As a Virgin Media subscriber who's coming to the end of my 12 months contract this month, I am tempted. Best I've had so far is a £7 discount a month for 6 months if I upgrade to the XL TV package (I already have XL broadband and XL phone but M TV). I hardly use my current TV box as it's an SD box. I do like the on-demand stuff such as iPlayer but having a HD TV I want to get some HD content but without having to pay £75 for a V+ box plus another fiver a month.

So maybe for an extra £5.50 a month I might go for it, I can't get Freeview HD until August and I ain't happy about paying over £150 for a Freeview HD box so this has come at the right time for me.

Rob

Slightly off the core topic, but I didn't know there was a HD MTV, man that's such a waste of technology, who wants to see their awful (music-free) programming in HD? people don't even want it in SD.
I hope you can childlock that with a code you punch in while blindfolded so you can't accidentally end up flipping past it a sec and be depressed.

Freesat is terrible. 2 HD channels which broadcast occasional content and the SD channels are lower resolution and multiplexed within an inch of thier lives, most of them LOWER quality than Terrestrial Freeview.

The implication of the Virgin announcment applies some pressure on Sky, as far as them charging £10 per month for HD content. Sky however have can fall back on the fact that they provide the largest choice of HD broadcast content in europe.

OK found it now. We have M (which is free), M+ (£5.50 per month), L, and XL. So it's gonna cost an extra £5.50 per month to upgrade where necessary and go M+, to take advantage of this box. If I am reading my Virgin Media hieroglyphics correctly.

From what I can work out from the amazingly clear Crystal Mark(TM) Virgin Media web site, M+ is actually the lowest TV package. So anyone with M+ will get this for free which will be anyone who has TV through Virgin? Unless people are stuck on the M TV package, but that is not listed any more, only M+, L and XL.

or... you could buy a freesat hd box for £80 and pay nothing more