HD picture quality - virgin v sky

[john8867]

Hi, have just got off the phone after speaking to virgin about tv upgrades etc (with changes imminent!) and was told by the operator that virgin HD has a far superior picture quality than sky hd. She said that virgin are the market leaders and once u've seen it you won't want sky.

I'm in no position to judge (having not seen either) but wondered if anyone had an opinion?

Cheers

[McMav]

Hi, have just got off the phone after speaking to virgin about tv upgrades etc (with changes imminent!) and was told by the operator that virgin HD has a far superior picture quality than sky hd. She said that virgin are the market leaders and once u've seen it you won't want sky.

I'm in no position to judge (having not seen either) but wondered if anyone had an opinion?

Cheers

Lets be honest she's hardly gonna say Sky is better and we are shite now is she? U havent looked at either but I bet there isnt much in it.

[HoTTDubbER]

virgins HD pack is piss poor they dont even have skysports HD or sky movies HD

i love my sky HD virgins sucks

[ManofScience]

it's not the channels on offer, it's the quality.

there's some debate which of skys channels are 720i and not 1080i (1080p not tranmitted on any platform) but supposedly all VM channels are broadcast in 1080i (even if the source program isn't) . i read it somewhere. twas on the internet so it must be true.

[BIGALZ]

Hi, have just got off the phone after speaking to virgin about tv upgrades etc (with changes imminent!) and was told by the operator that virgin HD has a far superior picture quality than sky hd. She said that virgin are the market leaders and once u've seen it you won't want sky.

I'm in no position to judge (having not seen either) but wondered if anyone had an opinion?

Cheers

The main thing that made me change to Sly hd is that they have 37 hd channels as opposed to virmins 7.

[Hob]

By June/July 2010 Virgin will have all the main HD channels including Sports and Movies (about 25 in total).
As for quality they are much the same unless it snows heavy on your dish half way through the fkn football.

[Fspiders]

I have both at the moment as I have got a half price deal on sky and I still use a kryptview hd upstairs untill N3 hits.

Used both systems on a panny tx42v10b and in my opinion both vm and sky hd pictures are equally as good and I just can't tell the difference.

I've decided to use the sky as my main viewing box as there is just way much more choice in the hd field at the moment and I'm very happy with all aspects of it. Sky have a flagship hd channel called Deluxe tv and it's a gob smackingly awesome picture.

I suppose someone with test equipment and all the engineer gear might be able to give you heavy duty comparisons.. But to be honest as a viewer with a decent tv wanting a decent hd picture I'm happy with sky.

I've been told the hd vm boxes are pretty slow too compared to the sky boxes.

I'd like to be able to compare itv hd footy but as yet VM don't broadcast it and on sky it's very very good.

Regards.

[MetMan]

I'd like to be able to compare itv hd footy but as yet VM don't broadcast it and on sky it's very very good.

Regards.

vermin have footy on espn hd.......

[tornado]

iwould say picture is about the same both my sat and cable box r the samsung ones i like the virgin box better and it looks better but no hd movies or sports if they had all the channels i would say virgin but virgin r very slow at getting them and sky have better offers

[sinky077]

sky

just got sky hd 2 day with the offer code from this site got a eurovoxvpvr 5000 .the picture is much better on sky then virgn

[khenryashley]

I have both at the moment as I have got a half price deal on sky and I still use a kryptview hd upstairs untill N3 hits.

Used both systems on a panny tx42v10b and in my opinion both vm and sky hd pictures are equally as good and I just can't tell the difference.

I've decided to use the sky as my main viewing box as there is just way much more choice in the hd field at the moment and I'm very happy with all aspects of it. Sky have a flagship hd channel called Deluxe tv and it's a gob smackingly awesome picture.

I suppose someone with test equipment and all the engineer gear might be able to give you heavy duty comparisons.. But to be honest as a viewer with a decent tv wanting a decent hd picture I'm happy with sky.

I've been told the hd vm boxes are pretty slow too compared to the sky boxes.

I'd like to be able to compare itv hd footy but as yet VM don't broadcast it and on sky it's very very good.

Regards.

ITV HD starts April 2nd on Virgin

[john8867]

it's not the channels on offer, it's the quality.

there's some debate which of skys channels are 720i and not 1080i (1080p not tranmitted on any platform) but supposedly all VM channels are broadcast in 1080i (even if the source program isn't) . i read it somewhere. twas on the internet so it must be true.

Yeah, that's it exactly -- she made a point of saying that ALL virgin's HD stuff if proper HD @ 1080, but a lot of sky stuff is just upscaled.

Guess the thing is if it makes a massive difference when viewing..............

[flyingpig]

I have the HD package now on Sky at the half price deal, and I have to say, I would not pay the extra dosh for the HD pack on either vrigin or sky if it was full price.

I have a full 1080p and a 1080i TV and there is absolutely minimal difference between the 2 when watchin TV. The only time you can tell is when a very fast moving scene is on,,,

Virgin and Sky are the same quality really..

[john8867]

just got sky hd 2 day with the offer code from this site got a eurovoxvpvr 5000 .the picture is much better on sky then virgn

Anyone one explain this?

[tornado]

there was a half price offer from sky for a year around 20 amonth but think it may of ran out now but not sure