Glad to hear Virgin Stream is working out well for you. 🙂 .
One noticeable difference I noticed between picture quality being much better on Sky Stream than Virgin stream in SD was Blaze and Sky Replay. On Virgin Stream both these channels were a pixelated mess but on Sky Stream they look HD quality. With that said in Catchup programs I noticed Sky Stream says Blaze and Sky Replay shows are HD so maybe Virgin Stream only have these channels in SD whereas Sky has them in HD which may be the reason for the difference in quality.
> VM have had their own firmware issues but channel changing was faster and the box was a hell of a lot snappier in response than Sky's...
I thought Virgin Stream was extremely fast and was loving how slick the interface was but after the addition of the +1 channels and after playing a UHD channel the interface was no longer slick and needed a reboot for slickness to restored. Maybe the box is slightly underpowered when running UHD channels or with the number of channels run on the platform. This will probably have been resolved since I last used Virgin Stream though possibly with a firmware update
> Stream also was plagued with firmware issues for me and users in their own forum like "Please wait for the channel to load", often with a black screen despite an excellent connection.
I haven't noticed this issue once. Although I am running a TP Link Archer AX55 router instead of the Sky router and my living room with the Sky Stream is in the next room to the router so that might be why I haven't experienced the issue (or I'm just lucky).
Thanks for your input on this. Great to have a discussion like this.
Once my Sky contract is over I might check back in the thread to learn of improvements that have been made to Virgin Stream which may get me to move back 🙂