Virgin Media v. Sky ?

[MrBen]

I'm quite impressed with the new Virgin Media with it's great on demand, BBC iplayer, Virgin + box, HD stuff etc. But I still feel like my Dad in 1982 when he bought a top of the range BetaMax. I have Sky envy.

Which is best?

[Mick Mac]

I'm on Virgin but I pay ?25 for Sky Sports - I feel better not giving my money directly to Sky - cos I hate 'em.

[EDKiwi]

I have Sky, would have preferred Virgin but I am in a rented flat which already had sky installed. Love the HD+ but there is no on-demand stuff that you'd get with Virgin which I would like.

Before moving to ED I had Tiscali because the landlord would only let Sky or Virgin be installed if 'it could be installed without running any cables', so in the absence of magical wireless Virgin and Sky I went to Tiscali, liked the on-demand but the whole system was very unreliable.

[bigbadwolf]

I've got the Virgin package and the broadband speed is undeniably impressive. However, I can't stand the freeview set up as it's tacky in it's appearance and I simply don't like it.

[sophiesofa]

We've got virgin and we had countless issues when having it installed inluding being sort of verbally abused in our own home! I think I spent in excess of 3 hours on the phone or emailing them about the installation cock ups and the man concerned has since been 'disciplined' but it still makes me angry just thinking about him. On demand is great but I do agree with bigbadwolf that the freeview set up is tacky and the remote is very cheap feeling but then I suppose it was free so you can't really complain. We've just got the cheapo package which works fine for us.