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Originally Posted by gcampbell
There is no question whatsoever that Sky are better for TV than VM.
Some argue that tivo may supposedly show what you want when you want, but if VM don't have the channels you want then Tivo doesn't do that.
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But the guy who started this thread stated Virgin do carry the channels he wants, so for him personally Virgin offers a better TV package when you include Catch-Up TV, TV on Demand and TiVo.
It's all down to what you want from your TV package. Virgin offer a good balance of linear channels and demand content. For me personally I feel I always have something available to me that I really want to watch on Virgin, regardless of what time of day it is. If linear TV just so happens to be poor, I've got access to thousands of hours worth of content at the touch of a button. Also now that I have TiVo, that works behind the scenes picking up shows I might like too.
Remember if it's just a TV package, you can't access SKY Anytime via SKY unless you have their broadband and phoneline too.
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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
the poin this if you want lots of channels, great vod and fast internet then none of them fit the bill
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If you take SKY Movies and SKY Sports with the XL package on Virgin, you have almost 175 TV channels. That means in a day Virgin are offering almost 4200 hours worth of content accross all of it's channels.
I know we are missing plenty of +1 channels, HD channels and others such as SKY Atlantic and the CBS channels but just how many TV channels do people really need? How many hours worth of TV content do people need access too each day?
If the missing channels from Virgin were all delivering fresh new content then I'd want them too. In reality the vast majority of the programming on the missing channels are tired repeats that in some cases have been on both terrestrial and cable TV tiem and time again. In fact the majority of TV channels sadly fall into this category these days.