Originally Posted by Gavin-D (Post 35929158)

Now Sky have withdrawn the Original and Sky Variety TV packs and replaced it with the entertainment pack it makes them cheaper than Virgin Media if your not interested in BT Sport

I've done a mock sign up with Sky and VM

Sky

Sky Q £25
Sky Entertainment
Sky HD

Sky Talk Pay As You Talk £0
Sky Line Rental £18.99
Sky Fibre Unlimited £11.01

Free Fibre Activation Fee

Without offers £20
Sky Q Multiscreen Pack £12
One off cost including Sky Q 2TB £114.95

Total monthly cost £67 Without offers £75.99

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Virgin Media

VIVID 200 Optical Fibre
Full House TV
Talk Weekends
Virgin Phone line
Virgin TV V6 box
Virgin TV multiroom room
Activation Fee £20.00


Monthly cost £67.50 a month for 12 months then £82.50 a month

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A lot of changes from Sky over the past week and for those not interested in BT Sport which is free for now with VM (some rumours it won't be once the current deal is up next summer) you can save yourself £78.12 a year at normal price

Originally Posted by SonicMaster (Post 35928848)

Confirms a few things...

- Dave HD should be included in the UKTV channels 'free view' so someone at VM must have forgotten to add the override flag

Originally Posted by jj20x (Post 35929196)

This weekend's scan indicated that the override flag has now been added to Dave HD.

Also that the Liverpool FC TV freeview has ended and that the new Playboy channel has been added to a further internal network used for testing (up from 4 test networks to 5).



There are codes for another two pack levels in the system. One seems to contain only encrypted PSB channels but is largely redundant as these channels also carry the override flag.

The other code sits between Fun and Full House but has pretty much disappeared from use, I think it only exists on the remnants of placeholders of former channels.

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35929049)

To be fair this makes it sound more promising Sky Atlantic could arrive on Virgin at some stage.

https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/m...of-tv-channels

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35929256)

I think that there's a good chance that if BT Sport is to be removed from XL that VM will use Sky Atlantic to try and negate any cancellations/downgrades.

The 2019 thing might also tie in with when the VM contract with BT runs out.

Originally Posted by Horizon (Post 35928745)

Everything goes in circles if you've been around long enough.;)

Seriously though, ITV and Disney have had a very long working relationship with each other. I guess most people are too young here to remember that "The Wonderful World of Disney" used to be a prominent part of ITV's schedule and Disney has been a direct shareholder in ITV companies from the past.

Originally Posted by spankysmagicpian (Post 35929267)

The Wonderful World of Disney used to be on BBC 1 on a Monday evening.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35929276)

I remember it always seemed to be on at Bank Holidays and at Christmas (on BBC1 I think).

Originally Posted by Stephen (Post 35929258)

Not everyone that uses BT sport would be interested in Atlantic so I don't think it would stop that many people cancelling.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35929294)

I would be surprised if BT pulled out of the existing wholesale deal with VM. I haven't seen the figures, but gut instinct tells me that BT would get less from VM viewers if they had to subscribe and pay for that service. Currently, they have a guaranteed income stream from VM which must be worth something to BT through the payments made by VM and the extra advertising revenue.

If I was negotiating on behalf of Virgin, I would get UHD and AMC thrown in with the next negotiation!

Originally Posted by theone2k10 (Post 35929304)

The info we have is BT are still pretty annoyed at VMs behaviour regarding something that happened with Eiresport, vm went crying to ofcom over something.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35929309)

Maybe so, theone, but if BT can patch things up with Sky, I'm sure they can with VM. After all, BT are having to watch their pennies now on the TV front.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35929256)

I think that there's a good chance that if BT Sport is to be removed from XL that VM will use Sky Atlantic to try and negate any cancellations/downgrades.

The 2019 thing might also tie in with when the VM contract with BT runs out.