Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Its like waiting for paint to dry, the only problem is the paint dryed 6 months ago.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

No they are having to give it a second coat, then wait and see if it needs a third coat:shocked:

PS VIRGIN are not like SKY they are unable to get the decorators in and they have to do it their selves.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

They should get one of those paintrollers they flog on shopping telly then!

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he. he. :D:D:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

When was the last original channel to launch on Virgin? Not counting a +1 channel like ITV+1.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Film4 HD

Its still only on Virgin.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

If you mean original (as in not a timeshift or HD simulcast) as opposed to exclusive I guess that would be Cinemoi.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

MB any news on ESPN Classic on Demand TV Choice what time is it coming it not on yet

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

No news update.

Talk about ESPN Classic on Demand here: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...on-demand.html

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Yep nothing in London either... getting more and more cheesed off with VM. More channel launches on Sky that we dont have (MTV Music channel) Since Living went over to Sky on demand has been dramatically reduced. The promised Sky on demand content still not arrived nor have Sky HD basic channels bar Sky 1 HD, red button for sports "apprentally" in April, no Sky Atlantic even though we lose a number of channels including Bravo and Channel One and VM are still paying the same amount to Sky for content but us recieving less:confused: (Virgin got duped with that deal...)

TiVo rollout shambolic... now I'm being told late March as "its in beta mode" even though there is a rollout right now!

More tech probs with TV and BB over weekend... :td:

Generally fed up with the service :mad:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

BSkyB add an extra hour to TNA PPV's on Challenge.

TNA Against All Odds is on Challenge for FOUR HOURS from 10pm on Wednesday night and will end at 2am (not 1am as listed on Virgin Media's EPG).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Agree Mr S I do think the TIVO to pre reg customers is a bit of a farce.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Yup, was told by 2 staff in CEO office via email and phone that this still Beta roll out and that they dont have confirmed date for launch but ATM its "late March" obviously more contadicting info.

Also just been told ESPN Classic on demand launch today hit a tech problem that they are looking into at the moment :(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Pretty much what I got told by CEO office , they told me 20000 had pre registered and they were rolling out to 5000 and if all went to plan the next batch would be end of March , so I can't see it being open to new customers in April.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Is this effective on Virgin Media though?

As the Genesis PPV was changed on the Sky guide from 10pm-2am but it didnt change on Virgin Media.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Depends if Liberate bother correcting it. My 2 hour WWE Raw recordings are often half wresting, half fishing.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

It has been totally shambolic up to now and at the moment l cannot see that improving.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

ESPN Classic on Demand this how on tv choice on demand here

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My main gripe with TIVO is why ask you to register your email address if your interested in taking it , has anyone had any TIVO updates in 3 months because I haven't . It would have made sense to keep customers up to date like 1000 lucky customers randomly picked , we are in BETA stage we hope to launch in the coming months but nothing.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

I have to admit that it has not been the best idea, but what do you want them to do offer it to all the customers at the same time and then say " sorry you will have it installed in 2/3 months due to the high demand".

I know that I can be critical of VM but have to say is the old saying "You can't please everyone".

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

An occasional email update would have worked. They could have also told people of its many features at the same time.

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I totally agree they have said nothing and nothing seems to be forthcoming, atrocious communication in my mind and theres no getting away from that.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Just wait the next couple of weeks are going to divide a lot on here;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Why do you say that ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Just wait and see;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

I take it you mean the fact some already have TIVO dates booked and some dont.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

You cant say that ..and then say nothing.:(

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OH yes i can you just need to wait and get ready for all the ranting to start:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

It's the most accurate Coming Soon post of 2011:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

You're certainly living up to your name:D:D

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There will be some on here that have Tivo and many many more that don't have it but are miffed because they were each promised to be amongst the first - and are clearly not.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Not quite coming soon to virgin but sure this will interest people on here, HBO on Demand is still on BTvision and it will show Boardwalk Empire as well as other SkyAtlantic shows. near the bottom is where it mentions Boardwalk Empire

http://www.btvision.bt.com/tv/the-be...-on-vision-tv/

How have BtVision still got HBOonDemand and we haven't?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

They (BT) get the programming 1 year later than Sky Atlantic. BT must have a long term agreement with HBO. VM's ran out just before Sky atlantic was launched.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Ok this is what i was on about:

As you may have read already, We'll soon be offering all our VIP 50, VIP 20 and XL TV customers (who also have Virgin Media Broadband and Phone) the chance to become one of 1000 lucky customers to win a special TiVo deal. You will receive information about this prize draw over the coming weeks , giving you the chance to win a complimentary TiVo box.

The first prize draw was also a random selection from a list of our VIP customers. As you can imagine, we can not give a complimentary box to our whole base, so a prize draw is the fairest way we can approach this.


We are also continuing to prioritise our existing customers to make sure they are the first people in the country to get a hold of this fantastic new service.

So if you do not get one this time the ranting will start again.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Well I'm not ranting, just happen to be a triple service XL customer though!!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Overnights.tv confrim Five USA and Fiver rebranded date.

Five USA and Five USA +1 will be rebranded as 5 USA and 5 USA +1 from the 7th of March, 2011.

In addition, Fiver and Fiver +1 will be rebranded as 5* and 5* +1 on the same date.

http://www.overnights.tv/public/content/News.aspx

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

personally i dont think people will rant so much about this because they are actually being told in advance that it is happening ... the biggest problem about the previous tivo lotto was that people only found out about it because it was posted on the internet by lucky customers

the thing that hits me about that email is the part that says ... "over the coming weeks" ... suggest that the rollout is gonna take ages and the second draw wont be for a while yet and those already signed up will be included ... from someone who hasnt even been contacted yet this appears to just drag the process out longer and longer

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

20,000+ customers being interested and an as yet limited installation team means this is going to take until Spring at the earliest IMHO, the issue is nobody wants to be last in the queue of even the initial 20,000 existing customers who have signed up.

VM were planning a launch for new customers in April but I wonder if demand is really getting ahead of their capability to deliver?

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http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article...is-the-future/


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...ic-brit-awards



http://www.cable.co.uk/news/virgin-m...ief-800403218/

---------- Post added at 18:50 ---------- Previous post was at 18:45 ----------

Channel 6 Bigger budget than Channel 5

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...el-6-channel-5

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Media Boy launches an new blog.

To get all the latest news on Channel 6 go to this blog

http://channel6uk.blogspot.com/

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Is there a schedule anywhere for this work? I've had four weeks of nothing but 9132 every time I try to watch VOD HD in the evening and wondered if my area was going to get an upgrade? HP23 postcode.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

So Channel 6 just wants to be the ITV regions of yesteryear?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Re previous chat a bit back, I presume TIVO is only available in some regions? If I press the red button when the ad at the foot of the screen appears, I get the response, "Your area does not support TIVO". So what's the point in giving me an advert?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Red Button where? On a S1 TiVo or on a Virgin STB?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

A few years ago in was Granada, then rebranded. now itv4, still some good stuff though.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

:omg:.....has virgin ceased trading or something..its like a graveyard on this ere topic...:tiptoe:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Everyone is fixated with a product they know is being launch namely TiVo. Waiting for new channels to be launched on VM is like waiting for paint to dry, then they give us a new coat:D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

:LOL: And the wait goes on :D

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Have faith I feel a new coat of paint coming soon;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

I have not been given any news on new channels launching from any of my insiders in weeks.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Reminds me I need to phone Virgin Media for a new coat mines showing its use :(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

What colour do you want you can have black , pink or orange as red is out of stock.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

What's the drying time on that? Do differnet colours take longer to dry?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Yes pink does take 3 times longer to dry.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Not often I'll agree but there's about 4 lads who I work with who are VM XL tv customers who have Sky installs booked , they reckon there ****ed off with coming soon and lack of channels as there reason for leaving plus phone and charges to expensive.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Yeah - but red is .................. COMING SOON:devsmoke:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

No a black coat will do thanks :D

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

VM is to preoccupied on TIVO to launch any new channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

I totally agree with you where are the new channels, we have had absolutely nothing for a long while.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Do you think when Tivo is launched to the masses they may sneak in a few new channels as well?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

I would like to think so , don't forget TIVO is good but it's still content what attracts customers.

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l hope so.

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I think Virgin Media forgot about content.
They're like Hay Guyz get Tivo Lolz.

Anyway I find it ridiculus personally, they have no justification for putting up the cost of their tv packages to existing customers if they're not actually investing in their TV services(In terms of channels) It seems like a poor way to bleed the customer dry giving absolutely nothing back in return.

Speaking of which. What's the point of this thread exactly? Seems more like a social thread than a what's coming soon, and what's ontopic is being discussed in other forum topics, kinda rendering this thread pointless. And with no news of channels coming to Virgin in weeks..

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

What happened to BBC Alba? Istr it was 'coming sometime' for all of last year, but now it has dropped off the list completely. It is supposed to be launching on Freeview soon, so why not cable?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Virgins Business Plan.

- Higher Prices = Profit
- No New Channels = Profit

With no investment in their TV platform for new channels, they don't have to speand any additional money, and with more money coming in from these price hikes, they're making a few million extra a month.

Sounds like a perfect idea for them right?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Did'nt virgin media bosses have a meeting (Thursday 17th February 2011) this morning?.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Every TV channels in super hi def-COMING SOON.*
6 Million Trillion MB/s BB -COMING SOON.*
Live holographic "as if your in the room" landlie phone - COMING SOON.*















* All services expected to arrive before the world ends installation charges will apply and you will need to buy our equipment from us then rent the equipment you bought of us and return it to us when you leave. If you damage the equipment you bought from us you will have to pay a price we decide to replace it and anything you paid for the initial rental will not be taken into account when we decide the replacement charge.Anything said to you by our sale reps is nothing to do with virginmedia and dont blame us if you think our sales staff are honest and you are stupid enough to believe what they tell you.

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It's a fact of life that services like this go up very year; Sky do the same.

Also, we've had a lot of FREE HD channels added over the last year.

In my view, the functionaity that TIVO brings via apps and streaming capability, is the way video/TV content is heading; Virgin will have the capabilty for this from the get-go via TIVO.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

The 5th paragraph makes me :) alot....

http://wotsat.techradar.com/news/no-...-2013-17-02-11

..so virgin do have room ???!!!

no room for the dark side or freeview....no mention of cable.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

The way I read that article the dark side have room, but the cost is 1.5 times that of the SD bandwidth - which still has to be paid for.

Odd no mention of cable..

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

VM take there feeds off satellite anyway don't they. Have to say I'm a little disappointed at a sub increase when we've lost a few channels all be it not VM fault.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Some of them. BBC HD channels are fed direct via fibre to VM in Langley.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Are you serious? Do you actually have VM tv? Because if you do you have probably missed all the additional channels added by VM over the last 12 months.

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O yeah - did that actually happen? Anything come out of it?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

instead of always having new channels i would personally prefer the channel providers to improve the quality of content on the existing channels

quality over quantity everytime ( as the actress said to the bishop ) :p:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Access to quality content through any route will do me, expect to receive more news on on-demand/streaming via Tivo Internet on that issue IMHO.

But dealing with exclusivity of content, like Sky has on new films and the current situation with HBO on Sky Atlantic porgrammes, is the key issue to address before we have full flexibility of content access.

If that is resolved, then there will be less focus on new channels IMHO

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

MB will wwe Tough Enough be on sky sports when it starts

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Im not Media Boy, But I had a friend who works for Sky Sports on facebook before he had to delete it due to spam reasons from Sky customers.

He said it will replace NXT's slot when that finishes.
He also said it should air before Raw over here just like the USA.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

When were the last channels we had not for a long time, there are plenty of channels Virgin could have even without Skys channels.

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According to DS, VM wont be having Sky Atlantic very soon over price, l am a Sky sub also, so why should VM customers have the new channel on the cheap.

Niel Berkett is a fool and an idiot, get back into the real world, in the end it is us that end up paying the bill.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

I'm a Virgin customer, so personally I prefer Virgin to get new channels as cheap as they possibly can ;)

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I for one am pleased that VM do not automatically take any channel whatever the price.

Some of us have to watch our expenditure. It is disapponting that there are some channels not on VM but there seems to me to be plenty to be getting on with, and at a lower price than if we had more.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Are you a Sky shareholder, Arthur?

If not, why would you want to pay more (whoever your provider is)?

You appear to be stating that you would rather pay more to have Sky Atlantic on VM, even though you already have it on Sky - that leads me to wonder who is "a fool and an idiot"......:erm:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Virgin should offer the customers the choice so if they want certain channels they can pay a little extra and if they don,t want it then customers do not have to pay for it, personally there are still a lot of channels that Virgin should be having and have not got at the moment because they do not want to pay for them or for some other reason.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

As has been explained before, VM don't pay for channels by subscriber (solely) - most channels/packages have a minimum baseline payment, and then topped-up by numbers of subscribers; it would appear that you are asking VM (who would have to pass the charge on to all customers) to pay the basic (which can be quite high) amount, just in case some individual customers may take up that channel/package.

For instance, Sky may have a basic charge of £10 million* for Sky Atlantic, which would cover 500,000 subscribers (with a charge on top per subscriber), and then have escalating bands of charges depending on the numbers of subscribers - that is is how it used to work in the 90's.

*amounts/numbers for example purposes only.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Lets make it a little clearer, I pay a lot of money for Sky, I also have VM but IF l had the red button service on VM, l would go over to VM, BUT VM take off channels wihtout warning, and the quality of servive is poor.

We are going to have the same scenario as with the basic channels, VM want something for nothing, and when l say ' an idiot' The customer is the most important person, and they should have the oppotunity for the channels they want, NOT for the company to choose.

Many years ago, there was brilliant channel out called Horizon (l think that was what it was called). VM split it into two, and the content of it was crap, l contacted VM, and l was told that viewers didn't want it, an yet it was very popular, and yet VM took it off without warning - are they listening to the customer - NO

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

I obviously don't know the details, so this is just my opinion, but I don't think Virgin want it on the cheap they just want it at a fair price.

If Sky want to use their money muscle to poach shows like Madmen from the BBC, then they shouldn't expect other providers to pick up part of the tab by charging inflated prices for the channel it's on.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

I believe you mean UKTV Horizons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Horizons

It was split in 2004. Both channels that it was split into still exist so nothing was taken off.

Had nothing to do with VM as they didn't even exist then - plus it is a UKTV channel for which VM (or Telewest when they were the ones that had the share) have any editorial control.

Finally the changes would have happened on Sky as well as cable

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Arthur, I know you have but a passing acquaintance with facts, but it was Sky who took off/closed down Bravo, Channel One/Virgin 1, etc - they bought the channels, and then stopped broadcasting them not long after.

And you also seem to confuse "you" with "the majority of customers".

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Stop assuming. How do you know VM even want it? Going by viewing figures even most Sky customers don't want it.

There is nothing special about that channel that warrants anything but a budget price channel. It is a second rate channel that despite a marketing campaign did diddly squat to diffrenciate out Sky from VM in any significance.

People need to get over this whole Sky thing. Just because a channel has Sky before it doesn't make it good.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Even without Skys channels Virgin should be adding more channels, they are quick enough to jack up prices quickly.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

It's not a second rate channel; it's got many award winning drams on it. Niel Berkett has said it's a good product; he just wants it at a fair price.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Then they should pay the fair price, Neil Berkett should listen to his customers more instead of sitting in his ivory tower giving out vague dates for this and that.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

i think virgin media should start broadcasting more channels and get more hd channels, get these sorted out first before tivo !

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

If they paid a price and then said your monthly was to rise by £5 would you still be happy.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Yes l would be happy to pay a little extra, we should be given that choice to start off with, they should have different tariffs so customers can pick and choose to what they want and don,t want.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

They do, they are called M+, L and XL

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

Then maybe they should the scope of their packages so that we could have lets say XXL .

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 

The are no other channels apart from the premium ones such as movies and sport.

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I would not be at all happy to be forced to pay extra for a channel I would hardly ever, if ever watch.

I would be much happier if they spent the money on more quality VOD content.

This is a channel that shows mostly old stuff that has been on VM VOD or terrestrial channels already with.a few new shows. Why should VM substidise Sky for the stupid amount they have paid. After all looking back to the basics fiasco a few years ago sky's idea of fair is definitely not realistic.