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:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:shocked::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

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I blame George...

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Rainbow do Top Gear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HvJjRDB0gk

Now that programme should be coming soon to Virgin TV!

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No George is head of channel acquisition;)

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Well he's having a good year then.

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Great job by Virgin. If and when all the above channels launch there isn't too many top quality HD channels left for them too add. Minus channels that SKY are holding back, what is really left to get? In fact it's not unthinkable that SKY News HD and SKY Sports News HD might arrive soon too. Exciting times for fans of HD!

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Well they may have took their time to deliver, but it is better than nothing.
I think Virgin are upping the ante, especially since YouView is now on the scene with BT and TalkTalk offering TV services.

There's still a lot more potential that can be unlocked with the TiVo service. Film streaming services, expansion of music on demand etc.

Exciting times :D

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Style launches on Virgin Media.

Virgin Media has just launch Style on Virgin Channel 285.

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Can a YouView box really compete with a TiVO anyway. YouView boxes can only currently record the channels provided by the Freeview aerial, & not the broadband streamed channels. Watching one streamed channel while recording another is a non starter.

Be interesting to see if they encounter the same problems with multiroom streaming rights as Virgin have with the TiVO.

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Why? I have seen the shows available on that channel and the overall channel looks incredibly boring.
I wanna see good channels such as Sky Atlantic, Food Network and Scuzz on cable. Also, I quite fancy that holidays channel called Holiday + Cruise on Sky EPG 284.:o:

http://www.holidayandcruisechannel.co.uk/.
Everyone likes a luxurious holiday, right?

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Well done Media Boy, thats great news.

Would love itvHD for the FA Cup games, but at least we have them in sd.

Now for Sky Atlantic (sd would be fine) and thats us got the lot. :Yikes:

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They are due to launch tomorrow, ITV2/3/4 HD

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Ok paul, we get stvHD and the tightwads don`t show the FA Cup games.

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ITV HD channels should be launching on all Packages.

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Finally European football and the BTCC on ITV 4 in HD Its looking more likely I will be returning to VM now in the summer there having a HD party at the moment

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It's definitely good news. Be good at some point to get the missing music channels, i.e MTV classic, and the CSC channels.

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Hear, hear!

Nearly there, just Sky Atlantic and the video streaming on TIVO courtesy of Netflix/Lovefilm being the sticking points! :)

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This should help on the web content front like Netflix/Lovefilm

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-0...y-liberty.html

"Virgin Media Inc. (VMED), the U.K. cable-TV provider being bought by Liberty Global Inc. (LBTYA), plans to make Web services like Netflix a more integral part of its offering rather than fighting them, its chief executive officer said.

“Our approach is to get every content asset you possibly can on the platform,” CEO Neil Berkett said yesterday in an interview at the Cable Congress in London."

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Ahh yeah I know what you mean, we still get ITV 1/2/3/4 in the STV region, and will get ITV 2/3/4 in HD come tomorrow (hopefully) so we will get them in HD (just not on ITV HD)

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Thanks for the reply paul.

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Is there anything stopping VM from using channel numbers 001 to 099 as a place to put all the HD channels together?

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Hear, hear!! :D

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That would be my ideal list of additions too. Get those and I'd be one very happy bunny.

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Good question. No doubt there will be someone knowledgable enough to respond "why not", but it certainly would make sense and be helpful.

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I did always wonder why they don't use 001 to 099.

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Great question.

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Here it comes :). Those channel numbers are already in use for the hidden channels, such as the red button streams.

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As far as I understand it BBC One - Channel 5 have to be the first channels listed in the EPG as they are Public Service Broadcasters

Also I think that Virgin Media use 101 as the starting number so that those coming over from Sky (and now Freesat) know where to start.

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Ah, there you go then!

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I would like the 'Sky' channel 251/191.First is travel and the 2nd is a Irish music and 'country/western.

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Will the ITV HD channels have 5.1 sound? If not can someone explain to me why not? I'm at a loss as to why the feed cannot be fed.

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That's a real shame - would be an instant way of clearing up the epg without messing too much with the status quo. Cheers for the answer though.

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Very optimistic, Ben!! ;)

Just also realised! Celebrity Juice... in HD!! Awesome!!

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Once BBC hd rebrands as BBC 2 hd there will be an hd variant of each of the first five channels so the requirement for them to take the first five spaces on the epg could easily be met, no?

The second point, if true, is actually a little insulting. How long do you think it would take customers to figure it out?

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From what I gather, ITV haven't done the necessary work to broadcast in 5.1
STV have, and some programmes do broadcast 5.1 on STV HD

Perhaps essjay or Spiderplant will know more about the technical reasons why ITV don't.

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Nope, as the HD variants don't cover all regional opt outs

So why is it a big issue if it starts 101 rather than 001?

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100 hidden channels... who'd have guessed? ;)

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Wouldn't 000 to 099 actually be 0 to 99, so a departure from the 3 digit channel number policy? Or is it technically possible to have mandatory leading zeros?

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Can someone tell me what's of interest on these channels?

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There is plenty of sport and movies on ITV HD 4 for starters.

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For me it's sports and movies. The French Open will be on ITV2 HD and the Europa League on ITV4 HD. Whilst the movies aren't always blockbusters there are decent titles like Unleashed, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Sean Of The Dead, Ocean's Thirteen, Red Dragon etc...

I don't mind Park Avenue 666 or Billy Connelly Route 66 either.

One man's junk is another man's treasure. Out of interest what are your favourite channels and programmes?

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Not forgetting BTCC and support races that almost a full sudays worth of racing in HD on race days !!!!

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Have you lost your remote control? Look it up yersel, lazy boy ;)

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It will also please all the Corrie & Emmerdale addicts who prefer to watch the omnibus editions rather than the nightly episodes.

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I notice that the ITV 2/3/4 HD logos have been added to the bottom of the TV Listings logo sprite, too:
http://anywhere.virginmedia.com/bund...m-91256062.png

Might be worth keeping an eye on that in the future.

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I have no idea what website my brother visits so I have no source, but he loves his American TV and informed me the other day Park Avenue 666 has been cancelled already. I will have a scout about and see what links I can find.

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This is one of the best sites for keeping up with TV show news:

http://www.tvwise.co.uk/category/news/

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Chad now the Style channel has been launch on VM, does it mean you and your good lady could be on the way back to VM;)

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The temptations will be hard to resist for the great bard and his beloved.:D

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Cheers PB, I myself do not watch a huge amount of T.V (lots of quizzes, the odd drama and comedy are about my limit) but it is gonna be nice to be able to check to see if any new shows I start to watch have been cancelled or renewed - thanks:).

I did see there is a posting dated 5/3/13 confirming Park Avenue 666 is cancelled.

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They still need to update the E! logo, both on the website and the TiVo epg, it changed back in January.

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That's one down, only E! HD to go :D

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If Virgin add Style Network on demand how can we resist? :D

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Oh well. At least it's not being dragged out longer than it needs to.

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Shame about 666 Park Avenue pretty decent series so far.

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Itsd great to know that we are getting more HD channels, any news on other new channels coming up.

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MB l am sure in the coming months will have more good news for us Arthur.

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yes sure MB will have some more good news for us Den mate just cant see sky letting us have any of there missing channels though

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Well never say never Dave as one never knows with these things.

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They are defined as AC-3 audio with more than 2 channels. So it looks promising, but you'll have to wait and see what ITV actually broadcast.

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I'm not making a big issue of it, Ben. You're the ones who don't seem to think their customers wouldn't be able press 1 rather than 101, I'm merely agreeing with another poster who suggested moving all the hd channels to numbers 1-99. I'm grateful to Spiderplant for what I reckon is a much more likely reason for why it can't happen.

By the way, since I'm a customer, if I actually wanted to make a big issue of it I'd be well within my rights to do so without you asking why.

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You don't need 100 to make the idea impracticable.

Either would be possible, but not having leading zeroes means slower channel changes as the software has to wait to see if you are going to enter more digits.

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And since I'm someone who comes on here as an individual, rather than an official representative of VM, I'm allowed to be interested in why what number the channels start from is worth worrying about ;)

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I didn't say it did, although having said that, would there be a problem moving "hidden" channels onto another empty range such as 650 to 699?

Either would be possible, but would it be possible with existing firmware?

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Well said,BenMcr are we any nearer seeing some more streaming channels on iPads and more mrs channels between tivos?

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I almost exclusively watch HD channels. My get around is to go into guide press blue button and select HD, I get all the HD channels to browse then.

Regards

John

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I set my HD channels as my favourites and view only theses on the TV guide on the iPad app, very easy way of quick scanning of what's on!

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Defined where? What should we expect?

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Here is a big question for everyone including Media Boy.

Can the VM system take on MORE channels than the numbers on the present EPG.

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The point being that nobody is worrying about it, except apparently Virgin themselves. All that has happened here is somebody has said they'd like the hd channels to start from 1, a couple of us have considered this a good suggestion, and Spiderplant has explained why it can't happen. I couldn't give a toss what capacity you think you post in (although I'd suggest you probably can't have it both ways), but you simply don't get to put words in my mouth. Nobody was making this a big deal until you came along and asked why it was being made into a big deal!

I've no doubt that as per usual you'll require the last word, but I'll no longer be able to see it.

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That would be possible. In fact the Olympic channels were parked in that range so the 550s could be reused for the Paralympics.

Either scheme would need an update.

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Defined in the broadcast.

The way it is set up potentially allows them to broadcast 5.1. We'll all have to wait and see what is actually broadcast.

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Yes, that makes sense.

I thought so, thanks for the reply.

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So, in other words, the codec used by the audio stream is defined as AC-3 (Dolby Digital) 5.1 ?

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Has anyone else got these? I haven't yet.

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Nor me

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Nothing here. Next EPG update is probably midday, so they might appear then. Won't be able to check until this evening.

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Nor l.

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Damn, I was looking forward to watching ITV4HD this evening :(

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It's only 0800 - there are 16 more hours left of Thursday for them to appear

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I have a bad feeling about them not appearing now...

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Indeed and so were our Newcastle marra's looking forward to it as well.

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I am sure they should have appeared first thing though...

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I thought that they launched in the evening on sky?

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When they launched on SKY they where brand new channels. I don't think they started broadcasting until the evening.

Have channels ever launched on Virgin in the afternoon before? I can't remember a time when it has happened before.

I hope they do arrive soon as i told my Dad last night he'd be able to watch them from today :(

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That's rumours for you.

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I was planning to watch Spurs v. Inter tonight anyway, but ITV 4 hd is probably the only channel on my wishlist, so I will be disappointed if this doesn't happen. Oh well.

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Media Boy can you enlighten us?

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Hope they launch wanna watch celeb juice in HD other option is frewview hd

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Guys, we have been here before (and with the same "source") with rumours that just didn't happen.

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This is the definitive source - if not mentioned in here then it hasn't happened

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...1609700/page/2

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To be honest the link above usually informs us after it has happened...

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so we getting itv hd channels today and were this itv On Demand gone ?

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Well this time we have had some strong evidence, a user on DS found the ITV HD Channel logos in the TV Anywhere source page, and also the official link doesn't seem to post channel updates until later in the afternoon. Even Style Network didn't go up till yesterday, despite that being given a placeholder a week ago and it launching at 7am.

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:-) that's what I meant - no ITV HD channels in early morning as per usual with VM launches so hasn't happened

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Yes apart from catch up ITV other on demand stuff has disappeared totally.

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Fingers crossed the 3 ITV HD channels appear during the day...
I had not noticed the ITV On Demand content had been removed...

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Just been added to the VM Forum page :)





on ‎07-03-2013 10:08
Today we’re adding 3 more HD channels to our line-up.

ITV 2 HD, ITV 3 HD & ITV 4 HD is coming to our platform on Thursday 7th March. The channels will be available in the XL HD pack on channels 176, 177 and 178.

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Today we’re adding 3 more HD channels to our line-up.



ITV 2 HD, ITV 3 HD & ITV 4 HD is coming to our platform on Thursday 7th March. The channels will be available in the XL HD pack on channels 176, 177 and 178.

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link http://http://community.virginmedia....1609700/page/2

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Yup
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...1740048#M92593

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or http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...1609700/page/2

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Great News :)

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Aaaaannnnd relax! Cheers guys, good news, and a confirmed splash for Media Boy so good work all round.

VM on fbk told me its just ITV Catch up from now on.

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Breaking News: ITV HD Channels put on hold by Virgin Media.

An Insider has just told me that the launch of ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD has been put on hold. No new date yet.

(Info was given to me at 10.50am)

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Then the other stuff is obviously going behind the paywall.:td:

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Oh dear.:(