That sounds horrible. When we moved, Sky installed everything so quickly, that our dish was installed and broadband/phone were working before we even moved in. I have know idea what could take them so long. (We’re also on the “out in the sticks” shit connection. 0.4Mbps evening speeds, hooray!)

The Sky HD is a long way from perfect, but it’s better than the old Virgin HD box I had. (Mind you – this was three years ago, so they may be better now.) I hated Virgin TV by the time we left them, so was really looking forward to Sky. It’s slightly better, though not by as much as we’d hoped for.

Anytime is no match for Virgin’s On Demand stuff, certainly – and Sky Box Office is as reliable as launch-day 360 that’s been stamped on – but I almost always find something interesting when I check. Damning with faint praise, maybe, but I’m glad it’s there.

Stuff like starting the guide on the channel your on doesn’t bother me, but it really, really should grey out channels you don’t have. Strongly agree. Tried setting up favourites once to get around it, but it only lets you have fifty, or some other weird limit, so was useless.

(Oh, and I believe you can see more channels at once if you turn off the TV preview thingy, but it’s not something that bothers me.)