bugmenott

Personally I would go with sky for the channels, service, ease of use, for less crashing of the set top box (freeze needing a restart, if your old or infirm or just got a bad back!! AS IN MY CASE!!).

If you want a crap customer service, no replies to your email queries, repeats after repeats after repeats. We are talking Mind Boggling Repeats, like last nights film run three times in a week! or Police Camera Action that's 22 years old, the number of channels means naff all as they repeat programs across the channels so when you actually work out how many new programs you have viewed in a week it works out at about 3 or 4 compared with 40 on terrestrial.!! (family package)

Despair!, utter despair when you visit your broke mate who bought a £19.99 free-to-air box and gets most of the interesting channels for free anyway. Your left wondering why you pay em ANY money at all!! esspecially when you see just how long you have to wait for the adverts to finish as they BLAST the sound into your house waking your deaf grandma in her bedroom. You have no choice but to scramble to find the remote about every 15 mins, it litterally drives you mad!!!!!!!!, forget any sort of sly plans like the one I hatched once where by I worked out I could hop between two channels in a bid to avoid their once every fifteen minutes brainwashing. This fails as they try to schedual the programmes so the adverts all come on together. However I have had limited success in choice of program as if you include 1 BBC program then you can miss them altogether but I do worry about the whole effect this is having on me, lol. It is possible thou to watch two programs AND get most of the actual plots THAT IS HOW LONG THEY ARE!.

And if, IF! your not driven mad by their 'Catch Up Tv' a feature whereby they store 'SELECTION' of the best programmes from the previous week, now this is a real red herring trust me, I have very nearly come close to kicking in my screen relying on this pile of *****. Why I hear you ask, well you try finding out what THEY intend to record for example, like last weeks IMMIGRATION: The inconvienient truth for example, this was a three part documentary over three weeks! about the title so they put the first one, then the second and then not the third. An isolated incident, think again this has happened to me so often I really am setting myself up for it if I don't remember to ignore the feature, you have no choice if there are two programmes on, which one do you watch? It aint on the web buddy! oh no, unless they have since I last looked there is no listings anywhere making the whole thing USELESS! And how about the programs they don't want you to watch! Obviously the top best program of the week but insensitive to the government and that aint going on! (Despatches last week),

Having rattled on about all of that, personally I could not live with myself handing one penny to that Australian ******* Murdoch, so for now if I want anything extra I think free view will have to do, trust me unless you can put up with all of what I have wrote above I wouldn't touch Virgin with a sterilised barge pole!

As a POST SCRIPT to this I have just learnt VIRGIN is in talks over implementing some new spyware which tracks online privacy and well I think my relationship with VIRGIN has ended, I was truly happy when Mr Branson took over Telewest, you couldn't get any more arrogant than Telewest but now I can see many qualities in him that I so dislike about Murdoch, Virgin leaves a bad taste in your mouth!

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watch that get deleted