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Ben B 05-08-2010 14:51

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 
Yes but not all regions have their own regional ITVHD so it wouldn't be possible to show local news on 103 for everyone

jab1990 05-08-2010 14:57

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 
I wish that could happen. I nearly always forget to switch to the hd variant of channel because they are usually placed on obscure channels.

jtaylor06 05-08-2010 15:09

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

Originally Posted by Ben B (Post 35068159)
Yes but not all regions have their own regional ITVHD so it wouldn't be possible to show local news on 103 for everyone

Good point you've made, but say if they had all the local HD variants available :)

Better example would be Channel 4 as it's limited to National news :)

Nero182 05-08-2010 15:12

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 
Anyone heard any news on when/if UTV are lunching a HD variant?

jtaylor06 05-08-2010 15:27

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

Originally Posted by Nero182 (Post 35068172)
Anyone heard any news on when/if UTV are lunching a HD variant?

Rumoured to be Autumn 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...s_on_Virgin_TV

See the section that says Channels testing off the EPG before Launch

Jameseh 05-08-2010 15:44

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 
Why don't VM move SyFy next to SyFy HD and +1 instead of moving Comedy Central Extra? I really hope they do a complete EPG overhaul once we get BBC One HD, the Sky Basics HD and all the ITV channels because there's no longer a need for Living and Virgin1/Channel One to be so high up and displace the popular digital channels along with their timeshifts and/or HD simulcasts.

jtaylor06 05-08-2010 15:45

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

Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35068192)
Why don't VM move SyFy next to SyFy HD and +1 instead of moving Comedy Central Extra? I really hope they do a complete EPG overhaul once we get BBC One HD, the Sky Basics HD and all the ITV channels because there's no longer a need for Living and Virgin1/Channel One to be so high up and displace the popular digital channels along with their timeshifts and/or HD simulcasts.

Media Boy has a very nice line-up idea.
http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com...el-lineup.html

Gavin-D 05-08-2010 15:54

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 
MB has forgot to add Sky Movies HD and Sky Sports HD1 & HD2, good line up though.

Jameseh 05-08-2010 15:57

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 
Yeah I've read MB's guide before, but in my opinion all the UKTV channels are more popular than all the channels Sky just bought so they should be given prominence, especially as that is all Virgin owns now broadcasting wise. Plus the guide was made prior to the ITV 2, 3 & 4 HD announcements which would move a lot of things.


I don't know why VM don't do a mass overhaul, Telewest didn't have a problem when they added channels 1 to 99 and completely changed multiple channels numbers. I think they may be planning something that cuts down on all the +1 and HD variants with the TiVo box, but I'm probably wrong.

zantarous 05-08-2010 16:03

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 
Can you remember what the EPG was like before everything got moved around, that was a real mess. I see that there is quite a lot of space on 180 through to 200 it is a shame that they are moving Comedy Extra so far away form the others surely they could jiggle something around or move all the Comedy Central Channels as i love flicking through them and so does the Mrs.

DJ-SWITCH 05-08-2010 16:17

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:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:
:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

passingbat 05-08-2010 16:39

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

Originally Posted by jtaylor06 (Post 35068193)
Media Boy has a very nice line-up idea.
http://virgintvmediaboy.blogspot.com...el-lineup.html


Quote:

123 - Virgin1
124 - Virgin1 +1
125 - LIVING
126 - LIVING HD
127 - LIVING +1
128 - LIVINGit
129 - LIVINGit +1
130 - LIVING Loves
132 - Bravo
133 - Bravo +1
134 - Bravo 2
135 - Free Number (So that Virgin can move thing about if Bravo HD launches)
136 - Challenge
137 - Challenge +1
Personally, I'd move all those to the very end of the EPG; Virgin got rid of a lot of junk channels to Sky in my view :) And we got HD in return :tu:

Jameseh 05-08-2010 17:07

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. II
 
108 - BBC HD
109 - BBC One HD
110 - ITV1 HD
111 - ITV1+1
112 - ITV2
113 - ITV2 HD
114 - ITV2+1
115 - ITV3
116 - ITV3 HD
117 - ITV3+1
118 - ITV4
119 - ITV4 HD
120 - ITV4+1
121 - Sky1
122 - Sky1 HD
123 - Sky2
124 - Sky2 HD
125 - Sky3
126 - Sky3+1

Media Boy UK 05-08-2010 17:08

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

Originally Posted by Gavin-D (Post 35068198)
MB has forgot to add Sky Movies HD and Sky Sports HD1 & HD2, good line up though.

Now added.

dsmuk 05-08-2010 17:42

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

Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35068227)
108 - BBC HD
109 - BBC One HD
110 - ITV1 HD
111 - ITV1+1
112 - ITV2
113 - ITV2 HD
114 - ITV2+1
115 - ITV3
116 - ITV3 HD
117 - ITV3+1
118 - ITV4
119 - ITV4 HD
120 - ITV4+1
121 - Sky1
122 - Sky1 HD
123 - Sky2
124 - Sky2 HD
125 - Sky3
126 - Sky3+1

That would drive me mad! I wish they would put all the HD channels together and not mixed in with the rest. If I have ITV2HD I have no need to for ITV2.

Can you imagine the movie channels if it went..

Movies Prem
Movies Prem HD
Movies Action
Movies Action HD

Would be nice if there could be large blocks on HD channels at the end of each section of channels


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