Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

Could be yes.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

Channel 81 has appeared in TV Anywhere and says MTV LiveHD but the schedule for tomorrow reads as follows

02:00 Previews
06:00 Hot Right Now!
09:00 V Festival - 2016 is Coming
11:00 21 Years of V Festival - 1996
11:30 21 Years of V Festival - 1997
12:00 21 Years of V Festival - 1998
12:30 21 Years of V Festival - 1999
13:00 V Festival 2014 - Pixie Lott
13:30 V Festival 2014 - John Newman
14:00 V Festival 2014 - Rizzle Kicks Live
14:30 V Festival 2014 - Aloe Blacc Live
15:00 V Festival 2014 - Kaiser Chiefs
15:30 V Festival 2014 - Bastille Live
16:00 V Festival 2014 - Chic Live
16:30 V Festival 2014 - Elbow Live
17:00 V Festival - 2016 is Coming
19:00 21 Years of V Festival - 2000
19:30 21 Years of V Festival - 2001
20:00 21 Years of V Festival - 2002
20:30 21 Years of V Festival - 2003
21:00 V Festival 2014 - Sam Smith Live
21:30 V Festival 2014 - Ed Sheeran Live
22:00 V Festival 2014 - Rudimental Live
22:30 V Festival - Live: Tinie Tempah
23:00 V Festival 2014 - Best of the Weekend

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

Bit more info on the V Festival broadcasting arrangements.
http://www.musicweek.com/live/read/c...estival/064991

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Most of the time I'm accused on this forum of being over optimistic. :) What I'm saying is even if home-produced content becomes cheaper, it doesn't make content and hardware costs for us Brits any cheaper. That's not politics it's economics. So we need to understand the squeeze that pay-TV companies will face alongside the increased sports rights costs etc.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

Now did l say you was over optimistic my dear chap.;)

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All these new channels coming just shows what they can do when they pull their finger out.

Will it now be enough to counter the growing competition though?

Saw an advertisement last night for free broadband, Now TV @ £9.99 and Phone @£17.99

http://www.nowtv.com/broadband-and-t...OWTV-NC-Google

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Virgin media now offering either a £50 high street voucher or some wireless speakers worth £99 with new orders according to a source.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

I don't think that's very good value.

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Not looked into it in any great detail, but VM charge the same for line rental and charge for their broadband.

But if you don't need a landline and as you pointed out, you can get Now TV vouchers a lot cheaper off eBay etc, then it probably is poor value

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I assumed that this was the schedule for a V Festival pop up channel, but, apparently, it's the normal schedule for MTV Live HD tomorrow.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

I could tell you what is happening there but unfortunately it is subject to a DNP order. :D

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Must admit I was a bit disappointed with the new NOW TV box and their new line up of packages. It was getting a big build up but didn't live up to the hype.

The reason I'm not impressed with the deal on their website is because you can get the same equivalent package from other sources for cheaper. I'm about to go into price comparison again! :D

The offer on their website is £9.99 per month plus £17.99 line rental for the new NOW TV smart box, entertainment pass, line rental and uo to 17mb broadband. Keep that for a year and it'll cost you £335.76.

Argos are selling the new NOW TV smart box for £39.99 which includes a 5 month entertainment pass. Argos also sell a 5 month entertainment pass separately for £25.00. I'm sure in store they sell a 2 month entertainment pass for £10.00. I know you can get the passes cheaper elsewhere however from Argos the new box and 12 months entertainment comes to £74.99. There's a whole host of companies offering free 17mb broadband for 12 months with line rental at around £17.99. SKY's line rental is only £17.40 per month which is cheaper than the NOW TV line rental. The cost of taking 17mb broadband and line rental from SKY for 12 months, plus everything else from Argos, comes to £283.79 for the first year. Almost £52.00 cheaper than getting it directly from NOW TV.

Okay so the total outlay to Argos of £74.99 is pretty steep, especially if you pay it all up front. Here's where the really good news kicks in. SKY are giving you a £75.00 pre-paid Mastercard to take their free 17mb broadband and line rental for 12 months. Bingo that's the new NOW TV smart box and 12 months entertainment covered courtesy of SKY. This reduces your total first year outlay to £210.00. We're now looking at £126.00 cheaper than the NOW TV website offer.

Crazy!!!

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...er/5449570.htm

http://www.sky.com/shop/offers/12mon...affiliate=true

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

Anybody notice since update when you select a show on catch up tv, it doesn't take you to the show just to a menu of channels then you need to find show yourself

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

Told someone about this and they said that there is no such channel number as 81 on TV Anywhere :confused:

Never used it myself.

Thanks- it isn't very good value after all.

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You're better off asking about the TiVo update in the dedicated thread:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...e-page-27.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2
 

The Previews channel (100) has become MTV LiveHD, and is showing the V Festival schedule shown above, with the Previews now showing on Channel 998.

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Any more news when the channels that r testing launch?

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Apparently, what's happened is that MTV Live HD has been made available on channel 100 for the benefit of all VM TV subscribers, whereas MTV Live HD remains on channel 311 for customers in the XL package only.

It's not available on TV Anywhere.

You'd think that they would simply have temporarily downgraded the subscription required for channel 311 or put the reduced subscription version in the 900's like they do with pop up channels :confused:

Do we know what channel number Spike will go onto?

A+E Networks will launch a FTA channel called 'Blaze' on the 20th September according to Broadband TV.

I wonder if we'll get this as the new FTA channels that pay TV providers are creating to rinse the last bit of revenue out of their content are now appearing on VM (apart from YourTV).