I have had Sky HD for over a year and I can't fault it, The new EPG is a huge improvment over the original one and 100 times better than the slow & clunky Virgin Media EPG. I know friends & family who have virgin and although they think its ok I find it annoying to use.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both services.
Virgins got 3 tuners vs Sky's 2.
Virgin can stream content from a large library of films, music & programs direct through fibre optics vs Sky Anytime which is just a pick of the week sort of thing that gets copied to your box overnight.
Virgin has 1 HD channel which is BBC HD and is only a part time channel (also has a selection of HD content to stream) vs Sky's 29 ish HD Channels.
Virgin interface slow and hard to use (in my opinion) vs Sky's easy to use and faster interface.
Virgin can be cheaper than Sky (depending on tv packages etc) but I belive in you get what you pay for!
Virgin box = ugly vs Sky HD box = Thing of beauty.
Virgin box doesn't like 1080 resolutions on some TV's & makes the menus blocky you have to use 720. No resolution issues with sky hd that I know of but it is only 1080i.
Plenty of pro's and con's to help decide. Personally the Sky service is much better.
