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I can't understand why so many people keep on moaning about Sky Atlantic not being on Virgin or any other TV platform when all you need do is get a Now TV box with a entertainment pass and hey presto you've got Sky Atlantic!

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A but like TV Player then? I can't see Vue getting the Sky channels though as Sky will just want people to subscribe to Now TV or Sky directly.

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I agree. But some people want every service on one box. I think some are waiting for the next VM box and hoping it has a built in DVR/Bluray player :D


Actually, Bluray/DVD players are an option for people; it's a device most people have. I have a few years old LG bluray player that has Now TV, Amazon and Netflix on it.

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Isn't the PQ SD?

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Sony have a few more bargaining chips though than talk talk and virgin such as a nice offer for SKYs next reneweal of Sonys movies etc.
But who knows lol.

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Sorry, Andrew, I don't understand the relevance of that argument. I am a Virgin TV customer, and I get Now TV through my smart TV. What difference would it make to Virgin if Now TV Entertainment Pack was an app on their offering? Well, it would stop the complaints about the lack of Sky Atlantic, for one thing, as well as satisfying Malone's objective of providing maximum content without necessarily acquiring the rights to it himself. The presence of Netflix and Hayu on the VM platform are an examples of this strategy.

The advantage for Sky is that it increases its revenue, as Virgin viewers will have the option of paying them £6.99 pm for basically just two extra channels!

The fact that Sony doesn't have a wholesale deal with Sky or sell broadband are red herrings and make absolutely no difference in relation to the argument I am putting forward.

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No, it's the basic 720p HD picture quality, which doesn't look at all bad on my TV.

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Unless it's changed, live channels are SD and catchup 720p. Given I don't ever watch live channels, I always get 720p

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On certain devices Live Channels are 720p.

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As well as the inconvenience, it's the extra cost.

To get SA VM customers have to pay extra for two basic channels, whereas Sky customers don't, making the VM offering with Now TV added on financially less attractive.

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Well I've paid £100 for the year and get 22 extra channels (sports excluded) over my VM sub but I hardly ever watch those channels live, I prefer to use catchup


On my Freeview compatible smart box all Now TV live channels seem to be 720P but like you I don't watch it live except for sports

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Good to know. I assume there is a list somewhere?

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And what's to say Virgin don't put the price up considerably if Sky Atlantic arrived? I suspect they would!

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They would have to if Sky were insisting on a high price for it. The advantage there would be if Now TV was on the Tivo/V6 (rather than part of a package of channels) - only those who wanted it would pay for it.

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Why would Sky even bother with the development time to bring an app to VM TiVo when most of its channels can already be received through VM anyway and the Now TV box is available for peanuts for anyone to purchase.

Do you really think VM would want to add an app what promotes a direct relationship for it's customer with Sky ?

At this stage it's complete fantasy land in my opinion.

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Totally agree with you.

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Yep l cannot see it happening MM but OB is legendary for his refusal to see anything otherwise and tends to stick to his guns like a stubborn Alabama tick.;):D

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In the coming months Sky are going to be able to offer their channels directly to VM and every other ISP's customers when their Sky Q service will be delivered via the internet.

Personally I don't think it will be for me as I'm guessing you will have to have a Sky Q box and they will keep to the antiquated business model of forcing people to buy bundles of channels, but interesting times are ahead in the near future.

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At the moment nothing is known on this product , making the product open to customers with any ISP doesn't ensure QOS and leaves Sky open to complaints when in fact the problem could lie with the customers ISP.

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Well currently BT still can not provide their own full service to many of their own customers.

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They already offer their channels directly to Virgin and every other ISPs' customers by providing satellite dishes though. I don't think it'll be a major driver of growth, rather fill in a few gaps - unless they plan to use the service to increase the number of UHD channels, rather than renting more spectrum on Astra.

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Thanks MM.


So 2 out of 18 devices.

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I didn't say it would happen, Den, just pointing out that it is an option. I would like to see the VM boxes become comprehensive streaming boxes offering a full range of services, but I dare say I'm just spitting in the wind.

From what I have read, it is more likely that VM will be able to add the channel to its Full House package before much longer. This will probably be once Game of Thrones is finished and will most likely appear when the Sky contracts come up for renewal.

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I cannot have Sky where I live any many properties around here can't.
I live in a nice block and many properties around here are the same as mine, but the management companies simply refuse to allow satellite dishes to be erected (I assume as everywhere here is fully cabled up they all have agreements with VM to not allow dishes for a certain number of years).

Areas like this can't be unique and the cynical side of me thinks Sky may want to take advantage of other company's superior BB networks to further their reach.

As I said I can't see it being a product for me unless I can choose the channels I wish to pay for and am not lumbered with one piece of propriety hardware, but when an area like this now has a minimum 100 mbps internet connection via VM which is superior to anything Sky (or any other ISP) can offer it will be interesting to see if they tempt customers directly to Sky Q for TV but who choose to keep VM for Broadband.
That sort of customer must be almost pure profit for Sky rather than accepting a percentage of the Virgin TV sub Sky are currently getting.

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Sky will have to strike deals with Broadband providers if they want their internet TV service available across platforms, VM already throttle Netflix, Amazon and the like, anyone with 4K Netflix and Amazon will tell you there are certain times you can not achieve 4K streaming even with 200mb BB.

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Not sometime I ever saw when I was on 200mb

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Maybe this should be renamed what's happening at virgin media because apart from price rises,odd channel add on, sky renaming a movie channel, a waste of time called TV anywhere ( can't use on 3G or 4g) where It only works on home wifi and downloading content is way way to slow and embarrassing for virgin media, virgin store not here yet as promised, waken up virgin media it's so embarrassing

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I think I read that they will require you to take their own top-tier fibre broadband.

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Sky cinema Matt Damon launches on Monday

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I doubt that is the case, but you never know. My block of flats was cabled up many years go, but there is absolutely no restriction on Sky being installed. However it should be installed as a communal dish feeding the flats, and the install company will require a minimum number of flats to sign up for it before installing.


I understand that local bylaws prevent multiple dishes being installed in blocks of flats, hence the communal dish requirement. Around here, people ignore those bylaws and install an individual dish if they want Sky.


I'm not sure how your flats work, but here, we employ the management company to handle routine maintenance etc. so they have no right to prevent us going down the communal dish path if we wanted to.

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Oh what joyous gimmicky novelty....:(

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you know sky love there gimmicks Den

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Sky Sports 4 is now known as Sky Sports The Players until an later date.

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For once l am speechless....

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I wonder if this will end up with the closure of AMC or add weight to the rumour that AMC will be coming to VM etc?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/...s-league-deal/

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Just confirmed that from May 9th BT Showcase will only be on Freeview HD Channel 115.

Freeview SD Channel 59 will close on that date.

http://www.a516digital.com/2017/05/b...w-hd-slot.html

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Well that's rather crap in my opinion. Many people don't have free view HD and will miss out.

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I only used it for NBA basketball a few times a year really but it's disappointing. It's got the "We'll be back- Current programme not available" showing on VM 548 at the moment so it appears to affect VM even if it hasn't been mentioned.

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Another channel moving to MUX 7/8. Not only HD equipment needed, but reduced coverage.

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All channels will be in HD only before too long. This is just the beginning of the beginning of that trend, I believe.

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Where do you think all the required bandwidth will come from?

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UEFA have shown their not bothered about coverage, all they want is the money. See how it plays out in the long run.

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You may now see the "BT Sport 2" logo on Channel 548 when BT Showcase are broadcasting this Thursday night from 8pm.

Lyon game will be shown on BT Showcase - Info from EPG.

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Like the beginning of the end of Linear TV l suppose OB.;)

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Denphone need to look away now...

Sky Cinema has confirmed that Sky Cinema Star Wars will launch on May 19th.

http://www.sky.com/tv/channel/skycin...nema-star-wars

Radio Times says it will use Sky Cinema Greats channel numbers.

No confirm end date at time of post.

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Next in line Sky cinema superheroes then it'll be monsters lol.

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When will we see 'Sky Cinema 'B' movies'?

They seem to have a lot of them :)

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I would have thought that advances in this area, such as new compression technologies, will ultimately resolve this problem. In addition, I believe that there will be fewer broadcast channels over time in favour of on demand and streaming.

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As far as i know Netflix compress their streams with the H265 codec which would explain why the picture looks better than Amazon if there's congestion somewhere.

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H265 doesnt neccesarily give better PQ it's just a more efficient codec over say h.264. I'm pretty sure Amazon are using H265 for it's UHD content.

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I think Netflix are taking a different approach than Amazon as to how their content in encoded

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/...n-7e99442b62a2

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Changes on Virgin Media between Easter and May Day:

The service name of Motors TV (SID 1602) was changed to motorsport.tv

The service names of STV Glasgow (SID 10140) and STV Edinburgh (SID 10152) were both changed to STV2.

Made in Liverpool (SID 10152) was removed from the Code Download Test (Portsmouth) network.

Service IDs 1514, 1515 and 1519 were testing on Transport Stream 15.

Changes between May Day and the start of this week:

Zee TV (SID 1514), &TV (SID 1515) and Zee Punjabi (SID 1519) were activated on Transport Stream 15, replacing SID's 1106, 1108 and 1109 respectively, which were removed from Transport Stream 11. So channels are being moved around, probably just internal maintenance but possibly an indication that Transport Stream 11 is being reorganised to make way for different channels.

Viceland (SID 1116) was removed from the Network Information Tables of all test networks and from the Service Description Table. Test video and audio streams were removed from across the network. So all traces of Viceland have now been removed. Interesting as it seemed to be at a fairly advanced stage of being added to the network.

STV2 (SID 10140) - the Glasgow version was added to the Code Download Test (Portsmouth) nework. Perhaps the testers were distraught at the earlier removal of Made in Liverpool and got STV2 as compensation. ;) As far as the Solent area in general is concerned, there are still no active tests present for That's Solent on the NIT tables of any of the regional networks.

Made in Teesside (SID 10156) was removed from the NGRHEE Bromley network where the original monitoring/testing appears to have taken place.

Other than that, a few service name changes as a result of channels temporarily re-branding. There were some interesting additional changes noted but no indication of what may develop from these changes, if anything.

Fox News Channel continued to be present in the NIT tables of several of VM's internal networks, used for testing.

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As BT Showcase SD has now closed, you could well be right in that VM will simply simulcast the appropriate feed.

Do we have BT Showcase HD on VM? If not, does anyone have any news as to when/if this will be coming to the platform?

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I've noticed on the Virgin Media EPG that the World Service on channel 906 closes down from 23:20 on Wednesday 17 May to 5:59 on Thursday 18 May.

Radio 4, which usually simulcasts the World Service overnight, is broadcasting a documentary series called 'Million Merchant Seafarers' from 1:00 to 5:20 on 18/5/17.

Anyone know what's happening?

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As Euronews re-organises, with targeted versions for each audience / language group, the former audio feeds of some of the additional language streams carried on Virgin Media have been removed.

PID's 1622, 1623 and 1624, the former audio streams for the French, German and Spanish language feeds have gone. PID 1611, the English language feed remains.

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Service ID 1704: "BTSportHD Hidden" still exists, previously it has been switched into channel 100 on the EPG when live FTA content has been carried on BT Showcase. It's not on the EPG but the clue is in the "Hidden" part of the service name.

Service ID 807: "BT Sport Show" is still in the EPG on channel 548, so the SD version may possibly still be available on VM.

Maintenance? Possibly nothing, I don't really trust the radio section of the EPG. Check again closer to the date, it may change.

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Interesting, thanks :)

The online schedule shows things carrying on as normal, it could be a VM only thing eg changing their feed??

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Saturday afternoon. BT Sports Showcase on Freeview HD is showing "BT Sport Score". Virgin 548 is showing "channel not currently available".

So it looks like scheduling on the two will be different in future.

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I don't think 'BT Sport Score' was ever shown on VM - only the free matches

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They should branch out with Sky Cinema Blue Movies..... ;)

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Bit ironic there are a award in the bafta called virgin tv must see TV moment and one of the nominations is game of thrones on sky Atlantic irony

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There's been speculation that BT Showcase will be closing altogether (at least on Freeview).

If it does, I'm not sure if it will be kept for VM only.

Some of the reasons put forward for this speculation are:

- It appears that BT have vacated permanent SD space on one multiplex and taken up temporary HD space on another.

- The mux that they have moved to will close in 2020, when new 5G mobile services will take up some of Freeview's current frequencies.

- From season 2018/19, there is no indication/assurance that they will maintain BT Showcase on Freeview- the Press Release announcing the new Champions League/Europa League deal made no reference to Freeview coverage, and said:

http://www.btplc.com/News/#/pressrel...league-1840860

"So, in terms of free coverage, it appears that BT have only undertaken to broadcast 2 live matches- the finals- and the emphasis is on free coverage being on social media. Add to this, that BT appears now to only have temporary capacity on Freeview, then I think it begs the question as to whether BT will be broadcasting BT Showcase on Freeview long after next season".

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Sky Cinema has confirmed that Sky Cinema Pirates Of The Caribbean will launch on May 26th.

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Coming next Sky cinema the goonies.

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UPDATE:

Radio Times has revealed the following about Sky Cinema Pirates Of The Caribbean:

-Sky Cinema Pirates Of The Caribbean will broadcast from May 26th to May 30th.

-Sky Cinema Pirates Of The Caribbean will use Sky Cinema Hits channels numbers.

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Pieces of eight anybody.;)

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I can see it now Den with his bottle of rum swashbuckling along to the pirates of the carribean :D

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You have forgot one thing Sir as because l am teetotal the bottle is more likely to be a bottle of water l am swashbuckling with.:D

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Can I ask if STV2 has appear on Virgin UK Channel 159 in Aberdeen, Ayr or Dundee yet?

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VM doesn't operate in Aberdeen

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There is no STV2 in Dundee area.

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The last time you asked you were told that VM doesn't cover the Aberdeen area and that the former Smallworld coverage of Ayrshire (not actually Ayr) is fed from Glasgow, so takes the same services as Glasgow.

For clarity:

Glasgow & Uddingston regions carry STV2 Service ID 10140.
Edinburgh 1 & Falkirk regions carry STV2 Service ID 10151.
Dundee & Perth regions don't carry STV2.

Feel free to ask about Aberdeen again in the next few weeks, but that answer isn't going to change any time soon. :D

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Bit ironic there are a award in the bafta called virgin tv must see TV moment and one of the nominations is game of thrones on sky Atlantic irony

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Well if you listen to OB that wise sage of this forum its coming soon...;):D

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STV2 says they are in talks with Virgin Media - but not seen any update since I last ask.

Also any thing happen last night as Total Channel want up by one for about 5mins or so.

Then my box rebooted at about 5.30am.

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You will win lotto before that channel launches on Virgin Media.;)

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Well we did win £25 a week ago on the lotto.:shocked:

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May List update - May 17th update.

Keep up-to-date on the latest news on upcoming channel launches and other important events across all platforms of Virgin Media UK and Virgin Media Ireland.

NOTE: I DO NOT WORK FOR VIRGIN MEDIA UK OR VIRGIN MEDIA IRELAND SO ALL THE INFORMATION ON THIS LIST IS STILL SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Colours on my list are as followed:

Media Boy = New Info just added.
Media Boy = Virgin Media UK/Ireland News and links.
Media Boy = Local TV news, other Media news/Things.

=== Coming up on Virgin's Digital TV ===
=== Freeviews on Virgin Media UK OR Ireland ===
CBS Reality, Horror, CBS Action, CBS Drama, CBS Reality +1 and Horror +1 are all having an freeview to all Customers on Virgin UK Channels 148, 149, 192, 197, 201 and 202 right now untill December 31st 2017.

=== Sometime in 2017 (Testing or Confirm) ===
-Virgin Media Ireland will launch Cartoon Network HD soon.

=== May ===
19th. Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Greats HD as Sky Cinema Star Wars HD on Virgin UK Channel 404 and Virgin Ireland Channel 337.
19th. Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Greats as Sky Cinema Star Wars on Virgin UK Channel 434 and Virgin Ireland Channel 307.
21st. Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Matt Damon HD as Sky Cinema Hits HD on Virgin UK Channel 403 and Virgin Ireland Channel 340.
21st. Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Matt Damon as Sky Cinema Hits on Virgin UK Channel 433 and Virgin Ireland Channel 318.
26th. Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Hits HD as Sky Cinema Pirates Of The Caribbean HD on Virgin UK Channel 403 and Virgin Ireland Channel 340.
26th. Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Hits as Sky Cinema Pirates Of The Caribbean on Virgin UK Channel 433 and Virgin Ireland Channel 318.
30th. Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Pirates Of The Caribbean HD as Sky Cinema Hits HD on Virgin UK Channel 403 and Virgin Ireland Channel 340.
30th. Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Pirates Of The Caribbean as Sky Cinema Hits on Virgin UK Channel 433 and Virgin Ireland Channel 318.
-Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Star Wars HD as Sky Cinema Greats HD on Virgin UK Channel 404 and Virgin Ireland Channel 337.
-Sky Cinema will rebrand Sky Cinema Star Wars as Sky Cinema Greats on Virgin UK Channel 434 and Virgin Ireland Channel 307.

=== June ===
No News...

=== July ===
No News...

=== August ===
No News...

=== September ===
No News...

=== October ===
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=== November ===
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=== December ===
No News...

=== January 2018 ===
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=== February 2018 ===
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=== March 2018 ===
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=== April 2018 ===
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=== May 2018 ===
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=== June 2018 ===
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=== July 2018 ===
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=== August 2018 ===
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=== Autumn 2018 ===
-BBC Scotland to launch BBC Scotland on Virgin UK Channel TBC.

=== September 2018 ===
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=== October 2018 ===
No News...

=== November 2018 ===
No News...

=== December 2018 ===
No News...

=== Local TV on Virgin Media ===
[COLOR=blue]-All the following Local TV broadcasters may launch soon on Virgin UK Channel 159:

-That's Lancashire
-That's Manchester
-That's Oxfordshire
-That's Solent - CHANNEL TESTING ON VIRGIN MEDIA UK.
-STV2 Ayrshire
-STV2 Dundee
-Made in North Wales
-That's Thames Valley [Berkshire]

=== Unknown dates ===
-The BBC hope to launch English regional variants of its existing BBC One HD service as well as Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland editions of BBC Two HD - but still need to be approved by the BBC Trust.

=== Channels ONLY in Virgin Media Ireland areas ===
List last updated on January 5th 2017.

ONLY TV CHANNELS THAT ONLY BROADCAST IN THE UK ON OTHER NETWORKS WILL APPEAR ON THIS PART OF THE LIST.

ALSO THE FOLLOWING LIST OF CHANNELS IS CURRENTLY BROADCASTING ON VIRGIN MEDIA IRELAND BUT NOT ON VIRGIN MEDIA UK:

Documentaries/News:
-History HD
-Crime + Investigation HD
-RT

Lifestyle:
-Fashion TV

Music:
-MTV Classic

Kids:
-Disney Channel HD

Specialist:
-EWTN

Radio:
-UCB Ireland

Channels only in Virgin Media Ireland areas.

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B) If Virgin Media UK/Ireland are set to move more than TWO channels (TV or Radio) about in Virgin Media UK/Ireland areas.
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You used to list Disney junior HD on virgin media Ireland where did it go

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Anything new coming to virgin media

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Disney Junior HD do not broadcast on Virgin Media Ireland - only Disney Channel HD.

Full list (as of January 2017) of channels on Virgin Media Ireland is on MB Blog.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Can we expect any uhd 4k to come to virgin media

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There are certainly changes under way, possibly connected to the developments I changes I mentioned in my post on May 10th.

Also, I've been informed that Talking Pictures TV has been added to the Service Description Table, almost like a lottery win? ;)

Unfortunately, I've not seen any detailed scans at this stage, so I'll post more info when/if I get it.

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There was talk of the brand new Virgin Media Store accessed through the V6, Tivo and even a smartphone app launching. When I read about this, I kinda assumed that the store would make 4K UHD movies available to buy/rent, but it's all very quiet.....

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I would expect to see some UHD on demand material arriving before much longer, although nothing has yet been announced. I doubt we will see the launch of any UHD channels this year.

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I agree, OB. Anything in terms of UHD will be in the form of on-demand and/or buy & rent from the store.

Even on-demand things like the Blacklist would be a great bonus

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Yes, a UHD channel would take up so much bandwidth, I can't see many (if any) channels being launched on VM, ever. I suspect that all UHD content will be streaming and on demand - even the sport, when it eventually comes.

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Yes it has been very quiet these last 6 months sadly.:(

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But you never know, there may be an announcement out of nowhere. On 5 June, maybe?

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2017/...s-to-apple-tv/

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Forever the optimist.:)

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Thanks for info on TPTV.

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Just guessing but I'd imagine there's far more Apple TV boxes out there than there is TiVo.

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But maybe announced as an 'also ran'! :D

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Clutching at straws comes to mind.

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No, just daydreaming...:sleep:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)
 

Daydreaming never harmed anyone and sometimes dreams can come true.

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Further to yesterday's news, I have now been given data from the scans. Talking Pictures TV is indeed in the Service Description Table, Service ID 801 on transport stream 8. It is in the Network Information Table for the following networks, used by VM for testing: NGRHEE Knowsley, NGRHEE Bromley, TTA Bromley DMC (Bromley RHE), TTA Knowsley DMC (Hayes_RHE), Code Download Test (Portsmouth). However, encrypted video and audio streams were present on transport stream 8 on customer facing networks, indicating that the channel could launch fairly quickly. Beware though, that's exactly the situation we saw with Viceland, which was subsequently removed. A search of the EIT data showed that it carried generic EPG details for the channel at the time of the scan (just the channel name rather than actual programme details).

The Hidden BT Sport HD channel remained in the Network Information Table and in the SDT but the actual video and audio streams have been removed.

Various "Pack Tier" (Mix Pack, XL Pack etc) services moved from Transport Stream 1 to regional Transport Stream 104. This will be, I would think, of little interest to most readers of this thread, so I won't go into detail. The transfer possibly gives more local control of each tier? Maybe to handle access to local tv channels where a VM region overlaps several local TV areas? It looks as if TS104 is being prepared for the transfer of several other similar services.

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Not this one...

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Thanks for update on info.

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Talking Pictures, praise the Lord, I'm a believer ;)

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Watch this space ;)

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:angel:

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Well who wouldn't be? There's nothing quite like gaining a channel showing fuzzy old, mainly monochrome, films with a 4:3 aspect ratio at a time when the industry is moving towards UHD TV and HDR picture quality. Oh the joy! :rolleyes: