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

Another £4 per month on top of the £7 already paying ? Are you mad ????? Sky would love you £11 for hd with vm and £10.25 with sky(And far more HD channels) on top of a dearer phone line.Bye bye VM in droves i think !!!!!!!!!!!!!!:erm:
VM should have thought about this when they started offering FREE HD and selling channels,They dug the hole now they have to figure a way out of it

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

Easy:

With VM we give you free HD but for those that want that little bit more we give you XLHD for xxx we will bring you the best in the latest HD channles. Because we believe in better.

On another note I was browsing the CBS Action channel website and wow that seems like a really good channel with some decent shows. I even have a Highlander wishlist and now realise i might be waiting quite sometime to see this show as CBS are broadcasting it.

A bit weird that VM have so many FTA station missing from their line up. I was really toying with getting a dish installed for FTA.

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

[QUOTE=zantarous;35296331]Easy:

With VM we give you free HD but for those that want that little bit more we give you XLHD for xxx we will bring you the best in the latest HD channles. Because we believe in better.

Understand what you are saying,But it would cost more and recieve less with vm.The price would be higher than sky`s,Why stay with VM ?

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

Media Boy Will the UKTV channels beside each other

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

Believe in better (Wouldn't that be stealing a certain companies saying :D )

Satellite will always have more choice , and will also contain a wider choice of niche channels , granted there's some you'd never watch :D

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

No one knows at the moment but I do hope that they well do the same as SKY, and have the HD variants on the normal channels:)

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

So do I

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

My landlord won't let me put up a dish but i suspect that if I do it he wont care as loads of others have had them up for a number of years.

Plus there is nothing wrong with want a service you subscribe to be better, I love my Tivo and would find anything else a step back. Plus I already get to watch all the shows I want in HD even the ones that VM does not carry.

I honestly couldn't remember what was Virgins slogan that they started using

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hd for no monthly fee :D

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

and off course you forgot the one bad think about Sky when it rains you lose all your pictures we always knew when a storm was on the way the picture started screwing up

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

You must have had a bad setup , we only lose signal in bad thunderstorms.

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

Still to see any thing on Channel numbers for the UKTV HD Channels.

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

i meant will all uktv channels be next to each other ?

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

No idea as I not seen any of the following ahead of the launch of UKTV HD Channels on Virgin Media:

-Launch dates
-Channel numbers

but yes I think Virgin may give UKTV the following channels numbers (This is the EPG I am working to):

124. Watch
125. Watch HD
126. Watch +1
127. GOLD
128. GOLD +1
129. Dave
130. Dave HD
131. Dave Ja Vu
191. Alibi
192. Alibi HD
193. Alibi +1
201. Yesterday
204. Blighty
207. Eden
208. Eden HD
260. Good Food
261. Good Food HD
262. Good Food +1
263. Home
264. Home +1
266. Really

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

Will Channel 4 HD, E4, E4 HD, E4+1, More4, Film4, Film4 HD, Film4+1 be next to each other and any news on More4 HD

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

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

More4 HD isn't even broadcasting yet.

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

More4 HD is to meant to launch this year
http://www.channel4.com/media/docume...veryFormat.pdf

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

I'm well aware of that seeing I was the one who originally posted that link on here , how would Media Boy know anything when the channel currently doesn't exist.

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

Not long left then?

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

Virgin media might be trying to get More4HD when it launches. Just like what happened with Film4 HD.

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

I only know Virgin are in talks with BSkyB and ITV at time of posting.

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

:tu::tu: looks all good :clap::clap:

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Why a further charge. If you already pay for HD prem why not the extra HD channels

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

l would happily pay a extra £3 for the extra Hd channels if Virgin got them thus their prices would then be the same as Sky's

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

They would be 25p cheaper than SKY's:erm:

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

You are obviously very good at maths Devil.:D:D:D

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I wouldn't

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No not really Den:D:D:D

+1 Hugh I would not pay the extra as well.

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

But yet you'll pay £3.00 TIVO sub for services which aren't reliable due to incorrect guide data :confused:

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

Yes l know but l see you pay a subscription to the Times though.;)

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Different people have different priorities/requirements/likes - what's so strange about that?

I understand that others may be willing to pay for extra HD - I am not.

btw, if I was using TiVo only for it's EPG, you would have a point - as I'm not, you haven't....:D

I consider the benefits and facilities outweigh a few bugs/features.

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

But l suspect you get some incorrect data on your Sky box as well and remember Tivo would have far more data on it as well to download MM.:)

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

But I save money doing that.

I was paying nearly £10 per week for the Times and the Sunday Times (hard copy) - I now pay £8.80 per month for the iPad and online versions (I read the iPad version on the way to/from work, on the bus).

Result - saving money, more methods of access, less paper to recycle.;)

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

Some people pay to tell the time:erm:

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

As l say what suits one person might not suit another but if we all had the same taste then life would be boring.

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

I was going to post again but this seems to be getting personal?

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Just seen this on digital spy forum


Smallworld Cable - new channels
Hi

Eight new channels have been added for September to customers on our HD TV packages...

423 ESPN America HD (Ultimate HD & ESPN)
424 ESPN Classic (Ultimate HD & ESPN)
212 Sky Arts 1 (Variety HD)
147 Sky Livingit +1 (Variety HD)
320 TCM2 (Variety HD)
618 Boomerang +1 (Family HD)
612 Disney Junior +1 (Family HD)
326 Movies4Men2 (Variety HD)

More will be added in October.

Thanks

David
www.smallworldcable.com

a smaller company can get these channels (and VM are still talking?) :shocking:

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

l rest my case totally and Virgin are still talking and have been for years.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

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

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1527270
ESPN America HD on smallworld Cable:(

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

[QUOTE=scotmac;35296493]Just seen this on digital spy forum


Smallworld Cable - new channels
Hi

Eight new channels have been added for September to customers on our HD TV packages...

423 ESPN America HD (Ultimate HD & ESPN)
424 ESPN Classic (Ultimate HD & ESPN)
212 Sky Arts 1 (Variety HD)
147 Sky Livingit +1 (Variety HD)
320 TCM2 (Variety HD)
618 Boomerang +1 (Family HD)
612 Disney Junior +1 (Family HD)
326 Movies4Men2 (Variety HD)

More will be added in October.

Thanks

David
www.smallworldcable.com

a smaller company can get these channels (and VM are still talking?) :shocking:[/QUOTE

This is infuriating news for those of us who want more HD channels on VM:(

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

Yes and to think VM stated it was to expensive in an email to a forum member.

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

As l said before their HD strategy is totally flawed.:td:

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

i would have thought it would be in ITV's best interest to give vm the hd channels a.s.a.p as they were supposed to having severe financial problems weren't they? virgin could have had them 1yr ago, the extra cash they have missed out in that time surely must be more harmful than making a deal for a lower price for a 3yr contract or something?

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

cant get sky premium HD on there though ;)

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

True

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

Flawed,Thats the polite way of putting it.VMHD TV is becoming a joke

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Must not be offering em cheap enough yet :rolleyes:

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

That must be why I like it then:erm::D:D:D

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

Yet http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...0&postcount=50

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

and according to that it gonna cost £10PM extra for Sky Premium HD if they get it VM get it for £7 ;)

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

Wow, you'd think VM only had about half a dozen channels way some people post.

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

Virgin Media TV is not a joke. Virgin Media have 31 HD channels and soon to be 35 and maybe even more this year

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

yes and theres more to come

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

Sounds like the £10 charge is because they need to buy new equipment. Also quite surprised that a small-time cable company got ESPN America HD but states that Discovery HD is very expensive.

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

Coming soon I dare say:D;)

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One can only conclude that ESPNA HD is not as expensive as I have been led to believe.:(

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

Maybe a joke is a tad harsh,Hopefully the talking will finally stop and we will see some new hd channels.

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

Discovery HD is very expensive and we have that and not ESPN America HD:confused:

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

il be glad when we get

ITVHD channels
UniversalHD
HistoryHD
CrimeHD
edenHD
bioHD
Sky AtlanticHD
NickelodeonHD
CinemagicHD


:) :)

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

That should read "I'll be old when we get":D

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

You are high hopes.

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

You never know with Virgin Media.

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

The latest I have got says ''ITV HD are in active talks'' with Virgin.

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

I asked virgin media on twitter about Itv2,3,4,hd.
http://twitter.com/#!/buddieboy2011
I think this means that ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD , ITV4 HD will be lauching on Virgin Media very soon

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

Other news: BSkyB to axe Pick TV +1 on Freeview.

If you also have Freeview in your home you will lose Pick TV +1 from September 20th.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35296699-post36.html

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

We can only hope that the assumption is correct.

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

Agreed. I only come on here for the latest Media Boy info and some interesting posters. The complaints and moaning about channels are rather sad IMO.

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Well that is probably because the smaller firm are being charged a smaller price.............. :erm:

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

And this is the main reason that I do not post as much as I used to on this thread :(

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[QUOTE=howardmicks;35296526]Flawed,Thats the polite way of putting it.VMHD TV is becoming a joke[COLOR="Silver"]

Hardly.

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[QUOTE=Doug P;35296719]Agreed. I only come on here for the latest Media Boy info and some interesting posters. The complaints and moaning about channels are rather sad IMO.[COLOR="Silver"]

well said

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

[QUOTE=Dave42;35296724]Thanks! Once we get Atlantic or ITV2 in HD there'll be some other disgrace that VM are not providing us with etc etc.......

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

People have every right to complain whatever it is and if we don't say anything then nothing will happen and as the old saying you get nowt if you don;t speak your mind on something.:)

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

So what are "inactive talks" then
:):):)

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

[QUOTE=Doug P;35296725]Well at the moment getting these channels and others seems a mile away.:)

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

[QUOTE=Doug P;35296725]or moaning about a price rise if vm got to put prices up for them channels

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

[QUOTE=Dave42;35296733]If we were getting more HD or SD channels l would be perfectly happy with a little price rise.

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

They have all taken a vow of silence :erm:

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

Those moaners got people a refund on their TIVO purchase after VM dropped the price , they have also got VM promising to concentrate on EPG errors.

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They did not get me a refund and also I have not had a problem with the epg as well:)

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

But it is constant denphone. It is not one thing or two it is twenty-two month in month out. I agree totally people have the right to moan but it is not as bad a service as many make out.

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It was inate decency not the forums that got us the Tivo refund imo.

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

[QUOTE=denphone;35296735]and what if sky continue witholding the channels like they are now

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

l have never made it out to be a bad service as l am verry happy with a large part of Virgins service (Broadband/Phone and Tivo) but l believe that Virgin has stagnated on its TV service as we seem to have to wait a eternity for any new channels and their usual predictable and vague reply is we are still in talks but they have been saying that for years and people are fed up with the constant inactivety on this front and if they don't watch it their loss of 36,000 TV customers in their last quarter will become a avalanche.

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

Bang on matey :)

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It is a very good service :D

They may have stagnated on the TV service or be trying to get the best for their customers. We all wait for thing as we all know in this country as we queue all the time for things:erm:

In regards to the 36,000 customers that they said were students, With the amount of them there were that is a drop in the ocean?

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

You seem to think the average person is obsessed with HD. They aren't. Many think they're getting HD anyway, just because they have an 'HD TV'. So they aren't worried about lack of HD channels, because they think they already have them!:)


But yet again, without proof, you seem to infer that the 36000 loss is due to lack of HD. Do you have access to VM's internal monitoring statistics?

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

Well we will see in the next 2 quarters whether these were students that left the TV service or Virgin just giving us a weak excuse for the loss of 36,000 customers.

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

21,200 TV customers in the last quarter. The losses were down to the end of student contracts, many of whom will return in September, and not chasing 'low rent' single or dual play customers. The TV loses were attributed to a fall in analogue cable and those with free TV M while digital pay tv subs (M+ upwards) all enjoyed growth.

Perhaps it's just me, but i don't think many with analogue cable or Free TV M are holding out for a smorgasbord of channels.

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

Well l would say with Sky having sold 3,5 million HD boxes plus Virgin selling 1,5 million boxes plus Freeview HD boxes l think that tells you a story and that is many people want their channels to be on HD and want to watch them.

And on the 36,000 TV customer losses l suspect that their failure to add HD channels in the last 9 months has contributed significantly to these figures and l see you have no plausible answer so far.

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

Facts are our friends - there were 36k net cable disconnections (which include either TV and/or broadband).....

VM Q2 results 2011

Page 1 If you look on page 18, you will find that VM have lost 21,000 TV customers in the last quarter, but are up 16,000 on the last year. And if you look on page 19, you will see that ARPU per customer is up and revenue is up by £16 million, showing that they (mainly) churned low-revenue/profit customers, which is good business.

From page 1 Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity - it's pointless keeping customers who you don't make profit from; Capitalism 101....

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

Any news on PREMIER SPORTS coming to VM, or are they still having 'talks'.

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

l see you have been reading your Capitalism books regularly.;):) and l quote you this one (Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell)

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

new HD channel to launch on Freeview HD in April 2012: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/techno...031537.article

Maybe it will be BBC2HD, hope so!

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

Yes, but a lot of people get V+, Sky+Hd for PVR functionality. You can't gt a Sky+ box now and VM never produced an SD only PVR. And isn't the only PVR you can get on freesat, HD?

I agree sky have had success with HD. But that's never been in dispute. In fact, that's what I'm saying; HD enthusiasts are better served by Sky. Leave us who like HD, but aren't obsessed with it, on a service like Virgin, where you get a good amount of HD, but no charge

I have no plausible answer because I don't know the reason for the loss; you apparently do!

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

Do not forget that the V+ box and the up-scaling that it did and still does?

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

The no charge thing is a complete red herring. What do people want HD for in the main? Sport and Movies = £7 charge. Think most would be willing to pay the extra £3 to gain parity with sky. Obviously not most on here due to the village of the damned mentality.;)

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

I don't pay the 7 pound charge, as I do't have sports and movies, so for people like me, that argument doesn't hold water.

But I do like the HD channels we get for no extra charge.

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

Wow - a quote from an ex-astronaut who took the airline he was CEO of into bankruptcy.

The relevance is underwhelming.....;)

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

And you could still have them at no extra charge but that does not stop Virgin from providing more flexible HD packages to those who wanted them with a slight increase in their bill.

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

Why not have a poll, to see if the figures back up your proposition?

btw "village of the damned" mentality? We are all alien implants? :confused:

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And you know how these channels/packages are bought how?

In the 90s, the channel suppliers insisted on selling them in packs of channels in bandings (numbers of thousands of customers), and if that still the case today, VM (and customers who didn't want to pay for more HD) would have to subsidise those who do (as explained previously).

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

I suspect your Times paywall subscription is being subsidised by other Times readers and l suspect you won't be moaning about that.

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

Premier Sports was rumoured has set to launch on Virgin in August - No real news from my insider about it.

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I think Channel 5 HD will get that new slot on Freeview.