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Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

1st full week listings for Sky Atlantic is now out:

http://data.skyprogrammeinformation....=SATS&week=388

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35153959)

1st full week listings for Sky Atlantic is now out:

http://data.skyprogrammeinformation....=SATS&week=388

Mostly trash or stuff I've seen before , most was on VM On demand.

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35153966)

Mostly trash or stuff I've seen before , most was on VM On demand.

They are showing the show called ''TBA'' 42 times that look good ;)

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

Glad to see Chuck is NOT on the schedule, emailed Living and they had no idea if Chuck would return to that channel. I'm hoping it doesn't return on Atlantic or I will never no what happens as it was left in limbo!

:erm:

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35153558)

I disagree. Cable's major selling point has always been the broader range of services the platform can deliver (and in many cases the desire not to have a dish on the side of the house).

That is, of course, assuming they aren't restricted from having dishes on the side of the house, either by the local council (who in some areas may have rules), or by a landlord.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35153966)

Mostly trash or stuff I've seen before , most was on VM On demand.

I find it funny that nearly everything is labelled HD, even where it wasn't originally HD. Fairly certain that the X-files wouldn't have been HD, for instance. Most of ER wouldn't have been either.

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

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Originally Posted by Stuart (Post 35153986)

That is, of course, assuming they aren't restricted from having dishes on the side of the house, either by the local council (who in some areas may have rules), or by a landlord.

I find it funny that nearly everything is labelled HD, even where it wasn't originally HD. Fairly certain that the X-files wouldn't have been HD, for instance. Most of ER wouldn't have been either.

They will probably class it as "upscaled HD" :p:

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35153558)

I disagree. Cable's major selling point has always been the broader range of services the platform can deliver (and in many cases the desire not to have a dish on the side of the house).

Virgin Media has an active TV subscriber in about 30% of all the serviceable households in the UK. Sky's penetration is about 40% (it has a lot more actual customers, but then it is accessible to all UK homes, not just the ones where they can lay a cable). If 'most' people were interested in channels, then we could reasonably expect Sky to be far further ahead of VM than it actually is.

In fact, 'most' people in the UK aren't interested in quantity at all. They don't have any kind of subscription TV and have upgraded to Freeview or Freesat because there's no longer any choice to stay with the basic analogue five.

Sky is not accessable to all uk homes as stated, i live in a flat and 80% of the flats have so chance of a dish not because the landlord refueses permission our housing association gave us that,but we have no sight of line for a dish.Must be many more in that situation countrywide.

Cable apart from freeview,is our only realistic TV choice the same as for the many who cannot get cable (in most cases having the sky/freeview solution) BT vision will not work in our area either and BT will not supply it, as ADSL only delivers 1.5 MB maximum where i live.

Personally though i agree with you on the quantity issue i would rather have fewer channels with better quality,in fact as far as tv goes the only thing i am really looking forward to is Red Button on sky sports.

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

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Originally Posted by Coax (Post 35153978)

There are other ways to watch it ;)

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

*cough* allegedly *cough*

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

sky_atlantic Sky Atlantic
@ @iamjohnnydee not right now - if we have any news we will post it here.
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amjohnnydee Johnny Dee
@ @sky_atlantic Any news on Virgin Media deal yet?
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messages from twitter hope it mean vm still trying to do deal on it

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

got some news for ya from the sofa

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We are continuously reviewing our TV packages to give our customers the best possible service. We do not have any immediate plans to launch Sky Atlantic but we are definitely looking at more channels launches for 2011 and are currently in discussions with various content providers, including Sky

http://www.virginmediasofa.com/

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

So I doubt basic VM subscribers will ever see the series of Lost that Sky snaffled from free-to-air to "exclusive content" on their payable channels.

I suppose the same will happen to Chuck, SGU et al after the "winter break".

:( or :mad:

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

Actually we did, Sky repeated the whole series in a week when the deal was done with VM. I know that because I watched it all. It would still be nice to finally get Sky VOD anyway which is meant to be coming!

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

Well I see that Hawaii Five-O, which was previously due to appear on Bravo, is now being advertised as "Coming soon to Sky1". They couldn't put it on Sky Atlantic because it's in the Pacific, to be specific. ;)

---------- Post added at 21:52 ---------- Previous post was at 21:33 ----------

Oops! I see that the new series is actually called Hawaii Five-0 and not Hawaii Five-O as was its predecessor.

Re: Sky Atlantic on Virgin Media

I think that VM shoul be called Virgin Promises, as like the airline, they never keep there promises.

If Sky have bought into VM, why is hard to get Atlantic onto the network:D