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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.

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Originally Posted by ocav (Post 35637529)

Lets just take a moment of silence to think of those Sky viewers who may lose their television service tonight in the storms.

been losing it allday bud,but tivo working fineeeeeeeeeeeeeeee;)

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Any new channels coming week this?

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Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35637536)

been losing it allday bud,but tivo working fineeeeeeeeeeeeeeee;)

You can't beat reliable technology can you Howard.;):D

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Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35637536)

been losing it allday bud,but tivo working fineeeeeeeeeeeeeeee;)

This is why we have a back up plan :p:

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Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35637542)

This is why we have a back up plan :p:

Indeed we do ;)

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Afternoon all. Happy storm day to you all.

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Originally Posted by Tricky Trevor (Post 35637391)

Well it's now Autumn and the Spotify offer (whatever that is) hasn't happened yet

https://my.virginmedia.com/my-apps/spotify/offers.html

I just went online a few days ago and it let me sign up for another 3 months free, I did post it in here at the time :)

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Originally Posted by ocav (Post 35637529)

Lets just take a moment of silence to think of those Sky viewers who may lose their television service tonight in the storms.

Thanks for your consideration. My heart went out to all those Virgin viewers a few days back who had a total cable outage. It's good that we think about each other in difficult times.

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Originally Posted by andy_m (Post 35637357)

When they took over they made a point of saying how they couldn't improve on the Virgin brand, and had no plans to change it. I wonder if point 1 means we'll see the brand licensed across other Liberty companies, as opposed to dropped in the UK?

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Originally Posted by MaverickJesus (Post 35637364)

They don't have an opt out of the Virgin Media brand until mid 2017, so that isn't happening any time soon.

Maybe they'll go the other way as suggested by others and use it in their other cable franchises?

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Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 35637371)

I simply can not believe that what amounts to "five year child" speak is taken a gospel - really "I was told but can not tell you" is just sad.
Also as I sit here with a broken leg - I have failed to locate a single posting of fact that I could not find around the same time form other sources :shocked:

Information provided in this thread is drawn from a wide variety of sources, some official, some not. It is, therefore, no surprise that you found some of the contributions made by members elsewhere.

The whole point of this thread is to collate all of this information in one place for both convenience and to try to work out what's going on behind the scenes.

By the very nature of some of the sources, the affirmation that you seek will simply not be available, furthermore, sometimes people will be trusted with information that cannot be divulged or has an embargo placed upon it.

It is worth noting that you didn't supply a named source for the information that you supplied (of course, there may be valid reasons for this).

The people who kindly give their time and trouble to contribute to this thread (and sometimes take risks to do so) do not expect praise, but neither do they expect to be met with negativity designed to diminish their credibility.

You are free to take anything or everything with a pinch of salt at any time, after all some of the information will turn out to be incorrect, eg correct plans are reported, but subsequently changed by VM. After all, why shouldn't they, nothing had ever been officially announced!

I had hoped that the distraction of these interjections had been put to bed several pages ago, let this be the end of it.

I hope your broken leg heals swiftly.

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Originally Posted by ocav (Post 35637529)

Lets just take a moment of silence to think of those Sky viewers who may lose their television service tonight in the storms.

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Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35637542)

This is why we have a back up plan :p:

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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35637580)

Thanks for your consideration. My heart went out to all those Virgin viewers a few days back who had a total cable outage. It's good that we think about each other in difficult times.

Indeed, having both satellite and cable can be useful. When/where was this outage Chad?

I kept my ex sub box and dish, partly in case of problems with the VM service. If I ever stopped subscribing to VM, I would plug a box into their service for the FTA channels if there were ever Freesat or Freeview problems.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35637431)

BT seem to have acquired a few of the HD channels not currently available on VM

History HD
C&I HD
Nat Geo Wild HD

Do you have a source for this? None of BTs Youview IPTV channels are HD apart from BT Sports, unless something changed very recently?

Edit: I see they have changed the packages very recently - that looks quite promising, the only thing putting me off Youview was the lack of HD and the seemingly absent recording functionality. Good job BT.

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Originally Posted by MaverickJesus (Post 35637587)

Do you have a source for this? None of BTs Youview IPTV channels are HD apart from BT Sports, unless something changed very recently?

Here's some information for you.

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/tv/hd-tv

http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...extra-channels

go to hd extra and there is a list

not a big list

HD Extra
TV from BT – HD Extra
A selection of TV channels in high definition for stunning picture quality and glorious detail. If you add HD Extra with BT Sport you'll also get BT Sport in HD at no extra cost.

HD Extra includes the following channels:

FOX HD
National Geographic HD
Nat Geo WILD HD
SyFy HD
History HD
Crime and Investigation HD

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Evening all, hope you're having a nice weekend. Any news over the past few days? :)

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Originally Posted by MaverickJesus (Post 35637587)

Yep there pushing into the TV channel provider market,big time:(

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Originally Posted by blue666666 (Post 35637594)

Not a big list yet,but had a call from them a few nights ago trying to get me to change(no chance) started going on about hd channels and started to tell me they are talking to all channel owners to bring more hd to there lineup

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True howardmicks no reason to change yet,but all ready have two HD channels virgin don't

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I don't think this bad weather will affect Sky, in all the years l had Sky, weather didn't affect the signal.

The weather effects Cable far greater, my picture is cracking up at the moment, and we have big winds outside.