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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 34893331)

Or unless Virgin were aware of the upcoming Postal Issues and have taken appropriate steps

Anyway, even if they do use the Royal Mail for the last part, bypassing the majority of the rest of the network will minimise the issues

AFAIK once the strike is over the Royal Mail will have to deliver any new post that arrives, e.g from a private mail firm at the local sorting office, before the backlog - unless someone can correct me?

I think if a firm has paid for express delivery then it gets done first otherwise it done on first in first out type of system

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

You may know this but...

Virgin will shortly be piloting a TV Smart Card swap initiative in Leeds, Harrogate and York to 85,000 customers.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 34893331)

Or unless Virgin were aware of the upcoming Postal Issues and have taken appropriate steps

Again, there is no pressing need for guaranteed next day delivery unless all the old cards are due to expire or VM have some contractual obligation to roll out all the new cards and Nagravision 3 this month.

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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 34893331)

Anyway, even if they do use the Royal Mail for the last part, bypassing the majority of the rest of the network will minimise the issues

Again, it's sorting office and delivery staff who are striking (so far on different days) which probably accounts for about two-thirds of the normal Royal Mail process, with only handling to the point of delivery to the local sorting office being performed by UKMail, so there will still be significant impact.

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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 34893331)

AFAIK once the strike is over the Royal Mail will have to deliver any new post that arrives, e.g from a private mail firm at the local sorting office, before the backlog - unless someone can correct me?

I expect that UKMail and other firms will endeavour to continue deliveries to Royal Mail offices both to fulfill their obligation to their clients and to avoid the responsibility and cost of storing vast amounts of post. Therefore the backlog will most probably have to be dealt with by Royal Mail in whatever order they see fit or are contractually / legally obliged to do so.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Not sure if anyone has noticed the card swap is now on the help and info section on the tv guide.So cant be far away.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 (Post 34893021)

I tried to record 3 thigns at once it refused to allow me, so it must be a faulty or buggy box you have, i wouldnt mind havin yours ;)

AC, did you set two up to record simultaneously and one to record later but with the preset 10 minute overlap? I'm pretty sure that's what MB was doing. Of course if, as appears to be the case with my V- box, the software has been updated again since MB had the 'feature', it may have gone away.

My V Box details:-

Application Version: 14.100.3p89
Card Status: OK
Credit: 3200
QOS: rkldJKDHS (should be silver.cm and was one day last week)
Total Channels: 299
TS Streams: 31
Total Services: 299
Hardware Type: Di4000-N
Hardware Version: P3.213
Software Version: 3_7_29_P10CN_P_BonBK_P4000_R_

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Nope i jsut tried three things at once i will try later what you said and see if it works any time i have tried before it fails or doesnt extend

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

I have try again to tape three things at one time - I cant.

All of my show did tape all right on Thursday night (Someone ask me on Friday).

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 34893356)

You may know this but...

Virgin will shortly be piloting a TV Smart Card swap initiative in Leeds, Harrogate and York to 85,000 customers.

What does this mean for silly people like me? :monkey: :p:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by one2escape (Post 34893454)

What does this mean for silly people like me? :monkey: :p:

If you li8ve in one of the areas mentioned I would presume you go and swap your card.

If you mean you use a dodgy box then I presume it means that Virgin are indeed switching to Nagra 3 encryption which to date has not been sucessfully cracked.

That means you will soon habe a doorstop.

Although there has been no confirmation that I know of that they will be switching, I connot see any other reason for a replacement card.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

List on post one has now been update for this week.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

I demand Eurosport HD before January :(

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Europa update: Five to show Everton VS Benfica LIVE on November 5th.

Info from Livefootballontv.com.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

Is this the 1st time ever vm are changing their smart cards?

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2009)

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Originally Posted by faisalabadi (Post 34893513)

Is this the 1st time ever vm are changing their smart cards?

Dating back to 1999 when Telewest launches Digital Cable in my area - Yes.

In 1999 when I joined Telewest had:

75 TV/Radio Channels

They was -
65 TV Channels.
5 Information Channels called i-Zone.
5 Local Radio Channels.

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