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Henkesghost 02-01-2011 20:20
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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35146422)
I have been told today by an Insider that the Sky Red button should launch on Virgin Media sometime before April 2011.
Previous insider had said January?

lawe 02-01-2011 20:40
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Interesting, assume this would include Sky News red button?

Gavin-D 02-01-2011 21:13
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
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Originally Posted by lawe (Post 35146447)
Interesting, assume this would include Sky News red button?
I beleive it's only Sky Sports 1 and 2.

Jameseh 02-01-2011 21:30
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
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Originally Posted by Henkesghost (Post 35146438)
Previous insider had said January?
Things are complicated, plus he obviously gets told bull at some point. Its still all rumours.

zantarous 02-01-2011 21:36
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Henkesghost (Post 35146438)
Previous insider had said January?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35146473)
Things are complicated, plus he obviously gets told bull at some point. Its still all rumours.
Or that January could have been the original date, on big projects things change daily and launch dates get pushed back all the time.

Henkesghost 02-01-2011 22:00
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
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Originally Posted by zantarous (Post 35146475)
Or that January could have been the original date, on big projects things change daily and launch dates get pushed back all the time.
:)

windy 02-01-2011 22:41
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
Bring on the HD channels.:)

Happy new thread..:p:

muppetman11 02-01-2011 22:51
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Sky Atlantic HD won't arrive anytime soon Sky will keep this and will advertise and sell it big time and I personally wouldnt expect Sky sports 3 and 4 HD anytime soon.

DJ-SWITCH 02-01-2011 22:56
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
Its going be a good year for HD channels i can feel it :):)

howardmicks 02-01-2011 23:11
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
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Originally Posted by DJ-SWITCH (Post 35146506)
Its going be a good year for HD channels i can feel it :):)
I hope so :)

borrissey 03-01-2011 00:50
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Originally Posted by DJ-SWITCH (Post 35146506)
Its going be a good year for HD channels i can feel it :):)
I really hope your right, always good to get more HD channels, hope we get a slice of Sky Atlantic and the HD version would be great. Also hope we get Sky Sports HD 1 and HD2.

I wonder if Sky will launch Sky Movies Prem HD +1 or is that a waste of bandwidth?

Happy New year all.

Lew 03-01-2011 01:08
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
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Originally Posted by borrissey (Post 35146524)
Also hope we get Sky Sports HD 1 and HD2.
We already have those. Do you mean HD3 and HD4? ;)

jamiec21 03-01-2011 02:12
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35146422)
I have been told today by an Insider that the Sky Red button should launch on Virgin Media sometime before April 2011.
I'd like to believe the recent "coming soon" posts and winking emotions by Virgin staff members mean we'll be getting it sooner than that. I'll certainly be disappointed if we don't at least get an announcement by the end of the month.

I personally believe it's rather bad form to announce this stuff is coming in the form of an all singing, all dancing press release in June 2010 and for no further update to come since then. Either it's an error in the initial press release, or something has been renegotiated since them, but a bit more openness would be nice. IIRC, the only suggestion of Red Button content in 2011 came from one line in a Sky official website article.

andrewbrown 03-01-2011 02:20
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jamiec21 (Post 35146532)
I'd like to believe the recent "coming soon" posts and winking emotions by Virgin staff members mean we'll be getting it sooner than that. I'll certainly be disappointed if we don't at least get an announcement by the end of the month.

I personally believe it's rather bad form to announce this stuff is coming in the form of an all singing, all dancing press release in June 2010 and for no further update to come since then. Either it's an error in the initial press release, or something has been renegotiated since them, but a bit more openness would be nice. IIRC, the only suggestion of Red Button content in 2011 came from one line in a Sky official website article.
IIRC the OFCOM agreement meant that Sky had to offer it, and I believe that the delay is due to technical issues because of platform incompatabilities, rather than any negotiation issues.

richard1960 03-01-2011 05:43
Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
 
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Originally Posted by andrewbrown (Post 35146533)
IIRC the OFCOM agreement meant that Sky had to offer it, and I believe that the delay is due to technical issues because of platform incompatabilities, rather than any negotiation issues.
That would sound about right to me.

Its funny though QVC,BBC,ITV all get their red button services working on VM i wonder just how incompatable the sky sports red button is with virgin medias platform if its taking all this time to impliment.? although i am hopeful it will arrive very soon please.:erm:


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