virgin media v sky

Never had sky so cannot compare, love the Virgin + box with I think 60 hours of hard drive, also you can record two programmes at the same time while watching a third

I have both and much prefer the V+ to Sky+ especially for the fact you can record 2 things while watching a third. The only downside is the menu and channel changing can be a bit slow.

Skys Red button games not available on the Virgin package

Had sky for years and there is no way I could switch to virgin, the response time is ridiculously slow in my experience.

another plus for virgin is that it is not affected by adverse weather conditions.

what are the set up costs and instalition costs,and lowest package for virgin

When I had cable the tv was adversely affected by wet or very sunny weather. Hard to credit but true.

80 hours on my V+ box. Very easy to use, extremely useful.

virgin for me. to each their own. its 80 hours hard drive.

the on demand stuff is better on Virgin, more space on the V+ box as others have said.

downsides are:

i. the software on the V+ and regular box is dog**. utter utter dog**. slow to load menus, slow to change channels, and some filthy quirks which require constant pressing of the OK button.

ii. no red button for sky sports.

iii. very noisy fan. noticeably noisy.

only ii affects me. no problems with others. do you need a software update ?

sorry I said 60 hours on the V + box but it is 80 hours

I have the full V+ package and am more than happy, except that I couldn't possibly watch everything that I would like to. Life's too short.

As well as what's been mentioned , you've got ,catch up tv, 1000's of free music videos and tv choice on demand which has now got loads of series and programmes free.

Ffs, they should pay me a fee :)

cheers troops ,so the downside with virgin is you cant choose which cl game to watch ,but the v+ side looks good

yes that is it ^

Yes no red button but you can still get three games on live on a champions league night.

thanks alot lads ,much appreciated

Once it is up and running Virgin is very good but I have had problems with two installations concerning broadband. The first one they spent hours of my time telling me to do this and that, then they said it was a regional fault and it would be fixed in a few weeks and then when they said the regional fault had been fixed my broadband was still intermittent so they at last sent a man to see about it. He just took one look at it and said it had been installed incorrectly, no surprise considering the installer had been on his phone to his girlfriend the whole time he was installing it. He fixed it and it was a lot better but stll dropped out occasionally. On an unrelated matter we had to call Virgin out because the freeholder objected to the cable crossing the pavement, they fixed that and it was only then that they told me the cable was ancient and asked wether I had had problems!!

When I moved I remembered what the last repairer had said and when they came to install the cable I would not let them use the one already there, a brown one, and insisted they laid the new black cable - they were not pleased, however they did it. I then had a problem a week later which they fixed almost immediately and I have rarely had any problems since. So insist they use the new black cable and not use any already there that is brown.

Another problem I encountered moving, which was the worst, was that you lose all the programmes you have taped if you move to an imcompatible area. I had to give up my last box and they gave me a new one. They said it was not possible to transfer the programmes to the new box. 80 hours of lovingly recorded premier television and films all lost!

Sorry if I have gone on a bit, but lots of people are with Virgin now and I wish I had known the above.

virgin have been quality 4 me, free espn an a great on demand service, 80 hrs of space, can record 2 things n still watch an other and fast broadband

owl4life

has just posted exactly what i have got, and was about to post about

its awesome stuff :)

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I've just migrated to Virgin (still to be installed), but worth mentioning that you can have 50 photos printed per month with one of their packages. Very handy for someone like me who leaves them on the hard drive, much to the chagrin of Mrs C.

you can get 1TB Sky HD boxes now,stores 240 hours of HD , plus video on demand is coming shortly which is what Virgin has i beleive ?? and 3DTV in April s comign on Sky.

Also worth noting that, at present, Virgin doesn't have the Sky Sports HD or Sky Movies HD channels.

Sky are on the Darkside !!!

Virgin Media has laughable customer service so pray nothing goes wrong.