Virgin Television; Programme guide not user friendly

HopelessCase

Does anybody agreee with me that the Virgin Television programme guide is not very user friendly. Sky's programme guidein my opinion is far superior.

[Deleted User]

It's just a TV guide, an alleged lack of quality certainly wouldn't cause me to migrate to another supplier

vuvuzela

HopelessCase wrote: »

Does anybody agreee with me that the Virgin Television programme guide is not very user friendly. Sky's programme guidein my opinion is far superior.

Nope. Why do you think this ?

Buzby

Can't say I agree - I only dislike the colour scheme, everything else is fine.

Moto2

I quite like the Virgin EPG

Very easy and intuitive IMO

visidigi

I hated Sky's UI - it looks good but the actual functionality is way lacking compared to VM's.

For a start the numbers are more logical (and less money driven) with VM.

The remote actually has a button to go to the last channel you were on, rather than completely forgetting.

I will say that some of the menus in TiVo are totally irritating, and things like on demand take too long to load the apps on TiVo where as they didn't before.

Oh and if you have Sky TV and VM internet the ondemand you watch on Sky comes out of your VM traffic shaping allowance, where as VM's Tivo has its own built in 10mb Modem and the allowance is separate.

[Deleted User]

visidigi wrote: »

The remote actually has a button to go to the last channel you were on, rather than completely forgetting.

So does Sky's! (blue button)

visidigi wrote: »

if you have Sky TV and VM internet the ondemand you watch on Sky comes out of your VM traffic shaping allowance, where as VM's Tivo has its own built in 10mb Modem and the allowance is separate.

Hardly a deal breaker. No one is forced to download Sky's OnDemand and only the heaviest users are traffic managed.
How many people do you suppose have both suppliers anyhow?

visidigi

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

So does Sky's! (blue button)

Hardly a deal breaker. No one is forced to download Sky's OnDemand and only the heaviest users are traffic managed.
How many people do you suppose have both suppliers anyhow?

You mean that multi function blue button which takes you where it feels like?

I know someone who used to have both, me, I know someone who does, you.

marleyboy

HopelessCase wrote: »

Does anybody agreee with me that the Virgin Television programme guide is not very user friendly. Sky's programme guidein my opinion is far superior.

Not having the privilege of having both Sky and Virgin Media, I could not possibly compare.

As I have Virgin Media installed and would never even consider Sky, I can only comment on Virgins TV Guide, of which I am happy with.

retiredin2011

How many people do you suppose have both suppliers anyhow?

I have Virgin for my broadband and Sky for my TV and the Sky on demand works OK with my "unlimited" internet.

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retiredin2011 wrote: »

I have Virgin for my broadband and Sky for my TV and the Sky on demand works OK with my "unlimited" internet.

I have the same experience, but we are in a tiny minority with such a set up.
No way I'd ever have TV from Virgin again, though, no matter how good (or bad) the programme guide was. I'll take channel choice over any decoder functionality any day.