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MUTV ownership changes

Manchester United have acquired the one-third minority equity stake in Manchester United Television (MUTV) from BskyB (Sky). MUTV is now a wholly-owned group subsidiary.

As part of the club's long-term digital media plans, Manchester United has made the strategic acquisition of Sky’s stake in MUTV in order to own 100 per cent of the content production and distribution capabilities of this business.

http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Fe...D-7803F413C732

MUTV is set to move to Sky Channel 418 on February 4th.

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Nice on MB. Just a shame MUTV costs £6 a month or a would have it :(

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You can always try the LFC channel as it cost nothing if you are on the XL pack.;):D

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Or for free on Sky.

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You have more change of me being married to Pipa Middleton in the next week

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Interesting possible development with regards to Sky 3D.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=135

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Thanks for the info. Seemed silly that you had to sign up for a sports package to watch a documentary in 3D. Wonder how difficult it is to limit customers by package and time on a single channel.

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Sky Go for iOS has been updated to support the iPhone 5's larger screen size, along with support for the new Sky Go Extra service.

Sky Go Extra costs £5 per month, which gives you a device limit of 4 instead of 2 and allows you to download programmes for offline viewing.

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That's a bloody good offer.

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Indeed , I'm sure many families out there will love the extra flexibility the increased device limit now offers them along with the ability to take shows/movies with them on the move without the need for an Internet connection. The coming months should be interesting for Sky customers , I'm sure there'll be some more useful stuff on the way. ;)

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Just for people that are unaware Sky Go Extra has a device limit of 4 but only 2 devices can stream at any one time

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http://corporate.sky.com/media/press...hlights_rights

Sky to take on BBC's Match of the Day?

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Thats good news i reckon

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apart from the red button, it is same as before (not sure about red button highlights, never used it)

So not sure it is taking on BBC. I normally like BBC as I can watch edited highlights same night (or first thing in morning if I record)

Not seeing me change anything

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Sky Sports F1 motors up to Sky Channel 406.

From February 4th when MUTV moves to Sky Channel 418.

Sky Sports F1 will also move to Sky Channels 406 and 439.

If are using an non HD Box:

406. Sky Sports F1 SD
439. Sky Sports F1 HD

If are using an HD Box:

406. Sky Sports F1 HD
439. Sky Sports F1 SD

http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1/...rom-February-4

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Thanks MB

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Can anyone confirm if Dawn Of The Dead HD has been added to their Showcase folder?

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Just got SKY+HD and I'm loving it, one quick question though. Does Sky air breaking bad and will it air the final half of the final series when it comes out?

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Welcome aboard! Sadly Breaking Bad, as far as I am aware, is not currently on any TV channel in the UK.

Only the first two seasons of Breaking Bad have ever been screened on UK television, with the third, fourth and now fifth seasons being made exclusively available via Netflix.

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Hello, anyone? :D

2 days ago I added Dawn Of The Dead to my never miss list. This morning it turns up Showcase. Seems a strange film to be added to Showcase seing it's been available on SKY for a couple of weeks. Just wondered if it being added to Showcase was linked to my never miss request, or if this is just a massive coincidence.

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Hello :p:

Dawn Of The Dead is also in my showcase.

Just to let you know Chad , things in showcase expire however if you highlight the show and press the record button it transfers it over into your personal planner.

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Great, thanks for the information. Still taking baby steps with everything at the moment :)

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This is now confirmed

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...6&postcount=56

Radio times is also flagging certain More 4 shows as HD from the 4th , the new series Nashville which starts on the 7th February being one of them.

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[QUOTE=muppetman11;35528771]This is now confirmed

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...6&postcount=56

Radio times is also flagging certain More 4 shows as HD from the 4th , the new series Nashville which starts on the 7th February being one of
Great news!

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Great. Any rumours regarding Film 4HD?

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Nothing yet however it's arrival is part of the deal which Sky and Channel 4 signed which also included Channel 4's linear channels arriving on Sky Go and 4OD content being available on Sky's On Demand service.

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4OD content to be added to Sky's On Demand service by Spring 2013

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...5&postcount=58

Nat Geo , C&I and History available now all contain both SD and HD content.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...54&postcount=1

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Great news..:)

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Its being reported Disney Cinemagic is too close

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...5&postcount=21

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Cannot find any news about it MM.

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I hope not as its a good channel i put on for my little niece when she comes round

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BSkyB profits up as more customers choose extra services.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21272872

http://www.sharecast.com/cgi-bin/sha...ry_id=20658956

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BSkyB to offer sports channels for £9.99 'day rate'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...-day-rate.html

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Now been confirmed by Sky

http://www.sky.com/mysky/latestnews/...lose-in-march/

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Thats good news. Means people dont need to spend over £30 a month for something they dont watch offen and if there is a football game and F1 race on same day they can watch them both without have in Sky Sports sub which i think is good

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Wonder when it will go live? Its now on NowTV website yet as that still shows just Movie channels

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Pricey to say the least.

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For 6 Sky Sports channels, its not that bad. When i was in hospital a few months back they charge £5 just to watch channels 1-5 for 24 hours so its nit that bad

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And only a fool and his money would pay £5 for just 5 channels in a hospital for 24 hours.:nono:

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Luckily it wasnt my money ;) but still i think £9.99 for 24 hours of Sky Sports isnt a bad deal

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I also wonder if this 'Day Pass' will come to VM and if so with it just be Tivo users via an app

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Sky Movies to launch Sky Movies Oscars next month.

Sky Movies are to launch an 'Sky Movies Oscars' Channel on Virgin Channel 403 and also in HD on Virgin Channel 433.

From February 11th to February 25th.

Info from Virgin Media Magazine.

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not as pricey as £60 ticket to see a game though?

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Agreed

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And not as cheap as £22 a month is it.:)

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I'm pretty sure £9.99 is cheaper than £22.00. Many people don't want too pay a regular subscription every month and some probably cant afford it , this now enables them access to that one key match they want to see while allowing them to watch the rest of the live sport that day , Sky were never going to set the price too low and run the risk of losing monthly Sky Sports subscribers.

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I agree.

The article suggests £9.99 gives unlimited access to all of Sky’s sports coverage for 24 hours. I think SKY might start putting on "blockbuster" sports days / weekends.

For example there is a 24 hour period coming up in a few months that would be tempting to sports fans without SKY Sports.

25th May - Champions League Final
25th May - Carl Froch Vs. Mikkel Kessler
26th May - Scottish Cup Final
26th May - Monaco Grand Prix

If your are a fan of football, boxing and F1 you laughing.

It opens up premium sports to a much wider audience. It's given people a choice they didn't have before.

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You know you two would make perfect door to door salesman for good old Sky.;):D

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I'd get chased from the Coming Soon thread for making that type of comment about Virgin :D

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Sky and Sony Pictures Television announce new multi-year movies agreement

http://corporate.sky.com/media/press...vies_agreement

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Your good self and your boss are welcomed over there any time as we do believe in good old impartiality in such a revered thread.:D

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It's all good Hugh. We're all chums, honestly.

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http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2013/...-you-view-box/

"On Thursday, BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch said there had been no substantive talks on the carriage of the new BT Sports channels on the satellite platform. He anticipated these would get underway in the next few weeks."

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It will be interesting to see how these talks go but l am sure BT will find there is plenty of devil in the detail.:devsmoke:

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The channels will be on , BT have already bought the EPG slots.

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Zeebox app now has an update in the apple app store which will enable you to send remote record requests to your Sky+HD box.

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Unusual for the apple apps to get a feature after the android app. The record feature seems to have been in zeebox android for ages.

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What about this news then , Sky+ planner management and remote control features appear to be scheduled to arrive early next week.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...6&postcount=61

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Great news! Got to like zeebox but if they are adding recomendations, planner and on demand browsing to the official app, would happily just use that instead.

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Great news. Nice one MM

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More 4 HD channel number announced

http://www.channel4.com/hdmore4/

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Hopefully it will quickly follow over to us Virgin folks.

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Not a hope I share...though not overly concerned if it did :)

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More 4 HD added to Sky EPG on channel 138 for HD subscribers.

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Ofcom awards more local TV licences

The following Local TV areas will launch by:

=== By October 2013 ===
-LONDON LIVE* (London)

©copyright 2013 Ofcom.

*Owners hope to launch on Sky Channel 117 and Virgin Media.

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Carl Froch Vs. Mikkel Kessler see's the return of PPV boxing on SKY.

http://www1.skysports.com/boxing/new...-press-release

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The sports section has a shuffle

401 Sky Sports 1 HD
402 Sky Sports 2 HD
403 Sky Sports 3 HD
404 Sky Sports 4 HD
405 Sky Sports News HD
406 Sky Sports F1 HD
407 Sky Sports 1
408 Sky Sports 2
409 Sky Sports 3
418 MUTV
435 Sky Sports 4
436 Sky Sports News
439 Sky Sports F1
440 Sky slot (TBA), Possible Sky Sports 3D, or remains vacant unitl the next reshuffle.

Everything else stays the same.

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Well l for one won't be paying extra.:td:

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Me neither. I'll either stream the fight or drop into the local sports bar.

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Information has decided to stop working. Pressing (i) does absolutely nothing, also when pressing channel +/- no information is displayed. Time out is set to 5 sec.

Any idea's?

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If you have a Sky+HD box try the following (wait until any recordings complete)


On your remote, press Services,0,0,1,Select. (Press each key without pausing)

You should see (Setup) highlighted in yellow now , use the left arrow twice to highlight Sky+ Rebuild in yellow , press select twice and let the procedure complete.

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Excellent, worked great.
Any idea's why this happens or is it just a quirk?

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Not sure mate however a planner rebuild generally sorts many issues out.


Updated Sky+ app (Planner management , remote control functionality) now available for Android on Google Play , I've tested on a Nexus 7 and all works well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...51bGwsMSwyLDNd

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Works fine on my S3 as well

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I have had issues when trying to change channel via the app. When scrolling down when on ITV HD i get an error and an error code. Its when i go back down to that channel, any one else got issues?

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Did you know

Sky is 24 years old Today.

Sky launch Sky News when Sky launch on Astra 1A on the 5th of February 1989.

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I wont be sending a card!:p:

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No, I guess you will send a telegram :)

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Very good!

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Sky Sports in the UK is set to broadcast parts of the final pre-season test in 3D in what it claims will be a "world first".

http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/s...ml?CMP=OTC-RSS

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Sounds good thanks for the link. :)

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Would be better if they were starting in 4K or 8K so library footage doesn't look like pants in a few years.

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4K is ok if you have a 4K TV 80" or larger :D

Can't see many people in the UK adopting those screen sizes anytime soon.

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Guardian: Planet Rock bought by Bauer Media.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013...ck-bauer-media

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BT Sports will be on SKY. No surprise really.

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/1961/btsports.jpg

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It was always going to be , what company in there right mind would exclude themselves from the UK's largest pay TV platform.

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Indeed and what company would exclude itself from the second largest pay TV platform either.:)

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Lets hop its not too expensive

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Let's see what price they come out with.

Remember for £10.00 per month Setanta Sports, depending on your TV provider, offered Setanta Sports 1, Setanta Sports 2, Setanta Sports News, Setanta Golf, Arsenal TV, Celtic TV, LFC TV and Rangers TV. Setanta peaked at 1.5 million subscribers which included Virgin Media XL customers.

BT Sports are only offering 2 dedicated channels. There is no way they can match the content provided by Setanta Sports. They won't be able to match the content offered by ESPN / ESPN America either.

Any more than £10.00 per month and BT Sports will simply price themselves out of the market. Setanta went down the pan, ESPN are leaving the UK. BT Sports won't last long if they try to rip people off.

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Something will have to go in our. household because wont be able to afford sky sports,espn AND bt sports. I wonder what chances there are of sky bundling all 3 together at a affordable price?

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Setanta also had Racing UK as well Chad which is £20 a month now

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I think £10 a month for 2 channels will be expensive so lets hope its lets than that. I reckon ill have to get rid of ESPN to be able to afford BT Sports which is a shame

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Personally l think it will be around £12 for subscribers on Sky and lets hope for Virgin it replaces the outgoing ESPN on the XL package.

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I'll put my house on it only being available in a pack on BT Vision why on earth would they give their major competitors a massive advantage , I believe it will be sold on a monthly subscription basis on both Sky and VM probably around the £10 mark however until we see a press release its pure speculation.

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Yeah, BT will replace their 'free' ESPN with BT Sports, hopefully we can get the same on cable.

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Jamie Carragher to possibly join Sky Sports.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#axzz2KK73EukX

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Hmmm didnt Espn get setantas rights which cost setantas £159 million. BT just paid 3 quarters of a billion £'s, so I doubt they will give them away for anywhere near what VM were paying ESPN.

VM will either drop the price of XL or increase it if they want to include BT sports.

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None of us will know what happens until a firm announcement is made.

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None of us will know what is going to happen untill an official anouncement is made.. ;)

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Your`e probably right although sky do carry alot of clout and may put preasure on BT or offer them a sweetner of some kind?

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Could be interesting news for the Sky Sports red button

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=606

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Yes very interesting MM.