Cable Forum - General Changes to Virgin TV (2020)

Sky have confirmed that Sky Cinema Disney (ch. 407) is renaming to Five Star Movies on New Year's Eve, before shutting permanently on 6th January 2021. My prediction had come true. 🤣

Source, I can't find anything

nomadking

08-12-2020 11:28

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Originally Posted by TMLeafs (Post 36061330)

Source, I can't find anything

Listed here. We get back Sky Cinema Premiere+1 instead.
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On 23 July 2020, Sky Cinema launched a twelfth channel, Sky Cinema Animation, replacing Sky Cinema Premiere +1 on Sky and Virgin Media UK. Sky Cinema Premiere +1 continued to air on Virgin Media Ireland until its removal on 13 August 2020.[32] The channel will resume broadcasting on 6 January 2021, replacing Sky Cinema Disney.

Renaming it to "Five Star Movies" seems a stopgap. Surely Disney programming is one of the channels that wouldn't need renaming over the Christmas period.

Getting very silly with people having to have a dozen or so different subscriptions to different content.

spiderplant

08-12-2020 11:58

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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k (Post 36061319)

I think Ben or Spiderplant mentioned the Horizon software will be rolled out on the V6 eventually.

Don't think we said it would be rolled out. But it can be deployed onto the V6 boxes, and that is being trialled at the moment. (And we don't use the H-word any more. It's TV360)

cheekyangus

08-12-2020 12:30

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36061339)

Don't think we said it would be rolled out. But it can be deployed onto the V6 boxes, and that is being trialled at the moment. (And we don't use the H-word any more. It's TV360)

:D

TV360 is too Xbox 360-ish for me (though blander). And Horizon software is deployed elsewhere...so I don't see the problem with using either or both depending on context. I mean we say V6 and it runs TiVo, which we still mention. So saying TV360 which runs Horizon isn't any different.

Legendkiller2k

08-12-2020 12:52

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36061339)

Don't think we said it would be rolled out. But it can be deployed onto the V6 boxes, and that is being trialled at the moment. (And we don't use the H-word any more. It's TV360)

Thanks Spiderplant.

On VM news had a phonecall this morning from VM asking if i'd like to sign up (they have my permission to contact me) i said "no as VM isn't in my block" they said it's coming very soon.

So it'll arrive around 2035 in my block then :p:

SonicMaster

08-12-2020 12:57

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 36060954)

Wikipedia: Discovery to rebrand some channels in 2021.

Wikipedia is reporting that Discovery are set to rebrand some Discovery own channels next year:

Really will become Discovery Really
TLC HD & +1 will become Discovery TLC HD & +1
Quest HD & +1 will become Discovery Quest HD & +1
Quest Red SD & +1 will become Discovery Quest Red SD & +1
Food Network SD & +1 will become Discovery Food Network SD & +1
HGTV SD & +1 will become Discovery HGTV SD & +1[COLOR="Silver"]

Sounds like bullshit tbh. Anyone can make up rubbish like that on Wikipedia.

cheekyangus

08-12-2020 13:04

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Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 36061346)

Sounds like bullshit tbh. Anyone can make up rubbish like that on Wikipedia.

Quite. I hope so, on certain EPGs (various Freeview ones particularly) they'll all be cropped and just read Discovery, which won't help viewers at all.

1andrew1

08-12-2020 13:04

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Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 36061346)

Sounds like bullshit tbh. Anyone can make up rubbish like that on Wikipedia.

Key trick I find with Wikipedia is to look for a link to the information on it. If there's no link to information like that then I treat it with caution.

SonicMaster

08-12-2020 14:03

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VM might be about to combine the Virgin Media Store (to buy movies & TV box sets) and Virgin Movies (to rent movies) into one service.

They've replaced the Virgin Movies section on this page with Virgin Media Store.

Virgin TV Go has been updated with logos for 'Virgin Media Store Rent' and 'Virgin Media Store Buy', although the text titles are still showing as 'Virgin Movies' and 'VM Store UK'.

It's always been a bit messy having them as separate services, one part of the main UI and the other as an app/website.

Hugh	08-12-2020 14:15

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36061348)

Key trick I find with Wikipedia is to look for a link to the information on it. If there's no link to information like that then I treat it with caution.

As Wiki themselves state

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Wikipedia is not a reliable source for academic writing or research. Wikipedia is increasingly used by people in the academic community, from freshman students to distinguished professorship, as an easily accessible tertiary source for information about anything and everything, and as a quick "ready reference", to get a sense of a concept or idea.

However, citation of Wikipedia in research papers may be considered unacceptable, because Wikipedia is not a reliable source.[1][2][3]

Many[4] colleges and universities (especially in some high schools and private schools) have a policy that prohibits students from using Wikipedia as their source for doing research papers, essays, or anything equivalent. This is because Wikipedia can be edited by anyone at any moment. Although when an error is recognized, it is usually fixed. However, because Wikipedia cannot monitor thousands of edits made every day, some of those edits could contain vandalism or could be simply wrong and left unnoticed for days, weeks, months, or even years.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_use

Mad Max

08-12-2020 15:32

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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k (Post 36061345)

Just in time for linear to be obsolete....:D

denphone

08-12-2020 15:46

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Originally Posted by Mad Max (Post 36061371)