Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 5.

I think that's most peoples complaints about this thread. Everyone builds up expectation and then it turns into belief that it going to happen with no firm proof. No confirmed channel launches, it's morphs into fact as 'everything will be hush hush' Nothing said - it must be happening. (I'll be the first to publicly apologise on here should anything arrive.)

Nothing but nothing can be relied upon or taken as gospel due to 'insiders' proven by the point further up of previous 'no channel launches' immediately followed by PS and Fox+. If there are 'insiders' providing information, then judging by those very examples, they are no more in the know than anyone on here or indeed the general public at large.

I still think SA and the other missing channels are a good way off since the NowTV expansion has been announced. I personally think that Sky would be crazy to give this anything less than 12 months and then see how the land lies. They can see their subscriptions will start to slow down and this is a way to boost their numbers and presence. It's certainly not a short term gamble.

As people have said, Sky doesn't need VM as much as VM needs Sky and with Skys quarterly profits round about 60% more than VMs, subs increase per 1/4 around 4 times as many, I can't see this changing anytime soon

Two weeks ago PS was confirmed later then the weekly Monday updates.

I did not ask any insiders last week.

paultrademark

03-11-2013 23:27

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35640385)

Confirmed: No more Sky Channels confirmed as set to launch on Virgin Media.

Virgin Insiders has tonight given me an update list of channels confirmed as set to launch on Virgin Media by 2014. Still no new Sky Channels on the list.

So what is on this list? How many to launch this year?

Media Boy UK

03-11-2013 23:29

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Originally Posted by paultrademark (Post 35640404)

So what is on this list? How many to launch this year?

The BBC HD Channels plus more.

Plus 'At time of posting' only Lifetime is set to launch this week on Virgin Media (but that is still subject to change.)

paultrademark

04-11-2013 00:27

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So lets see what Old Boy says as he was adamant these Sky channels would definitely launch in the 'Autumn'

martin201002

04-11-2013 10:08

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If you had to choose 1 sky channel which one would it be?

ChrisB74

04-11-2013 10:41

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Originally Posted by martin201002 (Post 35640455)

If you had to choose 1 sky channel which one would it be?

Sky Atlantic obviously - it's the only new channel with content unavailable on VM! The rest are just variants of existing ones!

Frazz

04-11-2013 10:45

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Was involved in the Now Tv entertainment trial and found the programmes available on Atlantic to be very poor, I for one don't care if it arrives or not

geordiechris

04-11-2013 10:53

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Originally Posted by Frazz (Post 35640463)

Was involved in the Now Tv entertainment trial and found the programmes available on Atlantic to be very poor, I for one don't care if it arrives or not

Seconded.

muppetman11

04-11-2013 11:04

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Originally Posted by Frazz (Post 35640463)

Was involved in the Now Tv entertainment trial and found the programmes available on Atlantic to be very poor, I for one don't care if it arrives or not

Aren't most channels the same , the PVR was invented for this reason record the must see shows off each channel whilst leaving the dross for others , must sees at the moment for me are Boardwalk Empire , The Newsroom and The Tunnel.

blue666666

04-11-2013 11:18

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Originally Posted by martin201002 (Post 35640455)

If you had to choose 1 sky channel which one would it be?

Sky 3D for me but it look like a long wait :(

ocav	04-11-2013 11:24

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Originally Posted by martin201002 (Post 35640455)

If you had to choose 1 sky channel which one would it be?

Atlantic, I'm not majorly bothered about it, but it would mean there isn't any content being withheld from Virgin.

Newsroom is a great show and I would love to not have legally**** find it online.

****some of my post may be in accurate.

martin201002

04-11-2013 11:24

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Originally Posted by Frazz (Post 35640463)

Was involved in the Now Tv entertainment trial and found the programmes available on Atlantic to be very poor, I for one don't care if it arrives or not

My thoughts exactly, had it for three years when I was with sky didn't exactly blow me away. I want sky f1 hd.

MalteseFalcon

04-11-2013 11:27

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MB, as the next Ashes series begins on 21 November, will SKY be renaming a sports channel again to SKY Ashes like the Summer, or will the channels remain the same as now, ie Sports 1, 2, 3, 4?

blue666666

04-11-2013 11:33

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NOW TV don't do full HD pic and live tv is SD only.netflix is full HD.

link http://help.nowtv.com/HelpArticle?id...lectedTopicKey

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Dave42

04-11-2013 11:37

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Originally Posted by Frazz (Post 35640463)

Was involved in the Now Tv entertainment trial and found the programmes available on Atlantic to be very poor, I for one don't care if it arrives or not

exactly the most over rated channel ever

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Originally Posted by martin201002 (Post 35640455)

If you had to choose 1 sky channel which one would it be?

SSN HD for me if as it one of only 2 sky channel we got chance of getting we not get the withheld channels

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