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Thanks for the warning.

Apparently, they are waiving the 30 day notice period if downgrading is due to the price rise. I wonder if this also applies to contract renewal?

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Confirmation now received that H2 is definitely not closing in the UK to make way for Viceland (as was the case in the USA).

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Indeed and thus it won't happen and besides, with 4K (including HDR) channels set to hit the mainstream next year, VM need to have a careful think about where they see their platform heading and what they want to put on it.

I think it would be fair, certainly for new channels, that only HD channels were added from here on. Then consider about what to do about existing and missing channels, ie on my list, VM has a sd version of Boomerang but missing the HD version.

I think VM should consider replacing the more obscure SD channels with their HD versions, while keeping all versions of the main BBC, ITV, Sky etc channels on the platform for those that still don't have HD tellies.

But at some point VM need to stop "sweating their assets" and replace all old boxes.

Of course for those that have read the Netflix/streaming thread, you may already know my thoughts on where pay tv (and all its multitude of channels) are going in the next few years...

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Malone is well known for "sweating his assets", I think he may well have used that actual term in the past!

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Some of those are pretty obscure to be honest, some such as BET +1 and MTV Live (SD) are no longer operating. If VM added all of the rest as broadcast streams, they'd need more transport streams and that would mean more investment, largely for dross.

I would think that quite a few of those e.g. the music channels, CCTV News and the Kremlin's misinformation channel could be added as IPTV streams and accessed from a TiVo app. Having to wait an eternity for TiVo to load the apps would certainly show whether any viewers were actually interested in the content.

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This is why I was so surprised to read that the hayu app had been such a success.

I would imagine that young people will have even less patience than older people with the speed of the TiVo app loading.

They are used to commands being carried out instantly; at least older people remember the days of having to wait for the telly to warm up :D

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Here we have a so called major company, with thousands of customers. Yet, they always come out with this rubbish about 'bringing the BEST entertainment and a variety of channels for the price'.

What VM should be doing is, getting the channels on the system that will compete with all the other companies - BT, Sky, but they wont. Yet they put the prices up constantly.

And expect the customer to pay it. BUT, my wife has had enough.

Customers are leaving VM, to either go to Freesat or Sky, or even Now TV.

VM took over the Network on the Isle of Wight. And yet we don't have those channels - yet the system belongs to VM.

As l have previously on this forum. The Directors of VM should stop treating its customers as though they have bottomless pits where they have money.

We have a problem between BT and VM over a Mobile network usage now. I wonder who win that

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..... I agree that you cannot choose what you want to watch if that choice is not even available to you in the first place. Some may call all those missing channels dross, while for others they could be useful additions.

Personally, I wish there were a universal IPTV system organised along the lines of Freeview where I can choose what equipment to use and choose what channels/packages I wish to subscribe to.

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I just wish there were MORE Cable companies out there as competition for VM.

When l was in America several years ago. There was 15 Cable Companies where l was. That's what Competition for you.

There was a brilliant Channel similar to Gold. Great oldies like The Rifleman, Beverley Hillbillies etc. Great stuff.

It would make me laugh IF, Sky created a Cable Company to take on VM

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Some of them are dross and sponsored/pseudo-shopping channels. Although the following would appeal to some. I doubt that they would have sufficient audience levels to justify investment in additional transport streams:

And the full bouquet of Sony channels and associated timeshifts? How many times do people need to watch endless repeats of The Waltons / Little House on the Prairie / Highway to Heaven / MASH / Touched by an Angel etc? If someone misses the start of a 40 odd year old movie, do they really need to watch it on the timeshift when it will be repeated in a few weeks anyway? If they haven't seen it in 40 odd years, what's another few weeks?

If VM invest in additional transport streams, we all end up paying the extra cost. Is that really justifiable for channels that will attract single figure audience levels? We've just seen threats of mass exodus from VM as a result of the announced price increase.

Also, space is at a premium. The channel bonding requirements of newer versions of DOCSIS is forcing new frequency assignments. Forcing the TV transport streams onto higher frequency UHF channels as DOCSIS moves onto the VHF channels. VM is made up of several different hybrid cable setups, not all are made equal and some are less responsive at higher frequencies than others. So, some regions will struggle to fit in multiple additional transport streams at these frequencies.

Sure, MPEG4 will help, when VM finally get around to converting broadcast streams to MPEG4. DVB-C2 would help more but would involve totally new infrastructure and STBs. It's not just a case of having limitless capacity to add channels nobody will watch.

The foreign language Worldbox apps seem to indicate that VM is moving in this direction. If these are a success, that could encourage them to widen the scope.

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I've said for decades that cable tech is and should be the best, but that competition is limited.

When the cable industry was being created, I lobbied the politicians very hard and told them that the way they were setting up the cable industry was wrong as all it did was create a cable monopoly in each area and there was no competition. They of course completely ignored me. Well, they did respond but their focus was on telephone competition against BT rather than cable tv.

Before Freeview came about, I lobbied the politicians again (I never learn...) to try and get them to implement a national fibre-to-the-home network with everyone getting a basic free tv service and very basic internet service via fibre. I pointed out to them that a aerial delivered service will always be limiting. Again, they ignored me.

I don't have a problem with there being just one cableco now, I have a problem that I cannot use the equipment I want and I cannot select from different providers using the cable as provided by VM.

As for America, they may have 15 or so cablecos at the moment, but it will shortly be dominated by just 2 or 3 cablecos, one of which I suspect will merge with VM/LG at some point in the near future.

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The point is choice..... To choose whether you want to watch something or not. You cannot make that choice, if its not even available.

+1 channels are VERY handy, but perhaps with new technology, it could be done differently. Ie, the way iplayer can go back 2 hours on a live tv stream.

The Waltons and Highway to Heaven may be old shows to you and I, but to others they are "new" shows. And they are good, much better than the reality crap everywhere now.

ANd on your shortlist, I would quite like the choice of having Horse & Country available, probably Property tv too.

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We as the customer, should NOT have to out up with the crap that VM gives us. They put the cost up, when they like. And it effects the pockets.

What VM should be giving us is exactly what channels Sky have. Some properties ie flats cannot get Sky, so therefore have to have Cable.

My mother in law has a VM/Sky connection and therefore can choose. But the engineer that installed it. Said the quality would not be good.

When l was unemployed several years ago. I went out with a VM in the hope that l could get a job. I was exactly shown by this engineer what goes on. And it was not good.

VM should provide the customer with a good service. As in the coming months, VM will price itself out of the market. And customers will simply go to Sky, where every channel that come out. It goes onto to Sky

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The point is cost. Adding extra infrastructure to add multiple low audience channels forces up prices for the end user. That may well make a handful of customers happy to receive a niche channel but if the price increase results in thousands of customers leaving, it's not a sensible move.

The BBC has funds to invest in that sort of technology, many of the smaller broadcasters do not.

The age wasn't the issue, the fact that they are already repeated with content spread thinly across multiple channels in the Sony bouquet also dilutes the need for further repeats on a timeshift channel. But as these programmes are very dated, they probably have little appeal to the younger audience and are more likely to be viewed by an older audience recapturing their youth.

But you don't see requests for most of those channels appearing on this thread, there is low demand. They are also low budget operations, unlikely to be able to meet the cost of any additional infrastructure required to carry multiple additional channels. They are far more suited to IPTV delivery. The simple reason that most of these channels aren't on VM is that the channels don't want or are unable to pay enough to cover VMs costs AND there is insufficient demand to pass the extra cost onto the viewer. Catch 22. (It wasn't actually my shortlist, just a group of channels I copied and pasted from your original post to use as an example).

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With some minor exceptions,the cable companies in the US are nearly all local monopolies so they might as well be one company - they don't compete against one another.
Often a consumer in the US has a choice of a slow ADSL from a local phone company or expensive fast broadband from a cable company. And there's no unbundling of local exchanges as there is in the UK and EU which drives broadband competition.

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They are a major company and LGI is worth $29bn. VM has millions of customers - not thousands. [/QUOTE]

Wight Fibre is still independent and does not offer a pay-TV service. http://www.wightfibre.com/ Did you mean the Republic of Ireland instead of the Isle of Wight. That business has channels that VM UK doesn't but VM UK has been catching up.

I don't think we do. VM is launching its 4G service in October, a bit late to the 4G party but good news.

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l wonder if Arthur grumps and groans as much to his wife as he does on here.:D

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Presumably, VM will have to do something on capacity to support the new 4K channels, when they arrive on the new Tivos.

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What 4K channels ?

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Wrong. Wightcable (now WightFibre) is still in operation on the IOW, & is the only cable franchise not run by Virgin.

Wightcable North was sold off & became Smallworld, which was the bought by Virgin Media.

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For a start SKY invest in content VM have only just started doing that, secondly SKY is a open platform VM isn't. I will still maintain what i have always said VM should never of sold their own channels aka living,bravo i think there was a few more too.

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I don't think the UK is big enough really for more than 1 cable company, same with paid sattelite too.

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We are getting Sky Cinema 4K channel!

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As I posted earlier, I think Arthur means the Republic of Ireland.

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There isn't a Sky Cinema 4K channel! The UHD movies are purely On Demand.

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Might there be one in the future though?

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They "cable TV" is just using Youview.

http://www.wightfibre.com/television-2/

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Who knows what the future holds however UHD costs are significant I wouldn't expect one anytime soon when the movies can be delivered On Demand.

Sky Sports UHD isn't a channel either that's accessed via Sports > UHD or via the red button on the standard HD channel.

It currently only airs Premier League matches although F1 will come next year.

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But is f1 not due to be owned by the liberty global company

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No. F1 will be owned by Liberty Media, which is a separate company.

And the F1 rights agreements for a good number of years are already signed.

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Muppetman has been talking about F1 coming to Sky Sports UHD.
F1 rights are with Sky and Channel 4 until 2018 then with just Sky until 2024.

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No news is good news...

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Basically we haven't had ANY good news for yonks MB!.........:mad:

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Please tell us some good news!

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Universal HD, 4G mobile, new gaming broadband offering have all been recent pieces of good news.

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Box Nation are to launch a PPV channel.

Here is a video explaining how it will work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWHpvD1e-Fo

Also, ITV have been linked with an upcoming PPV channel.

Wonder if we'll get these??

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BoxNation have had a PPV channel on Sky for 2-3 years now. All events on their HD channel are available PPV.

BoxNation subscribers get the PPV events at no extra cost.

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Nice to see grumps is alive and well..;)

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lol what other providers have been offering (upload wise) for a few years VM finally catch just as a couple of companies are now testing 50mb upload no doubt vm will catch up when others are testing 1gb upload.
VM yesterdays technology today.

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Groan another day with no fox news VM is so slow just like my TiVo box.

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A lot of people don't like being early adopters of new technology and would rather wait a bit longer and pay a cheaper price.

I'm beginning to think that this is part of the VM business model.

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Yet most of these companies with 20mbs upload are a lot cheaper than VM anyway, vm are just leeches in my opinion.
VM could probaly easily offer 200mbs down 200mbs up but they don't want to do that as be too much common sense required something vm seem to lack, if they did that one thinks vm would kill it on the broadband side of things and give other providers food for thought but right now vm is the laughing stock of tv, broadband and phone world probably mobile too.
VM are actually quite expensive nowadays for what they are.

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lol, I'm always tempted to point out the honest situation when people say things like there's been no good news for yonks. Whether VM should have done some of these things earlier is another matter but probably one we agree on. ;)

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VM at one point used to be the best around they had more on demand content than anyone and decent boxes too (v+hd) now they are awful a outdated tivo that would be more suited in prehistoric times, a network that can't handle the load (oversubscribing) and a tv service that is getting left behind by everyone else including new comers to tv like bt and talktalk.
I agree with Richard about everyone not wanting the latest technology hell it took me 4 years to even consider HD after HD launched i was quite happy with my old crt tv but eventually the time came when it had to be updated.
VM just like to raise prices why offering very little in return.

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You seem to be developing quite a anger against Virgin don't you.

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Good grief you need to sit down my dear chap as if you become even angrier you are going to end up with a coronary before long.:)

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No angry dear chap just honest.

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Unless things have changed (and I admit I don't keep track of BT and Talk Talk), doesn't VM have more TV channels than either of them?


VM have a new box coming; unsubstantiated reports suggest that it is fast and has 6 tuners. (It wouldn't surprise me if it had some of the Tivo Bolt functionality as well.)


But even the current Tivo, when used as a PVR is miles ahead of the BT and Talk Youview boxes IMHO.

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Youview is meh tbf but imo it is better than clunky tivo, vm do have more hannels yes but this could change, also bt were the first to offer uhd and not sure how true it is but BT are moving away from youview soon and are developing a new box.
One thing i'm sure we all can agree on is the future of tv will be very interesting and exciting.
Ypuview also has dynamic EPG now something vm still lack.

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We have seen info that Gogglebox Ireland (Made by All3Media) will be sponsored by Virgin Media Ireland when it launch on TV3 HD later this year on Virgin Media Ireland.

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Even thought you could purchase these events for £30.00 on SKY you actually had to register your details with Boxnation through their website first, including your debit card details, before you could watch the event. Once your details were registered you could order via your remote to watch the event.

This new way cuts out all of that hassle. Simply order it through your remote, like any other SKY Box Office event, and be billed directly by SKY.

http://breatheboxing.com/george-warr...-v-klitschko-2

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So BT/TT have their own 'Coming Soon' scenario :D Way more on their 'Coming Soon' list than on VM's ;)

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Who knows? lol.

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September List update - September 13th update.

Keep up-to-date on the latest news on upcoming channel launches and other important events across all platforms of Virgin Media UK and Virgin Media Ireland.

NOTE: I DO NOT WORK FOR VIRGIN MEDIA UK OR VIRGIN MEDIA IRELAND SO ALL THE INFORMATION ON THIS LIST IS STILL SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Colours on my list are as followed:

Media Boy = New Info just added.
Media Boy = Virgin Media UK/Ireland News and links.
Media Boy = Local TV news, other Media news/Things.

=== Coming up on Virgin's Digital TV ===
=== Freeviews on Virgin Media UK OR Ireland ===
(Put start date here). (Put channel name here) is having an freeview to all TBC Customers on Virgin UK/Ireland Channel TBC right now until (Put end date here.)

=== Soon ===
-Made TV will rebrand Bay TV Liverpool as Made in Liverpool on Virgin UK Channel 159 (Liverpool areas only).
-Virgin Media UK will launch Arabic Hafla soon on Virgin UK Channel TBC.
-Virgin Media UK will launch Babenation soon on Virgin UK Channel TBC.
-Virgin Media UK will launch Fox News Channel soon on Virgin UK Channel TBC.
-Virgin Media Ireland will launch W soon on Virgin Ireland Channel TBC.

=== September ===
29th. Viacom18 will rebrand UMP Movies as Rishtey Cineplex on Virgin UK Channel 830.

=== October ===
No News...

=== November ===
No News...

=== December ===
No News...

=== Before 2017 ====
-ITV will launch an HD Channel for ITV Anglia (East) region on Virgin UK Channel 113 soon.
-ITV will launch an HD Channel for ITV Tyne Tees region on Virgin UK Channel 113 soon.
-ITV will launch an HD Channel for ITV Yorkshire (West) region on Virgin UK Channel 113 soon.

=== January 2017 ===
No News...

=== February 2017 ===
No News...

=== March 2017 ===
No News...

=== April 2017 ===
No News...

=== May 2017 ===
No News...

=== June 2017 ===
No News...

=== July 2017 ===
No News...

=== August 2017 ===
No News...

=== September 2017 ===
No News...

=== October 2017 ===
No News...

=== November 2017 ===
No News...

=== December 2017 ===
No News...

=== Local TV on Virgin Media ===
-All the following Local TV broadcasters may launch by 2017 on Virgin UK Channel 159:

-Bay TV Swansea
-YourTV Manchester
-YourTV Blackpool & Preston
-That’s Basingstoke
-That’s Surrey
-That's Solent - CHANNEL TESTING ON VIRGIN MEDIA UK.
-That’s Reading
-That’s Salisbury
-That's Oxford

=== Unknown dates ===
-The BBC hope to launch English regional variants of its existing BBC One HD service as well as Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland editions of BBC Two HD - but still need to be approved by the BBC Trust.

=== Channels ONLY in Virgin Media Ireland areas ===
List last updated on February 8th 2016.

ONLY TV CHANNELS THAT ONLY BROADCAST IN THE UK ON OTHER NETWORKS WILL APPEAR ON THIS PART OF THE LIST.

ALSO THE FOLLOWING LIST OF CHANNELS IS CURRENTLY BROADCASTING ON VIRGIN MEDIA IRELAND BUT NOT ON VIRGIN MEDIA UK:

Documentaries/News:
-History HD
-Crime + Investigation HD
-RT

Lifestyle:
-Fashion TV

Music:
-MTV Classic

Kids:
-Disney Channel HD

Specialist:
-EWTN

Radio:
-UCB Ireland

Channels only in Virgin Media Ireland areas.

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==== Virgin Media's Deals with broadcasters ===
Full list now at: http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/p...adcasters.html

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=== What is Media Boy on about??? ===
Here is what I mean when I post the following on Cable Forum:

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=== Ask Media Boy ===
Last updated January 4th 2016.

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Q: WHY HAVE YOU ADDED 'ONLY IN VIRGIN MEDIA IRELAND AREAS' AND INFORMATION ON VIRGIN MEDIA IRELAND ON THIS THREAD IS FOR VIRGIN MEDIA UK?
A: Virgin Media Ireland is now part of Virgin Media and are both owned by Liberty Global. And you voted for Media Boy HQ to join both Virgin Media UK and Virgin Media Ireland threads up for 2016.

Q: WHY AM I NOT GETTING ''DISNEY CHANNEL HD'' FOR?
A: Disney Channel HD is only broadcasting in Virgin Media Ireland areas right now.

==== See you later ===
List last updated on September 13th 2016.

Next update: TBC.

A) If Virgin Media UK/Ireland are set to launch more than TWO channels (TV or Radio) in Virgin Media UK/Ireland areas.
B) If Virgin Media UK/Ireland are set to move more than TWO channels (TV or Radio) about in Virgin Media UK/Ireland areas.
C) If Virgin Media UK/Ireland are set to close or repackage more then TWO channels (TV or Radio) in Virgin Media UK/Ireland areas.

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TT is more a case of channels leaving soon as they have been culling, not launching, channels these last 12 months.
http://www.a516digital.com/2015/11/t...rnational.html
http://www.a516digital.com/2016/07/t...to-its-tv.html

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Just realised BT lost FOX recently so maybe not regarding BT lol, i'll stick to my directv login plenty of channels there :D

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Liberty Media Chairman is John C. Malone. SO he does have stake within this company...

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Indeed. But what is your point?

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Greetings friends. Anyone called VM over the price rise?? I'm on Big Kahuna with one tivo. Two VHD boxes. Any sort of treats i can get by calling up? Got a nice loyalty discount. Got sky sports and sky movies.

Hugs and kisses,

Vincent

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You can get a price rise maybe.

Seriously though bud just ring retentions see if they can offer you anything only they will be able to tell you what offers are available for you.

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Sky Sports: Sky Sports to launch Ryder Cup Channel.

Sky Sports 4 will become Sky Sports Ryder Cup on Monday September 26th until October 6th.

All three days will be simulcast on Sky Sports 1 from Friday to Sunday.

You can watch Ryder Cup on the following channels:

-Sky Sports 1 - Virgin Media UK Channel 511 and Virgin Media Ireland Channel 402.
-Sky Sports 4 - Virgin Media UK Channel 514 and Virgin Media Ireland Channel 405.
-Sky Sports 1 HD - Virgin Media UK Channel 501 and Virgin Media Ireland Channel 432.
-Sky Sports 4 HD - Virgin Media UK Channel 504 and Virgin Media Ireland Channel 435.

http://www.skysports.com/golf/ryder-...y-at-hazeltine

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cheers man. i called them up about 3 months ago so i feel bad going back again i was just curious if these new "names" for packages led to more services or less money per month!

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They didn't feel bad about going back to you after 3 months to tell you they want more money! ;)

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lol, I was thinking the same thing!

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Deal signed between Liberty Global and Netflix including a revenue-sharing element. The offer covers 4K content from Netflix so this looks like it's on its way to VM's new box.
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2016/...-netflix-deal/

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I have not had any discounts in 2 years, been a customer for 6 years. In the last 2 years my bill has gone from about £54 to £75. I phoned them up asking for a deal of some sorts and was basically told to take my business elsewhere. I have emailed the CEO and have been awaiting form a reply from his office but nothing yet.

What annoys me most is my employer is part of the xexec program and they have some very good deals with Virgin however they will not give me any of the deals as i am not a new customer. Sky offer their deals to existing customers as do Vodafone. My package is over £30 cheaper if i was a new customer and to take this deal, and i would get £150 in Amazon vouchers.

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I don't think that phoning up and 'asking for a deal of some sorts' is really the way to go about it, old fruit.

Better to phone retentions and complain that your TV service has got too expensive, so you're off to Sky. Alternatively, just phone Customer Services and say you are looking at downgrading because it's all getting too expensive.

The 'gissa deal' approach does not really encourage the desired response from Customer Services, as you have found.

Oh yes, and be polite!

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Haha nah wasn't me phoning saying give me a deal. I was polite and just phoned to cancel. I was asked why and I quoted some deals Sky and Now TV were offering. The guy said I can see you have made your mind up I'll put your cancellation through. Was all done in under 3 minutes. No attempt was made to keep my business. I said all this in my email to the CEO office.

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the cancelation team are awful. i thought theyd be the people to chat to but its the CEO office who are the best. cancelation team kept going "do you want slower internet?"

and i kept saying well sky have got sky atlantic etc and i kept just being insulted over choosing sky over virgin media. ie i got nowt...

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Tell them what i told them "i'd rather have truly unlimited broadband with 20mbs upload speed that's a bit slower than a second rate broadband that gets throttled" that soon shuts them up.:D

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As i said no attempt was made to keep my custom. No offer of downgrading my package or broadband speed to save money just sure ill put your cancellation through i almost got the impression that the person i spoke to thought i was better off with Sky.

a few mins later i got a call from Virgin asking me to rate the service. The person was polite enough and did what i asked but i can't believe how willing they were to just let me go. I honestly felt like my custom did not matter after that call.

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Pretty much the same tactics they used when I called to cancel my services over 3 years ago.

As above this mirrors my experience. Looks like nothing has changed.

The experience with Virgin Media and SKY has been night and day. Everytime I've called SKY to cancel a service they've done everything they can to keep me. Reduced prices, free this, free that etc... Interestingly SKY have always told me on the phone I'm a valued customer and what can they do to keep me as a subscriber. No real negative chat about rival providers just a real feeling they don't want me to go. I've always recontracted on the terms I want. My deal has either matched or bettered the one i was on the year before. I pay less now for my SKY package than I did in 2013. Might not be a sold business model long term from SKY but hey I don't give a rats. Rather they're losing money than me. All I know is I'm getting the best deal possible that can't be bettered elsewhere.

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I am sorry you hear you had a bad experience, but this is not what I have experienced. In 2012 I was paying just over £100 including line rental today for exactly the same package I am paying £92, I phone up every year when my contract runs out.

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I have had a couple of discounts in the past and feel i am quite good as knowing the right things to say to trigger these discounts. Not this time looks like VM would rather get new customers at the expense of keeping the ones they have. Stupid idea in my book

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😂😂😂

Looks like the new owners of VM have a "like it or lump it" attitude towards their customers.

I have made no secret of my dislike of Sky, but Chads post has cast new light on an obviously changed situation.

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I've not missed vm or sky t#bf i'm back with BT now as some know i was stung by a lower price company SSE but anyway back on topic lol i find that bt tv offering alongide my us login gives me all the tv i need and more.
My experience on leaving vm was very negative they tried to threaten me by saying 2no other provider has fibre optic in my area and leaving mid contract will result in my credit report being damaged" this was ofcourse a huge lie i knew i'd have to pay a penalty but i got out of it as it was the time isps were getting court orders to block certain sites, i argued that they wasn't providing a unlimted service as i had originally signed up for. They argued but surprisingly ofcom found in my favour and VM had to settle with me just paying for my final month, i was in two minds to tell them where to go but i paid it and they still tried to say i owed them money which i don't.
Maybe this will help clear up why i have a bee in my bonnet regarding vm i think they are a vile company and deserve to fail, however i don't want them to fail as that would mean job losses.

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According to tvchannellists we will be getting pop+1 at the end of the month

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Mediaboy

Hi according to the website mentioned above tvchannellists it says Fox News to be launched on October 4th in your opinion is that feasible?

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i emailed the CEO and a member of his team called me. He was incredibly helpful. Looked at my account and told me what offers he could get for me. Told me how valued i was as a customer. Looked into loyalty discounts due to how long ive been with them. Pretty much reviewed everything for me to make sure i was getting the maximum from my package.

totally different attitude from retentions! it was like night and day!

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l phoned retentions and they were polite and listened to me and then came back to me with a new deal which was very reasonable but obviously not everybody has the same experience it seems.

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Retentions have always been great to me. Always get a deal!

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AIUI, that website can be amended by anybody in a similar way to Wikipedia.

Whilst the info may be correct and have been provided in good faith, there has been a lot of rubbish put on it over the years!

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Media Boy sources told us today BabeNation is now testing with Video.

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:nono:

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I have been waiting for a week for them to come back to me from the CEO office. They e-mailed to say they had my original e-mail and would be intouch to discuss, nowt. Time is ticking VM. My services are cut next Friday and if they fail to get to me before then i will be taking my business elsewhere. I can hold a grudge and both Sky and Vodafone are falling over themselves to get my broadband business

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TVChannelLists ain't the most reliable source in existence because it is too similar to Wikipedia as anyone can edit the articles. I'd wait until the specified day and check the EPG.

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Don't be so down i'm sure a cougars channel will arrive soon for you dear chap :p:

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BBC Radio Cymru Mwy:

This service hoped to launch on 19 September, it is now expected to be late September.

Not sure if this will be available to everybody or in Wales only.

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It appears to be a digital station, so should be accessible to anyone with an internet connection, with the DAB version only available in South East Wales.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...ru-mwy-digital It will only be available for 15 weeks.

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Yes, it's a pop up station to celebrate 40 years of Welsh radio.

It's currently testing on satellite, not sure about VM.

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not a fan of babenation den?

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it's a rival channel to DenNation lol

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l have far more cerebral things to keep my brain active and busy old boy.:)

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l certainly don't want anything named after me as there are many millions in this country who are far more worthy then l Sir.

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That channel is not testing on Virgin Media UK as of September 16th.

Fox News channel is just testing their EPG info right now.

As of September 16th the channel is not broadcasting (Video).

Only launch date we know of is Autumn 2016.

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Media Boy Views:

-When launch we feel Babe Nation will be on Virgin UK Channel 981.
-It may launch this week as soon as tomorrow.

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a516 is reporting it set to launch on Sky.

http://www.a516digital.com/2016/09/m...bbc-wales.html

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When did Viceland and Viceland HD arrive on Sky ?

Looks like more rubbish :D

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Oh dear its not often you are perturbed with what Rupert puts on my old boy.:D

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I'd sooner have far fewer quality channels Den than shed loads of junk. Sky and VM need to get rid of the junk and charge less , was that a pig I just saw fly over.....
.....:D

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l quite agree but alas l like you don't think there is a hope in hell of both those things happening sadly.

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UPDATE:

As of today this channel is not testing on Virgin Media UK.

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You should see the schedule for BLAZE on freeview pawn stars (no max not that kind of pawn), storage wars, billy the exterminator and repeat.

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Blaze will also launch on Sky tomorrow - muppetman11 will be so happy.;)

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VM customers have dodged a bullet with this useless channel lol.

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Problem seems to be Virgin customers seem to have been dodging loads of channels that other providers carry over the last couple of years. Although we seem unable to avoid price rises 3 times a year

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Anyone else get a flier through the door today advertising BLAZE and telling you to re-tune your Free view box? No mention of it being on Sky or Virgin (although the latter doesn't surprise me!)

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Ha ha.:D I don't see it as being aimed at pay-TV peeps anyway.

That statement used to be the case but in the last year we've caught up.

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It started today.

Thanks.

There has been some improvement, but I wouldn't go as far as to say we've caught up!