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Re: Do Virgin Media care about TV anymore?
Not very helpful I’m afraid - as I mention I have BOTH Sky and Virgin, different rooms but same tv and setup and Sky looks much sharper even on SD content — hard to tell on the content I checked but BBC One Scotland looked the same as BBC One NE&C and 4Seven was a little better than E4 HD! Just a shame I can’t order another main Sky Q box rather than just use “minis”. Definitely gonna compare Freeview HD with Virgin HD and I suspect Freeview will win1.7KViews0likes0CommentsDo Virgin Media care about TV anymore?
I’ve had Virgin Media TV since the days of Telewest Active Digital and loved it. But Virgins bitrate over the last couple years are going lower and lower (started when they switched to MPEG4) - I have Sky and Virgin (since you can’t have two main Sky boxes) and HD is getting more and more softer - changing the box from 4K to 1080p helped A LITTLE bit definitely not as good as Sky. E4 HD is so poor that even HD on Channel 4 On Demand is higher! There is a few channels that look great in HD but it’s a handful. Theres also issues with the encoder at Skys or Virgins end with Sky Comedy HD - half the time having white speckles on screen (static) with audio and picture jumping (doesn’t happen on Sky) and this happens so so often - it will eventually get fixed but then will break again later Theres other SD channels which I can’t even watch as the picture is so poor (low bitrate/resolution) like Really, Challenge and That’s TV is AWFUL even the audio is low bitrate, as if they’re rebroadcasting already squeezed Freeview. Think there’s only ONE channel that looks better in SD on Virgin and that’s TalkingPictures Also hate the implementation of “Fast Channels” and think it’s just a marketing gimmick as there’s no TV guide implemented (even Samsung TV Plus can do this) so without clicking, waiting for it to load there’s no real way of knowing the episode or show A bit of an bitrate increase and better sources (away from terrestrial rebroadcasts) and it could be a great service, but watching the Sky in the other room is just superior. Hope Virgin will pull their finger out. This is NOT pixelation and isn’t a signal issue.1.8KViews1like3CommentsWatchlist
Hey there I really liked Sky Stream but want to know if the Watchlist is similar to the playlists? Say I wanna watch EastEnders instead of manually finding each episode on iPlayer - I can go in watchlist/playlist and it’ll show the episodes in there and link direct to iPlayer? is this how it works? thanks718Views0likes1Comment