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Old 5th November 2008   #1 (permalink)
 
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Sky 1 back on VM

All I've got to say is at bloody last.. Sky and Virgin Media resolve distribution row | Media | guardian.co.uk

I've missed my Simpsons on Sky1 and SkySportsNews.. All they need now is Sky's HD coverage and ill be a happy chappy.
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Some interesting bits in that article!

"The loss of Sky1 from the Virgin Media's 3.5m households stripped away about one-third of the entertainment channel's audience.

Sky Media saw about 8% of the commercial advertising airtime it could offer customers disappear after Sky's channels were taken off Virgin Media's service, costing the operation about £25m annually."

Sounds like it was equally painful for both parties.
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Always is.. that's why Virgin pushed so hard.
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I've learned to love Virgin channels, as they bought the rights to a load of Star Trek series'

I never bothered with Lost or 24, but I always like a blast of Simpson's.
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Just got my virgin stuff hooked up this morning... very happy to hear this is sorted!
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Oh bugger, I thought my choice was pretty clear cut until I read that!
Back to the drawing board... actually, I'll probably just end up with Russian roulette to chose
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We couldn't do without sky sports news being on 24/7
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£49 for XL TV, XL Broadband, XL Phone, Line Rental and free Setanta was pretty clear cut for me.

The ondemand virgin stuff is great and all included (except movies) with the XL packages.

Also used quidco for £65 cash back and another £50 discount from virgin when I signed up
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Why - So you can be reminded of ........

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Oh bugger, I thought my choice was pretty clear cut until I read that!
Back to the drawing board... actually, I'll probably just end up with Russian roulette to chose
Way I see it:

VM: Faster Broadband unless you get a really unlucky area which is hit with students and loads of bittorent users
Sky: Loads of HD (which costs more).

Broadband was what won me over but I do wish I had the HD channels
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Vm's Broadband has always been spot on for me here in Bristol, had it since early 2000, and it's still going strong I don't bother calling when it falls over, it's pointless so I just wait for it to be fixed But it only does this maybe once every 6 months that I've noticed... and I have ADSL from orange on my landline as well as a backup
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I believe the withdrawal of some SKY channels from VM in 2006 also resulted in SKY not renewing other channels with VM, although I doubt many SKY customers noticed

I was sorry to lose SKY one and SKY News on VM, however since then I only lost LOST, Battlestar Galactica, and the slightly superior news offering
On the plus side Virgin 1 recently offered the Terminator series

Ironically, I have been able to keep up to date with LOST on VM through the TV On Demand service, it is a shame VM didn't promote it more

Now what about Channel 120, that used to be SKY one, so where will SKY one be now, or would that be why the History+1 channel was removed last week?
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We moved from VM to sky due to a rubbish STB (it'd take 3-4 seconds to change a channel...) with regular brief outages on channels, regular box crashing we got through 3-4 boxes each with some kind of problem. We're still on VM broadband, but looking at changing to Be which offers what seems to be an equal service but without the shaping
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I've never found the traffic shaping to be an issue, I just schedule my downloads to occur overnight
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