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mentalis · 29-04-2008, 13:58

Apologies if someone has already started a thread like this, but is the grass greener with Sky, or does it just look that way?

After reading all the horror stories on here about the way Virgin TV is going and I thinking of jumping what appears to be a sinking ship.

I have the V+ with XL TV package (as well as Internet and phone but I may keep those - according to Samknows I would be almost better off with a dial up modem than ADSL as I live more than 2Km from the exchange).

I realise that I would lose VOD (which I don't watch so much anyway), the bigger storage of the V+, the three TV tuners and the fact the box is only rented, but it looks like I would get a nicer looking, probably much quieter, box, more HD channels, more SD channels (even though much is not worth watching) and become a customer of a company that has money to invest.

Also, I might be able to replace the old big white satellite wok/dish on the side of my house (was there when I bought the house - it's just for decoration) with a smaller Sky one.

My mum has Sky+ and has had no problems. Are there any horror stories with Sky?

29-04-2008, 13:58	#1
mentalis cf.geek Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Warrington Services: \| Freeview \| VirginTV XL with TiVo \| BB L \| Phone M \| Posts: 564	Grass is greener? Apologies if someone has already started a thread like this, but is the grass greener with Sky, or does it just look that way? After reading all the horror stories on here about the way Virgin TV is going and I thinking of jumping what appears to be a sinking ship. I have the V+ with XL TV package (as well as Internet and phone but I may keep those - according to Samknows I would be almost better off with a dial up modem than ADSL as I live more than 2Km from the exchange). I realise that I would lose VOD (which I don't watch so much anyway), the bigger storage of the V+, the three TV tuners and the fact the box is only rented, but it looks like I would get a nicer looking, probably much quieter, box, more HD channels, more SD channels (even though much is not worth watching) and become a customer of a company that has money to invest. Also, I might be able to replace the old big white satellite wok/dish on the side of my house (was there when I bought the house - it's just for decoration) with a smaller Sky one. My mum has Sky+ and has had no problems. Are there any horror stories with Sky?