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Originally Posted by moroboshi
I'm no fan of Murdoch, I despise the man and all he stands for, so it pains me to praise Sky One. However praise it I must, as it's line up of Lost, 24, Fringe, and House is simply one of the best around. I'm sure it shows a whole truck load of tabloid slime as well, but I'm obviously never going to watch that.
Living TV seems to pride itself on serving the bizarre tastes of fans of the supernatural and other nonsense. If they presented these shows as fiction, then fine, but they don't. Selling fiction as facts is morally bankrupt to say the least. It's what I would expect from something with the Murdoch name on it, not Virgin.
As for all areas getting the new HD channels soon, maybe I'll be surprised and Virgin will keep their word. Think back though, think of the years of total incompetance and disinterest in HD. I think I have plenty of reasons to remain sceptical. Also fresh in my memory is the totally bungled 50mbit roll out. I had to endure 6 months of basically broken internet access, where my connection was simply off far more than it was on, and many (20+) engineer visits where they would be able to get me back online for a day or two at most until something broke at the headend again. Incompetance seems to be VM's speciality.
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Personally I'm not a fan of either channel. They both have a few American imports and loads of tabloid rubbish. Also Sky 1 had programmes with Derek Acorah trying to contact Michael Jackson so I still fail to see why Living is excrement and Sky one is a jewel or why there is something wrong with people who watch Living but it is OK to watch Sky 1. The fact that you think a few American imports and loads of tabloid rubbish makes the channel a jewel suggests you are no more discerning a viewer than those you choose to look down your nose at.
Neither have you presented any evidence that the NGTV roll out will be overdue by many months in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.