Thread: HD Virgin v Sky TV
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Old 14-12-2012, 17:23   #54
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Re: Virgin v Sky TV
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Originally Posted by speedski View Post
I have both.

Had Sky a week - the box is like night and day to the 1TB TiVO upstairs - that thing is SO SLOW. The Sky I find is laid out more logically and the remote was clearly designed by someone who understands the bottom of a remote should be frikkin flat!

The channels on Virgin are more logically laid out, Sky well frankly they are all over the place. The first supplier who can make all SD channels retune to the HD automatically would be well in the lead in my book as the other half keeps watching stuff in SD not realising there is a HD channel out there.

I miss the third tuner on my lounge box, we have it on the TiVo upstairs recording all chick related programming (there will be no kardashians on my Sky box lol).

The channel ranges was all about the HD, I was getting really fed up of virgin dropping channels instead of adding them, the price increase was the final straw.

It doesn't help when you pay the same for Sky Sports on virgin as you do on sky with a whole heap less in HD.

Now it comes to apps, sorry but Sky have Virgin licked in this category, the TV guide and the relate app wipe the floor with the Virgin TV guide. They really need to sort that out, its so painful to use the TV guide.

The TV anywhere app I have tried to use, but given the TiVO isn't wired up tot he router I cant get the full benefit of it.

On the subject of apps, only one other app worth mentioning. Sky. Go.

I cant fault the Internet service from Virgin, really can't, but virgin really are on a slippery slope with TV - TiVO is ok, but slow, on demand is ok, but too little in HD for my liking.

At the end of the day if you're paying premium service prices HD should be pretty much standard...

I won't deny, the next big worry I have is BT Sports, as a rugby fan they have the full Aviva season next year, this is a really big problem - I'm hoping Sky get the deal instead of Virgin if I am brutally honest...
that's down to sky not VM as sky is with holding the channels even though VM customers are paying for them grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr @sky
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