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Virgin really do need to get their act together regarding their On Demand service which is very poor in my opinion. I`m constantly finding I`m having to wait for days on end before the latest episodes of my favourite dramas are added to the available content. And even when they`ve been added I find when I try to watch the show I get the message "this program is available right now please try later",which I do and get the same message!
The tivo box is dreadfully slow too which is a damn nuisance when trying to watch recordings,search the EPG or actually do anything really!
Getting back to the On Demand,the lack of HD is also a issue that needs to be corrected.

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The one2k10 is normally a faithful servant of the bearded one, spreading good news about forthcoming channels. But very occasionally his fingers get confused and he types "price rise" instead of "customer rise".

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The new box will be sorting a lot of these issues out.

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Corrected that for you :p:

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Yeah great if your`e lucky enough to be able to afford to buy it!

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You might be pleasantly surprised. ;)

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So can you give us a max price or something if you can, last time £199 installion charge was wrong

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Pricing and techs are still under a DNP order at the moment as soon as it's lifted i will post the relevant info.

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Do you know when they will lift it, it must be cool to know

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do we have a date for the 4k tivo box.hoping its not to long season starts next week am wanting to watch football in 4k.

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Even if VM did have a 4k capable box, they still have to have an agreement in place with BT to broadcast the 4k version of the channel.

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The new box won't be out for a few months yet. Probably about Christmas/early New Year

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It's true but while we will have a 4K capable box unless they do a deal with sky, it won't be a 4K content box

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Presumably it will be launched with some 4K content available - Sky is not the only producer of 4K content.

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Netflix do 4k for a start but watch this space all i'm saying is you'll like it.

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Satellite is an open platform, BT dont have a deal with Sky for their existing channels, they manage them themselves, so they dont need one for a 4k channel either. Anyone with the requisite Sky Q box will get the channels, as long as they pay BT the subscription.

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Sticking my head above the parapet here, but its quite obvious, I would have thought, what VM will do with regards to 4k.

John Malone (ultimate owner of VM) has been doing deals left, right and centre for content, with the possibility of larger deals still to come ie full blown merger between his organisation and the likes of Lionsgate, or AMC, or Scripps, or all of them.

But at the moment he controls Discovery who in turn own Eurosport. He controls All3media (who are the largest production company in this country) who announced a recent deal to produce four brand new dramas.

Would it be too outrageous to expect just for once, that the cableco might just launch its own 4k content/channels/vod rather than just relying on Sky/BT/or someone else?

I would suggest its entirely possible, more so if Malone gets his mitts on Formula 1.

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Do you mean about content or the box, will a new Tv anywhere app come for the new software as the current app can't do series links with streaming. From what you hear does the new TiVo sound better than sky q honestly

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who thinks we'll have cloud storage on our new 4K Tivo Bolt!

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You are not getting a TiVo Bolt. The Bolt is a US model and wouldn't work in the UK.

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More info on the new TV service.
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2016/...edia-tv-offer/

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Thank you, Andrew, some positive information at last.

So it won't be a Tivo box, which will please some, it will be an Eos box but initially with Tivo software. Hopefully, it will have six tuners and a 1TB hard drive. Particularly important is the need to overcome the slow performance of the Tivo that we have become accustomed to in more recent years. It worked well when it first came out.

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What is the box on page 14 of this presentation? Could this be our first sighting of the new Eos box? It has a VM logo on it!
http://www.libertyglobal.com/pdf/pre...tion-FINAL.pdf

If anyone wants to listen to the conference call, they can do so by registering here. I don't have the time this week unfortunately.
http://edge.media-server.com/m/p/eeqwon9h/lan/en

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According to Virgin Media, we will be getting Sky Movies in 4k.

Not sure yet about Sky Sports at this point, but I suspect we will get this as well.

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We don't have TiVo boxes in the UK anyway.
They are Samsung and Cisco made boxes with TiVo software.

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Nice to see the lads excited for once rather then the usual daily grumpiness.;)

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Good grief! That looks like a very cheap 1980's video :D

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Virgin Media market it as a Tivo box, so I guess you should take it up with them :angel::D

"Our TiVo box is one clever bit of kit. It's packed with loads of features that make it easy for you to discover great shows and watch them the way you want to. And it has its own dedicated internet connection, so you can stream without slowing your home broadband down."

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I've posted the new box details in post 112 of this dedicated thread:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...h-new-set.html

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Do you have any link to support this

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I songbird think they would leak the picture, but if that's it, I'd still upgrade but won't like design

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Is there any specs, can anybody confirm if the box looks like this

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We received a weekly newsletter to confirm VM would be getting 4K(UHD) movies, but it didn't say whether it was on-demand only or via Sky Cinema 4k(UHD)

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That's not the new box ;)

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You beat me to it , Ferguson Videostar top loader does it have a remote control on a wire.:D

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Thank goodness because that picture was ewwwww

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Is there any box specs

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... nope.

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An new TiVo box is testing.

We now have two "TiVo testing" sources.

An new app is testing and we seen new information on what you can do with the new TiVo boxes.

We have also seen two prices for the new box - viewers will need to pay extra per month for one.

One not with 4K and one with 4K.

Last info was given on August 5th 2016.

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.... if its already being tested "out in the field" this would seem to suggest that it will launch a lot sooner than Christmas.

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Do you know how much extra for the 4K model

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Yes - but info on price list was given under an DNP order.

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Fair play, is it true the new box from the article has a new UI or same one

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All the juicy information is, sadly.

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The thing is sadly if we realied on virgin media for info we would wait forever

I predict

Non 4K box will cost £49 to install and would be £5 per month extra ( but already £5 extra per month for TiVo) so same price

4K box will cost £99 to install and would cost £8 per month extra ( but already £5 extra per month for TiVo) so £3 dearer but remember if that is per box two boxes is £6

But if your under a loyalty deal it's likely you would need a new loyalty deal

I believe 4K from sky will cost about £10 per month but personally I'm not wanting to pay something sky don't pay for same channels

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Sky Q customers do pay for 4K , the Q Silver bundle is more expensive than the Sky+HD packages.

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Well if I'm wrong that's cool, but let's separate the new sky q box n features from the movies and sports in 4K, first of all how much dearer In total

See sky charge a price for 4K but for us there will be two the 4K box add on and then sky sports and movies

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:)

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Amazon?

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Well I think it's a new app for TiVo streaming and whatever new features are coming

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QVC. :D

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New app name was given under an DNP order.

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:nono::nono:

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The name of the new app is:

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You joking media boy

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Can't see QVC doing a tv app, they used to have a red button but they use mobile apps now

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Yes - but we think Virgin may launch an channel for the link to the app.

We say Virgin UK Channel 213 (Working channel number).

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Do you mean a link for channel under DNP, I wish virgin would bring SD and HD channels closer with new TiVo a

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We mean an "Press Red" Channel like BBC Three on Virgin UK Channel 106.

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:hyper::hyper:

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Do you know when next dnp order is being lifted

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The latest date for two of them is by end of August 2016 (Date was given in May).

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Wrong it is actually

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Well that's good news to hear

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Wrong yet again..:nono::nono:

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It's you really isn't it? the den app of positivity :D

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Lads please

lets focus on FOX NEWS

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I've been checking the VM commission tables and Den's just inched ahead of me for positive posts on Cable Forum. :)

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why more far right wing propaganda no thanks

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DS Forum: Sky Sports to launch Sky Sports Mix on August 24th at Midday.

Digital Spy is reporting that Sky Sports Mix will launch on August 24th at midday.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...1&postcount=31

Web reports say that Sky Sports Mix HD will be on Virgin UK Channel 507** with Sky Sports Mix being on Virgin UK Channel 517*.

Channels numbers are still to be 100% confirmed.

*We feel Sky Sports Mix will be on M+, L and XL packages.
**We feel Sky Sports Mix HD will be on XL Package.

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Been told next Thursday personally i'm uncertain though.

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Well l certainly don't want that in my household my dear chap.

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Maybe you should go over to some of the other threads on CF where pessimism must be in some of the members DNA's.;)

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It will be on the same packages as Sky Sports News HQ. Sky have already reported this.

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I find the right wing balances out the left wing, isn't that how a rational person makes a decision?

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... and birds fly :)

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So how much storage you think 4K and non 4K TiVo will have, well currently 1tb gives 125 hours HD, 500 SD and then only 31 hours 4K so that not great especially to last 6 years so

1tb = 31 hours 4K 125 hours HD, 500 SD
2tb = 62 hours 4K 250 hours HD, 1000 SD
3tb = 93 hours 4K 375 hours HD, 1500 SD

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That is based on the current Tivo which is mpeg 2. We don't know, but I suspect the 4k will be delivered as mpeg3 which will effectively give more storage space.

Once all the mpeg 2 standard boxes are gone and SA V+ boxes gone, all content could go to mpeg3 and give overall more storage space..

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The TiVO, Samsung V+ & VHD are dual standard DVB-C (MPEG2) & DVB-C2 (MPEG4) capable. Sky Cinema HD is now distributed in MPEG4 on VM, along with some OD content. Haven't noticed recordings from Sky Cinema HD using any less disk space.

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Surely there should be.

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Although I don't doubt we will get it, I yet to see any official link from Virgin that we are indeed getting it unless someone (Mod Edit)post an official link :)

Do not offer reps to others,it is not permitted under the T&Cs

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I said in the stb thread that I was suspicious whether VM would release a PVR at all.

VM/Liberty have said their new service is cloud based. How much cloud based remains to be seen.

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Food network HD and travel channel HD rumoured to be in the works for sky, freeview, freesat and vm customers, i use the term rumour losely on this as is a new source.

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If we had no storage space then what is the point to series link + as it's purely just a reminder system, if they do that I'll just stick with slow clunky TiVo because at least I can record or even maybe go to sky

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With so many HQs I feel like I'm trapped in an episode of Limitless...

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The transport stream info I was sent at the end of last month showed that all of the broadcast streams were still using MPEG2. Although, as you say, MPEG4 was being used for some OD content.

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Well, gaps were left in the Sky Sports EPG listings at 507 and 517 for some reason.

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There was for a longtime a gap near sky one which many speculate would of been for sky Atlantic

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To give you an idea of the size of the Sky Cinema files my Sky Q box reports the following sizes for Forrest Gump via On Demand.

SD 1.3GB
HD 4.6GB
UHD 18.2GB

Pixel

SD 984MB
HD 3.4GB
UHD 13.5GB
3D 7.2GB

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How good is the quality for UHD and what is the pixel size thing mean

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The quality is really good and Pixel is a film a pretty poor one.:D

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Well people staying here sky cinema 4K coming to virgin new TiVo hope so

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Once Game Of Thrones is finished the value of Sky Atlantic will be eroded.

The top ten most watched shows on Sky Atlantic are GoT episodes. It's a super show both for HBO and Sky and its success is unlikely to be replicated once the show is finished.

Sky just got very lucky when doing a deal with HBO to launch Sky Atlantic at the same time that Game OF thrones came along.

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So, a couple of years left then for Sky to reap the rewards?

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2 more seasons left.

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Indeed but Sky Sports channels were recently renumbered and the gap was created by dropping the F1 channels down a slot. The F1 channels could have been left on their original slots, suggesting that the gaps are a deliberate reservation for extra channels "coming soon".

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Yep, at which point it will be offered to VM at a cheaper price, I'm betting.

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And what odds would you like to offer?.:)

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Don't get me wrong I do suspect we will get it but don't get disappointed if we don't because VM haven't said anything on this so it is all speculation at this point

SS Mix could be a driver to sky platform, it should be noted that AFAIK it's not even going to be on Now TV which is not a good omen IMO as you would of expected it to be

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It won't end there. It will probably all get repeated on Sky 2 as part of an attempt to revitalise that channel. There it will pick up all those viewers who couldn't watch it on Sky Atlantic, boosting advertising revenues.

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Once Game of Thrones is no more, I'd say the odds are evens.

The whole point of keeping Sky Atlantic exclusive is because of Game of Thrones.

Actually, I'd go even further than that... Sky rejig their channels every 4-5 years and once the HBO/Sky deal is up, I'd be surprised if it were renewed on the same terms. So, there might not even be a Sky Atlantic in 2-3 years time.

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3-1 :D

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There is already talk of a spin off to Game of Thrones plus I'm sure HBO will be going all out to find new content to match.

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Actually, when you first get Now TV and you see all the box sets on there that have been on Sky Atlantic, it is a revelation. It's not just about Game of Thrones at all, albeit that is the 'market leader'.

I am still wading through those box sets now, and having subscribed to Now TV only last summer, I remain impressed by all this content that we have missed by not having this channel.

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Ratings suggest its all about game of thrones sir

It is one of the most cliche and ridiculous shows ever of some fantasy land with dragons and strange little wars. So dungeons and dragons. But throw in some tits and sex scenes to make it seem cool

Fair play it has worked based on ratings but it's a very weird and utterly laughable geeky show

Sky use it as their crown jewel in sky Atlantic. Once it's done and over Virgin media will get the channel

100%

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There's more to Atlantic than just G.O.T., Vince old boy!

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100 code was excellent...looking forward to Season 2
Fortitude I also found pretty decent