I am a Virgin Media customer and personally I couldn't care less. I never watch SKY ONE, it is just a load of crap repeated imports.
I think that Sky are being pathetic with the ad campaign they ran and to be honest they will loose out more in the long term.
Sky have already stated that they are withdrawing their channels from DTT freeview (loosing 7m viewers) if they also loose all of Virgin cable then they have a much lower viewer base, this means that advertisers will pay less to advertise on these channels (estimated at £45m/year lost income).
Personally I will not leave Virgin because I love our V+ box and I use VOD all the time, VOD is not avaliable on Sky and their Sky+ box is ridiculously expensive. Not to mention that Sky subs are more than cable, and you have to have a hideous dish on your house!
Screw Sky, we have had cable with Virgin (Previously NTL, previously Cambridge Cable) for 18 years, not leaving now!
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