Slow day today, so perusing some forum chatter and was wondering the following. Some users (not all) seem to have great difficulty getting Sky content, e.g. not being added as extras etc.
This got me thinking if Sky is a must, why access it via VM, and not directly from Sky? Maybe I'm missing an obvious point no doubt.
I don't have any Sky or VM TV, so it's just curiosity really :-)
We have a Sky-Q, VM Broadband only & 3x VOIP via Sipgate.
The Sky-Q has a Sky Dish + is connected via Ethernet (or Wi-Fi) & records to an internal hard disk. So you can skip ads during playback from the disk, and all the big name streaming TV apps are present too.
On the odd occasions when there has been several hours of internet outage, it is very handy to not be totally reliant on streamed TV.
Virgin's TV platform is closed, therefore you can only access services via VM's network.
Thus VM have wholesale carriage agreements with each broadcaster for them to "inject" their services at the national headend, which VM then regionally distribute within their network.
It's the same reason why VM's online services (Stream, and TiVo/V6/TV360 OnDemand) will only work over a VM broadband connection.
TiVo, V6 & TV360 live TV continue to work during internet-outages, although TV360 has a couple of quirks where BBC channels are concerned. TiVo & V6 recordings will also work flawlessly, although TV360 recordings have some issues.
