July 20, 2021

Goodbye from VMHD

It will probably not come as a great surprise to any regular visitors to this site but I've decided to no longer update the VHMD site. After fourteen years and over six million page views, it's time to say goodbye. This will be my last VMHD post.

Fourteen years ago I launched this site to campaign for more HD services on Virgin Media. In 2007 Virgin only carried a few hours of BBC in HD a day. Today, customers have a broad range of HD and 4K services. Mission accomplished. 

I'm paying less for better services than I was ten years ago so I imagine I will continue to be a customer for some time. The broadband's very good and the TV is good. To my mind there are still too many services missing from Virgin Media TV (the promised Sky 4k sports, Sky Atlantic, Disney+ all immediately spring to mind) and the migration to 360 looks like it will be painful, but those are for others to write about - I simply don't have the interest or time any more.

Thanks to everyone who has supported VMHD over the years, especially Nigel at VM, Horizon and Media Boy. I'll still be around on Cable Forum, but this is Nialli signing off from VMHD for the last time. 

Bye

13 comments:

Chaz6 said...

Goodbye and good luck!

NAR99 said...

Good luck. Have followed your blog for years

Chris said...

Euronews is still in SD on Virgin TV though so you should continue for that :)

Harkaway said...

Thanks for all your work over the years. It has been greatly appreciated.

Rob C said...

thanks for the work over the years used this site quite regularly and usefully and little gutted it'll be gone. thanks again and take care

Lee Jordan said...

Thanks for your efforts!

Kev said...

Many thanks for your helpful and informative posts over the years!

I'd got into the habit of checking your blog at least half a dozen times a week, so I'll need to find somewhere else to stay informed !

All the best for wherever your current/future ventures take you.

Dannysat said...

Thank you for all the posts. The site will be missed.

All the best in the future.

Scott McCarthy said...

Thanks for all you've done on this blog! Enjoy your "retirement" ;-)

TonyC79 said...

thanks for all the comments and updates
enjoy your retirement from VMHD

Jacks Blog said...

Thank you for all the updates and work you have done.

John Crawshaw said...

Hey. I totally get you. Virgin feels like it’s been struggling for years. Not financially but just with getting a good product excluding their broadband. Really gutted your not going to continue the blog. Would you consider doing it for a wider range of things like iPlayer, Netflix etc. Maybe a cutting the cord blog.

Nialli said...

Thanks everyone for your kind words.