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Originally Posted by batchain
Perhaps because it's the most popular pay tv service in their not to shabby 12m addressable homes. Perhaps because, if given a choice, most people actually opt for Virgin TV over Sky TV.
That would be their badly over overburdened broadband offering that wipes the floor with Sky, BT, O2/Be and every other ISP in the UK, that will still trash BT FTTC when it fully rolls out at less than half the speed of Virgin Media in 2012. But why settle for one, when you already have two 'hero' products. Remember, TV/VOD along with broadband are the two areas where Virgin claim superiority over others, two areas where they claim to offer a 'richer' offering than their rivals.
Those that want a choice (including the Home Secretary) are more likely opt for Virgin TV which offers the most comprehensive pay tv and largest ppv porn service on UK TV. V+ was the fastest selling HD DVR in VM areas in 2008 and the best selling Sky DVR does not even support HD, not today, not ever.
Virgin have said no such thing, they not only compete with but beat Sky in their addressable areas where the number one broadband isp is virgin, the number two fixed line telco is virgin, the number one pay tv service is Virgin, the number one TVoD service (in the entire country) is Virgin and the best selling HD DVR in 2008 was called V+. As for HD, Virgin have already stated that subject to a satisfactory outcome of Ofcom's pay tv review and with the analogue tv closure they will not an only meet Sky for HD, but most likely beat them same as they have always done with the overall TV service, more so since Jan 05 when NTL and Telewest launched what is now the most advanced TV on demand service in the UK.
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Wow, you really must either work for Virgin, or be their no.1 fan, because there's no other way you could come up with some fanciful nonsense.
Better TV than Sky HD? Oh Really?! Wow! I must have missed all Virgin's HD channels, because I've only ever see one part time channel and a microscopic amount of ancient catalogue stuff on VOD. Oh sorry, more HD is 'coming soon', how silly of me to forget. Let's check again in say, 10 years and see if Virgin still only have one HD channel. I suspect they will. And as for Virgin having the best on demand TV service, again that is utter pish. Try an Apple TV. Vastly, vastly more content, and a good amount of it in HD. There is absolutely no comparision, and Apple TV also has the added advantage of a nice user interface too.
And better broadband than Be? Oh Really? I love the way my 20mbit connection slows down to less than 0.5mbit during the evenings, and I'm just crazy about those super restrictive download and bandwidth caps! Virgin/NTL/Telewest used to have a good broadband offering, but it's so incredibly over subscribed now as to be virtually useless during peak times (ie. when most people actually want to use it), and so throttled with download caps as to be anything but built for the future.