Freeview on the set.
Obviously experiences are different for everyone, but if you find Freeview superior to VM's picture, there was something wrong with your local config.
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I don't doubt that there was but what with the necessity to reboot every day in order to get the EPG to load, the rediculous warnings shown twice a day about "you can't use your remote as we are updating some settings" and as VM showed absolutely no interest in fixing it with repeated engineers telling me "that's just the way it is you will have to put up with it" I dumped it and got Sky+. I have found Sky+ vastly superior to VM DTV in every conceivable way.
I see from posts here that many people suffer the same problems.
According to some posters though, they never or seldom have to reboot and find their VM DTV more than satifactory but if I am to believe the many engineers who have attended then the whole VM DTV network was as poor as my service. Who to believe? Well I only have my own experience to use as a yardstick and so it is the only standard I can judge the service by, everything else is hearsay.