Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)

What sort of TV and what size screen to you have, Max? Maybe your TV was upscaling everything to near UHD already so that the difference is not so perceptible.

If you've already verified your picture settings both on the TV and the V6, you are using a good quality HDMI cable supplied by VM and your V6 is plugged into the appropriate HDMI socket on your TV, I don't know what else to suggest.

Having watched the Virgin Ultra HD channel for 10 minutes last night, the picture on my 49" Sony was astounding.

I have a 50" Panasonic LED 4K Ultra UHD TV, OB, it has just recently had a firmware update to HDR standard, I do see a difference when the football is on BT UHD, but as I said earlier, not a huge difference in other content.

spiderplant

18-09-2018 12:26

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Originally Posted by Mad Max (Post 35963465)

I have a 50" Panasonic LED 4K Ultra UHD TV

How far away do you sit?

Mad Max

18-09-2018 12:41

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35963469)

How far away do you sit?

Approx 10 feet away, SS.

spiderplant

18-09-2018 13:26

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Originally Posted by Mad Max (Post 35963471)

Approx 10 feet away, SS.

Too far, if you want to get the full benefit of UHD.

TL;DR article here, but this chart summarises nicely:
https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2018/09/4.png

alwaysabear

18-09-2018 13:39

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Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj (Post 35963462)

Same here OB, the picture was brilliant. Mine is a LG OLED.

I think with having a 4K tv that has upscalling capabilities, you are right. Because of the upscalling to near 4K anywhere, the different won't be as much.

It is definitely a lot clearer on the VM UHD channel though. Is the broadcast also in HDR?

Have to agree .

Mad Max

18-09-2018 13:49

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35963472)

Too far, if you want to get the full benefit of UHD.

TL;DR article here, but this chart summarises nicely:
https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2018/09/5.png

So going by that chart I would need to be approx. 6 feet away to get the full benefit of 4K UHD? I'd be interested to know how many people actually sit that close to a 50" TV, it seems far too close imo.

mot12

18-09-2018 16:38

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Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj (Post 35963450)

I think we'll really start seeing the difference once we watch more content in UHD more of the time. Watching HD consistently you can see the clear difference between the SD picture. I think the same will happen with UHD.

Although the football on BT Sport 4K definitely looks a lot clearer and crisper than in HD.

I have to say BT Sport 4K is very good at 4K, as you say you can clearly see the difference.

Some people seem to think all 4K is equal and if it's filmed with 4K cameras then everything you watch in 4K will be of equal quality, unfortunately that isn't the case there's a lot more to it than that. The same thing obviously goes for HD.

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Talking of picture quality I'd love to see the Ultra HD version of Sky one's S.W.A.T it looks awesome on Sky One HD.

Media Boy UK

18-09-2018 22:02

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Media Boy sources has confirm that GOLD HD will replace GOLD SD on channel 124 on Tuesday 25th September 2018.

BenMcr

18-09-2018 22:14

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35963534)

Media Boy sources has confirm that GOLD HD will replace GOLD SD on channel 124 on Tuesday 25th September 2018.

By sources you mean Twitter ;)

https://twitter.com/uktv/status/1041...918715392?s=21

Ddonald2016

19-09-2018 17:26

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I’d love to see how virgin spin it’s better to pay separately for Netflix

For Sky Q subscribers, Ultimate On Demand will cost £10 a month, which is cheaper than the combined cost of subscribing to Netflix and Sky Box Sets separately.

denphone

19-09-2018 17:41

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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35963536)

By sources you mean Twitter ;)

https://twitter.com/uktv/status/1041...918715392?s=21

l suspect MB has more then one source.;)

muppetman11

19-09-2018 17:41

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Originally Posted by Ddonald2016 (Post 35963600)