Virgin Media adds Sky Movies and Sky Sports 'on the go'

By Andy Clough
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Virgin Media customers with the relevant subscription package can now view Sky Movies and Sky Sports on mobile devices such as an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch using the Sky app. They can also view them online via their Virgin media account.

Subscribers with a Sky Movies package can view all 11 Sky Movies channels live and choose from more than 800 films on demand via their Apple device. There's also a new 'cinema finder tool' for discovering the latest releases.

And sports fans get Sky Sports' second-screen function, offering alternating F1 camera angles, ball-by-ball Hawk-Eye data feeds for cricket fans and player action heat maps when watching football on the Sky Sports iPad app.

The news comes after Virgin Media added Sky Sports 3 and 4 HD and Sky Sports F1 HD to its channel list, and introduced a ten-month Season Ticket offer giving access to all Sky Sports channels for £150.

MORE: Virgin Media adds three more Sky Sports HD channels

Andy Clough
Andy Clough

Andy is Global Brand Director of What Hi-Fi? and has been a technology journalist for 30 years. During that time he has covered everything from VHS and Betamax, MiniDisc and DCC to CDi, Laserdisc and 3D TV, and any number of other formats that have come and gone. He loves nothing better than a good old format war. Andy edited several hi-fi and home cinema magazines before relaunching whathifi.com in 2008 and helping turn it into the global success it is today. When not listening to music or watching TV, he spends far too much of his time reading about cars he can't afford to buy.