Virgin Media seem to be working hard on the HD channels at the moment, trying to keep up with Sky of course, and have announced that Discovery HD will be available on Virgin TV packages from this spring. Discovery has over 1500 hours of HD programmes to offer and and will be available 24-7 to Virgin XL TV users, offering science, history and natural history shows and of course Bear Grylls:Born Survivor.

Virgin already offer the following HD channels

• BBC
• Channel 4
• ESPN
• FX
• Living
• MTVN
• National Geographic

Plus the Eurosport HD channel coming soon, and is constantly adding to its archive of HD on-demand.

Sky TV recently announced that the Sky+HD Box would be the standard-issue box from now on for all new customers, and that if it was taken with the HD Pack (£9.99 a month) the box (normally £49) and the set-up (normally £30) would be free. Without the HD pack you would pay the standard £79.

Great news (for those who don’t want to get the HD pack) – they’ve just gone one better and waived the £30 set-up fee when you buy online whether you take the HD Pack or not. So as long as you buy online you can get the Sky+HD Box for £49, free set-up fee and whatever monthly the fee is for the bundle you want.

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