[Chad]

Originally Posted by Emel

Lex you make a very fair point. Until recently I was happy with Virgin's Olympic offering as it was the best I could get and I ordered a Tivo.

Now that I know that it is possible to receive these streams in a recordable form it is my main entertainment priority to receive them, especially as the sports I am most interested in are likely to get poor coverage on the main channels and life means I can't be at home all the time watching an unrecordable stream.

What I would like to see now is openness from Virgin on how they will broadcast this massive national event. Virgin generally keep the new channel discussions close to their chest for commercial reasons. This, however, is a different situation as the BBC is a public broadcaster whose output is paid for by the licence fee.

I am prepared to by patient for a while but I need to know where I stand a fair bit before the Olympics. I pay Virgin over £1,000 a year and am a long term customer because for me Virgin offered the best overall package and I can't justify the expense of splitting providers.

The Olympics for me are a priority and I am soon going to have to find a way of receiving the recordable streams. Clearly the happiest solution would be if Virgin provide the streams as per Freesat and Sky. If, for whatever reason, they decide not to I am going to have to cut back on something, compromise, research the most economic solution and source a supplier in what could be a busy time.

So more than anything I need to know where I stand as soon as possible. I hope you understand my position.

Fantastic post. My thoughts and feelings exactly. I'm pretty sure many Virgin TV customers without TiVo want some assurances at the moment too.