Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 

Are we expecting any surprises here like a launch date for TIVO or more HD channels?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 

Sky Movies Classics HD launches Aug 9th on Sky, hopefully on VM too as we have all sky movies channels now in HD.

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Tivo within 6 months?

"We continue to work with TiVo to develop and launch a new converged TV and broadband interactive platform in the fourth quarter. "
from latest results- the second quarter

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 

(From Masefield VIrginmedia Quarter Results thread)

As highlighted it says ten HD movie channels but I can only count nine without the Classics - have I missed one?

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Yes chris9991 you have. here they are;

1. SKY MOVIES PREMIERE - CH 431
2. SHOWCASE - CH 433
3. COMEDY - CH 434
4. ACTION/ACVENTURE - CH 435
5. FAMILY - CH 436
6. CRIME/THRILLER - CH 437
7. DRAMA/ROMANCE - CH 438
8. SCI-FI/HORROR - CH 439
9. MODERN GREATS - CH 440
10. INDIE - CH 442

So Sky Movies Classics HD could, i suppose go on CH 441?:)

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Cheers for that - missed out Premiere :dunce:

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Soon you'll be able to do the ironing in HD! ;)

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Well John Logie Baird's television technology is rather old! ;)

My mother met Baird once in a hotel in Clifden, Galway, Ireland when he was visiting the Marconi transmitter site there.

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But where is the elusive Five +1?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 

Virgin Media has reported its best ever second quarter results, after adding 9,100 new households to its cable subscription base as revenue reached £964m.

In its financial results for the three months to June 30, Virgin Media beat analyst expectations by actually adding subscribers in Q2 for the first time in over four years.

The cable operator attracted 9,100 new households over the three months, compared to a 27,800 customer loss in the same period a year ago. The strong performance helped Virgin Media to increase its overall revenue by 7.1% to £964m, with growth in all areas, including the mobile business.

Broadband growth was five times that experienced last year, with 28,100 net new customers added over the quarter. Virgin said that 43% of its broadband subscribers now take packages of 20Mbps or 50Mbps.

The company also added 22,300 net new digital television customers, although 3,600 analogue customers were disconnected in line with Virgin Media's plans. More than half of Virgin Media TV customers also regularly use its video on demand platform.

Virgin Media recently announced plans to offer high-definition versions of Sky Sports 1 and 2 on its cable TV platform, along with ten HD variants of the Sky Movies channels.

Over the second quarter, the firm added 295,000 new HD customers - up 79% year on year - to bring its total base to 1.2 million.

The Virgin Mobile business pulled in 66,300 net new customers, with revenue increasing 6.9%. Customers taking a triple-play service of TV, broadband and landline increased to 62.4% and quad-play subscribers (who also take a mobile service) grew to 11.3%.

Churn remained flat at 1.3% and average revenue per user (ARPU) was up 4.9% to a record £45.88.

The company said the operating cashflow was up 12.9% to £370m, representing the third successive quarterly double-digit OCF growth.

After running a successful refinancing programme of its debt, Virgin Media said that it plans to return £700m to shareholders and debt holders.

"A growing base of customers, combined with increased ARPU and improvements in business and mobile revenues, drove strong revenue growth and a double digit year-on-year percentage increase in OCF for the third successive quarter," said Virgin Media chief executive Neil Berkett.

"This performance was driven by our ability to offer households and businesses an increasingly differentiated range of digital services. Going forward, we'll continue to differentiate our propositions by proactively exploiting the advantages of our network and our mobile capability.

"Confidence in our long term ability to deliver strong free cash flow, along with the recent completion of our refinancing, enables us to announce today an initial Capital Return programme that complements our existing debt reduction schedule, without compromising our ability to make further strategic investments in the business."

Virgin Media has also confirmed plans to launch its 100Mbps broadband service by the end of the year, along with its first set top boxes enabled with technology developed by US DVR giant TiVo.

The firm has further announced a trial of aerial broadband deployment via existing electricity poles in the Welsh village of Crumlin as it looks at more ways to expand its fibre network.

(digital Spy)

Interesting about TIVO and 100Meg Broadband.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 

Not alot going on are this week :D got me new TV smart card today for both boxes so all good there :):)

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Any plans for Rush HD?

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Any plans for Virgin iD HD? ;)

Or PIN Protection help HD, that would be a deal breaker for me

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I would love 'bid up dot drop dot price drop tv hd bid' in hd

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I know what is coming soon to virgin media?

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Please cite all sources to back up this wild claim:D

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No idea.

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You forgot -



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Maybe - I have seen rumoured that QVC HD is set to launch in the UK.