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Virgin Media may be the new kids on the block when it comes to TV provision but they have in fact been around for years in their previous guises as NTL and Telewest. Virgin Media is only available through cable and to that end you need to check that you are in a cable enabled area before you make a purchase decsion. If not you would be better off trying Sky.
Virgin Media offer 3 TV packages :
- M - FREE with Virgin Phone - Over 40 Digital Channels
- L - £11.50 per month with Virgin Phone - Over 90 Digital Channels
- XL - £20.50 with Virgin Phone - Over 145 Digital Channels including Sentanta Sports which features 46 Live Premiership Games
- Up to 20 Meg Unlimited broadband
- FREE Wireless Router with L and XL
- Save £'s with phone line
- Buy online - Save £10
- Up to 2 Meg Unlimited broadband
- FREE Wireless Router with L and XL
- Over 82 TV channels
- Buy online - Save £10
- Up to 20 Meg Unlimited broadband
- Over 90 TV channels
- FREE Weekend Phone Calls
- Buy online - Save £20
- Up to 20Meg broadband
- Over 145 TV channels
- FREE Anytime Phone Calls
- Talk Mobile
- Buy online - Save £30
Our Review :
"Virgin Media entered the digital TV market in a blaze of publicitiy in early 2007 and after initially teething problems seem to be providing a solid service to their 3.39 million plus TV subscribers. The V+ box is a nice addition as is the Virgin on Demand which we paticularly like as it gives you access to a large number of movies without having to go to the local Blockbuster!"
Virgin on Demand
- Films from £1.50
- Music Video's from 20p
- VM TV Pick FREE
As well as the number of channels mentioned above subscribers also have access to Virgin on Demand - which lets you choose programmes to watch when you want to watch it. Cost vary with Virgin Media's pick of the week costing nothing, music videos from 20p through to a selection of over 500 movies from £1.50.
V+ - Record, Rewind and Pause Live TV!
- £150 Installation
- £5 a month with M & L
- FREE with XL
V+ is the equivalent to the Sky+ box in that it enables you to pause, rewind and record live TV. You can also record two programmes whilst watching a third which is one more than Sky. The one off installation fee for this service is £150 and you then pay £5 a month unless you have the XL package in which case it is FREE!
Reviews
"I was initially an NTL user and was suprised when a Virgin Media bill came through my door! Having then realised that NTL had been taken over I awaited to see if Virgin could live up the hype! I upgraded to the XL package now apparently includes Sentanta Sports which means I'll have my mates piling round here for the footy! Loads of channels (some of which I've probably never watched but it's nice to have the option!) and I've never had any issues with the service. I've read a fair bit of bad press about the call centres but thankfully I've had no need to contact them.
I am planning to switch to Virgin Media cable broadband service shortly as my previous broadband contract runs out in a couple of weeks. A neighbour of mine has got their XL broadband package and he says he's not had any problems so I think it is worth a look as my phone line based broadband can suffer from fluctuations in speeds at times."
Mr E.
August 2007
Virgin Media TV Channels
| Channel | Category | M | L | XL |
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| ABC1 | Entertainment | |||
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| Animal Planet | Factual | ![]() |
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| Animal Planet +1 | Factual | ![]() |
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| attheraces | Sports | |||
| BBC FOUR | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| BBC News 24 | News | ![]() |
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| BBC ONE | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| BBC Parliament | Factual | ![]() |
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| BBC THREE | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| BBC TWO | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Best Direct | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| bid tv | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| Bliss* | Music | ![]() |
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| Bloomberg* | News | ![]() |
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| Boomerang | Kids | ![]() |
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| Boomerang +1 | Kids | ![]() |
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| Bravo | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Bravo +1 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Bravo 2 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| British Eurosport | Sports | ![]() |
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| British Eurosport2 | Sports | ![]() |
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| Cartoon Network | Kids | ![]() |
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| Cartoon Network Too | Kids | ![]() |
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| CBBC Channel | Kids | ![]() |
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| CBeebies | Kids | ![]() |
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| Celtic TV | Football | ![]() |
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| Challenge | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Challenge +1* | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Channel 4 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| CITV | Kids | ![]() |
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| Classic FM TV* | Music | ![]() |
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| CNBC | News | ![]() |
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| CNN International | News | ![]() |
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| Community Channel | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| Crime & Investigation | Factual | ![]() |
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| Deutsche Welle* | International | ![]() |
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| Discovery Channel | Factual | ![]() |
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| Discovery Channel +1 | Factual | ![]() |
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| Discovery Civilisations | Factual | ![]() |
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| Discovery Home & Health | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| Discovery Home & Health +1 | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| Discovery Kids | Kids | ![]() |
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| Discovery Realtime | Factual | ![]() |
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| Discovery Science | Factual | ![]() |
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| Discovery Travel & Living | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| Discovery Turbo | Factual | ![]() |
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| Disney Channel | Kids | ![]() |
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| Disney Channel +1 | Kids | ![]() |
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| E! Entertainment | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| E4 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| E4 +1 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| EuroNews | News | ![]() |
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| Extreme Sports* | Sports | ![]() |
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| Film4 | Movies | ![]() |
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| Film4 +1 | Movies | ![]() |
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| Five | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Five Life | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Five US | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Flaunt* | Music | ![]() |
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| Ftn | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| FX | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Gems TV | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| Gems TV2 | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| God Channel | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| History Channel | Factual | ![]() |
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| History Channel +1* | Factual | ![]() |
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| Ideal World | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| ITV1 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| ITV2 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| ITV3 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| ITV4 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Jetix | Kids | ![]() |
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| Jetix +1 | Kids | ![]() |
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| Kerrang | Music | ![]() |
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| Kiss | Music | ![]() |
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| Leonardo* | International | ![]() |
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| LIVINGtv | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| LIVINGtv +1 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| LIVINGtv 2 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Magic | Music | ![]() |
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| Men & Motors | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| More4 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| More4 +1* | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Motors TV* | Sports | ![]() |
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| Movies 24 | Movies | ![]() |
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| MTV Base | Music | ![]() |
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| MTV Dance | Music | ![]() |
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| MTV Flux | Music | ![]() |
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| MTV Hits | Music | ![]() |
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| MTV UK | Music | ![]() |
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| MTV2 | Music | ![]() |
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| National Geographic | Factual | ![]() |
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| National Geographic +1* | Factual | ![]() |
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| Nick Junior | Kids | ![]() |
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| Nick Replay | Kids | ![]() |
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| Nickelodeon | Kids | ![]() |
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| Nicktoons TV | Kids | ![]() |
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| Paramount Comedy | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Paramount Comedy 2 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Playhouse Disney | Kids | ![]() |
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| Price Crash TV | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| price-drop tv | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| Q | Music | ![]() |
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| QVC | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| Racing UK | Sports | ![]() |
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| Rangers TV | Football | ![]() |
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| Sci-Fi Channel | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Scuzz* | Music | ![]() |
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| Setanta Golf | Sports | ![]() |
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| Setanta Sports 1 | Sports | ![]() |
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| Setanta Sports 2 | Sports | ![]() |
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| Smash Hits | Music | ![]() |
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| Speed auction tv | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| Teachers' TV | Factual | ![]() |
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| The Biography Channel | Factual | ![]() |
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| The Box | Music | ![]() |
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| The Hallmark Channel | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| THE HITS | Music | ![]() |
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| The Music Factory | Music | ![]() |
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| Trouble | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Trouble +1 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Turner Classic Movies | Movies | ![]() |
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| TV5 | International | ![]() |
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| UKTV Bright Ideas | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| UKTV Documentary | Factual | ![]() |
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| UKTV Documentary +1* | Factual | ![]() |
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| UKTV Drama | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| UKTV Food | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| UKTV Food +1* | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| UKTV G2 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| UKTV G2 +1 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| UKTV Gold | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| UKTV Gold +1 | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| UKTV History | Factual | ![]() |
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| UKTV History +1* | Factual | ![]() |
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| UKTV People | Factual | ![]() |
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| UKTV Style | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| UKTV Style +1 | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| UKTV Style Gardens | Lifestyle | ![]() |
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| VH1 | Music | ![]() |
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| VH1 Classic | Music | ![]() |
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| Zone Horror | Entertainment | ![]() |
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| Zone Reality | Entertainment | ![]() |
As you can see from the extensive list on the right Virgin Media have access to a whole lot of channels, many of which are exclusive to Virgin Media!






