[Niknod]

We had Virgin for a few years, and were very happy with it until a couple of years ago. Losing MTV Classics led me to writing a letter of complaint to Virgin, not that I ever knew it would do any good. When new channel after new channel launched on Sky, (some of which were actually quite decent), but failed to appear on Virgin, I got a little more annoyed, and then when Diva closed down, and they proudly proclaimed their best programmes had simply moved to The Style Network, which Virgin didn't have, nor would get It was the final straw.

I was exceptionally Naive when Sky announced in 2010 their recently purchased channels of Bravo and Virgin 1 would close, but the void would be filled with Sky Atlantic.. I actually believed that this would go for Virgin viewers too, and when people started to fuss about not getting it on here and DS I laughed, believing it was obvious we would be given something to pacify us after the loss of two decent channels, and Atlantic was the obvious choice... but in the end we got nothing. CBS came, and nothing, Sony came, and still silence, MTV Classic disappeared overnight despite the fact it continued pretty much everywhere else, Diva TV went without replacement, and then I was out of the door too.

Sure some of the channels have made a very belated appearance on Virgin, but its not what I expected of a large multi channel operator by any means.

I now have Sky, and miss the Virgin on demand offering, but I do have all of the major broadcasters available. I have MTV Classics back too, which is great news for me, but I have also become attached to Vintage TV... an excellent offering on Sky, but another reason I can never see me returning to Virgin.