What are you watching instead of Sky One ?

[AndyCambs]

Originally Posted by Rik

Im not watching anything instead of Sky One as I never watched it in the first place

Same as Rik - I generally go for quality programmes.

[ultimate]

My wife watched 24, she misses it but not so desperately, and she doesn;t want to let SKY win. We are happy with Virgin Central, I am happy cos there is no adverts there, and she is happy with the choice of programmes, and we all say SKY can stick SKY1 up Murdoch's behind.

[lauzjp]

Originally Posted by 12noon

I tend to look more towards the National Geographic, History and Discovery channels to find an alternative. For some reason though, even though i'm a bit of a sci-fi buff, i don't look at the sci-fi channel.

my other half is the same - though it may take a bit of convincing to get him to watch said channels - once he gets into it (after ooh about 5 minutes) he'll moan if I change the channel I watch those channels all the time, so I feel quite smug when he gets moany if I change it!

[GuestUK]

I don't watch television that much, but when I do it was often Sky One. Now that I've lost it, when I do want to sit back and relax a little, I'm going through my old archive of recorded programs (including Sky One from the past - is that cheating? ) as well as a few programs I like on UK Gold and the BBC. I'm glad that I have a PVR on my computer so I've been able to build up quite a nice library of television over the years. It's not as nice as new programs, but it's better than nothing.

One thing that I've seen a lot of recently though, is that a lot of people seem to be downloading the episodes they used to watch on Sky One over the internet. I can understand, but my worry is that if lots of people do this, Virgin wont realise that a lot of people want Sky back, thus leaving the channel gone, until everyone else will either have to switch to Sky or join in the downloading :/

[AndyCambs]

Originally Posted by GuestUK

One thing that I've seen a lot of recently though, is that a lot of people seem to be downloading the episodes they used to watch on Sky One over the internet. I can understand, but my worry is that if lots of people do this, Virgin wont realise that a lot of people want Sky back, thus leaving the channel gone, until everyone will either have to switch to Sky or join in the downloading :/

Don't forget that Virgin have been busy buying programmes for the VOD (I'm guessing Virgin Central), and that includes that programme Lost.
And if they're downloading the programmes - why would they want to move to Sky anyway?

[GuestUK]

Originally Posted by AndyCambs

Don't forget that Virgin have been busy buying programmes for the VOD (I'm guessing Virgin Central), and that includes that programme Lost.
And if they're downloading the programmes - why would they want to move to Sky anyway?

Oops, sorry - misesd out the world 'else' for 'everyone else'. What I was thinking was that if Virgin get the impression that lots of people don't want Sky One because they are downloading episodes instead, they may not consider it worthwhile to get the channels back. Those that don't download will then be left without it, and they will be the ones that will either need to switch to Sky or move to downloading themselves, whereas if downloading wasn't an option, there would probably be more people wanting to get the channel back and thus more pressure upon Virgin to try to find a way to bring it back. It was just the impression I've got from what was on the news, what has been posted on Virgin's fairplay section and on various forums recently - a lot of people are taking the view "I don't care Virgin dropped Sky One, I can download them instead now", which is fine for those that can or will do that, but more difficult for those that can't. In the current anti-downloading situations that are arising, it could pose a particular problem if people switch to downloading, and then Virgin is forced to give over the details of downloaders, downloading is blocked/prevented/filtered and such - hopefully unlikely, but possible - by which poiint it'd be too late to do anything about it.

[Nilrem]

I'm catching up with various programmes on other channels, and on demand (as well as some of my DVD backlog).

Grand Designs (great series) on VOD, Rome on DVD, things like Fraiser on Paramount and that's just a start.
I've also been making use of the V+ box

[amateurfool]

Before sky 1 departed, i would get in from work, see which ep of american chopper was on discovery, see which ep of topgear was on uktvg2, and then see what ep of futurama was on sky 1.
Now, i check discovery, check uktvg2, and then head for VOD to watch those programmes i missed on their first showing.

I love VOD, i have finally watched the first 10 episodes of "Lost", i can see the attraction, it's "Car crash TV", it's a bit like when everyone crawls along a motorway to gawk at a 5 car pile-up.

[Mr Clean]

Only thing I wanted to watch on Sky1 was that new series starting tonight about the last 24 Hrs of famous people's lives but I'll download them and watch them at my own leisure.

Been watching alot of stuff on the OnDemand. Shameless and Red Dwarf amongst others. Might watch some classic Father ted tonight

Sky can bite me. It's pants.

[fizgog]

Before the switch off, I started taping all the sky stuff onto the harddrive (about 200+ hours)

Still feels like I'm watching sky one - minus the adverts :-)

[Pea-Pod]

I never used to watch Sky One anyway. Basically I only really watch the Sky Sports Channels.

[c1rcle]

What's Sky One?

Giganews

[mpmc]

Sky Wonk (It isn't intended to be dirty, If you think that you've got a dirty mind... not me, It's what my mother calls it )

But anyway no one has really noticed, Although my sister is having withdrawal symptoms from not seeing the Simpsons...

No one else in the house could care less..

[luckybleeder]

£4.75 for 50 gig a month news access

Cancelled VM phone and TV services last month due to billing errors and with no intention of switching to sky, i'm saving a small fortune

If Richard really wanted to stick one on sky then he should add the tv binaries on the free news server