[Raider999]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

No, Den, completely and utterly wrong. The fact that I am getting annoyed at the deteriorating quality of pay-tv doesn't mean that I am yet ready to stop my subscription. I still benefit from getting all my Netflix watch list collated together with my recorded programmes, and there are still programmes I watch on pay tv channels that are not available elsewhere except via pay per view.

But I used to be able to record three or four programmes a week from Sky One and more from Sky Two. Nowadays, hardly anything on those channels that interests me and I can't remember the last time I watched anything from Sky Two, which isn't even available in HD. But of course you need to subscribe to the Full House to get all the benefits of cable that I use, and so paying on a lower tier is not an option. I have to admit that I am paying a lot of money for very little.

One bright spot is the new Virgin Media UHD channel, which stands head and shoulders above any of the Sky fare, even though currently it only broadcasts for a few hours per night. I have been watching Start-Up, The Art of More and a number of the nature programmes. House of Cards I have already seen but is superb. Shut Eye looks good, too, although I have yet to start watching that. All of this content is available in UHD quality and there are no commercial breaks at all. Strangely, it is not yet available on demand, but I hope that is coming.

The Virgin Exclusives are also worth watching. Again, the quality of those I've seen to date is also very good.

So enough reasons to stick with conventional pay-tv at the moment, but the deterioration of programming on Sky is both disappointing and sad. Unfortunately, I can see the way this is all going.

How can virgin's UHD channel be head and shoulders above any of the sky fare.


Excluding BT Sports rights, Sky have numerous Premier League games on UHD, virgin have none - unless I am missing something