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OLD BOY 13-05-2015 13:30
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by MutleyF (Post 35777581)
As much as we all hate it, I agree that its doubtful that the licence fee is going anywhere.

Indeed, the licence fee has (I believe I read) paid for the development of Teletext, High Definition, Digital Radio, and catch up TV (the CEO at the time, Ashley Highfield developed the Iplayer). Plus, can you imagine the BBC news website splattered in ads to help pay for it if the licence is abolished .....

Hate paying it the same as everyone, but then I also hate paying road tax !
Yes, let's get rid of that too!

Incidentally, just found the link below regarding the licence fee.

If they were to abolish the licence fee and introduce subscriptions, this would give an incentive to those who do not currently have pay-TV to go for that instead of the BBC. This will help the Sky/VM/BT/Talk Talk coffers.

Maybe that increased revenue would help to pay for some of our missing TV channels.

http://advanced-television.com/2015/...o-be-scrapped/

John Whittingdale, who was this week appointed Culture Secretary, has made no secret of his belief that the licence fee is in need of reform, describing it as “worse than the poll tax”.

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35777629)
You can get Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 on it own.

You need the Sky Sports Pack for Sky Sports 3, Sky Sports 4, Sky Sports 5 and Sky Sports F1.

Our Sky Source only says Sky Movies is being worked on.
Maybe so, but I expect the Sports channels will be next, unless they've worked out that people will cease their high level subscriptions for sport rather than be forced to pay more to get the whole package.

Anypermitedroute 13-05-2015 18:22
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35777632)
We have seen no confirmed info from our Virgin Sources on when Nat Geo Wild HD may launch.
That's a bummer, thanks for the update

Media Boy UK 13-05-2015 19:55
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute (Post 35777692)
That's a bummer, thanks for the update
We feel that Nat Geo Wild HD not launching yesterday was down to "technical issues".

The Africa Channel, ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD did have some "technical issues" before launching on Virgin Media in the past.

Chad 13-05-2015 20:22
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35777629)
You can get Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 on it own.

You need the Sky Sports Pack for Sky Sports 3, Sky Sports 4, Sky Sports 5 and Sky Sports F1.

Our Sky Source only says Sky Movies is being worked on.
As posted a couple of months ago, when I cancelled SKY Movies with SKY they asked if I'd consider taking movies again if offered on an on demand basis only. So no linear movies channels on my EPG, but access too all the movies through my SKY+ box on demand. I'm pretty sure the suggested price was £10.00 per month.

I've not seen anything anywhere else to back this up so we'll just have to wait and see.

Media Boy UK 13-05-2015 20:27
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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35777713)
As posted a couple of months ago, when I cancelled SKY Movies with SKY they asked if I'd consider taking movies again if offered on an on demand basis only. So no linear movies channels on my EPG, but access too all the movies through my SKY+ box on demand. I'm pretty sure the suggested price was £10.00 per month.

I've not seen anything anywhere else to back this up so we'll just have to wait and see.
Our Sky Source told us the same thing.

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...-from-epg.html

muppetman11 13-05-2015 20:28
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
To be honest Chad I wouldn't at all be surprised if we saw the number of Sky Movie linear channels cut in the future.

Sky could easily just keep Sky Premiere and another channel which showcased movies from all the other Sky Movie channels and focus on their On Demand offering it would certainly save massive amounts of money.

They've already announced they'll introduce a live restart function on the Sky Movie channel allowing anyone who comes in part way through a movie the ability to start it over.

Chad 13-05-2015 20:41
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35777716)
To be honest Chad I wouldn't at all be surprised if we saw the number of Sky Movie linear channels cut in the future.

Sky could easily just keep Sky Premiere and another channel which showcased movies from all the other Sky Movie channels and focus on their On Demand offering it would certainly save massive amounts of money.

They've already announced they'll introduce a live restart function on the Sky Movie channel allowing anyone who comes in part way through a movie the ability to start it over.
Interesting. I wonder if this is all building towards the release of their new PVR?

theone2k10 13-05-2015 22:51
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35777713)
As posted a couple of months ago, when I cancelled SKY Movies with SKY they asked if I'd consider taking movies again if offered on an on demand basis only. So no linear movies channels on my EPG, but access too all the movies through my SKY+ box on demand. I'm pretty sure the suggested price was £10.00 per month.

I've not seen anything anywhere else to back this up so we'll just have to wait and see.
It'll be offered to Virgin customers too but vm will prob charge £17 and then say it was Skys fault even if it wasn't lol.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35777716)
To be honest Chad I wouldn't at all be surprised if we saw the number of Sky Movie linear channels cut in the future.

Sky could easily just keep Sky Premiere and another channel which showcased movies from all the other Sky Movie channels and focus on their On Demand offering it would certainly save massive amounts of money.

They've already announced they'll introduce a live restart function on the Sky Movie channel allowing anyone who comes in part way through a movie the ability to start it over.
Maybe they could go back to Sky movies and Sky movies max and Sky movies gold days, i think those were the names of Sky movies quite a few years back or was it Sky Cinema?

piquet41 13-05-2015 23:01
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35777734)
It'll be offered to Virgin customers too but vm will prob charge £17 and then say it was Skys fault even if it wasn't lol.

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Maybe they could go back to Sky movies and Sky movies max and Sky movies gold days, i think those were the names of Sky movies quite a few years back or was it Sky Cinema?
SKY MOVIES and THE MOVIE CHANNEL

theone2k10 14-05-2015 00:11
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by piquet41 (Post 35777736)
SKY MOVIES and THE MOVIE CHANNEL
Thanks.

Media Boy UK 14-05-2015 09:34
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
Virgin sources have just told us that Virgin Media will now try to launch Nat Geo Wild HD on June 2nd.

OLD BOY 14-05-2015 12:29
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chad (Post 35777713)
As posted a couple of months ago, when I cancelled SKY Movies with SKY they asked if I'd consider taking movies again if offered on an on demand basis only. So no linear movies channels on my EPG, but access too all the movies through my SKY+ box on demand. I'm pretty sure the suggested price was £10.00 per month.

I've not seen anything anywhere else to back this up so we'll just have to wait and see.
So there we have it, the beginning of the end of linear TV, and even ahead of the timescale I had envisaged!

And what's not to like? Movies there when you want to watch them, no pesky ads and cheaper to boot.

Nice to see Sky keeping up, even though this arrangement will bring in less income from the advertisers.

MutleyF 14-05-2015 12:58
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
really cannot see linear tv going anywhere OB

Anypermitedroute 14-05-2015 13:06
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35777836)
So there we have it, the beginning of the end of linear TV, and even ahead of the timescale I had envisaged!

And what's not to like? Movies there when you want to watch them, no pesky ads and cheaper to boot.

Nice to see Sky keeping up, even though this arrangement will bring in less income from the advertisers.
not sure the adverts would be totally going, they will stick them in front of the movie before it starts, and will prevent you fast forwarding them in the same way 4oD and ITV does on their smartphone apps

OLD BOY 14-05-2015 13:17
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 
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Originally Posted by Anypermitedroute (Post 35777847)
not sure the adverts would be totally going, they will stick them in front of the movie before it starts, and will prevent you fast forwarding them in the same way 4oD and ITV does on their smartphone apps
No sign of this happening yet, though... ;)

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Originally Posted by MutleyF (Post 35777844)
really cannot see linear tv going anywhere OB
Well, Sky seem to have got the message and I thought they would be one of the last broadcasters to admit defeat, given advertisement saturation on their channels.


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