Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

What is your hunch for Virgin customers on what you think might happen MM?.

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They have it available on the sky platform £5.99p/m sd or £7.49p/m hd but it is not on their own tv platform yet.

For vm i think btsports 1+2 will remain in the XL pack with btsport3 being available for £5p/m extra, btsport3 will have champions league matches,BT sports extra or showcase will be available in all packs for free this will have the fta matches on this is just my thoughts.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

We have seen the following new BT Sports names doing the rounds:

-Digital Spy say ESPN will soon be rebrand as BT Sport ESPN.
-Smooth Radio is running an ad for an "New Home of European Football" BT Sport Europe.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

What will be showing on Sky Sports 5 now there is no European Football?

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Think the BT Sport Europe is as good as official:

https://www.productsandservices.bt.c...on_FURL_europe

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

l am sure they will find something to repeat on there next season.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Maybe moving SPFL Football from Sky Sports 3 or Sky Sports 4 (After all it Scottish;))

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Good question Den , I personally think VM will negotiate a deal to include the Champions League for XL subscribers but I suppose it could go anyway. I think BT see Sky and Talk Talk as the big competitors as both operate on the Openreach network meaning its easier for customers to move phone and broadband.

BT in my opinion would receive low viewing figures if every platform is forced to pay the additional £5 a month. As I say all guesswork on my behalf.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I have to agree with you MM...we haven't seen much happening from VM this year, maybe their plan was to make sure the football stays in the XL package... I hope so anyway :)

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By bill has gone up 9 odd quid so the five quid for the champions league and 4 quid for costs of the network extra... Fair deal!

Undoubtedly though we won't hear anything until the last minute and the new cheap cost cutting and profit increasing virgin media will strike again!

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Have a feeling us vm subscribers won't get much info from the bt sport cl launch tomorrow

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Yes it might be a last minute thing again knowing Virgin's consistent track record.

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Who knows, perhaps they won't pay BT the subs anymore. Perhaps they will pay for Atlantic instead? BT TV is reasonably attractive (provided you don't care about the Sky branded channels, which are poor IMO) in comparison to VM. I think it's about time VM gave non-sports fans something back in the XL package.
That being said, I would always prefer free sport but it's not right that non-sports fans continue to "pay" for a service they don't watch.

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Well said Harry.

It doesn't affect me these days, but it did for all those years that I did have XL.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

The only way my team will be in Europe is if there's a war :rolleyes:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

We have just seen some info - will reveal all later.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I imagine they'll be one or two changes tomorrow with the closure of Sky Arts 2 and Sky's EPG rejig.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I may be able to reveal something to you all this week, i'm just waiting for the all clear.

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Media Boy EXCLUSIVE: Premier Sports to join XL Pack this Summer.

Virgin Sources has confirmed that Premier Sports will join the XL Pack from June 10th for two months.

Premier Sports can be found on Virgin Channel 551.

We have also been told that talks are ongoing with BT over BT Sport Europe.

©copyright 2015 Media Boy 2006 - 2015. An ''Keep it real and free'' Production.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

just a free 2 month trial to get more customers id expect? my heart sank thinking virgin had got this in exchange for bt...

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Welcome news for the night owls who want to see Copa America - should be good viewing

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I have a feeling we maybe saying bye bye bt and hello premier sports. If thats the case i will be saying bye bye virgin and hello now tv

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

the still got La Liga and dutch leagues ect so that be on there not sure what else

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international European qualifiers to add to that list. They didn't have a lot on there and filled it with skysports news for x amount of hours.

I suppose the real reason for SS5 is purely commercial to say you get 7 channels as this could of all been done via red button (although I'm sure some people in the know will politely inform that it's probably simpler to add a channel than add red button channels)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Also mls now too.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Wikipedia says Sky Sports La Liga deal is up as of Summer 2015.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I'd agree with you muppetman as I think VM XL subscribers are a safe guaranteed income for BT that they need to recoup some of their outlay on footy rights and VM aren't really seen as the main competition.

If the earlier quoted XL subscriber figure of 1.8 million is correct then VM could say to BT we'll give you £1 a month for every XL subscriber for BT Europe which would mean a tidy £1.8m a month for BT.

If the decide to go it alone and ask for a subscription of £5 per month for BT Europe, they'd need 360,000 subscribers on VM to make the same £1.8m.

I think BT have vastly overpaid for the Champions League as I don't believe it's as big of a draw as they think it is. It got plenty of viewers before as it was either free on ITV or included with Sky Sports subs.

To market it as a standalone product is a different kettle of fish and I think they may struggle to recoup their outlay. This is what makes me agree with muppetman as I think BT will play it safe and strike a deal with VM to be included in XL.

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this is absolutely superb news for football fans, copa america here i come

well done vm :)

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New BT Sports ESPN Logo if anyone is interested. They were running an advert about it during the Indy car on Saturday night.

Not sure when it changed, but the logos on the mini guide and TV Anywhere app now reflect the new name too, even if the channel name doesn't.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Sky LivingIt has been rebrand as Real Lives on Virgin Channel 122.
Sky LivingIt +1 has been rebrand as Real Lives on Virgin Channel 160.
Sky Arts 1 has been rebrand as Sky Arts on Virgin Channel 281.
Sky Arts 1 HD has been rebrand as Sky Arts 1 HD on Virgin Channel 282.
ESPN has been rebrand as BT Sport//ESPN on Virgin Channel 529.
ESPN HD has been rebrand as BT Sport//ESPN HD on Virgin Channel 530.

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ESPN was rebrand just after 12.30am on V Boxes.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Well if its free for two months one can never refuse a little freebie.:)

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When I first saw MB's msg, my initial thought was OMG...they not gonna take BT Sports away and replace it with THIS!! haha...

Let's hope they can thrash out a deal...I have faith we will have BT Europe in time for the Champions League and Europa League qualifiers :-)

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sure hope ESPN does as well

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

BT Sport Ultra HD confirmed as exclusive on BT TV.

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WOW!...I did hear they were releasing a Ultra HD box to go with it....How long until VM and Sky follow suit??

I did hear rumours of a 4K tivo, but I don't think it was specifially for the football.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Also BT Sport Europe to be free for BT TV Viewers.

http://sport.bt.com/football-01363810438492

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Why have they rebranded espn as "BT sport espn". Is there a particular reason?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

With the exception of PPV movies I doubt VM would have much to show.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Media Boy HQ has been told that Virgin are still in talks with BT with an view of launching BT Sport Europe.

BT has confirmed that BT Sport Europe will join BT Sport pack for free on both BT TV and Sky.

BT to launch free football channel:

https://www.btplc.com/news/

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So do that mean if you already subscribe to BT Sports on Sky you'll get the CL included and the £5 is for the standalone BT Europe channel for people who don't already pay the £12/£15?

If i understand it right? If true then that is pretty good.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

From that link:

If you already subscribe to BT Sports on Sky you'll get the CL included.
If you already subscribe to BT Sports on BT Broadband you'll need to pay £5 to get the CL.
If you already subscribe to BT Sports on BT App you'll need to pay £5 to get the CL.
If you already subscribe to BT Sports on your Moblie you'll need to pay £5 to get the CL.

https://www.btplc.com/news/ (See end of link)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Well it looks like we will have wait until the last moment again on Virgin before we know where we are but my hunch is Virgin and BT will do a deal.

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That doesn't seem right?? Sky customers get it free but BTs own customers have to pay??

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One suspects there might be a sting in the tail somewhere even though we are not Sky Customers.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

It's because if you sub to BT Sport on Sky without BT Broadband it's £13.50 or £16.50 with HD as opposed to BT Broadband subs who get SD free or pay £3 for HD.

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Forgot about ESPN lol:dunce:, pity they don't bring back ESPN classic too.[COLOR="Silver"]

I would imagine the £5p/m for bt sport europe will apply to plusnet customers too in time, vm are going to have to pull something out of the hat here as i can't see bt agreeing to it being in xl pack they might offer it at a reduced rate for xl customers but i feel it will be £5p/m extra.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

any deal agreed with Virgin won't get announced until August. BT will want to ensure they get maximum migration before then.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

That sounds more like it, have BT TV and Infinity and you get all their sports channels for nothing.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I edited it as i'd read the statement wrong lol.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Yes that's how l see it and the Premier Sports free 2 month period announced today is to try to keep the Virgin sports customers sweet until that period.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

The number of V0-- Channels testing today has gone up to 3.

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I'll forget about ESPN if they move all the college American Football into BT Sports 1+2 and include it in XL pack. :Yikes:

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BT Sport Showcase maybe?

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We have no 100% confirmed info yet on what is testing. All we know is two are testing with Audio.

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The advert I saw the other night suggested that ESPN has now become 'part of the BT Sport family' and that there will be more content (background pictures showed college football).

http://www.btplc.com/news/articles/s...4a829925ea7%7D

The link shows that BT Sport and ESPN extended their current deal for another 7 years back in January, and suggests that some more shows will be on. It would appear that some of these programs are those that used to be on ESPN America, like PTI.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

That and the new ident show that ESPN is around for a long while which is great news....

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

From Twitter

Virgin Media ‏@virginmedia 19m19 minutes ago
Great line-up #BTSportEurope. @virginmedia customers more details on your sports line-up coming soon.


Virgin Media ‏@virginmedia 15m15 minutes ago
@virginmedia We’re in talks with BT Sport Europe about adding the new channel to our existing sporting action!

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The usual answer one would expect.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Great news I used to love the shows on ESPN America. Would love to see Sportsnation again😁

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Today at angea trade event in Germany, VU+ a Korean manufacturer of innovative satellite and cable boxes have just showcased their new 4k set top box, set for release end of August and usually when a Big company releases something like this SKY are hot on their heels... C'mon VM the world is leaving you behind again.

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Sky certainly are dishing out some cracking offers i contacted sky for a friend who can't speak after explaining sky were happy for me to do the talking for her they gave her full pack 80% off for 12 months a 2TB sky+hd box and £100 vouchers.
With offers like that i might go to sky myself lol.

As for vm i feel they really need to up their game now i still stand by what i've always said vms biggest disaster was selling of their channels these were a huge bargaining chip for them.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

On satellite, BBC are testing 6 extra red button streams (5 SD and 1 HD) for the upcoming summer events. I would assume VM will be testing these as well?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Surprised it's bt sport espn and not something like BT sport America? Make more sense to the casual viewer?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

That was my guess is Wimbledon and Glastonbury coming very soon

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

80% off is an awesome offer, was that as a new subscriber or a retentions offer? Either way, happy days for your friend :)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

New customer i told them she was switching from virgin media, she wasn't really with vm lol.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

So remind us of all the great bargains VM got when they had those channels...

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Well for a start they would of had a bargaining chip to do with BT, also a favourite channel of many BRAVO wouldn't of got closed.
You tell me what deals they had you're the one who works for vm not me.
And i stand by my statement vm should never of sold their channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

...those channels were next to worthless for VM unless they were prepared (which they were not) to invest heavily in quality programming for them.

It was a good deal all round for both Sky and VM. VM got access to Sky's HD channels and Sky got the channels so it could use their valuable EPG slots on satellite as Sky wished.

If anyone has read my threads in the news section, you will know that John Malone, ultimate owner of VM, also controls the following channels:

Discovery
Eurosport
QVC

and a shareholding in ITV.

He's up to all sorts of things and you can read my speculation about it all here:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/10...um-pay-tv.html

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Thanks for the info :) i now stand corrected and am ordering fries to go with my words hehe.

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Premier Sports is now showing for XL Customers on channel 551 but my word the Picture looks bad.

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Nice one, good work theone. Might have to call them myself as I thought the 50% off online offer was good! ;)

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The SD picture on Sky and VM is terrible - but they stream HD which is excellent.

They go HD on Sky next month so hopefully VM will go HD too.

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Looking forward to State Of Origin 2 next Wed morning - can we stream HD with the deal VM has?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

can you keep virgin media phone and broadband and just get sky tv?? getting some fantastic offers from sky too. they're really battering virgin media with their offers now. virgin media need to keep us updated with any treats asap!

rememeber that email sent out as a survey asking what we would like etc like free netflix or on demand movies and sky atlantic etc? it appears our price hikes were to fund the survey and nothing else....

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

I don't think so - you need to provide your Sky viewing card number to authorise streaming (or subscribe to streaming).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Yes you can. That is my current set up - BB and Phone from VM @ £18.09 and the FULL Sky TV package (half price for the 2nd year running!) for £40.50

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I have just done exactly that. £17 per month for the bb (and M TV - apparently it is cheaper do it that way) + line saver. I have got 60% off everything including multi room (I have 3) and hd from sky. Total saving for me is £41 per month (and that was after loyalty discounts from WM). They have given me 1 x 2TB box, 2 x HD+ boxes and 1 x standard HD Box - had to pay the £10 install fee though.

For me because the Virgin multi room was significantly cheaper than Sky it was never worth it but for that price it now is.

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I've never subscribed to sky in the past but as i have NowTv i got an email offering me 50% off.
If i was still in the market for pay TV it would be sky. VM really need to up their game to tempt people but with them it seems to be this is the price, take it or leave it.

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Thanks - I have other devious methods just in case

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Every offer I see on VM site they want £16.99 just for the 'phone, is there something I'm missing? I'm out of contract in a few weeks so really interested in deals. I have Sky package at 50% off but the 'phone + BB is the killer. Can't find anything under about £45pm (anytime calls included). I'm seriously looking at BT for that price which includes all their sport in HD + a number of other channels.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Yes you can mate Sky will ask you if you want their broadband just tell them you only want tv as you're happy with your current broadband provider.

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The £16.99 is the line rental...they must make a fortune from this

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

TiVo Rolls Out Online Free Cross-Platform Search [USA]

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2015/06/tiv...source=mainrss

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

My phone is only weekend calls. I initially wanted to cancel the TV and the phone line. The price that I was quoted was £19.99, after a loyalty discount was applied, for the standalone 50Mb BB. I agreed with this and asked them to go ahead with the termination of the other 2 services. 2 days later I received a call from VM with an offer that if kept the phone line they could reduce my bill to £18.09, again with a loyalty discount applied, obviously I took them up on this offer. I don't need a phone line really as I have a contract mobile and get unlimited calls/texts etc with that.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Cheers mate! You tempted too?

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Not quite yet as they can't compete with the deal i have from my usa friend £7p/m including every premiership game, hbo, starz, showtime and a load of on demand and live channels.
My bb and tv from plusnet is only £38p/m too

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That's brilliant! How the hell you get away with that? lol

Do you get everything in HD too?

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A good vpn :D or smart dns lol, yes most of the content and live streams are in HD even diners drive ins and dives is hd too one of my fave shows lol.
All of the premier league, champions league, english league are full hd.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

What will happen if you are caught watching this content? lol

Triple D is good, love that show too.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Nothing as it isn't illegal, it is a grey area but the worst that happens is the sites such as abc,hbo etc block proxies the smart dns providers simply work around this with fixes, this is why i stand by saying a paid vpn/smart dns is always much safer than a free one.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Which are the best ones to use? Or can you not reveal on the forum? ;)

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unotelly is best there is nothing illegal about them so should be fine but might need to start a new thread though so as to not take this of topic if mods give all clear.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

You'd be mad not to take them up on that - effectively you're paying £1.10 for BB & weekend calls. Wonder if they'll offer that to me in a few weeks time - can't even win a tenner on the lotto so doubt it.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

cheers, mate, yeah I'll keep quiet now ;)

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Smart dns is worth every penny

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

According to the Mail today BT Europe will be included in the XL package.

Have i missed the announcement or do they know something we don't?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

The mail know as much as we do at the moment bugger all lol.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz3ciukVFMz

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015)
 

Surely we can't be this lucky again?