Pete wrote:The newer updates have improved padding however I think the difference is that virgin's epg still isn't dynamic.
TiVo has improved greatly since it first came out, its far faster and better designed for the British way of doing things. The initial release was a bit like mouseboy had coded it "you're wrong, american is better".
The other nice thing with TiVo is it has fab little connected apps, which given how poor Virgin's interactivity used to be from the Telewest / NTL days was a real treat.
Phone is expensive though, and if I didn't have poor mobile reception I'd dump it. You can get some good deals if you argue with retentions but they're not as big pushovers as they used to be sadly.
Broadband keeps getting faster and faster. I paid for 10meg originally in 2007 and it's now 50mb. I could get 150 if I wanted I believe. The only issue is they seem to throttle youtube a bit during 6-8pm but otherwise the broadband is magnificent.
Dynamic, that's the word I was trying to think of thanks. I remember the good days of cable, when they were the best of Sky plus cable exclusive channels. I think it was a bad move selling the channels they did have espcially to Sky. There is still nothing to stop them launching a cable only and get deals like the Sky/HBO deal. If I went back to cable I would always have the spat between Sky and Virgin at the back of my mind as they could pull their basic channels again.
I hear (but not used) TiVo isn't as user friendly as Sky+ but having a dedicated 10mg connection for it does sound great. I first had cable when it went digital and the service was terrible for not just weeks but months on end, picture break up no picture, bad stuff, it seems like any new stuff has similar problems with cable but maybe not as bad as that.
PJ
