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Stuart · 18-02-2009, 15:04

Actually, I have no particular loyalty to VM. In fact, i dropped their broadband a couple of years back to go to Be*.

I also wasn't making the point the Sky don't lead VM in HD subscribers. They do, and I would be foolish to suggest otherwise.

I was making the point that HD in general has not had a great takeup. I can't find the link, but the figures I saw were from last year, so not that out of date.

Edit: Just done some Googling. The figures as at October 31st 2008 are considerably lower than I had read, at 531,000. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...bscribers.html. Compare that with Sky+ whch ADDED 421,000 users in the same quarter. Also, 531,000 out of a subscribed user base of just over 9 million is about 5% take up.

It's also worth noting that this forum, much as I love it, is not represenative of the average VM or Sky user.

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Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: I have switched...... Actually, I have no particular loyalty to VM. In fact, i dropped their broadband a couple of years back to go to Be*. I also wasn't making the point the Sky don't lead VM in HD subscribers. They do, and I would be foolish to suggest otherwise. I was making the point that HD in general has not had a great takeup. I can't find the link, but the figures I saw were from last year, so not that out of date. Edit: Just done some Googling. The figures as at October 31st 2008 are considerably lower than I had read, at 531,000. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitalt...bscribers.html. Compare that with Sky+ whch ADDED 421,000 users in the same quarter. Also, 531,000 out of a subscribed user base of just over 9 million is about 5% take up. It's also worth noting that this forum, much as I love it, is not represenative of the average VM or Sky user.