Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 34858146)

LIVING HD may launch on September 4th.

Someone has posted an rumour on DS Forums that LIVING HD may launch on Virgin TV on the 4th of September.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...8&postcount=40

Originally Posted by cllp1975 (Post 34858506)

We're all seeing the negatives here - it's quite possible that any deal brokered for the sale of the VMTV channel portfolio would contain many caviats to protect the main VM content delivery business - perhaps even a lifelong agreement to share content across the two platforms. This deal might not be as disastrous as everyone is thinking, it may even lead to the twin holy grails of Sky's HD channels and red button content - perhaps even a guarantee that there would never be another event like the great blackout of 2007-8! They'd be daft not to make that insurance policy as part of the sale.

It's very easy to be sniffy about the VM top brass - but remember, they're some of the country's top executives. If they DON'T think of things like this, heads would roll.

Compare it with, say, planning permission. When Amazon built their new super-warehouse just outside Swansea, caviats (in planning they're called "106 Clauses") were included which stated that Amazon had to finance a by-pass and a school. Such things are rife in business. Watch this space - it could be the best thing that ever happened to the Cable platform.

Originally Posted by cllp1975 (Post 34858506)

We're all seeing the negatives here - it's quite possible that any deal brokered for the sale of the VMTV channel portfolio would contain many caviats to protect the main VM content delivery business - perhaps even a lifelong agreement to share content across the two platforms. This deal might not be as disastrous as everyone is thinking, it may even lead to the twin holy grails of Sky's HD channels and red button content - perhaps even a guarantee that there would never be another event like the great blackout of 2007-8! They'd be daft not to make that insurance policy as part of the sale.

It's very easy to be sniffy about the VM top brass - but remember, they're some of the country's top executives. If they DON'T think of things like this, heads would roll.

Compare it with, say, planning permission. When Amazon built their new super-warehouse just outside Swansea, caviats (in planning they're called "106 Clauses") were included which stated that Amazon had to finance a by-pass and a school. Such things are rife in business. Watch this space - it could be the best thing that ever happened to the Cable platform.

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle (Post 34858570)

I think that Fibre Optic to your Set-Top-Box and Broadband Router, with all that comes with it, will be the best thing that ever happened to the Cable platform. :tu:

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 34858583)

Why? What would that give you that a 4Gbps coax cable doesn't?

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34858608)

IF you dnt know why a fibre connection is better i think your in the wrong business

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34858608)

Why fibre because techincally is infite capacity,

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34858608)

has a lot of otehr benefits that virign could use apart form broadband and tv

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34858608)

but i dnt see it happening for at least 10-20 years

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 34858633)

Actually I used to work in fibre networking. At a world-beating 50Mbps. :)

Well it's certainly high, but you need to be able to source and consume the data at that speed. And that's the problem. There aren't the applications to use it.


Such as?


On this we agree. No-one would lay cable in bulk these days, but there's plenty of life in the old dog yet.


ps. How's the search going?

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 34858583)

Why? What would that give you that a 4Gbps coax cable doesn't?

Originally Posted by zantarous (Post 34858649)