I had Virgin Media installed. I couldn't get Sky because I wasn't aloud a dish on the side of my house. But the Virgin Media folks came along in good time and installed my phone, Internet and cable TV.
I would love to say that everything is rosy now and it is as far as my Internet and Phone goes but the TV is rubbish! You would think that they would get the TV part pretty well sorted but this seems to be the one area which really lets Virgin Media down. No Sky One is something I can just about live with but the new Virgin One channel is nowhere near a decent replacement for the channel. Never endless repeats of Star Trek Deep Space Nine are not exactly my choice but I guess you have to start somewhere.
I digress; my real problem is with the way the digital channels are shown on your TV and the Software and Hardware that you are given. The box is unattractive and the remote is terrible. The software you use to navigate between channels is appalling. For instance one of the features I love about Sky is that you can flick between channels easily skipping what seems like instantly from one channel to the next. With Virgin you end up pressing next waiting a few seconds and if you’re lucky the next channel will appear. More than likely though you will probably become so frustrated with waiting that you will have clicked again it then skips more than one channel aarrrggghhh!
It drives me bananas!
So what do you love or hate about Virgin Media?
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Virgin Atlantic are in league with the original "Girl Power" group.
The Spice Girls, who are currently on their comeback world tour, we're photographed yesterday on their personal plane,
The Virgin Atlantic flight, christened "Spice One", was leaving Los Angeles, with Baby Spice hobbling on crutches.
The jumbo was named by fans who had to vote for the name on the Spice Girls official website.
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Virgin are hoping to be the first commercial space travel operator.
I think you would be hard-pressed to find anyone in the world who hasn't once dreamed of going into space!!!
My question is - How much would you pay to go into space?
The answer from Virgin is $200,000 with a $20,000 deposit!!!!! 
So is this just for the super-rich? Or is there scope in the future to cater for the masses, or for people who don't have a spare $200,000 in their pockets!!!
The Virgin project is based on the Ansari X-Prize winning spaceship called SpaceShipOne. The prize was awarded to Burt Rutan and Paul Allen who funded the original development.
The Virgin fleet will be using the SpaceShipOne design. In what has been described as a shuttlecock descent, it looks amazing!
This project is all under the brand Virgin Galactic. Go there to read all about it, or even to book it, if your bank balance can take it!!!
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Virgin has been in the news for the last week or so regarding a proposed takeover of Northern Rock.
If successful they would incorporate the Newcastle-based building society/bank in their own existing Virgin Money brand.
The Virgin-led consortium "bid includes an immediate repayment of £11bn of the £25bn the bank owes the Bank of England, with the rest to be repaid within three years. (BBC NEWS)"
Monster money!!! It looks like that the expanding Virgin brand is getting bigger.
If it's successful that is, it seems that a major shareholder of Northern Rock is opposing the Virgin Bid
Read the full articles on the BBC's website for the full story
BBC News - Article 1 - 25/11/2007
BBC News - Article 2 - 26/11/2007
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If you live in an area in the UK that has cable, then the chances are that you have Virgin Media installed.
The question I pose, "Is it any good?"
Compared to the rivals at Sky, what are the pros and cons?
Having a read of the Virgin Media website it seems that under the same umbrella are the groups:
- Virgin Broadband
- Virgin TV
- Virgin Phone
- Virgin Mobile
The slogan says "watch it, surf it, talk it, walk it". But is this really true, does this package represent a significant saving to you as a consumer?
Would you be better off getting a separate package from, lets says for arguments sake:
- Pipex Broadband
- Sky TV
- BT
- and then Orange Mobile?
Is may be cheaper to get the entire Virgin package, it may not….
But is it right for you? I like choice, so is it better to have variety? After all isn't that the spice of life?
So many questions, but what are the right answers? I await your comments, and hopefully discussions on the forums once we've sorted out a few teething issues!!
