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countbathory · 13-02-2012, 01:12

Ive got to say i too have noticed that over the past year or two the quality of the picture on virginmedia's SD channels as got worse an worse, there HD channels are so few its hardly worth meantioning them (i don't could +1 channels).
I have been with virginmedia for 12yrs or so when they were cabletel, So im not some new customer simply complaining cause they have nothing better to do. I have had the V+ ,V hd an most recently the Tivo box.
My wife watches alot of shows on 5star for example and to be totally honest its worse than youtube. It looks as tho someone messed up the codecs or the compression ratio. I have a 40inch sony 3d lcd tv an i was so sick of the bad picture i cancelled the tv service completely an moved to sky+ HD, i know it works out i pay slightly more (about £5) but man, the tv picture is incredible and there so much more HD.
I hate to say it but when it comes to TV virgins service an quality is simply not worth the cash unlike there broadband.
I would recommend if you get no joy with virgin CS and your still not happy with the quality of the picture then take a look at sky.

13-02-2012, 01:12	#3
countbathory Inactive Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 76	Re: Dire picture quality Ive got to say i too have noticed that over the past year or two the quality of the picture on virginmedia's SD channels as got worse an worse, there HD channels are so few its hardly worth meantioning them (i don't could +1 channels). I have been with virginmedia for 12yrs or so when they were cabletel, So im not some new customer simply complaining cause they have nothing better to do. I have had the V+ ,V hd an most recently the Tivo box. My wife watches alot of shows on 5star for example and to be totally honest its worse than youtube. It looks as tho someone messed up the codecs or the compression ratio. I have a 40inch sony 3d lcd tv an i was so sick of the bad picture i cancelled the tv service completely an moved to sky+ HD, i know it works out i pay slightly more (about £5) but man, the tv picture is incredible and there so much more HD. I hate to say it but when it comes to TV virgins service an quality is simply not worth the cash unlike there broadband. I would recommend if you get no joy with virgin CS and your still not happy with the quality of the picture then take a look at sky.