Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Rats Media Boy! You have foiled me again! :mad:

I had hoped to get the news on here first as I had a Tweet on my mobile an hour and a half ago but I've been on the 'phone since. I have a different URL http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...849&highlight= but the same content.

Will kids seriously be watching Disney TV on their Pre-Pay Virgin Mobiles?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

ITV are only going to axe ITV2 +1 on Freeview (in England and Wales) but ITV2 +1 will stay on Sky, Freesat from Sky & FreeSat.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Was the Disney thing the "Big announcment" MB???

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Was the disney deal the announcement you mentioned yesterday or is there something else brewing?.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

:shrug:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

What's to stop sky having all content through the red button ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

That would be Ofcom

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Ofcom, Compettion COmssion, EU loads of places if they did that they are monopolise the market so they can make sure they ahve all cuotmer on there platform which will be stopped straight away if htey did it, but red button up until now was seen as just niche thing for odd game but sky are using it now for CL and other things isntead of makign mroe channels

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

The red button on sky sports has long since ceased to be a "niche" product,and i thought in the pay tv review ofcom were going to require sky to make it available? Also my argument would be virgin customers pay the same for sky sports as sky customers do, so for the same money we should get the same content simple really, and ofcom the eu or whoever else should require sky to supply that content to all. There really is no excuse other then sky running rings around the regulators.:(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

See this post ;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Thanks for that ben very interesting,:)

Looks like ofcom do indeed recognise at least in preliminary findings that the red button content should be available,lets just hope ofcom do not fall asleep on the job.;)

And after the 3rd phase of the pay tv review ofcom are able to implement it immediately or within a few months, allowing sky to appeal afterwards,otherwise i suspect we are in for the long haul.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

They can appeal but i think the appeal process will be 3 months so if all goes well and we dnt havea general election before march 2010 we should then have all teh sky stuff

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Sorry for being thick whats it got do with the general election?.:confused:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

Hey with this deal today been announced has anybody else thought of the link that the last 2 deals and not the iptv system that they both have been something to do with disney ( espn backed by disney ) and also the disney deal . I wonder what else they are able to get out of disney due to their person coming to virgin media ?

DEAR MEDIA BOY what other companies are disney involved in that we may be possible to see on vm ?

It could be me or it could be a coincidence but the last 2 deals have had to do with disney there or there abouts ?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)
 

One possible reason - The Tories want to get rid of OFCOM