Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2017)

Thank you for taking the trouble to explain this, buckeye. I am not sure I could cope with all that!

I hope the complexity of getting all of your watch lists in one place finally demonstrates to those who seem not to understand the problem that led me to conclude that if Virgin offered as many streaming services as possible, this would be attractive to subscribers and could be their USP.

I think this may bring forward my migration from pay tv to streaming services, but I'll bide my time for now.

LG's veto is seriously disappointing and lacks vision.

Purely conjecture on my part but I guess with Mr Malone having fingers in the content pie as well then if everything were available via apps it would cut into his profits for his other business's,
also VM wouldn't be able to generate profits by charging people for what they don't want in order to view the things they do want.

Unfortunately imho this country is always going to lag behind our American cousins unless the major content holders (Sky and BT) are forced to divest their platform business from their content as BT has been forced to do with Openreach recently.

muppetman11

15-08-2017 17:48

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Originally Posted by buckeye (Post 35912702)

Why should they have to when many other providers around the world are platforms as well as content providers , being that you mention it even in the USA.

OLD BOY

15-08-2017 19:42

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Originally Posted by buckeye (Post 35912702)

Understood, but then again, if access to the additional apps was only made available to subscribers on the Full House package, Mr Malone would be secure in the knowledge that all the apps in the world would not dilute his offerings (as long as they too were part of the Full House package!).

Mr Malone should be smart enough to realise that people who wanted Amazon and other OTT services would get them anyway through other devices. What he would be doing by allowing them on our set top boxes would be adding value, by allowing the content on these other services to be bookmarked on one list.

SonicMaster

15-08-2017 20:03

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35912484)

https://www.c21media.net/sonys-kix-to-become-pop-max/

Kix is to become Pop Max from 30/8/17. This looks like a permanent change to me; is this the same channel that we get on channel 738 (labelled Kix Power)?

Sony are ditching the Kix brand, so that all 3 of their children's channels sit in a clean set; Pop, Tiny Pop and Pop Max.

Therefore I think it is very likely that Kix Power will leave VM, and if they have any sense at all they will replace it with Pop Max, so that we have the same 3 channels as Sky, Freeview, Freesat, YouView, BT and TalkTalk.

RichardCoulter

16-08-2017 13:58

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Yes, that would make sense all round.

Ddonald2016

17-08-2017 11:19

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Has anybody tried tve new radio app, its good shAme tHe favourites dont sync between boxes

Media Boy UK

17-08-2017 14:24

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Radio Times has confirm that Sky Cinema Star Wars will be with us for two weeks from August 21st to September 4th using Sky Cinema Greats Channel number (Virgin Channel 434 [UK] and Virgin Channel 307 [Ireland])

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Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 35912736)

Therefore I think it is very likely that Kix Power will leave VM, and if they have any sense at all they will replace it with Pop Max, so that we have the same 3 channels as Sky, Freeview, Freesat, YouView, BT and TalkTalk.

Channel listing for "Kix Power" still says "Channel off air" until August 31st on TiVo Boxes.

RichardCoulter

18-08-2017 15:17

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Wonder if it'll return with a new name though, given the rebranding excercise.

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Confirmed:. Freesports coming to VM:

https://www.freesports.tv

denphone

18-08-2017 15:30

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No doubt it will be heralded by Virgin as a great new channel coming and well worth their forthcoming price rise.

RichardCoulter

18-08-2017 17:44

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Probably, despite it being a FTA channel (though I do expect these to be added as a matter of course for those actually paying for their television service).

Chad	18-08-2017 22:53

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35913131)

I think the channel looks decent. Looks like a direct spin-off of Premier Sports and their content. Interesting from the trailer on their website that they appear to have the rights to Portuguese football. Okay so it's not blockbuster content but there's plenty on offer to appease fans of rugby, ice hockey, speedway and NASCAR.

I'd rather have it than not have it.

theone2k10

18-08-2017 22:55

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35913136)

No doubt it will be heralded by Virgin as a great new channel coming and well worth their forthcoming price rise.

So it'll be in vms XL pack then?

RichardCoulter

19-08-2017 05:47

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At a guess I'd say M+/Mix, as all the past few additions of Freeview channels have been put into this pack.

I find the new radio app a lot easier to use than TuneIn.

jj20x

19-08-2017 19:56

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35913251)

I find the new radio app a lot easier to use than TuneIn.

It's V6 only isn't it? which is an interesting move. Maybe commencing the end-of-life phase for the legacy Tivo boxes.

OLD BOY

19-08-2017 20:27

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