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:angel::angel::angel:

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I've just received my weekly 'don't miss' email from Virgin. On the click through link that promotes Sky Cinema it goes on about the new improved sound and picture and then says movies in Ultra HD by the end of the year. One of our usual Virgin slip ups, or an element of truth/hope there?

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Yes l have just received the same email so one can only hope its not one of those regular slip ups.

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Hopefully not a mistake. Would be great to get some 4K/UHD content arrive as the new TiVo launches.

I haven't got a 4K/UHD tv just yet, but the prices are falling pretty quickly. Hopefully the pricing for the new Tivo box isn't too extreme to put people off getting one.

I saw it too
"Sky Movies customers can now kick back and enjoy more of the latest blockbusters than any other subscription service. And that’s not even the half of it! You’ll get a new movie premiere every single day, over 1,000 films to choose from on demand, new and improved HD as standard, sound closer to the cinema… (draw breath)… a chance to broaden your horizons with World Cinema Wednesday and, to give you even more to look forward to, Ultra HD films by the end of the year!"

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It isn't :) i've already stated before the new tivo will be here by end of the year.
But hey ho MB is the only one in the know apparantly.

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... And those Ultra HD films will either be via the Netflix app or paid for On Demand from the movie store.

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Believe you totally on the new box, my doubt is Sky giving us access to the new content.

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Any idea of how much it will cost mate?

Thanks

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I've been given prices but sadly can't rveal anything at the moment, i'm hoping that changes though and as soon as i get the nod i'll let you guys know.

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Pretty pricey l gather.;)

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Not too bad tbf, and this is coming from someone who loves to criticise vm but what i've seen i'm impressed.

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Are you able to say if they are competitive with Sky's prices for their new box?

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Can't say much but it'll give them something to think about.

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Bay TV Swansea has started broadcasting a promo on Freeview.

They will not be going onto satellite, but will this be coming to VM?

Are the other Bay TV channels eg Liverpool on cable?

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Does any business ever set its prices to not be competitive?

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Maybe I used the wrong wording, but you know I meant cheaper lol

Because VM still own the boxes, does that have an influence on the pricing? I wonder if Sky have done a similar thing with their new boxes and followed VM's model or kept it so Sky's customers own the boxes.

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Sky Q follows the included in your subscription model:

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Sky Q kit loaned to you at no cost and must be returned at end relevant subscription. Connect to TV using HDMI cable (supplied) or AV cable (not supplied). You own the Sky dish.

Does the "at no cost" mean there is no monthly fee like there is on the Tivo and HD boxes?

Could be interesting if there is no monthly fee for the new Tivo, but I cannot see that happening. ;)

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Surprised that VM are getting the UHD Sky cinema channel :)

Got an email about it today!!

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I looked this morning and it was still showing as Sky Movies, don't know if the naming of the channels would be happening today?

Would be great if VM did get the UHD movies, I need a UHD tv first though haha

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It's changed to Sky Cinema on the App.

The email says " ...to give you even more to look forward to, Ultra HD films by the end of the year!"

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it says sky cineme now on tivo.when you press the ok button it says sky cineme on the top right hand side.

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Has anyone with an AV Receiver tried the HD On Demand version of Spectre , on other forums they are saying the surround audio is much improved. I've not tried it myself yet.

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Season 6 of Justified started last night on Spike and the episode can be seen on Virgin catch-up.

Apparently, they've accidentally added shows from Spike before then swiftly realised and pulled them, so I suggest anyone interested acts fast.

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Motors TV has unexpectedly returned to VM on EPG number 545.

However, I am not hopeful that this will be permanent.

Full details here:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...l#post35848779

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Yes, I've given it a try and I can confirm the audio is much improved. More dynamic explosions and dialogue is clearer as well.

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Spike is launching Thursday on vm.

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Hurrah! Even Den will be cracking out the Prosecco for this launch, I'm sure! :)

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Anything decent on Spike? Is it another SD-only channel?

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No Prosecco for me old boy as l am strictly teetotal.:nono:

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Thanks , I'll give it a try later. Lets hope all titles will have the improved sound going forward.

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If your a fan of boxing, MMA or kickboxing it's pretty good. They have Spike fight night every Saturday at 10pm. A few movies through the week tp

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Spike will be showing wyonnaerp brand new sci fi drama that airs on syfy in america.

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DWyonnaerp? Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue...:dig:

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Also,do sky repair the boxes for free like virgin do?They should if they don't since you don't own the box.

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SO trutv is here and spike tv is on its merry way next week. Any news on the fox news launch date?? Im gagging for some propaganda from murdoch on american news such as the election. Proper gagging.

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All your dreams are coming true old Vince...

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You are a sad person, Vince.

But we like you!

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hahha i am a truly sad individual i know! thanks old boy! and thanks den! i feel the love and yes all my 3 year old dreams are coming true once fox news launches. i have everything i need!

its just a shame they took conan off trutv...

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Let's hope VM are giving us some summertime presents. I do hope for the remaining Freeview channels and the Sony/CSC channels.

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Powers is quite good if you liked heroes.

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Not heard anything about Sont/CSC channels, MB might of though?

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evening chieftain. any launch date for fox news or will it just test for a while?? wwe network uploads have been beautiful recently ;)

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I didn't even know about FOX News until MB mentioned, it'll be a test stage for a bit i think.

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A new Freeview channel called Blaze is being launched by A&E soon, so perhaps this may find its way here at some point??

http://www.a516digital.com/2016/07/n...-revealed.html

And, don't know if its been mentioned here or not, but Ch4 are launching a kids channel supposedly on all platforms soon and Sky are also bringing out a kids channel too, it already exists in on demand form.

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Well we are in mid summer now so they better start doing it pretty quickly.:)

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Posted on the Change log thread

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About time too..

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I heard about Channel 4 Kids last week but nobody on here had heard of it. Noticed it's started popping up on Wiki pages about upcoming summer channel launches in the UK. My wee boy will be chuffed.

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Doesn't look like SKY Sports Mix is launching next week.

http://www.skysports.com/golf/news/1...s-from-july-11

"Later in the summer, Sky is launching a brand new sports channel - Sky Sports Mix - bringing a range of great moments from some of the world's biggest sporting events to all its TV customers in the UK and Ireland at no extra cost."

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Has anyone heard any more about the new TiVo box or what kind of box they are going to be releasing?

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bbc channels been added too tv anywhere

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Already posted in reply #1145.

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Just tried today's premiere Mission Impossible Rogue Nation via On Demand and the audio is excellent hopefully we'll see this on all the new titles added.

Before the audio had very little punch in my opinion and was generally poor so I'm happy to see this improvement.

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The Blu-Ray of that film has Dolby Atmos and on my Atmos system it was truly amazing.
Some streaming apps now offer Atmos sound, obviously not at the bit rates of Blu-Ray or 4K UHD Blu-Ray but it can still sound pretty awesome, hopefully Sky will introduce it to their service.

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Agreed Blu Ray audio is generally excellent my current kit isn't capable of Atmos however I may upgrade in the future.

I read a while back that Sky were looking to introduce Atmos in the future so who knows we could well see it.

At the moment I'm just happy that the audio has improved as let's be honest it was generally poor before.

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It's not testing yet, does anybody know how long VM test channels off the EPG before launching them?

I think it's two weeks with Sky.

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As of July 11th Spike TV is NOT testing on Virgin Media UK.

All channels testing are listed on our blog.

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Oh dear the regular grumps of this thread won't be happy....

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UEFA Champions League Second Qualifying Round 1st Leg game of Lincoln Red Imps v Celtic will be shown live on BT Sport Europe HD on Tuesday night from 7pm.

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I`m so excited! BT Sport get all the big games!

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It up to when the deal with broadcasters starts.

Here more info: http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...-new.html#more

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I didn't say which Thursday :p:

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Tuesdays are also high on the number of channels launches day.

We found bad days are Mondays and Sundays (5%).

We have seen some channels launch on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays (20%).

But about 75% of channels launches happen on Tuesdays and Thursdays

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Should be on BT Sport 2

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Hopefully the Spike tip is not from the same tipster who bought us AMC? :D

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Maybe they are blood relations.;)

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It isn't thankfully i ignore anything that AMC twonk tells me.

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It makes sense Spike would want to launch before the weekend as they have a big Saturday night this week for MMA fans

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Virgin Media: Virgin Media to Acquire UTV Ireland.

Virgin Media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Global, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with ITV plc to acquire UTV Ireland, the nation’s newest free-to-air commercial broadcaster, for a purchase price of €10 million. The agreement also includes a comprehensive 10 year output deal for Ireland for ITV produced programming. The purchase price is expected to be funded through existing liquidity.

http://about.virginmedia.com/press-r...re-utv-ireland

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90% Spike will not launch on Virgin Media UK this week.

As of 3pm today no new channels are testing.

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Digital Spy Forum was reporting last week that Channel 4 Kids is now testing on Sky.

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We have no seen any news about more Sony/CSC Channels set to launch any time soon on Virgin Media UK.

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Virgin Media do have Bay TV in Liverpool.

We have not been told of any tests for Bay TV Swansea on Virgin Media UK.

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Justified being added to Virgin Media UK mean nothing.

Virgin Media was broadcasting BBC ALBA on Virgin on Demand for about 24 months before BBC ALBA did launch on Virgin Media.

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In fairness to Richard, Alba is a very small-audience PSB. Spike is a commercial channel with some pricey content which I don't think it would let VM have access to without a robust deal in place.

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Until we see an test appearing for Spike TV is all just rumours:

As of 3pm today.

-Arabic Hafla
-Fox News Channel
-NDTV India
-NDTV Spice
-That's Solent

Are all testing on Virgin Media UK.

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Agreed, does seem strange that Spike would launch straight away whilst every other channel has to test for weeks first.

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Channel 5 and Viacom have a track record of replacing existing channels with new ones. Maybe they are considering replacing, say, 5USA +1 with Spike???

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Every new channel is just a rumour until it launches. There's no guarantee that a test will morph into a launch.

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Also treated as rumours until/if they launch.

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Good Morning Everyone

Has there been any news on the current Tivo updates?

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What kind of news?

We're discussing the update in this thread.

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I never understand why channels "test" anyway. Surely you click a button the channel goes live if it doesn't go live you check what's wrong. Rather than hundreds of hours of testing

"Alright Jim is it still working?"
"Yeah Dan it is"
"Excellent"
"Shall we launch the channel?"
"Nah keep testing"
"But I said its working Dan"
"Yeah I know"
"..."

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Presumably there's so many combinations of equipment and network that something that works in one area on one type of equipment may not work on another. I suspect that the testing goes on in parallel with negotiations hence some channels test but don't launch.

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It's probably less about whether the channel itself it working, but whether the channel is properly integrated into the management systems e.g. if it's in a certain pack, and that pack is downgraded or suspended is the channel removed from being available. Do the EPG listings show correctly on all the STBs.

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Much of what gets called "testing" on this forum actually isn't. Services can be hidden from the EPG for many reasons

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Aye youre probably correct andrew i'm just a very angry and bitter individual and like doing these odd virtual conversations between imaginary people hahaha

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BT Sport Europe to renamed BT Sport 3 on 4th August

Also they are renaming their BT Sport Ultra HD channel BT Sport 4K


LINK HERE

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I actually didnt mind it being called bt sport europe! Seems a bit generic being bt sport 3!

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less logo graphics taking up screen space is good in my books

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The free BT Sport with broadband offer ends in August so no more BT Sport lite packages that include BTS1 only. So content can go on any channel. Expect to see CL games on BT Sport 1, so no need for a Europe channel.

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Agreed.
I guess this allows them to show some American sports on it.

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Well with nothing happening of note on the horizon and the prices still going up we are cutting the cord. Bye bye TV, hello streaming and Freeview.

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fox news apparently sir. :D

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Sky Sports Mix on XL or is that too much to hope for?

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But surely that's more of a reason to leave.

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They probably just scroll through this lot:

http://en.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php...iste=2&lang=en

and get confused. ;)

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You can stream that through the website :)

It does have some funny programs on though. I was watching it at Easter and the reporter was at this big Easter gathering, interviewing women dressed as chicks and stuff, all really light hearted.

Just before they ended the piece, the studio said 'So how is security there?'

ha ha, lulling me into thinking it was a proper news channel :)

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This deal means that Virgin Media now have the rights to the soaps such as Cornation Street and Emmerdale for the next ten years. Other ITV Studio content is included in the deal.

Not looking good for UTV Ireland as it now looks like all ITV content will be moved over to TV3 and rumours suggest that Virgin Media might close UTV Ireland.

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Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: Sky Sports Mix to launch on Virgin Media.

Virgin Media UK Sources has confirmed to Media Boy HQ that Sky Sports Mix and Sky Sports Mix HD will launch later this summer on Virgin Media UK.

8 channels to launch for the Rio Games.

Our Sources has also given us new information on things set to happen before 2017 - But as of right now info was given under an Do Not Post order.

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Will this be similar to Sky, with Sky Sports Mix being available to all VM customers? HD channel for the XL package?

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No package information was given.

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We would not go for 5USA +1 for axe on Virgin Media UK.

Our money would be on Channel 5 + 24 being axe on all networks and it slot being use for:

Sky - Spike +1
Freeview - 5USA +1 (UK Wide) with 5Star +1 launching on Freeview HD
Virgin Media UK - Spike

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[QUOTE=Media Boy;35849587]No package information was given.[COLOR="Silver"]

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I saw an article that says Sky Sports Mix will be available to all Sky customers. Maybe VM have secured the same kind of deal? Would be good for those without the Sports subscriptions.

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I'm expecting it to be just part of the Sky Sports package as I get the impression it's replacing one of the current Sky Sports Channels, Either Sky Sports 5 or SKY Sports F1

However if it's on XL then happy days :-) although would worry that it could be a precursor to VM dropping BT Sport from XL.

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AFAIK this is a simulcast of any of the skysports channels and its launch is partly guided by the BT sports free, there will be no additional content on this that wont be available on any of the current skysports offerings at that time i.e. if skysports is showing football then it will be exactly as on skysports 1, I believe they do this sometimes with F1 and its on sky one

As its a lure channel to get people to pay for skysports channels I honestly think it will be available to all VM from M upwards IMO

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lt would be suicidal if Virgin took BT Sports out of the XL pack as without it there there would be a considerable loss of customers who subscribe to it for that one reason and Virgin ain't that stupid in my opinion.

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Sky have already said that it won't be a premium channel as it's intention is to promote Sky Sports; for this reason i'm not surprised that it will be on VM.

M would be nice, but I bet it will be in M+.

Wasn't aware that it would be a simulcast, I thought that it would be a pick and mix type thing.

I guess this will mean the end of free Sky Sports days, hopefully this will lead to more free Sky Movies weekends :)

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Totally agree den. This is Virgin medias one trump card to lose it would be a terrible blow

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I'm just trying not to build hopes up too much. If I expect the worse then everything else is a bonus

However nice to dream that with XL next year we'll have 52 PL games and 10 Championship matches* along with most of the European football, including some Spainish.

* based on the rumour that Mix will show 10 PL and 10 Championship matches per season.

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As i mentioned ages ago. So maybe it should be Theone2k10 exclusive :p:

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BT sports is staying in XL for the foreseeable future.