Sky vs Virgin Media

[crofter]

Sky are a right shower of robbing c*nts it has to be said, they think they can bully any broadcaster with their inflated bids and prices for whatever takes their fancy, then just hike their already expensive subscription another couple of quid for the "fools" to pay each month.
What subscribers to sky do not take into account is that because he owns half the media world he is just paying these inflated prices mainly to himself in the first place - look at the amount of imported shows on Sky and look at the paltry amount of home produced programmes - almost zero, if I was a Sky Subscriber I would be wanting a bit more British stuff to watch for my hard-earned cash ... they wonder why the world is becoming Americanized??

Sky are also taking their output off freeview shortly too, so freeviewers will lose:
Sky News
Sky Sports News (twiddlesticks)
Sky 3

they will make way for Sky Subscription Channels.

[Sam Slater]

Agreed. Is there any alternative to Sky? They've had it their own way for what? 16 years?

I think it's time the government did something because it's unfair.

[Ned]

He always wades into an arena trying to take on the major player and quite often ends up looking like a twat. From cola to the lottery, he's a walking disaster area and now he's fucked up cable tv.

He's employed an idiot to run his tv firm (anyone who sanctions the EPG renaming channels to Sky Snooze or Sky Sports Snooze has got to have a few maturity problems to deal with) and they are stupid enough to think that viewers will PAY PER EPISODE to watch stuff like series three of Lost in about a year, when they used to get it and lots of other stuff for a lot less. In 12 months anything they've got on their PPV service will be out on DVD anyway.

An over compressed tv channel or a nice commercial DVD package? No contest.

As for the Freeview issue, Sky want to remove some channels and put pay channels on there, but that plan has to be approved by Ofcom. If they really wanted to blow cable out of the water, they'd put Sky One on Freeview and watch Dickie Branson's little company struggle.

I'm an NTL customer of many years and it's taken Virgin a month to fuck up cable, when I've had 12-15 years almost trouble free service.

[Lizard]

Your on the money there Ace, (see my post). He has a smile as false as a witches tit, and owe,s most of his fortune to Mike Oldfield and his parents.
I still cant take him seriously and have never been in a 'Virgin' shop or bought anything Virgin as far as I can remember, I have alway,s chosen to Fly BA as I am scared I might end up sitting next to the grinning cunt.

[Ace]

I remember last week with the Virgin train crash, and he was at the site with his 'everso sincere apologies' looking as though everyone at Virgin had lost a member of the family with the tragic death when in reality he was seething at the possibility that Virgins shares might have slipped a few bob because of consumers confidence with the rail crash.
He went on to say that he was devastated............and 2 days later, he flew off to his private island, Necker

[NeilUK]

Maybe Virgin shouldn't have openly slagged off Sky in there initial adverts after buying NTL. Not a good move as they need the Sky channels very badly. Alot of people complain when a company like Sky takes over, but they just did better than anyone else. Its time the other stopped complaining and whingeing and just became better. Thats the only way of competing, the same applies to Microsoft. People moan that they dominate but so what, they started from scratch like everyone else, they were just better. So were Sky

[one eyed jack]

Well the bad news for them is that they have lost Jack Bauer innit...and Lost. 24 is the only thing I watched for the first time on Sky. Rest of the time its documentaries, animal planet and the missus subjects me to the living channel..where I caught the epsiode of Sexcetera I was on with Real Couples...Fans of Lolly, Taylor Morgan and Donna Marie should look out for. You se them with their clothes on talking too.

[Bob Singleton]

I'm sticking with Ntl, or "Virgin Media" as it's called now. I have a cable, phone and broadband package through them which works out cheaper than switching to Sky and BT.

The only programme I'm going to be missing is Lost... and I can always get the Series 3 box set in a few months or so when it comes out.

As for who is to blame... only Murdoch and Branson know the truth... the general public will continue to be fed lies from both sides as to who offered what and for how much.

From a purely personal point of view I can't stand Murdoch and it's about time someone or something stood up to him. Sky have a history of out-bidding terrestrial rivals for programmes and then hiking up their subscriptions to pay for it... so you either miss out on football/cricket/golf/24/Lost etc. or sign up to ever more exorbitant subscriptions.

[NeilUK]

Actually I'm paying less for my Sky now than I was when I first signed up

[nasty]

Personally I like Sky's Americanized output. If I wanted British programming, I'd stick with the standard terrestrial TV. Simple fact of the matter is, in my TV induced americanized vocabulary...

American foreign policy sucks!
American television rules!