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mersey70 · 11-01-2011, 02:33

It just goes to show that every platform has it's pluses and minuses. In my opinion no one is better than the other, it's all down to what programmes interest you.

It's too late now but the OP should have threatened to cancel under the 28 day guarantee if the box is really that bad, are the SA boxes generally that bad? There does seem a lot of posts on this subject though.

As a BT Vision customer before joining VM I can honestly say without any bias that I felt their on demand offer overall was considerably better content wise than VM's (as long as you don't mind SD), let's be clear though the majority of VM's is SD too. Of course OD is what you are predominantly paying for with BT Vision so it should be better. A little bit of HD was available but you had to download it, and I think it was PPV.

However their linear content was vastly inferior to VM as of course it is mainly just freeview.

Take you pick I suppose, both are good in my opinion it just depends what you want.

11-01-2011, 02:33	#10
mersey70 Inactive Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Wirral Services: TV M, L BB, Sky+ HD Posts: 1,485	Re: Catch Up - Disappointing It just goes to show that every platform has it's pluses and minuses. In my opinion no one is better than the other, it's all down to what programmes interest you. It's too late now but the OP should have threatened to cancel under the 28 day guarantee if the box is really that bad, are the SA boxes generally that bad? There does seem a lot of posts on this subject though. As a BT Vision customer before joining VM I can honestly say without any bias that I felt their on demand offer overall was considerably better content wise than VM's (as long as you don't mind SD), let's be clear though the majority of VM's is SD too. Of course OD is what you are predominantly paying for with BT Vision so it should be better. A little bit of HD was available but you had to download it, and I think it was PPV. However their linear content was vastly inferior to VM as of course it is mainly just freeview. Take you pick I suppose, both are good in my opinion it just depends what you want.