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Living with Sky HD remote record

Virgin Media users may be browned off with Murdoch now that Sky channels have vanished from their line-up, but I couldn’t be happier. As a Sky HD user, I’m over the moon that Sky has finally launched the killer app I’ve been waiting for since I played with my first Tivo — online remote record. It gives you the ability …

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Virgin Media pulls Sky channels from cable

Last night Virgin’s carriage deal with Sky ended with a bump. Rather than stump up the extra money Sky demanded — rumoured to be nearly double the amount Virgin was previously paying — the cable company decided to ditch Sky’s non-premium channels, yanking them from its programme listings. While we have no doubt this is a stunt by Virgin to …

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