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Is there a rough timing for this update?

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2020?

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Well we are in July so not long then..;)

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Is that an approximation? :D

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love it......:D:D

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What to watch in UHD this July

https://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-t...tra-hd-channel

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After a break of several months, there are now three series in UHD on BBC iPlayer which are switching to HLG on the V6 box on compatible tvs. The football test is also back.

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https://www.whathifi.com/news/sky-q-...ey-hdr-support

HDR Live Sport on Sky next year

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Thought this was supposed to be 2020?

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Not sure i think your correct though.

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Wasn't 2020 just for UHD channel, not HDR?

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Now that it's been announced that the Premier League and EFL Leagues will start on September 12th, perhaps there will be an announcement that Sky UHD will finally launch?

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Sky Sports UHD on VM was meant to be 2020 - HDR on Sky Sports UHD on Sky platform is 2021.

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Now that the play offs are settled,I'm sure that once they've thrashed out which games Sky and BT are showing there will be an announcement in a blaze of glory.

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Just thinking that it will be the Charity Shield 2 weeks today. Hopefully,this could be the first game to be shown from Sky UHD as Virgin like to promote these sort of curtain raisers so here's hoping that an announcement will be imminent.

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BT have the rights this year.

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never really got the whole excitement about UHD. Sometimes i forget i'm watching an SD channel rather than the HD version. HD is a major step up from SD naturally but i just can't see the further improvement of UHD whenever i see it on. "its sharper", "it has more colours..." not really that exciting!

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+1 :clap:

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Ah well. maybe in 3 weeks then ;)

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I have a modest 26" screen, and SD looks washed-out and fuzzy. HD is crisp. The only time I have seen UHD was on a neighbours' ginormous screen on which HD looked washed-out and fuzzy, but UHD was crisp. So the bigger the screen, the more UHD becomes relevant.

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Or the smaller yours is the less important.

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HD is perfectly adequate for a screen of your size, Vince

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If the so called 'leaked fixtures' are real,Man Utd v Arsenal would make a good first match on Sky Sports UHD,

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...-2021-18777327

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Now that the real fixtures have been released, Liverpool v Leeds would be a good first Sky UHD game on Virgin.

C. Palace v Southampton - Sept 12
Fulham v Arsenal - Sept 12
Liverpool v Leeds - Sept 12
Tottenham v Everton - Sept 12
West Brom v Leicester City - Sept 12
West Ham v Newcastle - Sept 12
Brighton v Chelsea - Sept 14
Sheff Utd v Wolves - Sept 14
Burnley v Man Utd - Postponed
Man City v Aston Villa - Postponed

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It's likely that those who were thinking that Sky UHD would be brought in with the football season rather than in August were right.

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looking that way OB so 3 weeks on saturday to wait

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What's the chances that Sky Sports on VM will do away with SD at the same time UHD is introduced? Everyone has HD capable boxes, Sky Cinema already went HD-only.

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I reckon you are right cheekyangus

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Makes sense to me.

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Still nothing about Sky Sports/Cinemas UHD on VM. The new season starts a week tomorrow!

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You would have thought if it was coming in the next week they would have announced it by now.

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VM dont do that sadly Den guess they will when they launch it

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But the question is when will they launch it?.

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Has the UHD channel even launched on Satellite from Sky themselves? Aside from Press Red UHD I mean.

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probably 12th when season starts my guess

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No

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Nobody said anything about a UHD channel. UHD is red button on Sky..

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Would be great to see a linear channel. A sure fire sign that UHD has moved beyond niche and into the mainstream.

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Red Button UHD was available on Sky when the VM/Sky deal was announced. The wording of the VM/Sky deal, to my recollection and interpretation, was that new UHD that Sky was still to launch themselves was part of the VM deal. Which suggested to me that linear UHD channels were on the way. I assumed this would be one 4K Cinema channel and one 4K Sports channel, and an outside chance of a 4K Entertainment channel. Though I really didn't expect the latter.

The wording of the announcement (as I remember it) implied was that it was something that wasn't currently available via their own satellite service at the time of the Press Release.

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That is the great vexed question.

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Here is a press release from Sky at the time.

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Ta.

"As part of the extended deal, Sky’s stellar line up of entertainment, cinema and sports channels will continue to be available on Virgin Media’s TV platform, with Virgin customers set to enjoy new Ultra HD linear and additional video-on-demand content from Sky next year."

I guess that could be be interpreted as Red Button UHD, but if I was writing a press release to convey that that's not the way I'd phrase it, even if I was told to not to give too much specific detail.

That ambiguity sounded like a proper channel back then, to me, and the extended delay made it seem to me like it was referencing a service that Sky hadn't launched yet, as if it was simply the existing UHD Red Button it would have launched at the start of the year.

Makes no difference to me ultimately as I don't have Sky premium channels or a UHD TV, I'm simply interested in tech.

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To mean this sentence reads - they 'planned' to bring UHD to VM in 2020 - not they will bring UHD to VM in 2020

"Plans to bring Ultra HD programming to Virgin Media from next year"

The publicity text itself is not so vague - but Sky are notorious for announcing and not delivering.

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And there lies the message.

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So are Virgin

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On that l agree.

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I still don't think there will be a 24hr linear channel more than likely UHD Sport will be accessed how it currently is on Sky with everything else available On Demand.

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Your hunch is probably right MM.

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Lets not forget that often VM also launch channels/services without any publicity until AFTER the launch leaving customers to discover it by themselves.

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I won't be very happy if it's not going to happen as I recently renewed my Oomph package on the basis of Sky UHD coming to Virgin as they said last year.

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no one has said it not gonna happen and i stick to next Saturday the 12th as my guess for start of season

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Hope your right Dave although I'm working until late on Saturday so I would have to wait until Sunday for the footie anyway.

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I've noticed over the years that Thursdays seem to be a popular day for VM announcements

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New to Virgin TV Ultra HD tonight at 9pm, the American comedy Loudermilk.

As with a lot of the programmes on Virgin TV Ultra HD, it will be available to watch on 999 for XL / Full House only then in Catch Up for all customers.

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Thanks, but no thanks - I find American comedy inane and not funny, so I will give it a miss.

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VM advertising the restart of the EPL on HD, nothing about UHD

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be because they officially not got the UHD yet

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Is it really such a big deal? HD imo is perfectly fine for sport.

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for some of us yes

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I notice when doing a search on the V6 for some Sky Originals they are marked as UHD but they do say HD on the info bar.

Example

Code 404
The Twilight Zone

A few movies on Sky Cinema has this also

Hopefully a sign

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Last night the info bar on the Home screen was advertising the Liverpool v Leeds match in UHD on the Virgin ULTRA HD Channel 999 for this Sat 12th at 5.30pm.

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This morning its just advertising the match in HD on the info bar on the Home screen.

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Indeed, the UHD advert last night was all in red. They've obviously switched it overnight to just say HD on the normal Sky Sports channel now, and there is nothing listed on 999 in the epg either. Maybe there was some midnight hour negotiations still going on with Sky and VM jumped the gun? But it WAS there.
Very strange.

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UHD is made for sport - HD is perfectly fine for Films and general programming

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I love sport, but for me it's the other way around. Films in particular can have so much going on on the screen, and often put so much effort into adding all the small flourishes, things you can miss with lower resolutions. Nature documentaries arguably benefit the most of the real life, non-SFX programming, they certainly get used to sell the picture detail in shops.

The sports that have benefitted from HD the most, in my experience, are tennis, golf and cycling, but HD is enough for the wide variety of sports I watch. I find frame rate more important, and that's only really an issue when it comes to streaming. I've had to stream my football club's matches and mirror them to my TV over the last month or two and the smoothness, or lack thereof, was noticeable even though the picture quality was fine.

I'm getting off topic though, and everyone's preferences and entertainment priorities are different.

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I hope it happens but as with all things Virgin I’m not optimistic...

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l have to sadly agree with your sentiments.

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The deal was done last year, so I doubt there were any more negotiations at this late stage. I think they are just waiting for the go-ahead now.

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But UHD is better overall with a bigger screen. It doesn't matter what you are watching.

The smaller the screen, the less noticeable the difference is.

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Is it still now?

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Isn't the first UHD match covered by Sky on Friday 11th? That, to my mind, would be the most appropriate time to get Sky UHD on Virgin Media.

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That's totally incorrect. If all other variables are the same, 4k is 4k. It doesn't magically get better because the screen is bigger. Screen size has nothing to do with resolution alone, it's screen size and viewing distance that matters. 4k at 24" is just as good as it is at 80" if both are viewed at the correct distance.

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Yes still comes up as UHD on the search but not on the info when its clicked

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In fairness to Old Boy, which I wouldn’t ordinarily do, I’m sure he means for the average viewer at average distance with the telly over in the corner or on the wall.

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Which has so many variables and outcomes that it's pointless meaning that by saying "
The smaller the screen, the less noticeable the difference is." Which is incorrect.

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No - the first premiership mTch of the season is on Saturday 12th September

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Just got home and turned the V6 on and it was showing the UHD banner for Liverpool v Leeds in red and then it suddenly changed to the HD banner.

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That's what I seen late last night, banner for that match in UHD on channel 999, which I posted earlier. When I turned the V6 back on this morning it was replaced with only the HD banner.

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The was a UHD advert for another program in between left night.

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HD is perfectly good for sport too imo.

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I seem to remember that during the announcement last year, they said there will be an impovment in the streaming quality from Sky.

Tonight I have had updates on my ipad for the Sky Sports app and also for the Virgin Go app so that could be a good sign.

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Let's hope so. The first of the UHD premiership matches this season was scheduled for today, but still no sign of this on Virgin. How very frustrating.

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i think tomorrow will be the day come on VM please dont let us down

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No, 1st Premiership match is tomorrow.

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No EPL games are on Tonight.

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If they allowed Sky Sports via TV 2 Go, would it still be limited to 1 stream per person?

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The EPL game tonight wasn't shown in UHD on Sky Sports.

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you mean EFL game mm was no premier league game tonight

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There wasn't one tonight

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Yes apologies cross wires I meant EFL , I must read more carefully :D

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no UHD today sadly

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Can we be surprised....

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not really Den was a hope we get it today with football season starting oh well the wait goes on

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Just like the wait goes on for a unnamed certain channel.;)

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that will never happen Den as i said all along ;)

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Absolutely...

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Well, it was definitely advertised 48hrs ago on the home screen banner for a 5.30pm start TODAY on UHD channel 999. Something must have happened with their negotiated contract with Sky for them to withdraw it. I have a feeling it maybe related to a last minute rights issues on the Virgin Go app which may have stalled the launch? Bizarre situation.

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but why would they put it on channel 999 when sky sports is a premium subscription channel dont make sense

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The same reasons BT puts European football finals on it.

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Boom......:D

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Surely BT have to make the euro finals available to all. That's totally different.

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exactly sky will not allow VM to let none sky sport subscribers watch premier league football in UHD for free