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How do you get to the page with the detail of the Big Bang Bundle?

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Still to launch on Virgin Media.com

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Already launched well in progress of launching lol.

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This is about the Kahuna bundle not the Big bang which I understand is based on TV M+

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/10...true-quad.html

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Ah i see, cheers for that.

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They look excellent value , not so sure on the bundle names though.:D

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Perhaps the great one can think of one.:D

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Good stuff. Just saved me a few pennies and sped up my broadband speed by going on the Big Kahuna.

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So no new channels launched on Tuesday, is anything going to launch before the end of the year channel wise? If there is, probably a new shopping channel or some such rubbish.

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Possibly yes, VM are concentrating on broadband and repackaging channels and bundles at the moment it seems.
Don't rule out any new channel launches this year.

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Just seen on Dspy that Sky livingit is now in M+ package, can anyone confirm this? As i'm on the M package.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...postcount=1247

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Just been confirmed by my insider.

No other channel was moved.

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My Source also says Virgin Media are set to announce more new bundles soon.

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Thanks mate.

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It's for existing customers now, and will be extended to new customers at the end of the month (I believe).

I have just changed from Premiere to Big Kahuna, and I save around £8 per month and go from 60Mb/s to 152Mb/s - result!!

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I'm thinking of giving them a call, I'm out of contract next month, currently on the premiere collection. Was it quite straight forward when you called them?

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It was when I did it. Although took a while to summarise the new contract to me.

I did get the feeling that it was a bit "which offer do you know about?" sort of thing.

Big Kahuna suits me. I'll be switching the sports off for the summer too.

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Had exactly the same reaction on the phone. They tried to sell me the Big Kahuna deal at £90 until I pointed out I had the deal in front of me, on their website. Also when I said I'd take the £45 deal she immediately gave me £10 off for the first 6 months as well. Ta very much I said. :)

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I wonder if I could save any money?

4x TiVO
120mb Broadband (upgrade is later this year)
XL TV
Sky Sports & Movies
Sky Premium HD
Talk Unlimited

Paying around £135 a month!

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One of your problems is you are paying quite a bit for every extra TiVo and remember Sky's premium channels ain't cheap either but you want to give them a tinkle to see if you can get a better deal..

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Just upgraded is costing £75.95 for 2 x tivo, 1 x V+, tv xl, phone xl and now 152mb broadband up from 100mb

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No, it took a bit of patience - I eventually asked them (after 27 minutes) to transfer me to Retentions, which they did, and it was sorted out in five minutes (I didn't threaten to leave, I just explained to Retentions that I would like the deal offered on the Web, and they did it).

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Well May 6th has been and want and no new Sky Sports HD Channels.

But I was given THREE maybe launch dates - so still two more to go.

The dates I have will be gone by Next Wednesday.

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so tomorrow and next Tuesday MB is the maybe dates

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l shall pray for you all in the hope that there will be a deliverance by next Tuesday.:nworthy::nworthy::ghugs::ghugs:

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I am hoping but not expecting Den well praying too :LOL:

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In other news:

-My source says June has been earmarked for something, they don't know what yet though.
-Virgin Media are in talks with an yet not named USA Broadcaster.

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As long as it's not the kind of Deliverance Burt Reynolds and his mates "enjoyed"

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You have learned much my young apprentice but your training is not complete yet.;)

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27 minutes and the CS rep had STILL not sorted it out, forcing you to have to turn to another member of staff in another department! That's ridiculous and may also be why waiting times to be answered can be so lengthy.

I wouldn't have had the patience, imagine how much this wasted time, loss of customers and potential increase in the ARPU of existing customers is costing LG :shocked:

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Confirmed: New Sky Sports HD Channels coming 'soon' to Virgin Media.

An Virgin Insider has confirmed to Media Boy HQ that Sky Sports 3 HD, Sky Sports 4 HD and Sky Sports F1 HD is ready to launch on Virgin Media - just waiting to be given an launch date.

©copyright 2014 Media Boy 2006 - 2014. An ''Keep it real and free'' Production.

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:omg: :) any thing on SSN too MB

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Cheers MB, should please quite a few people on here:) Lets hope these are the first of the remaining missing channels everyone wants.

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Very happy to see F1HD!

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My rumour poster has told me in the past that more Sky Basic Channels may also launch on the same day as the new Sky Sports HD Channels.

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That'll come with the skysports hd channels as far as i know, i'm in same boat as MB no idea on launch date yet i got a feeling something is going to come tonight hence these new bundles being announced, ofcourse my feeling may be wrong.

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starting to believe in miracles here my team staying up and VM getting rest of sky sports HD channels :LOL:

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I was given 'Hope to launch by May ??' date on new Sky Sports HD Channels by my Rumour poster some weeks back.

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I think something is coming with livingit being moved into tvm+ today and the announcement of the new bundles.
Don't be surprised to see Disneyhd channels, natgeo wildhd, cihd, historyhd launch at the same time.

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You see your optimism did pay off in the end dear chap.;)

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I'm on the the Gus Bus as well Davy and I'll be watching them in glorious HD too it would appear!!

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Can't wait for sky f1 hd like.

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Will the sky sports hd subscription go up though?? sorry i thought i'd be mr negative. i doubt they'l scrap the hd subscription as sky still have it dont they?

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just hoping we some new channels this year it been pretty boring so far ��

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Lets hope it does not go up Vince but there is always a catch somewhere along the line.

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If the HD sub goes up so we are in line with SKY customers then it is a small price to pay for getting the remaining HD channels. Personally wouldn't bother me if it went up to around the £10 a month charge.

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There's hope for you yet, Dave! This is all coming a little later than I expected!

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I think that is highly likely, MB. It would not make sense to launch them separately, unless there were technical issues.

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You don't get owt for nowt, Den! However, as these negotiations have been a long time in coming, maybe VM have already factored in the increased cost of getting these channels.

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That insider also told me '(Sky Sports HD Channels) should have been launched By' date but I am not going to reveal the date.

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No info on if Virgin will put the cost up was given.

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but the amount we pay for skysports is more

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And that's how Sky would like it to stay!

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They are on about the price of £7 per month for Sky Sports 1 HD and Sky Sports 2 HD.

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i think its shocking though that sky sports is still so high. For £25 i'd expect all the channels, all in HD and a christmas card from murdoch. it is off putting the price.

I understand a lot of people do want HD channels and money isnt an object etc but i couldnt myself rationalise paying an extra ten quid just for the channels to be in HD.

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Updates from my Rumour poster:

-That talks with an yet not named USA Broadcaster is over On Demand deal.
-More Sky Sports HD Channels may launch on May 9th (Information from last month).

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Sorry to butt in - but is this Sky Sports 3, 4 and F1 in HD - with SS1 and SS2 costing a sub?

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The HD charge on Sky is for all HD channels not just Sports & Movies. If Virgin was to up I would suggest they would need to do something with the XXL package to compensate and they won't do that.

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Oops I did mean to post 'More Sky Sports HD Channels'.

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If Sky Atlantic has fallen out of the negotiations along the way, maybe this is HBO?? Unfortunately, all the content is likely to be provided on a 'pay per view' basis, which would be incredibly expensive and not acceptable to me. I would be ecstatic if VM managed to pull off a deal based on a subscription (even if we could only obtain the first run stuff on PPV).

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I have today found out the name of that USA Broadcaster but I was given an 'Do Not Post' order on it.

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They're already doing it my source has said on more than one occasion the XL pack is slowly moving to being VMs version of Skys HD pack, all sd channels are going to move into the L or m+ pack, also a very basic pack is to launch called Moretv this will offer Sky1 and a handful of other channels ontop of the TVM pack.
Moretv will sit just between tvm and tvm+, also other new packages are coming too including a HD pack for about £5 extra pm (price not confirmed) you can have the hd channels relevant to your pack, say for example you have tvm+ you can get sly1hd etc for a extra £5p/m (price not confirmed).

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Well, "do not post" has three initials as does the likely US broadcaster.;)

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Excellent news :)

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speak for yourself my friend ;)

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All3Media sold to Discovery and Liberty Global in deal worth £500m.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...ty-global-deal

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I too heard about them considering an HD pack a while ago, (think I posted it on here). The price being mooted was £5 per month, so it looks like they have decided to go ahead. Not heard anything about More TV , but have previously heard about them morphing XL into their version of the full HD pack.

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Why would it need to go up on VM ? The Sky Sports/Sky Movies HD charge on Sky is £5.25.

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I'm fine keeping XL package just for the hd channels as i'm already paying that. do we think the sports HD will move into XL and additional charge for HD sports will be dropped???

i doubt this as everyones bill would go down but it'd be the dream wouldnt it...

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Not quite, you need the basic HD first which costs £32 a month before you are allowed anywhere near the HD sports & movies.

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I've done a bit of poking around on the site and found this.

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No the £7p/m Sky premier hd charge is set by Sky themselves apparantly.

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i figured it'd be too much of a big ask!

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mediaboy any chance of a confirmed launch date for sky sport HD

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Look to be like Discovery and Liberty may add All3Media shows to DMAX or Quest or add them to Virgin on Demand.

More info on All3Media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All3Media

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Someone just threw a spanner into my works. My thinking was, that if these channels were to appear then the HD charge would increase from 7 to 10 pounds. But as someone says, the charge currently covers Sport and Movies. (I only take sport myself). But if I was a 'movies only' customer, I'd be enraged if they added £3 to my bill for nothing that I receive.

So the way I see it, the HD charge will either stay at £7 and include the new stuff or they'll introduce a separate £3 HD charge for the new channels only. In which case I doubt I'd take it as 95% of my SS viewing is on 1 or 2 anyway.

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All info I have was posted last night.

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cheers for answer mediboy

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well i'll check my box tomorrow morning hopefully...though it appears it'd be a bit of a long shot. MB is tomorrow one of the possible "other two" launch dates or can you not say?

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one date 9 may vincerooney mediaboy give but was just a rumor i think

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cheers blue :)

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My source said nothing expected to happen tonight.

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Patience is required one suspects.

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how disappointing :( i love the chaos and excitement on the forum after a new channel has launched and i was off work tomorrow haha. cheers for update though pal :)

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shame nothing happening tonight by looks of things but you can't kill hope ��

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My rumour poster told me last month that More Sky Sports HD Channels may launch on the following dates.

-May 6th.
-May 8th.
-May 9th.

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Do you reckon anymore will launch along side the sports channels MB?

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My rumour poster told me that the following channels may launch on the same day when more Sky Sports HD Channel launch.

-Pick +1
-Sky1 +1 (Broadcasts in Smallworld areas right now).
-Sky News HD (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland areas right now).
-Sky Sports News HD (Broadcasts in UPC Ireland areas right now).

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Tonight could be a possibilty then in time for the final day of the Premier league.

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Yeah, and the Spanish grand prix. BT Sport launched on a friday as well.

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Spanish grand prix is also on Sky1 HD on Saturday.

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Tomorrow could very good day then all them channels launching fingers crossed

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Bonus, didn't know that. Thanks for the info MB. Will be better than watching the sd version.

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Cheers mate! that will be a great addition! Any news on the Disney channels etc?

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I think no new channels will launch this week.

Due to the following:

When Sky Sports 1 HD and Sky Sports 2 HD was launch back in 2010 Virgin Media moved Sky Sports 4 and Sky Sports News to new home a day before hand.

Q: WHERE WILL SKY SPORTS 3 HD, SKY SPORTS 4 HD AND SKY SPORTS F1 HD LAUNCH ON VIRGIN MEDIA?

A: My insider has not given me the channel numbers for them yet (As of May 7th). But Media Boy HQ thinks the following may happen.

Plan A)
519. Sky Sports 3 HD
520. Sky Sports 4 HD
521. Sky Sports News HD
522. Sky Sports F1 HD
523. EuroSport
524. EuroSport HD

Or plan B)
501. Sky Sports 1
502. Sky Sports 2
503. Sky Sports 3
504. Sky Sports 4
506. Sky Sports F1
508. Sky Sports News
511. Sky Sports 1 HD
512. Sky Sports 2 HD
513. Sky Sports 3 HD
514. Sky Sports 4 HD
516. Sky Sports F1 HD
518. Sky Sports News HD

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Disneyhd channels are Summer 2014.

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Sky Sports News HD would be a welcome addition.

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Plan B seems more likely.

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Or plan C where we are still waiting patiently.

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any dates or months yet?

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Cant talk for theone2k10 but I have not seen any info all I have is Spring 2014 - something is set to happen in June.

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lol, "may" launch or "May" launch. :)
Actually, I have a feeling the HD sports channels will launch this month.

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No dates yet but hopful to have something more before end of the month.

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Making the true cost to be able to obtain these channels as £37.25 a month on top of whatever it costs to take movies and sport :shocked:

Thanks for that, it was a good find. This confirms the intention to offer a mid pack between M and M+. Unfortunately, on this tablet, whenever I try to enlarge the image it disappears! From what I could see there weren't any prices quoted, were there any?

Yay! Pick TV +1 will be useful for me during recording clashes if that arrives :)

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Oops it won't take long for Dave to slip back into his pessimistic ways again.;):waving:

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theone2k10 was talking about the missing Disney HD Channels.