Why should you choose Virgin Media?

It is a great time to be a television viewer in the UK. Between Freeview (not to mention its + and HD variants), BT, YouView, Sky, EE TV, and NOW TV, there are more than enough options to keep you entertained from the comfort of your home. However, there is one last option that I did not include before, and that is Virgin Media.

As the second largest pay TV operator in the UK, you are tasked with keeping Sky on their toes and improving their service to the point where Sky is no longer the first choice for those looking for great home entertainment. It is not only television that these two companies offer, because both also offer broadband and residential telephony. Simply put, they are quite similar, so why should you choose Virgin Media?

Let’s start with your television offering. Virgin Media’s television is powered by TiVo, a Sky + -like box that allows you to record and manipulate live television from the comfort of your couch. With a 500GB hard drive (enough for 500 hours of TV) and three tuners, it allows for nifty tricks like recording three shows simultaneously while watching a quarter you recorded earlier. It also has some features that just can’t be found on Sky’s service, like built-in Netflix, YouTube, and iPlayer, not to mention a dedicated 10Mbps internet connection, so your normal internet isn’t slowed down by TV viewing.

Through that box, you can get access to over 230 channels, 47 HD channels, 12 Sky-only channels, and even some 3D programming. There are five packages to choose from, from the basic ‘More TV’ package with 70 channels to the fully loaded ‘TV XL’ that also features BT Sport HD. Even better, you can also grab Sky Sports and Sky Movies on your Virgin Media subscription, so you won’t feel the pain of not being with Sky. In fact, the only channel you can lose by switching to Virgin Media is Sky Atlantic, which hosts games like Game of Thrones, The Last Panthers, and more. However, if the thought of missing that is too much, you can always subscribe to NOW TV.

Moving on to Virgin Media’s broadband offering, we can really start to see the light between the two companies. Simply put, Virgin Media has the best broadband offering in the entire country, and even its most basic offering certainly beats Sky’s most expensive offering. From its Super 50 Fiber with 50Mbps broadband to its VIVID 200 Fiber with 200Mbps broadband, the company offers stable and ultra-fast broadband to large parts of the country. Plus, they never throttle or limit your bandwidth usage, so you can stream as much Netflix 4K as you like without fear of running into arbitrary limitations.

However, perhaps the most compelling reason to sign up with Virgin Media is their quad game offerings. Because Virgin Media offers TV, broadband, home phone and mobile phone contracts, they are the preferred destination for millions of Britons who don’t want to spend their lives dealing with bills from different companies. Those quad game deals are also some of the cheapest, making them a very attractive proposition to just about anyone, as long as they are not part of a contract with another company.

Virgin Media, then, offers a TV package that is comparable to what Sky offers, broadband that takes everyone else out of the water, and quad game offerings that no other company can match. So, what are you waiting for?